Hat tip to Trump for his unassailable SCOTUS pick

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Anonymous wrote:This is fake news. There's no law that says a federal employe can't have credit card debts. The only issue I am aware is whether the employee took care of his or her just obligations. There's nothing in this thread that suggests that Kavanaugh didn't.

Mystery money. Where did the mystery money come from to pay off his debts? That’s not “fake news.” That’s a big dang deal.

Generally, the problem is if Kavanaugh didn't disclose his debt and someone, somehow discovered he lied on the disclosure form. No one's suggesting he lied. And if you can't imagine how someone could pay off a $200,000 cc debt legitimately, it's probably due to your lack of imagination, wishful thinking - or more likely your politics getting in the way of critical thinking. I can imagine many ways in which someone could pay down his or he rdebt, so this is a non-issue until someone on the left can be more specific about what Kavanaugh did that is so illegal.

And no one is saying he did anything illegal - yet. It’s just eyebrow raising, and not the judgment you want to see in a current federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, for him to have only mid-five figures in assets outside of his retirement and personal residence, and with all the past debt, and with all the debt suddenly paid off. Bad things happen when judges are broke.

He's been a judge for a long time, been in public service even longer. If this is all you've got, if this is all Washington Post has got - that he took care of his just legal obligations - I think he'll be fine.

This was day 2. You think everything is out already? OK.

+1. WaPo does death by a thousand paper cuts. See also: Scott Pruitt and Trump/ Russia. Wait for it... next news drop in the next week.

I'm glad to see someone admit WAPO's technique and bias.

That's not what bias means.

Oh, so they do a thousand cuts for candidates and nominees they want to see in office?! Also, I saw names that followed the comment--not favorites of WAPO.

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All of you people who say this is nothing are in denial. His behavior is far from normal. The average american is not out racking up tens of thousands in credit card debt for baseball tickets.

A rational person is going to look at this information, and go what? He did what? And then, because I'm an average person making decent money, I say, "How did he pay all of that off?" It's not easy to pay off that kind of money.

Does it mean he's not qualified? No idea, but it does make me think it would be easy to buy him. It also makes me question his judgement overall. What other risky behaviors is he engaging in that he doesn't have to report?

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Why would someone take on such high debt for baseball tickets? I can understand medical emergencies or education costs but this?

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Anonymous wrote:This is fake news. There's no law that says a federal employe can't have credit card debts. The only issue I am aware is whether the employee took care of his or her just obligations. There's nothing in this thread that suggests that Kavanaugh didn't.

Mystery money. Where did the mystery money come from to pay off his debts? That’s not “fake news.” That’s a big dang deal.

Generally, the problem is if Kavanaugh didn't disclose his debt and someone, somehow discovered he lied on the disclosure form. No one's suggesting he lied. And if you can't imagine how someone could pay off a $200,000 cc debt legitimately, it's probably due to your lack of imagination, wishful thinking - or more likely your politics getting in the way of critical thinking. I can imagine many ways in which someone could pay down his or he rdebt, so this is a non-issue until someone on the left can be more specific about what Kavanaugh did that is so illegal.

And no one is saying he did anything illegal - yet. It’s just eyebrow raising, and not the judgment you want to see in a current federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, for him to have only mid-five figures in assets outside of his retirement and personal residence, and with all the past debt, and with all the debt suddenly paid off. Bad things happen when judges are broke.

Really? It's eyebrow raising for a judge to have the same sorts of finances most of the rest of us who are reasonably well off have? Most middle class wealth is in our homes and retirement accounts. Most of us do not have buckets of money sitting around in other areas. And if we ran up expenses for something, we could pay it off. We're not really "broke" and stopping starbucks or eating out or finally cutting cable and getting our friends to pay us back and our parents doing some inheritance tax planning all of that can put some money in our pockets pretty quickly.

Broke would be payday loan and selling the furniture territory. Not "got exuberant with season tickets and vacation two years ago, and unexpectedly had some house expenses, have to go back to the basics with budgeting and not be so free flowing" territory.

Get outside of your bubble and you'll find that a lot of people live like this.

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Anonymous wrote:This is fake news. There's no law that says a federal employe can't have credit card debts. The only issue I am aware is whether the employee took care of his or her just obligations. There's nothing in this thread that suggests that Kavanaugh didn't.

Mystery money. Where did the mystery money come from to pay off his debts? That’s not “fake news.” That’s a big dang deal.

Generally, the problem is if Kavanaugh didn't disclose his debt and someone, somehow discovered he lied on the disclosure form. No one's suggesting he lied. And if you can't imagine how someone could pay off a $200,000 cc debt legitimately, it's probably due to your lack of imagination, wishful thinking - or more likely your politics getting in the way of critical thinking. I can imagine many ways in which someone could pay down his or he rdebt, so this is a non-issue until someone on the left can be more specific about what Kavanaugh did that is so illegal.

And no one is saying he did anything illegal - yet. It’s just eyebrow raising, and not the judgment you want to see in a current federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, for him to have only mid-five figures in assets outside of his retirement and personal residence, and with all the past debt, and with all the debt suddenly paid off. Bad things happen when judges are broke.

Really? It's eyebrow raising for a judge to have the same sorts of finances most of the rest of us who are reasonably well off have? Most middle class wealth is in our homes and retirement accounts. Most of us do not have buckets of money sitting around in other areas. And if we ran up expenses for something, we could pay it off. We're not really "broke" and stopping starbucks or eating out or finally cutting cable and getting our friends to pay us back and our parents doing some inheritance tax planning all of that can put some money in our pockets pretty quickly.

Broke would be payday loan and selling the furniture territory. Not "got exuberant with season tickets and vacation two years ago, and unexpectedly had some house expenses, have to go back to the basics with budgeting and not be so free flowing" territory.

Get outside of your bubble and you'll find that a lot of people live like this.

You know what’s a bubble- thinking someone that someone who makes $300k annually and has a $1.2M house is how a lot of people live. Broke is broke. It doesn’t matter if you have extensive debt with s fancy house or if you borrow money to make rent. Relying on your parents inheritance tax planning to pay off charges you ran up overspending on baseball tickets is also broke. His debt didn’t get resolved by cutting out Starbucks or cutting cable. Paying off that amount of debt takes years of discipline. Speak for yourself about the same sorts of finances. Some of us have good judgement.

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Anonymous wrote:This is fake news. There's no law that says a federal employe can't have credit card debts. The only issue I am aware is whether the employee took care of his or her just obligations. There's nothing in this thread that suggests that Kavanaugh didn't.

Mystery money. Where did the mystery money come from to pay off his debts? That’s not “fake news.” That’s a big dang deal.

Generally, the problem is if Kavanaugh didn't disclose his debt and someone, somehow discovered he lied on the disclosure form. No one's suggesting he lied. And if you can't imagine how someone could pay off a $200,000 cc debt legitimately, it's probably due to your lack of imagination, wishful thinking - or more likely your politics getting in the way of critical thinking. I can imagine many ways in which someone could pay down his or he rdebt, so this is a non-issue until someone on the left can be more specific about what Kavanaugh did that is so illegal.

And no one is saying he did anything illegal - yet. It’s just eyebrow raising, and not the judgment you want to see in a current federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, for him to have only mid-five figures in assets outside of his retirement and personal residence, and with all the past debt, and with all the debt suddenly paid off. Bad things happen when judges are broke.

Really? It's eyebrow raising for a judge to have the same sorts of finances most of the rest of us who are reasonably well off have? Most middle class wealth is in our homes and retirement accounts. Most of us do not have buckets of money sitting around in other areas. And if we ran up expenses for something, we could pay it off. We're not really "broke" and stopping starbucks or eating out or finally cutting cable and getting our friends to pay us back and our parents doing some inheritance tax planning all of that can put some money in our pockets pretty quickly.

Broke would be payday loan and selling the furniture territory. Not "got exuberant with season tickets and vacation two years ago, and unexpectedly had some house expenses, have to go back to the basics with budgeting and not be so free flowing" territory.

Get outside of your bubble and you'll find that a lot of people live like this.

You know what’s a bubble- thinking someone that someone who makes $300k annually and has a $1.2M house is how a lot of people live. Broke is broke. It doesn’t matter if you have extensive debt with s fancy house or if you borrow money to make rent. Relying on your parents inheritance tax planning to pay off charges you ran up overspending on baseball tickets is also broke. His debt didn’t get resolved by cutting out Starbucks or cutting cable. Paying off that amount of debt takes years of discipline. Speak for yourself about the same sorts of finances. Some of us have good judgement.

That is exactly how a lot of people live in this area. UMC folks who have enough money not to need to worry too much, but not so much we can do anything we want to do.

Government employees do well, and count on the retirement so aren't as likely to cut immediate expenses for extra buckets of money.

Perhaps you should meet some actually broke people. Can't pay for a car repair, have already sold their belongings that are worth anything, plan on which utility is getting cut off this month, broke.

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Anonymous wrote:This is fake news. There's no law that says a federal employe can't have credit card debts. The only issue I am aware is whether the employee took care of his or her just obligations. There's nothing in this thread that suggests that Kavanaugh didn't.

Mystery money. Where did the mystery money come from to pay off his debts? That’s not “fake news.” That’s a big dang deal.

Generally, the problem is if Kavanaugh didn't disclose his debt and someone, somehow discovered he lied on the disclosure form. No one's suggesting he lied. And if you can't imagine how someone could pay off a $200,000 cc debt legitimately, it's probably due to your lack of imagination, wishful thinking - or more likely your politics getting in the way of critical thinking. I can imagine many ways in which someone could pay down his or he rdebt, so this is a non-issue until someone on the left can be more specific about what Kavanaugh did that is so illegal.

And no one is saying he did anything illegal - yet. It’s just eyebrow raising, and not the judgment you want to see in a current federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, for him to have only mid-five figures in assets outside of his retirement and personal residence, and with all the past debt, and with all the debt suddenly paid off. Bad things happen when judges are broke.

Really? It's eyebrow raising for a judge to have the same sorts of finances most of the rest of us who are reasonably well off have? Most middle class wealth is in our homes and retirement accounts. Most of us do not have buckets of money sitting around in other areas. And if we ran up expenses for something, we could pay it off. We're not really "broke" and stopping starbucks or eating out or finally cutting cable and getting our friends to pay us back and our parents doing some inheritance tax planning all of that can put some money in our pockets pretty quickly.

Broke would be payday loan and selling the furniture territory. Not "got exuberant with season tickets and vacation two years ago, and unexpectedly had some house expenses, have to go back to the basics with budgeting and not be so free flowing" territory.

Get outside of your bubble and you'll find that a lot of people live like this.

You know what’s a bubble- thinking someone that someone who makes $300k annually and has a $1.2M house is how a lot of people live. Broke is broke. It doesn’t matter if you have extensive debt with s fancy house or if you borrow money to make rent. Relying on your parents inheritance tax planning to pay off charges you ran up overspending on baseball tickets is also broke. His debt didn’t get resolved by cutting out Starbucks or cutting cable. Paying off that amount of debt takes years of discipline. Speak for yourself about the same sorts of finances. Some of us have good judgement.

That is exactly how a lot of people live in this area. UMC folks who have enough money not to need to worry too much, but not so much we can do anything we want to do.

Government employees do well, and count on the retirement so aren't as likely to cut immediate expenses for extra buckets of money.

Perhaps you should meet some actually broke people. Can't pay for a car repair, have already sold their belongings that are worth anything, plan on which utility is getting cut off this month, broke.

It's how we live. Late 30s, lots of credit card debt. But our student loans are nearly paid off and then we'll pay off our credit cards. It's not normal or something to be proud of. It doesn't show wisdom or judgment.

There's a reason WaPo hasn't written this sort of article about any other Supreme Court nominee.

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Anonymous wrote:This is fake news. There's no law that says a federal employe can't have credit card debts. The only issue I am aware is whether the employee took care of his or her just obligations. There's nothing in this thread that suggests that Kavanaugh didn't.

Mystery money. Where did the mystery money come from to pay off his debts? That’s not “fake news.” That’s a big dang deal.

Generally, the problem is if Kavanaugh didn't disclose his debt and someone, somehow discovered he lied on the disclosure form. No one's suggesting he lied. And if you can't imagine how someone could pay off a $200,000 cc debt legitimately, it's probably due to your lack of imagination, wishful thinking - or more likely your politics getting in the way of critical thinking. I can imagine many ways in which someone could pay down his or he rdebt, so this is a non-issue until someone on the left can be more specific about what Kavanaugh did that is so illegal.

And no one is saying he did anything illegal - yet. It’s just eyebrow raising, and not the judgment you want to see in a current federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, for him to have only mid-five figures in assets outside of his retirement and personal residence, and with all the past debt, and with all the debt suddenly paid off. Bad things happen when judges are broke.

Really? It's eyebrow raising for a judge to have the same sorts of finances most of the rest of us who are reasonably well off have? Most middle class wealth is in our homes and retirement accounts. Most of us do not have buckets of money sitting around in other areas. And if we ran up expenses for something, we could pay it off. We're not really "broke" and stopping starbucks or eating out or finally cutting cable and getting our friends to pay us back and our parents doing some inheritance tax planning all of that can put some money in our pockets pretty quickly.

Broke would be payday loan and selling the furniture territory. Not "got exuberant with season tickets and vacation two years ago, and unexpectedly had some house expenses, have to go back to the basics with budgeting and not be so free flowing" territory.

Get outside of your bubble and you'll find that a lot of people live like this.

You know what’s a bubble- thinking someone that someone who makes $300k annually and has a $1.2M house is how a lot of people live. Broke is broke. It doesn’t matter if you have extensive debt with s fancy house or if you borrow money to make rent. Relying on your parents inheritance tax planning to pay off charges you ran up overspending on baseball tickets is also broke. His debt didn’t get resolved by cutting out Starbucks or cutting cable. Paying off that amount of debt takes years of discipline. Speak for yourself about the same sorts of finances. Some of us have good judgement.

That is exactly how a lot of people live in this area. UMC folks who have enough money not to need to worry too much, but not so much we can do anything we want to do.

Government employees do well, and count on the retirement so aren't as likely to cut immediate expenses for extra buckets of money.

Perhaps you should meet some actually broke people. Can't pay for a car repair, have already sold their belongings that are worth anything, plan on which utility is getting cut off this month, broke.

So? None of those people are being nominated for SCOTUS.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what’s a bubble- thinking someone that someone who makes $300k annually and has a $1.2M house is how a lot of people live. Broke is broke. It doesn’t matter if you have extensive debt with s fancy house or if you borrow money to make rent. Relying on your parents inheritance tax planning to pay off charges you ran up overspending on baseball tickets is also broke. His debt didn’t get resolved by cutting out Starbucks or cutting cable. Paying off that amount of debt takes years of discipline. Speak for yourself about the same sorts of finances. Some of us have good judgement.

Or just a nice fairy godmother. Hmmm. Who can pay off somewhere between $60,000-$200,000 suddenly after carrying that much debt for over a decade?

Also, this creep lies under oath?

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Some posters are acting like the Washington Post ha a scoop which is the result of secret dirt digging on Kavanaugh when this story is based on public disclosures and is being reported by a large number of newspapers, etc.

I just don’t like the idea that his name turns up on a published list of potential Supreme Court picks and within 12 months debt amounts that seem to have been carrier for 10 years are eliminated. But if he explains how he was able to eleinatr the debt so quickly I would be satisfied.

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Wasn’t his name just added to the list late last year?

Who has done the math on how many baseball tickets he bought?

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Anonymous wrote:#BrettKavanaughScandals is trending on Twitter. They are pretty funny....

Examples:

I have been told by two sources that years ago Brett Kavanaugh experimented with pineapple on pizza.
One time Brett Kavanaugh brought 18 items into the 15 items or less line... then paid with a personal check.
Brett Kavanaugh leaves the seat up.
DEVELOPING STORY: Sources have told me that Brett Kavanaugh wore white shorts on September 5th, 2017. The day AFTER Labor Day.
Sources have told me privately that on more than one occasion he failed to fully rewind his rented VHS tapes.

I don’t see the “pretty funny” here. Nor is this actually trending on twitter. Why lie?

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The shadiest thing about this is that the WH spokespeople who lie about everything offered up the baseball text story ASAP. They just lied to us about pastries!

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If he is such a great guy I am sure we will hear from the many many friends he floated tickets for for years.

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He's a Yale attorney/judge living in Chevy Chase. Presumably, most his trustfunder/white shoe lawyer "friends" have more disposable cash than him. How does he end up as the flunky charging a bunch of tickets?