Report: George W. Bush Calling Up Lawmakers to Push for 'Yes' Vote on Kavanaugh

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



Former President George W. Bush has reportedly been calling up lawmakers in recent days and pushing them to vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Sources cited by The Washington Post late Thursday said Bush has been trying to sway some senators who are key votes in the confirmation process but are unlikely to be receptive to President Trump. Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Joe Manchin III (D-WV), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are crucial in deciding Kavanaugh’s fate, but on the eve of a committee vote set for Friday, they were still undecided. The four reportedly met privately late Thursday but still had not reached a conclusion. “We’re still talking. There’s no decisions made on anything, I can assure you of that,” Manchin told Bloomberg News. He said there were still “some concerns” to be addressed before any decision can be made. Kavanaugh worked under Bush as an associate counsel and later a staff secretary, and it was Bush who nominated him to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2006.

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[turbinetree]

1. FUCK HIM............................fucking traitor

of course he would want him on the bench.......................he got him to be a president, that murdered over 4,658 Americans based on fucking LIE and Iraq, people in the hundred of thousands ...................Fuck HIM..................


Hey Bush, when we take back the house and possibly the senate, we can still impeach this serial rapist drunk....................asshole


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough..........................vote

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections

[watoos]

2. Democrats let him off the hook.

We should have investigated the shit out of the invasion of Iraq. Then again, Cheney was president the first 6 years.

[turbinetree]

3. FUCK HIM............................fucking traitor

[rockfordfile]

35. The same guy that lied us into war. Don't forget Nicole Wallace is another one.

[turbinetree]

39. Yepper, spot on.................

she also was complicit in having American citizens die

[lagomorph777]

42. Bush has a dog in this fight. If Kavanaugh's records are released, more Bush crimes are revealed.

Of course, that could happen anyway, after Congress flips.

[turbinetree]

44. Yepper, spot on.................

[dchill]

4. Dubya is not, never has been, and never will be...

a decent guy. Not a chance.

[Raster]

8. Another profoundly unsuited son of privilege...

...whose "presidency" was a textbook example of highly partisan incompetence.

[Afromania]

5. Yea, so much for all those feel good moments

When feet meet road these people are all about doing the wrong thing.

[Raster]

6. Of course he is... he was one of the prime dirty tricks legal guys for the Bush* administration...

...that's why they don't want all of the documents relating to Kavanaugh's time during the Bush* administration given to investigators and Democratic Senators.

[Racerdog1]

7. Birds of a feather

This asshole shrub, should stay in hiding. He is, and always will be, a huge embarrassment and shit stain on the US. Liar should have been tried for war crimes along with dickhead cheney.

[katmondoo]

11. I protested Bush for 8 years now I am no longer able to do anything to fight Trumpism

Age and illness does that. I wish I were 20 years younger.

[Racerdog1]

18. Keep it up

You can still fight on. Call these morons every day and let them know how you feel. Thank you.

[Guilded Lilly]

9. A reminder of why I abhorred him. The hideousness of the Cretin was causing my

tolerance of Bush devastation to shift.

Good old boy frat-brain egomaniacal narcissist ignorance is a huge part of what lead us to this vile cultural state in the first place.

[delisen]

10. The modern era of Destroying America began in 2000 with Frat Bro Bush

An illegitimate president wo turned his presidency over to a crazed vp, who ignored warnings of terrorism. An illegitimate president who invaded a country to avenge his Dad.

Tribalism at its worst. A fraternity brother of Kavanaugh whom he let into the White House to do damage to representative democracy. The torture president. The president who gave cover to Saudi Arabians immediately after 9/11.

Bush once stood on a stage discussing economics and finance and honestly admitted that he represented "the rich."

They are not smart, they are wiley. They are not patriotic, they are tribal. The stage for what we are undergoing now was set in 2000 when the Tribe of the Rich installed G W Bush as president.

[catbyte]

16. Agree that Bush accelerated it, but it started with Reagan. Check out when

income inequality began spiking. He also was the first president to embrace the Religious Right as a political entity. Before Reagan, they were regarded as a necessary voting bloc that they had to pay lip service to, but they had no real political clout. Reagan changed all that by kowtowing to Jerry Falwell, etc.

This has been a long game almost 40 years in the making, and it came to fruition yesterday.

[IMG][/IMG]

[dajoki]

17. Yes it did n/t

[lark]

12. Fuck that 2nd worst president of the USA ever.

RW cad is all he is. All the talk of drumpf was just sour grapes about Jed. I truly hate this stupid ass.

[cstanleytech]

13. I wonder if Kavanaugh has something on Bush and Bush is doing this

as part of a repayment for services rendered and in this case the service is keeping his mouth shut?

[bullwinkle428]

14. Thanks for reminding us you should be sitting in a fucking PRISON CELL at the Hague.

[catbyte]

15. Makes sense. His old man gave us Clarence Thomas, and in the same way.

[dajoki]

19. The last time...

a repub won the presidential election legitimately was 1988.

[Honeycombe8]

20. I hate to hear this. GWB has pull. He's considered not fr the nut job end of the party.

That disapproval of Laura Bush for the kids in cages? Kavanaugh would rubber stamp it.

I'm tellin' ya, with each passing nail in the coffin of freedom and protections in this country, I'm feeling more and more anger not just at the alt-right, but also at the third parties who pushed for not voting for Hillary Clinton. Like or hate her, she was the path toward protecting our freedoms and rights in this country, the path to some bit of gun control, the path to protection of Social Security and Medicare....

[NickB79]

21. How is he friends with Michelle Obama?!?

One minute he seems like a loveable buffoon, the next as heartless as the other GOP scum.

[BigGermanGuy]

23. Because ultimately

Ivy league is ivy league.

[Nitram]

22. Bush and Kavanaugh belong to the same club of entitled, white men with inherited money and power.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Entitled rich white drunken frat boys, to be more specific.

[melman]

24. But he shares his candy!

And it's totally adorable. Read that right here on this board so I know it's true.

[SunSeeker]

25. That is fucked up. But a Republican is still a Republican.

Anyone who still supports putting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court after watching Dr. Ford's testimony is evil.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. George, just STFU and go back to your paintings.

As president you sucked hard enough to bend light and you should spend the rest of your life trying to atone for it by not saying anything about anything ever again.

[rockfordfile]

36. The un-American pos is a war criminal.

[bronxiteforever]

28. W promises Kavanaugh will do to law what W did to Iraq

[KayF]

29. this is why Kavanaugh kept talking about beer

people keep talking about how he was playing to Trump, he was playing to W too.

[wryter2000]

30. Can we stop thinking he's cute now?

F him.

[tymorial]

31. I have sometimes been less critical and harsh towards Bush

I'm done. Fuck him.

[RussBLib]

32. Bush was ALMOST rehabilitated

but, yeah, you blew it there Shrub

[rockfordfile]

37. No. Bushco is a war criminal.

[RussBLib]

40. Well, you are right about that.

It's too easy to forget.

[Solly Mack]

33. No surprise to me

[QC]

34. I hope this will put a stop to Bush's rehabilitation

among people who should know better.

He's still a war criminal asshole who stole the White House, even if his paintings are amusing and he's nice to the Obamas.

[joanbarnes]

38. He went AWOL and escaped justice, so why shouldn't a rapist escape justice?

[Maxheader]

41. The cocaine cowboy from crawford texas..

did exactly what for women while prez?

[Tiggeroshii]

43. Flake Manchin and Murkowski are all no without an fbi investigation

...so they say.

[louis-t]

45. He's still an asshole.