Democrats Borking At The Moon

NPR reports, “Kavanaugh Looks On Path To Supreme Court Confirmation, After 4 Days Of Hearings.

Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up four days of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The committee is likely to vote on Kavanaugh in about two weeks.

And nothing in this week’s often partisan-squabbling, protest-interrupted spectacle has changed the likely outcome: a party-line vote in favor of Kavanaugh’s elevation to the high court.

**bork [bawrk]
Word Origin
verb (used with object)
to attack (a candidate or public figure) systematically, especially in the media.

Origin of bork
1988, Americanism; after Judge Robert H. Bork, whose appointment to the Supreme Court was blocked in 1987 after an extensive media campaign by his opponents

Barack Obama – Election Monkey

Breitbart reports, “Barack Obama in 2008: Both Parties ‘Have Monkeyed Around With Elections’“.

Barack Obama warned supporters that politicians had “monkeyed around” with elections, during a campaign speech at Kent State University in New Philadelphia, Ohio, on September 3, 2008.

Then-Senator Obama (D-IL) said: “I come from Chicago. It’s not as if it’s just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past. Sometimes Democrats have, too. You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction.”

But, of course, if a Republican like Ron DeSantis uses the colloquial expression….

Alpha Centauri Rejects Paying For Trump’s Space Force

Reps from the sun’s closest stellar neighbors, the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system, said today that President Trump could “forgeddaboutit” any of the Centauriis ever paying for the US Space Force. The two main players, the binary pair, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B noted that rep from Proxima Centauri, the closest star at 4.22 light years, is adamant that the only thing ‘they’ would consider paying for is Trump’s one-way trip to Uranus.