David Corns perfect response to Ari Fleischer...

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[Dawson Leery]

1. In a just world, Ari would have be forced to flip by prosecutors

going after the Bush/Neo-Con Cabal for war crimes.

[Jim__]

2. 'Should committing sexual assault in high school "deny us chances later in life?" '

Well, if, as an adult, you lie about the sexual assault and imply that the person you assaulted is a liar, yes.

[smirkymonkey]

18. A girl can still get pregnant by sexual assault in high school.

And this bastard wants to take away her right to terminate a pregnancy that was a result of rape by some entitled rich boys? Fuck him! Just fuck him!

[ecstatic]

21. He's trying to be a judge, FFS! Judges lock up others for that type of thing.

So why TF should he get to lock others up for crimes that he himself did!

[calimary]

25. Well I guess we know how he'd rule on such cases.

[Trust Buster]

3. Should such a person that commits sexual assault then go on to be the deciding vote

Regarding a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy, a woman’s right to take birth control or a woman’s right to file class action sexual harassment suits ?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Nobody has the *right* to be on the Supreme Court.

And nominees should be held to an especially high standard. Doing something terrible as a teenager shouldn't mean your whole life ever after has to be ruined, but it also doesn't mean that terrible thing should be ignored when you are trying to get a lifetime appointment to the country's highest court. Not getting appointed to the court won't ruin Kavanaugh's life - he'll just go back to his court of appeals job and he'll be fine. But since appointees ought to be held to a very high standard, maybe that terrible thing he did as a teenager should limit his future career opportunity on the Supreme Court.

[MaryMagdaline]

7. Perfectly said

[FakeNoose]

9. The thing that really frosts me

...is how the GOP is using the SCOTUS bench as a reward for their favorite long-time party hacks and toadies.

You want to reward the guy - then buy him some baseball tickets or something. The SCOTUS bench is not a reward, it's a huge responsibility and it's to be carefully reserved for the best of the brightest. Turning it into a political payoff is a terrible mistake.

If it were up to me, I'd require that all Supreme Court justices must resign their party affiliations before assuming the bench.

[DallasNE]

16. So Much Of The Rot We See Today

Can be traced back to Nixon. Carswell and Hainesworth were anything but the best and brightest.

[FakeNoose]

28. Yep! Scalia did a lot of damage for 30 years too

[Raven123]

5. The correct answer to Fleischer's question is "Yes."

I am not saying there is no opportunity for redemption, but this is a heinous crime that leaves permanent scars and rightfully deserves permanent consequences. Ineligibility for lifetime judicial appointments should be among them.

[dem4decades]

6. While W has shown some redeeming qualities, Fleischer and Cheney are still

pieces of shit. In my humble opinion.

[MaryMagdaline]

8. Look this guy got a first rate CATHOLIC education

Let me ‘splain from my rudimentary CCD on Wednesday night suburban Catholic post Vatican II education:

First there is sin
Then there is the confession of sin
Then there is the plea for forgiveness
Then there is penance

Seems you are stuck at sin.

Talk to you after you ask Ford and God’s forgiveness

[czarjak]

11. Unless you "try not to do anything you need to ask forgiveness for", right?

[MaryMagdaline]

12. That's a great idea. Why sin at all??

[EffieBlack]

10. Hypocrites

Racist hypocrites, at that ...

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[AZ8theist]

17. you forget....IOKIYAR...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. So they're setting it up

"So what if he raped her? It was 35 years ago."

[thucythucy]

14. Did he really say deny US a chance?

Was that a Freudian slip, a backhanded confession?

"Deny US a chance"?

Hmmm.

[Snake Plissken]

15. Fleischer should ask Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Should being a victim of sexual assault in high school deny

women chaces later in life? For some, the answer is their lives are ruined.

[iluvtennis]

20. Exactly.

[MontanaMama]

22. What happens if a woman is raped

in high school and is impregnated as result? WTF are her chances for a successful life? What are her chances for healthy self esteem? How does that event affect everything she does from that moment forward? I’m so angry tonight.

[pbmus]

23. For me, all weekend ...Angry, angrier, angriest...

[MontanaMama]

24. Yes.

I’m wondering how Anita Hill is doing these days. I hope she’s okay. I hope Dr. Ford is okay and has good support. I want the Senate Judiciary committee to get lit up like a Christmas tree. I want there to be no doubt that Kavanaugh belongs under a rock and not on the scotus.

[Farmer-Rick]

27. You know we can still impeach long dong Thomas

[Farmer-Rick]

26. Well put

[RockCreek]

29. And if it didn't "deny" a poor sexually stressed teenager such chances

Then why would they possibly restrain themselves?
There are manny possible reasons for restraint, and teenagers aren't great in considering future consequences.
But there need to be consequences.
This is a consequence that will make some think and reconsider possible actions.
17 year olds, a year or less short of being able to vote and join the army, are capable of thinking about future cobsequences.
What message does it send teens today if adults are saying that teen boys are not accountable for sexual and or drunken aggression?