You would think that this is the start of a good joke, but it's not, and it showed the level of disconnect when you assume that the meal will be driven by disagreement. It turns out, like all things to be completely different.
The subject (one subject at least) was the confirmation process of Kavanah, who neither of us knows or even knew. I saw the pictures of his high school photo book -- and I can assure you that we had the same kind (well slightly less crude) in our boys only high school too. Less alcohol than these guys but the same stupid attitude that Kavanah and his friends seem to exemplify.
What bothered everyone around the table was his defense last week, and his lies the previous weeks. I mean if at 17 you are the president of the Keg club -- I can guarantee that you like beer. Its too much trouble (without a car) to get those things.
His best friend in those years talked (in a book he wrote while in a disintoxication cure) on his wild ways was a youth -- with his friends, these things are biographical -- but again it doesn't matter. Even the Ford episode doesn't matter (it does but not in the way it has been pursued).
the problem was the lack of cool the conspiracy theories the treats, to the "agent of the liberal agenda"!
The Ford episode, I tend to believe her recollection, but does it make Kavanah ineligible to the Supreme Court, maybe, maybe not. To brandish, to a 56-year-old guy, against the bright lights of what he did when he was 17 is a difficult challenge. What was terrible is how the women were portrayed by the GOP and the President. That shows how far America still has to go, the reality is that for the Senate, women are objects that do not rate equally, her treatment was unequal -- as an example why didn't Mark Judge have to go to the Senate -- why was his written statement sufficient but here's was not?
To the liberals, attacking a person for actions 40 years after the event (is somewhat disingenuous), are we so sure that everything we did in high school was high minded? The popular girls that made fun of the ugly fat ones, or the nerds, was that any better? A real form of torture.
It seems that Kavanah was a poor choice, by the President -- the objective seems clear -- to politicize the Supreme Court, to overrule anti-abortion and for the President the possibility of removing the impeachment scenario -- The GOP did everything to steamroll the process. Removing the vast majority of his writings from the nomination process.
It appears that he perjured himself (something he reproached to Clinton) a number of times on his behavior and his love of beer. We all agreed that he was a flawed candidate. But here's the problem. The GOP cannot afford to ditch the guy, because if they don't get him approved it may well be a democratic house next time (or maybe even a Democratic Senate). That would cause trouble for the White House.
We all agreed on that. Overall a very pleasant evening was had by all!
The subject (one subject at least) was the confirmation process of Kavanah, who neither of us knows or even knew. I saw the pictures of his high school photo book -- and I can assure you that we had the same kind (well slightly less crude) in our boys only high school too. Less alcohol than these guys but the same stupid attitude that Kavanah and his friends seem to exemplify.
What bothered everyone around the table was his defense last week, and his lies the previous weeks. I mean if at 17 you are the president of the Keg club -- I can guarantee that you like beer. Its too much trouble (without a car) to get those things.
His best friend in those years talked (in a book he wrote while in a disintoxication cure) on his wild ways was a youth -- with his friends, these things are biographical -- but again it doesn't matter. Even the Ford episode doesn't matter (it does but not in the way it has been pursued).
the problem was the lack of cool the conspiracy theories the treats, to the "agent of the liberal agenda"!
The Ford episode, I tend to believe her recollection, but does it make Kavanah ineligible to the Supreme Court, maybe, maybe not. To brandish, to a 56-year-old guy, against the bright lights of what he did when he was 17 is a difficult challenge. What was terrible is how the women were portrayed by the GOP and the President. That shows how far America still has to go, the reality is that for the Senate, women are objects that do not rate equally, her treatment was unequal -- as an example why didn't Mark Judge have to go to the Senate -- why was his written statement sufficient but here's was not?
To the liberals, attacking a person for actions 40 years after the event (is somewhat disingenuous), are we so sure that everything we did in high school was high minded? The popular girls that made fun of the ugly fat ones, or the nerds, was that any better? A real form of torture.
It seems that Kavanah was a poor choice, by the President -- the objective seems clear -- to politicize the Supreme Court, to overrule anti-abortion and for the President the possibility of removing the impeachment scenario -- The GOP did everything to steamroll the process. Removing the vast majority of his writings from the nomination process.
It appears that he perjured himself (something he reproached to Clinton) a number of times on his behavior and his love of beer. We all agreed that he was a flawed candidate. But here's the problem. The GOP cannot afford to ditch the guy, because if they don't get him approved it may well be a democratic house next time (or maybe even a Democratic Senate). That would cause trouble for the White House.
We all agreed on that. Overall a very pleasant evening was had by all!
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