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We\u2019re watching the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, you know, it almost as though we should start calling her Judge Amy Grin-and-Bear-It. She has had to sit and listen to a bunch of comparative relative morons berate her and berate President Trump and the country for 11 hours yesterday, probably for another 11 hours more today. She literally is stunning. She\u2019s the definition of unflappable. The woman sits there and is unmoved. They have tried everything they know, just like the Democrats have.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve shot everything they have at Donald Trump. They have fired every weapon that, in the past, has succeeded in getting rid of a targeted Republican. They have not made a dent in Donald Trump. They have not damaged him. They have not moved him closer to retirement or legal conviction, impeachment, what have you. Look, I know there\u2019s some caveats. They\u2019ve interrupted and slowed down the agenda implementation and all that, but that\u2019s not been their objective. Their objective has been to ruin the man, and they have not succeeded. They have not gotten close.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re not getting close with Judge Barrett. She just sits there — again, we pointed out, maybe among the first, no notes on a single, blank, small pad of paper. She has no briefing binders. She has no backup materials. She\u2019s got nothing but what is in her head. And I watched this, I study people. I study facial expressions and the comportment and how well they deal with stress and pressure. And believe me, she has been under fire from any number of directions, and she well knows it. And I\u2019m sure that inside that unflappable facial expression her gears are churning faster than you and I can possibly imagine, anticipating where this line of questioning is ultimately going.<\/p>\n
“What the hell are they attempting to pull off now?” she\u2019s asking herself. But it\u2019s like a duck. A duck that you see on a pond or a body of water seems to just be gliding along smooth as possible. You don\u2019t see that duck paddling furiously beneath the surface. It is a great illustration of what I think is going on in the mind of Amy Coney Barrett. She knows that she is smarter than these people. She knows that she knows more than these people. She knows that she is not arrogant nor condescending; they are.<\/p>\n
She nevertheless has to act deferential. This is a really fine line. She has to act deferential, at the same time stand up for herself. She cannot relax her mind for a moment. One misplaced answer, one answer that is not the result of focused, intense, strategic thought could give them an opening that she has no idea they\u2019re looking for, but they do. So far, she has thwarted every attempt that they have made. And some of them have been really rank. Some of them have been real stinkers. Some of them have been so low class. And even at that she did not react out of character.<\/p>\n
So what is her secret, ladies and gentlemen? How does she do this? I have a theory. I have a theory for much. And I think the theory that I have evolved will explain Judge Barrett. She\u2019s a teacher as well. Not just a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a law professor at where? Notre Dame. As such, she has had years of experience in dealing with a bunch of know-it-all kids. I don\u2019t say that with any pejorative. If you have kids — I don\u2019t have kids, but if you have kids, everybody who knows kids knows that kids know more than the parents do. Kids know more than the adults do. The adults are not hip; the adults are not cool. It\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n
She has had years of experience in dealing with attitudes like she is facing from the Democrat senators on this committee. The kids, or, in this case, senators who think they know more than she does about the law and the Constitution. So she knows, because she\u2019s a teacher, she knows how to correct them without making a face. She knows how to correct them without making them look stupid. Look. She\u2019s a teacher. She wants them to learn.<\/p>\n
So in dealing with the kids, she\u2019s not about humiliating them. She has not learned how to do that. I\u2019m sure she could if she wanted to. But humiliating Durbin would not be wise. Humiliating Sheldon Whitehouse, although it would be easy, would not be wise. Humiliating Cory Booker — I\u2019m sure it takes effort not to — not to mention Kamala Harris. This woman is cruising for the most hated woman in the Senate award and I don\u2019t even think she is aware of it.<\/p>\n
But she knows how to do all this without making them look stupid. This is so crucial in these hearings. She\u2019s doing everything without notes. So in the process she\u2019s actually teaching them. So up against the Democrats on this committee, she is well practiced in dealing with the attitudes including the arrogance and the condescension that she is facing.<\/p>\n
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In the process, you know, we are watching the attempted abuse, the attempted legal abuse of an exemplary woman. This woman ought to have been looked at and everybody examining her qualifications should have rubber-stamped them. They vetted her three years ago. There\u2019s nothing additional to learn about her philosophy. Take a look at whatever cases she\u2019s had since the last time.<\/p>\n
No, their effort was to stop her somehow, any way, and I don\u2019t believe that that effort is over. I hear everybody at the end of every day, be it on Fox, be it wherever it is, all of the news people, all the commentators, all the analysts say, “Well, there\u2019s no way they can stop this nomination. Democrats know there\u2019s nothing they can do.” I know these people, and they\u2019re not there yet. Numbers-wise, yeah. But I don\u2019t think they have yet given up on stopping this nomination.<\/p>\n
Confirming a Republican judicial nominee is an abusive process. And we are watching it happen again. What these Democrats are doing, what they\u2019re trying to do to judge, professor, working mother Amy Coney Barrett, is yet another grotesque abuse of power. You know what? If this interview process were discovered to be happening within a company, it would be a national scandal. That company\u2019s stock would tank. Whoever was in charge of this kind of interview process inside a company would be held up for ridicule and might even be fired. The executive team, the board of directors would be finished. Reputations would be ruined.<\/p>\n
Do you think Democrat voters would tolerate this from Republican senators? Do ya? They\u2019d be appalled. But many today are proud of their elected abusers. They\u2019re proud of the abuse of General Flynn. They\u2019re proud of the abuse of the first lady. They are proud of the abuse of candidate Trump and President-Elect Trump and then President Trump. They are proud of the abuse because abusing these people is all they\u2019ve got. They have shown, daily they demonstrate their inability to defeat President Trump, General Flynn, take your pick, now Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p>\n
Now, we\u2019ve seen Republican judicial nominees in the past. It\u2019s been worse than what we\u2019re seeing now. No question about it. One of the reasons is the time frame is really condensed. Another reason is the count is what it is. Just strict numbers without some Kavanaugh trick waiting to pop out of a hat, there isn\u2019t anything they can do. But believe me, this has nothing to do with advise and consent. The question she\u2019s being asked have nothing to do with her qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Is it\u2019s legalized abuse. And that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen to the rest of us if these people win. If the Democrats win in November, they will then begin to abuse all of us, because we as citizens will be presumed guilty of racism, of homophobia, of practicing inequality, practicing white supremacy, practicing white privilege. We will become the objects, the subjects of the abuse, as these Democrats embark on their process of cleansing America\u2019s soul, cleansing America\u2019s decrepit past, which is what they think needs to happen.<\/p>\n
They have shown us who they are, and they continue to show us who they are. I\u2019m really impressed by Amy Coney Barrett, the way she puts up with this. Unflappable doesn\u2019t get halfway there describing her professionalism in dealing with this.<\/p>\n
Let me give you one example. This is so beneath the realm of dignity that you have to wonder what\u2019s behind it. Yesterday afternoon during the hearings for Amy Coney Barrett we got a question from Senator Mazie Hirono. She\u2019s from Hawaii. She\u2019s the one during the Kavanaugh hearings who said, “You men just need to shut up. You men just need to be quiet,” back when everybody thought that Christine Blasey Ford was telling the truth, that Kavanaugh was running rape trains by the punchbowl at some college frat party.<\/p>\n
Senator Leahy was sitting there near the punchbowl. (doing Larry Flynt impression) It all came falling down \u2019cause there was nothing, anything to it. But now they\u2019re back. Now they\u2019re back to this. I want you to listen to this question from Mazie Hirono. It\u2019s audio sound bite number 10. Here we go. Three, two, one.<\/p>\n