Paul Begala Says Kavanaugh 'Tormented' Vince Foster's Family: 'A Vicious, Cruel Abuse of Power'

[DonViejo]

Paul Begala Says Brett Kavanaugh ‘Tormented’ Vince Foster’s Family: ‘A Vicious, Cruel Abuse of Power’

by Caleb Howe | Sep 18th, 2018, 9:20 pm


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Tapper turned then to Begala, asking if the strategy behind wanting Judge to testify is simply that they anticipate him being a terrible witness who will make Kavanaugh look bad. Begala took the moment to tear into Kavanaugh’s character.

“A huge part of the Kavanaugh defense is ‘he’s such a great guy. He’s a better Catholic than I am, he’s a better American than you are’ just ask him…. It’s baloney. Okay? It’s baloney,” he said.

“What’s baloney?” asked Tapper.

“Brett Kavanaugh used the power of the office of independent counselor, he worked for Ken Starr, to reopen the investigation into the of suicide of Vince Foster,” said Begala. “Now I knew Vince. I worked with him. He committed suicide. It was a tragedy. That was investigated by the park police, by the first special counsel, Robert Fisk, by the Senate, by the House, by the Secret Service. All said the obvious, the poor man took his own life.”

“He reopened it,” Begala said of Kavanaugh, visibly angry. “Spent millions of dollars and tormented the Foster family in the most vicious, cruel abuse of power I think I’ve seen in 30 years, and he should be held for account for it.”

“That’s part of his character, too,” said Begala. “If he would do something that horrible? I don’t know what he was like in high school. But I know what he was like with power in the office, and he tormented that poor family.”

Ham pointed out that there was already an opportunity to hold him to account.

“We had a whole hearing where we could discuss all of those things, where he was under oath,” she said.

Begala laughed at that and then repeated his own point that it goes to character.

full story + video:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/paul-begala-says-brett-kavanaugh-tormented-vince-fosters-family-a-vicious-cruel-abuse-of-power/

[madaboutharry]

1. Sexual assault is about power.

People need to be continually reminded of that fact.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

46. People also need to be reminded of how he treated

Fred Guttenberg. His daughter was one of the children murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. When Mr. Guttenberg tried to shake his hand, Kavanaugh just sneered at him and refused to shake his hand. I will never be able to remove that image of his sneer from my mind. WH aid Raja later said that Kavanaugh didn't know him. BS. Dianne Feinstein invited Mr. Guttenberg to that hearing and had introduced the two men before the hearing.

My 15-year old niece also attends that school and we, as a family, are still trying to put the pieces of her life and our lives back together. Anyone who would respond to Fred Guttenberg in that despicable, dismissive fashion doesn't deserved to be appointed to SCOTUS.

Fred deserved better than that. We, as a nation, deserve better than Brett Kavanaugh.

[Cha]

47. Thank You, HfB.. I saw that.

What a tragic farce he was nominated for SCOTUS.. he shouldn't be allowed to get a job in the Humane Society.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

58. *THIS*

[Cosmocat]

2. He is an out and out political hack

Been blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention since he showed up on some of the "lists" of possible candidates.

I mean, all of the Rs on the SC now are full on right wing ideologues, who are going to use the constitution like play dough to rationalize whatever fuck wittery goes in front of them.

But, none of them were brazen, boots on the ground partisan operatives like he is.

Whoever they nominate and get on to the court is going to horrible in how they vote to fuck this country over. It just is an extra scoop of fuck you for them if they can get this scumbag on it.

[Pepsidog]

13. Well said

[wiggs]

21. Right. Why hasn't there been more discussion about nominating a political operative to

SCOTUS? That should be disqualifying with respect to either party. Obvious bias.

Much like putting a lobbyist in a regulatory position...only much worse.

[Cosmocat]

28. America 2018

The bullshit he was involved with stealing Dem e-mails while he was with the W admin would have been a drop mic, end of nomination moment at any other time in our history.

Now, it did not even register ...

His back and fourth on Presidential Privilege based on the party of the POTUS, etc.

[uponit7771]

41. +1

[True Blue American]

3. Are you guys getting as upset as I am about

What is happening to our Country under the pure lunatic in the WH and the most corrupt Republican Congress in History?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. Yes I am. It's why I barely say anything here anymore...

There are no words to express the feelings. I think my brain is shutting down to all these outrages. I find myself at a loss for words most of the time.

[True Blue American]

29. I am saying

What I think,finally on another board.

Have tried hard to stay sensible but the attacks on Doctor Ford sent me off.

They have tried to blame Feinstein, made remarks about Biden being divisive.

After what we have had to listen to the fools in Comgress and the WH for years now,after they treated President Obama so bad I have finally decided it is time to let them know what is true.

I am giving it right back.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. Yay, tell them what they need to hear!

💪

[smirkymonkey]

44. I completely understand Blanche.

I hardly know what to say anymore. I am continuously outraged but I feel like I am screaming into the wind. It is getting exhausting.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. Screaming into the wind, yes perfect way to put it.

Whistling past the graveyard, too. Like the frantic consumerism spiking now...

[True Blue American]

51. You said the

Perfect words.

I get angry,then completely drained!

Up and down, no end n sight. Getting worse every day.

What is that old song by Tennessee Ernie Ford? ”Another day older,and deeper in debt!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

63. And I don't even watch tv!

I’d be tearing my hair out if I had that in my face!

[True Blue American]

64. Truth is

Said by many of my friends. I stay away, but as sure as I do we get hit with another barrage of bad news, and you go right back.

I have been reading a lot of good books lately. Matter of fact,going to the Library as soon as they open.

[Ilsa]

37. Yes, and I'm struggling with the fact that it isn't just trump.

It is also the Heritage Foundation, NRA, and other groups of power-hungry sociopaths who care only about themselves and controlling the world.

Trump is just a tool they are using; he's not a true believer, he's only out for himself, not their platform or objectives. When trump is finished, either by imprisonment, impeachment, or losing an election, he will be persona non grata to them. "He was a useful idiot," is what they will say about him.

[True Blue American]

38. Yes,the whole corrupt system

Is being used to desroy us.. We need to use every weapon at our dispoal to bring them down.

Our Senatos and Congressmen and women are fighting hard for us. We have to do the same.

Quit being nice when someone bad mouths our fighters. Give it right back, no holds barred.we are dealing with bullies.

[VOX]

53. God, yes. And my health's taken a pounding from the day-after-day outrages.

I've been hopping mad for the better part of two years. And over that time, I've had three cases of the flu, a norovirus infection, pinched nerves in my neck and lower back, an old inner-ear problem finally burned out my hearing on one side, I cracked a rear molar somehow and needed a root canal, my blood pressure gets reactively elevated, and I've packed on 20 pounds from prednisone.

I'm normally a very healthy person who takes good care of himself. And while I know that anger is deadly, I want to stay informed, but it's exacting a price. 45's lawlessness and heartlessness are a stain on this country. And I'm at the point where I don't want a moment's contact with anyone who still supports King Asshole, because WHO could possibly find anything positive in that guy if they had a functioning critical mind?

[True Blue American]

56. I have not had

As many Health problems as you, but my anger and anxiety level is through the roof.

Always normal blood pressure, now elevated. I exercise in the Y Pool. That always relaxed me, gave me more energy, now I feel drained.

Just now,Trump started shouting about Jeff Sessions, the nerves in my neck tightened up.

God, how long do we have to suffer this fool and corrupt to the core Republicans?

[VOX]

61. And there's insane alternate reality that's been created by this nitwit and his henchmen...

You know, the "reality" where 45 gives himself an A-plus, and the administration is working like a well-oiled machine, and the North Korean nuclear threat is gone, and his circle is videotaped as they gush about how "blessed" they are to serve him, and where things are just better and better all over, and only a few people died in Puerto Rico, but Democrats are saying 3000 just to make him look bad, and every news outlet except Fox is the enemy of the people.

It is enough to make one literally ill. Sorry to hear that you're having health issues, too. Swimming can work wonders, just being in water feels good, but I haven't been able to use the pool due to the ear problem, and that's wearing on me.

We have to hang on. I haven't allowed myself to break away, even when I know I should give it (and myself) a rest for a few days. But each day brings some new outrage, without fail. And, as you say, the Republicans are just sitting there, enabling the monster they created. I haven't got a quick and easy answer, but I'm putting a lot of stock into the November elections, which are not far off now.

Take care --

[True Blue American]

62. I just exercise

Do not swim so no head under water. They have really great water aerobics in the mornings, but I go just as the class ends at 6:30. Having taken so many classes over the years I just choose my own. With foam weights you can do all the motions of swimming with your head above water.
Used the machines after a serious stomach virus to get my strength back.

Decided I prefer the water. No leg problems. Amazing how many do the exercises. I am talking mature here.

Thank you for sharing. It is important for all of us. I love DU because we all share the same iews,mostly. I do find it calming here. Sharing problems can help,I find.

BTW, I had to leave a Church where I had many friends and was active in because the hateful old Preacher ranted his bigotry. He is gone now, but my feelings have not changed towards what I heard from many.

I had my Obamacare,Union, FDR stickers on my back window. Only one asked me about it and I made my feelings clear.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Sure there is nothing scientific about this but he

Has the look of a creep. Pasty white, watery eyes, bloated face.

[Nitram]

6. And he smiles too much.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Is that it? The moment I saw him, I felt as if I would gag.

The man gives me the creeps.....worse than anus mouth the president or Karl Rove the slug. There is no feeling of hate as there was with Dick Cheney. Just this sense that I would never let anyone I love, or in anyway I care about, near the creep. A feeling that he would hurt them then walk over their injured bodies as they writhe in pain.

That man has done some awful things to people and we are seeing just the tip of it.

And thank you Don for posting this....it's an interesting find.

[Nitram]

11. Kavanaugh tries to come across as an "Aw, shucks" Heartland family man, all around good guy, and

continually smiles in public to cover up the rotten misogyny and love of power inside that festering brain of his.

[Farmer-Rick]

40. Yeah, that rot seeps out through those beady little eyes and thin lip grimace like smile.

[True Blue American]

32. Choir Boy face

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Covering a hateful,sadistic mind.

[JI7]

50. that's not a choir boy face. his face looks perverted and gross

[True Blue American]

54. Slick, Slimey.

[JI7]

48. i get the same feeling from him. a grossness from him .

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Would love to take a test with 50 men's pictures

Some convicted predators and some not...just to prove theory that the bad ones look different.

Btw he didn't smile at the dad of the murdered student

[Nitram]

18. I believe that research has been pretty exhaustively conducted and always demonstrates

absolutely no correlation between appearance and character.

[Texin]

20. With due respect, a single photo may not indicate much, but multiple ones?

If one who was totally unfamiliar with the notorious and infamous Ted Bundy, had never seen a photo of the guy, one posed photo of him probably wouldn't be a tip off. But, line up numerous photos of him over time, juxtaposed, you would see a progression and many of them clearly show the emptiness in his eyes. His face never really registered emotion.

When one observes serial killers (those who are not schizophrenic, and most serial killers who are psychopaths are not), at trial or in an interview, they are flat. Devoid of emotion. Methodical and precise in their description of events. These people are not like other people. And, for the most part, they'd never be classified as "crazy" (layman's term) by mental health professionals.

[Nitram]

27. You are describing a great deal more than a photograph. You are describing a video of behavior

during interactions with other people, which certainly could provide many more clues about a person's mental state and character than a single photograph would. My comment was in response to the proposal above to test whether test subjects could identify criminals among a group of 50 men by looking at a photograph of each.

I'd also point out that how often people thinks someone looks very suspicious once their photo has been published in a newspaper in connection with a crime.

[Nitram]

35. Possibly. Depends on the photos. consider this. Most photos of Kavanaugh show his babyface

beaming cheerily with a huge smile. However some photos have caught him with different expressions: pursed lips or the stone cold face for the man whose son was killed by gun violence. Those provide a clue.

[True Blue American]

30. I noticed the short time they showed Trump reading his prepared speech

Flying to NC to do that. Cable cut him off. l

[JI7]

57. there was a thread comparing him to the villians in Dicken's stories . the reaction to Uriah Heep

is how i feel about Kavanaugh.

maybe the physical appearance is not the same but the way they feel and are grossed out by him is the same.

[Stuart G]

5. k and r

[dalton99a]

7. Kavanaugh is a vile sadistic asshole

just like his new patron Trump

[milestogo]

8. +1

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. And there are at least 19 women who accused

Trump. Totally unfuckingbelievable he's allowed to speak like a moral authority on kavenaugh!

[Cha]

49. "Kavanaugh is a vile sadistic asshole".. that's it

in a nutshell.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

59. And that's being kind!

[magicarpet]

9. Oh just get it over with...

... and put Rick Santorum or Mike Pence on the Supreme Court. Trash the US Constitution and open the new age of (Catholic) Christian Fascist Theocracy where women, dark skinned folk, and other minorities get treated like fifth class citizens.

Where the white Christian males rule supreme and are permitted to spit on and shit on those they consider below them and use the buy-bull as their supposed guiding beacon to give their disgusting discriminatory practices an air of legitimacy and reason.

[Texin]

23. "Fifth class"? Women and minorities would be lucky to rank that high in their social order.

The males (and their wimmins) you see plastered on the news at tRump rallies will be the ruling elite in their wet dream tRump Theocratic Reich.

[True Blue American]

31. You said it!

[Paladin]

12. This needs to be used against Kavanaugh, big-time.

The radical right wing feasted off Vince Foster speculation for years. Nobody who promoted such ugly rumors has any business even cleaning the Supreme Court floors, much less serving on the bench.

[Botany]

14. Kavanaugh is one twisted bastard

Kavanaugh is one twisted mother fucker …. sexual assault, bothering Vince Foster’s family, lying under oath about stolen computer files from democratic senators, and he was a member of the “tit and clits” * club in college.


* Kavanaugh joined a secret society at Yale nicknamed “Tit and Clit" club


“Other societies were looking for a prestigious family background, or your GPA. Each had their own personalities,” said Sherry. TNC, Sherry said, was unique: It was “organized around having sex with coeds.”

Several years before Kavanaugh was initiated into TNC, Sherry said, the people on campus called the group by an “alternate nickname”: “Tit and Clit.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/the-yale-secret-society-brett-kavanaugh-joined-was-mostly

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[UCmeNdc]

19. The more information that comes out about Brett Kavanaugh the more he is discredited.

This man does not deserve to be a supreme court judge.

[dlk]

24. This Behavior Shows Kavanaugh has a Sadistic Streak

He’s the last type of person who belongs on the Supreme Court.

[Major Nikon]

25. Anyone who worked for Ken Starr should be automatically disqualified

That investigation cost around $100 million and produced nothing but political rhetoric. It's no different than Joe Arpaio opening baseless investigations on his political rivals for child molestation. Anyone who had any integrity whatsoever should have had no part in it.

[R B Garr]

33. Totally agreed. He was a sham and anyone from that episode should

be disqualified.

[Nitram]

65. I agree, Major. But you will notice that anyone who worked with Ken Starr on the Clinton

investigation has been rewarded by the GOP with lucrative positions and continual promotion and advancement through the ranks. Kavanaugh is the perfect example of that.

[Major Nikon]

66. There's another example of abuse of power that nobody is talking about

In the memo that was published where Kavanaugh lays out his argument for hard questioning of Clinton, he states Clinton is at least guilty of "perjury". Perjury isn't just lying under oath. It's lying under oath on a matter that's material to the matter before the court. That's not what Clinton did. The judge in the case never accused Clinton of perjury and Clinton was never indicted by Starr for perjury.

So either Kavanaugh makes a grossly incompetent mistake with his allegation, or he's simply a partisan hack whose ideology trumps his jurisprudence. Either way it makes him unqualified to be on the SCOTUS.

[Texin]

26. "What happened at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep...

and many of us are grateful for that..." That clip of him on MSNBC and other news shows last night tell one everything one needs to know to understand the essence of the man. His family's wealth and status, coupled with his own sociopathy make him a cold-blooded, reptile-brained tactician. He's the kind of guy that would gladly draw up plans for a modern era Final Solution and he could personally supervise the activities of the sonderkommandos stacking the gassed bodies into the kilns.

[R B Garr]

34. Glad to see this brought up! nt

[Hekate]

39. Kick

[SleeplessinSoCal]

42. What about the Catholic connection? Abuse and secrecy: the apparent bywords.

That school for boys creates the future's misogynistic law makers. Both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh sought education there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Preparatory_School?wprov=sfla1

[byronius]

43. Just the kind of guy Vlad would pick.

Divisive sociopath with a thousand hidden knives out for anything good or green.

"What's the worst thing a human being could do? Why, let's do that plus ten! Twice!"

His decisions would all be mathematically the polar opposite of good. A Black Swan judge, just like this Black Swan president.

And just like this president, could be superseded in the national interest by a potted plant. Or a jar of peanut butter.

I swear to god, it is the hardest thing I've ever had to bear to watch this sneak attack succeed. We have to come back from this. They're pushing for full Zombie Nation, but all it spells is chaos and death and misery and all the ills unstable autocracies suffer from. They cannot win, but we could all lose.

I'm a little angry at the moment.

No more posts today.

[JonLP24]

52. Kavanaugh pissed me off so much

It goes beyond politics for me.

[betsuni]

55. K&R

[chelsea0011]

60. Vince Foster. The Starr investigation began as a Whitewater real estate investigation

and morphed into Starr actually investigating weather the Clinton's , in particular Hillary, murdered and moved the body among other transgressions. Before the report was released they released an early statement that the Foster investigation part had closed and there was no crimes. I remember sitting there watching news when this was released and couldn't believe they were wasting money on this conspiracy BS.