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Democratic Senator Furious Over Republicans Offering Kavanaugh's Accuser Opportunity To Testify
"The callousness with which she was treated."
Screenshot: CNN Video
ByRyan Saavedra
@realsaavedra
September 19, 2018
42.6k views
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) expressed her anger at Republicans on Wednesday for giving Judge Brett Kavanaugh's accuser the opportunity to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee so that her voice can be heard before a vote to confirm Kavanaugh takes place.
Appearing on CNN's "New Day," Hirono said that she did not know that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was sitting on a letter that contained allegations against Kavanaugh.
"You know what happened right after she came forward on Sunday?" Hirono asked. "I think that's when most of us read about it. That the committee said, 'Oh, hey, we want to have a hearing with you. How about this coming Tuesday? Oh, if that's not good, how about Thursday?' The callousness with which she was treated."
"You know, for any of us to have dealt at all with the experience of sexual trauma knows that this is a very particularly damaging kind of experience," Hirono continued. "And you do not treat a person who has gone through this like, 'Oh, well, hey, how about this?' You know, I think it's appalling."
Hirono claimed that if Christine Blasey Ford testifies, she will be "re-victimized" as she continued to criticize Republican's offer to Ford, which she said "is additional callousness from my colleagues that I am totally appalled by."
WATCH:
"The callousness with which she was treated."
Screenshot: CNN Video
ByRyan Saavedra
@realsaavedra
September 19, 2018
42.6k views
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) expressed her anger at Republicans on Wednesday for giving Judge Brett Kavanaugh's accuser the opportunity to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee so that her voice can be heard before a vote to confirm Kavanaugh takes place.
Appearing on CNN's "New Day," Hirono said that she did not know that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was sitting on a letter that contained allegations against Kavanaugh.
"You know what happened right after she came forward on Sunday?" Hirono asked. "I think that's when most of us read about it. That the committee said, 'Oh, hey, we want to have a hearing with you. How about this coming Tuesday? Oh, if that's not good, how about Thursday?' The callousness with which she was treated."
"You know, for any of us to have dealt at all with the experience of sexual trauma knows that this is a very particularly damaging kind of experience," Hirono continued. "And you do not treat a person who has gone through this like, 'Oh, well, hey, how about this?' You know, I think it's appalling."
Hirono claimed that if Christine Blasey Ford testifies, she will be "re-victimized" as she continued to criticize Republican's offer to Ford, which she said "is additional callousness from my colleagues that I am totally appalled by."
WATCH:
Sheriff Joe
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If Ford won’t show, proceed to confirmation, says … Tennessee Democrat
Ed Morrissey Sep 20, 2018 8:41 AM
Deadline
Ed Morrissey Sep 20, 2018 8:41 AM
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Sheriff Joe
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No wonder Ca is so fucked up, with this guy running things,
Jerry Brown on Trump: Something’s got to happen to this guy, if we don’t get rid of him he’ll wreck the world
Allahpundit Sep 19, 2018 10:41 PM
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Jerry Brown on Trump: Something’s got to happen to this guy, if we don’t get rid of him he’ll wreck the world
Allahpundit Sep 19, 2018 10:41 PM
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Bruddah IZ
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How about an affadavit?Democratic Senator Furious Over Republicans Offering Kavanaugh's Accuser Opportunity To Testify
"The callousness with which she was treated."
Screenshot: CNN Video
ByRyan Saavedra
@realsaavedra
September 19, 2018
42.6k views
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) expressed her anger at Republicans on Wednesday for giving Judge Brett Kavanaugh's accuser the opportunity to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee so that her voice can be heard before a vote to confirm Kavanaugh takes place.
Appearing on CNN's "New Day," Hirono said that she did not know that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was sitting on a letter that contained allegations against Kavanaugh.
"You know what happened right after she came forward on Sunday?" Hirono asked. "I think that's when most of us read about it. That the committee said, 'Oh, hey, we want to have a hearing with you. How about this coming Tuesday? Oh, if that's not good, how about Thursday?' The callousness with which she was treated."
"You know, for any of us to have dealt at all with the experience of sexual trauma knows that this is a very particularly damaging kind of experience," Hirono continued. "And you do not treat a person who has gone through this like, 'Oh, well, hey, how about this?' You know, I think it's appalling."
Hirono claimed that if Christine Blasey Ford testifies, she will be "re-victimized" as she continued to criticize Republican's offer to Ford, which she said "is additional callousness from my colleagues that I am totally appalled by."
WATCH:
Sheriff Joe
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I am Spartacus.
What a dick head.
Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh
5 hours ago
Booker's push for Kavanaugh vote delay called out over his 1992 column detailing teenage groping
By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News
Booker touts 'Spartacus moment' over Kavanaugh documents
Mike Emanuel previews the final round of Kavanaugh hearings.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is facing accusations of hypocrisy over his calls to delay the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid sexual misconduct allegations, as he once admitted groping a friend without her consent in high school.
The senator, who urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to first let the FBI conduct an investigation after California professor Christine Blasey Ford accused the high court nominee of sexual assault over 35 years ago, once wrote an article detailing an instance where he groped a female friend.
A portion of Cory Booker's 1992 column. (The Stanford Daily)
“New Year's Eve 1984 I will never forget. I was 15. As the ball dropped, I leaned over to hug a friend and she met me instead with an overwhelming kiss. As we fumbled upon the bed, I remember debating my next 'move' as if it were a chess game,” Booker wrote in the student-run Stanford Daily newspaper in 1992.
“With the 'Top Gun' slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast. After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my 'mark,’” he continued, without explaining what he meant by “mark.”
"With the 'Top Gun' slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast. After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my 'mark.'"
- Cory Booker
“Our groping ended soon and while no 'relationship' ensued, a friendship did. You see, the next week in school she told me that she was drunk that night and didn't really know what she was doing,” he added.
Booker’s intent of the column was to detail his transformation from a 15-year-old who was “trotting around the bases and stealing second” to someone who was called a “man-hater” over his pro-women views.
“In retrospect, my soliloquy titled ‘The Oppressive Nature of Male Dominated Society and Its Violent Manifestations Rape, Anorexia, Battered Wives’ may have been a surreptitious attempt to convince her that I was a sensitive man, but more likely I was trying to convince myself that my attitudes had changed,” he wrote.
The now-senator came back to the topic a few months later in 1992, penning another article that mentioned the controversial column, which he said was about “date rape,” and admitted that his actions were at odds with his beliefs.
“But by my second column, as I raised my noble pen to address the issue of date rape, I realized that the person holding it wasn't so noble after all,” he wrote. “With this issue as with so many others, a dash of sincere introspection has revealed to me a dangerous gap — a gap between my beliefs and my actions.”
"With this issue as with so many others, a dash of sincere introspection has revealed to me a dangerous gap — a gap between my beliefs and my actions."
- Cory Booker
The columns by Booker, a potential 2020 presidential contender, have resurfaced after he became one of the leading voices of the Democratic opposition against Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Following allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, which he vehemently denied, Booker said the accusations are “serious, credible, and deeply troubling.” After the committee vote was delayed and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley invited both Ford and Kavanaugh to testify on Monday, Booker called for an FBI investigation before holding a hearing.
Paul Mulshine, a columnist for the Star-Ledger, the largest newspaper in New Jersey, wrote Thursday that Booker’s columns will put him in an awkward position amid the scandal rocking the confirmation hearings.
“Based on that Stanford Daily column, Booker should be giving Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt as well. The point of it was that the future senator had ‘a wake-up call’ and decided ‘I will never be the same.’”
Booker’s office pushed back strongly.
“This disingenuous right-wing attack, which has circulated online and in partisan outlets for the past five years, rings hollow to anyone who reads the entirety of Senator Booker’s Stanford Daily column,” a spokesperson for the senator said in a statement to Fox News.
“The column is in fact a direct criticism of a culture that encourages young men to take advantage of women -- written at a time when so candidly discussing these issues was rare -- and speaks to the impact Senator Booker’s experience working to help rape and sexual assault survivors as a college peer counselor had on
What a dick head.
Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh
5 hours ago
Booker's push for Kavanaugh vote delay called out over his 1992 column detailing teenage groping
By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News
Booker touts 'Spartacus moment' over Kavanaugh documents
Mike Emanuel previews the final round of Kavanaugh hearings.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is facing accusations of hypocrisy over his calls to delay the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid sexual misconduct allegations, as he once admitted groping a friend without her consent in high school.
The senator, who urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to first let the FBI conduct an investigation after California professor Christine Blasey Ford accused the high court nominee of sexual assault over 35 years ago, once wrote an article detailing an instance where he groped a female friend.
A portion of Cory Booker's 1992 column. (The Stanford Daily)
“New Year's Eve 1984 I will never forget. I was 15. As the ball dropped, I leaned over to hug a friend and she met me instead with an overwhelming kiss. As we fumbled upon the bed, I remember debating my next 'move' as if it were a chess game,” Booker wrote in the student-run Stanford Daily newspaper in 1992.
“With the 'Top Gun' slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast. After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my 'mark,’” he continued, without explaining what he meant by “mark.”
"With the 'Top Gun' slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast. After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my 'mark.'"
- Cory Booker
“Our groping ended soon and while no 'relationship' ensued, a friendship did. You see, the next week in school she told me that she was drunk that night and didn't really know what she was doing,” he added.
Booker’s intent of the column was to detail his transformation from a 15-year-old who was “trotting around the bases and stealing second” to someone who was called a “man-hater” over his pro-women views.
“In retrospect, my soliloquy titled ‘The Oppressive Nature of Male Dominated Society and Its Violent Manifestations Rape, Anorexia, Battered Wives’ may have been a surreptitious attempt to convince her that I was a sensitive man, but more likely I was trying to convince myself that my attitudes had changed,” he wrote.
The now-senator came back to the topic a few months later in 1992, penning another article that mentioned the controversial column, which he said was about “date rape,” and admitted that his actions were at odds with his beliefs.
“But by my second column, as I raised my noble pen to address the issue of date rape, I realized that the person holding it wasn't so noble after all,” he wrote. “With this issue as with so many others, a dash of sincere introspection has revealed to me a dangerous gap — a gap between my beliefs and my actions.”
"With this issue as with so many others, a dash of sincere introspection has revealed to me a dangerous gap — a gap between my beliefs and my actions."
- Cory Booker
The columns by Booker, a potential 2020 presidential contender, have resurfaced after he became one of the leading voices of the Democratic opposition against Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Following allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, which he vehemently denied, Booker said the accusations are “serious, credible, and deeply troubling.” After the committee vote was delayed and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley invited both Ford and Kavanaugh to testify on Monday, Booker called for an FBI investigation before holding a hearing.
Paul Mulshine, a columnist for the Star-Ledger, the largest newspaper in New Jersey, wrote Thursday that Booker’s columns will put him in an awkward position amid the scandal rocking the confirmation hearings.
“Based on that Stanford Daily column, Booker should be giving Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt as well. The point of it was that the future senator had ‘a wake-up call’ and decided ‘I will never be the same.’”
Booker’s office pushed back strongly.
“This disingenuous right-wing attack, which has circulated online and in partisan outlets for the past five years, rings hollow to anyone who reads the entirety of Senator Booker’s Stanford Daily column,” a spokesperson for the senator said in a statement to Fox News.
“The column is in fact a direct criticism of a culture that encourages young men to take advantage of women -- written at a time when so candidly discussing these issues was rare -- and speaks to the impact Senator Booker’s experience working to help rape and sexual assault survivors as a college peer counselor had on
Bruddah IZ
DA
So much for bullet proof glass houses.I am Spartacus.
What a dick head.
Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh
5 hours ago
Booker's push for Kavanaugh vote delay called out over his 1992 column detailing teenage groping
By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News
Booker touts 'Spartacus moment' over Kavanaugh documents
Mike Emanuel previews the final round of Kavanaugh hearings.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is facing accusations of hypocrisy over his calls to delay the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid sexual misconduct allegations, as he once admitted groping a friend without her consent in high school.
The senator, who urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to first let the FBI conduct an investigation after California professor Christine Blasey Ford accused the high court nominee of sexual assault over 35 years ago, once wrote an article detailing an instance where he groped a female friend.
A portion of Cory Booker's 1992 column. (The Stanford Daily)
“New Year's Eve 1984 I will never forget. I was 15. As the ball dropped, I leaned over to hug a friend and she met me instead with an overwhelming kiss. As we fumbled upon the bed, I remember debating my next 'move' as if it were a chess game,” Booker wrote in the student-run Stanford Daily newspaper in 1992.
“With the 'Top Gun' slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast. After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my 'mark,’” he continued, without explaining what he meant by “mark.”
"With the 'Top Gun' slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast. After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my 'mark.'"
- Cory Booker
“Our groping ended soon and while no 'relationship' ensued, a friendship did. You see, the next week in school she told me that she was drunk that night and didn't really know what she was doing,” he added.
Booker’s intent of the column was to detail his transformation from a 15-year-old who was “trotting around the bases and stealing second” to someone who was called a “man-hater” over his pro-women views.
“In retrospect, my soliloquy titled ‘The Oppressive Nature of Male Dominated Society and Its Violent Manifestations Rape, Anorexia, Battered Wives’ may have been a surreptitious attempt to convince her that I was a sensitive man, but more likely I was trying to convince myself that my attitudes had changed,” he wrote.
The now-senator came back to the topic a few months later in 1992, penning another article that mentioned the controversial column, which he said was about “date rape,” and admitted that his actions were at odds with his beliefs.
“But by my second column, as I raised my noble pen to address the issue of date rape, I realized that the person holding it wasn't so noble after all,” he wrote. “With this issue as with so many others, a dash of sincere introspection has revealed to me a dangerous gap — a gap between my beliefs and my actions.”
"With this issue as with so many others, a dash of sincere introspection has revealed to me a dangerous gap — a gap between my beliefs and my actions."
- Cory Booker
The columns by Booker, a potential 2020 presidential contender, have resurfaced after he became one of the leading voices of the Democratic opposition against Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Following allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, which he vehemently denied, Booker said the accusations are “serious, credible, and deeply troubling.” After the committee vote was delayed and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley invited both Ford and Kavanaugh to testify on Monday, Booker called for an FBI investigation before holding a hearing.
Paul Mulshine, a columnist for the Star-Ledger, the largest newspaper in New Jersey, wrote Thursday that Booker’s columns will put him in an awkward position amid the scandal rocking the confirmation hearings.
“Based on that Stanford Daily column, Booker should be giving Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt as well. The point of it was that the future senator had ‘a wake-up call’ and decided ‘I will never be the same.’”
Booker’s office pushed back strongly.
“This disingenuous right-wing attack, which has circulated online and in partisan outlets for the past five years, rings hollow to anyone who reads the entirety of Senator Booker’s Stanford Daily column,” a spokesperson for the senator said in a statement to Fox News.
“The column is in fact a direct criticism of a culture that encourages young men to take advantage of women -- written at a time when so candidly discussing these issues was rare -- and speaks to the impact Senator Booker’s experience working to help rape and sexual assault survivors as a college peer counselor had on
Sheriff Joe
DA
Maybe those liberal women need a man to grab them by the pussy? You lib males sure the hell aren't doing it.
Trump 2020
Sheriff Joe
DA
When the truth is a surprise, you’ve got a problem
Awkward: Huffington Post’s Own Poll Reveals Few Actually Believe Kavanaugh Accusations Are True
Brandon Morse
Awkward: Huffington Post’s Own Poll Reveals Few Actually Believe Kavanaugh Accusations Are True
Brandon Morse
Sheriff Joe
DA
Hopefully you are correct.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Christine Fords Attorney Says She Will Testify “With Conditions”
Posted at 4:00 pm on September 20, 2018 by T.LaDuke
This is just going on and on and on and on……
Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Ford through her attorney now says that she will testify.
Not on Monday.
Not without terms being “fair”
Not without her safety being guaranteed.
According to the breaking wire at CNN:
Christine Blasey Ford opened the possibility she would testify before Congress about her accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but an appearance Monday was “not possible.”
An email her lawyers sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee and obtained by CNN said Ford “would be prepared to testify next week” if the senators offer her “terms that are fair and which ensure her safety,” according to the paper.
The message came a day ahead of a 10 a.m. Friday deadline set by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley for Ford to decide whether she would appear before a hearing he set for Monday. It was first reported by the New York Times.
Here is the full email…
“I would like to set up a call with you later today to discuss the conditions under which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford would be prepared to testify next week. As you are aware, she has been receiving death threats, which have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she and her family have been forced out of their home. She wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety. A hearing on Monday is not possible and the Committee’s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event. Dr. Ford has asked me to let you know that she appreciates the various options you have suggested. Her strong preference continues to be for the Senate Judiciary Committee to allow for a full investigation prior to her testimony.”
Terms that are fair? What does that mean? Has Brett Kavanaugh or the country been treated fair? Let’s have a debate on all of this.
Also, why would a committee of the legislative branch of the United States NOT want to make sure any of its invitees were not kept safe? This is just common sense.
I’m sorry that Professor Ford feels threatened. She should not have to feel that she is at an Occupy or ANTIFA rally. I would hope she realizes that Senator Feinstein and her crew leaked her letter and threw her under the bus and any blowback of this starts there.
If she comes to D.C., close off the hearing room so we don’t have any interruptions from the peanut gallery and let’s have a damn hearing.
This is really beginning to look like political theatre that is just meant to keep the Kavanaugh vote from happening.
As my colleague, Brandon Morse wrote the other day, Democrat’s Attacks On Kavanaugh Are About Protecting Abortion, Not Sexual Assault Victims and I agree with him.
This is just the ends justify the means game of the Democrats to protect the abortion lobby. They will ruin anyone who stands in the way.
This is not reasoned thinking, it is just sick.
Posted at 4:00 pm on September 20, 2018 by T.LaDuke
This is just going on and on and on and on……
Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Ford through her attorney now says that she will testify.
Not on Monday.
Not without terms being “fair”
Not without her safety being guaranteed.
According to the breaking wire at CNN:
Christine Blasey Ford opened the possibility she would testify before Congress about her accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but an appearance Monday was “not possible.”
An email her lawyers sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee and obtained by CNN said Ford “would be prepared to testify next week” if the senators offer her “terms that are fair and which ensure her safety,” according to the paper.
The message came a day ahead of a 10 a.m. Friday deadline set by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley for Ford to decide whether she would appear before a hearing he set for Monday. It was first reported by the New York Times.
Here is the full email…
“I would like to set up a call with you later today to discuss the conditions under which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford would be prepared to testify next week. As you are aware, she has been receiving death threats, which have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she and her family have been forced out of their home. She wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety. A hearing on Monday is not possible and the Committee’s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event. Dr. Ford has asked me to let you know that she appreciates the various options you have suggested. Her strong preference continues to be for the Senate Judiciary Committee to allow for a full investigation prior to her testimony.”
Terms that are fair? What does that mean? Has Brett Kavanaugh or the country been treated fair? Let’s have a debate on all of this.
Also, why would a committee of the legislative branch of the United States NOT want to make sure any of its invitees were not kept safe? This is just common sense.
I’m sorry that Professor Ford feels threatened. She should not have to feel that she is at an Occupy or ANTIFA rally. I would hope she realizes that Senator Feinstein and her crew leaked her letter and threw her under the bus and any blowback of this starts there.
If she comes to D.C., close off the hearing room so we don’t have any interruptions from the peanut gallery and let’s have a damn hearing.
This is really beginning to look like political theatre that is just meant to keep the Kavanaugh vote from happening.
As my colleague, Brandon Morse wrote the other day, Democrat’s Attacks On Kavanaugh Are About Protecting Abortion, Not Sexual Assault Victims and I agree with him.
This is just the ends justify the means game of the Democrats to protect the abortion lobby. They will ruin anyone who stands in the way.
This is not reasoned thinking, it is just sick.
Sheriff Joe
DA
President Trump to hold campaign rally in Las Vegas tonight
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/president-trump-hold...
With the midterms a few weeks away, Trump is back on campaign trail.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/president-trump-hold...
With the midterms a few weeks away, Trump is back on campaign trail.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Market Insider
The Dow just triggered a chart signal that could mean 'six to nine months of a higher stock market'
- As the Dow rallies to its first new high since January, there are a number of signs technical analysts are watching that could signal a further market breakout ahead, despite the fact that September is usually the worst month for stocks..
- One of those signals was a technical confirmation by the Dow Jones Industrials of the move higher in Dow Jones Transport stocks, including airlines and railroads.
- "I think that should be a Dow theory buy signal ... it means, according to the theory, the economy is supposed to be improving and therefore you have six to nine months of a higher stock market," said Art Cashin, UBS director of floor operations at the NYSE.
Adam Jeffery | CNBC
The Dow's first new high since January, just as the S&P 500 scored another record, is one of a number of positive signs that the bull market still has legs and could be setting up for a breakout, technical analysts say.
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Stocks surged Thursday as investors pushed aside worries about trade tensions between the U.S. and China, and viewed the latest round of tariffs as less painful for the economy than expected.
At the same time, there are a handful of technical signals that make strategists believe the market could be at the beginning of another push higher.
Of course, there are headwinds that could disrupt this move, including the potential for more escalation in trade wars and rising interest rates. Some strategists are concerned about the divergence between the U.S. and other global markets.
But technicians do see a group of positive trends converging, even though September is usually the worst time for stocks and October has not always been much better.
Dow industrials are bullish
First, the Dow's jump above its Jan. 26 high of 26,616 was driven by strong moves in Boeing and Caterpillar, two industrial stocks that had been held back by emerging market weakness and China trade fears. The fact the Dow Jones Industrial Average made a new high, matching that in the Dow Jones Transports last week, triggered a bullish signal of confirmation for market technicians and other followers of the Dow theory.
"I think that should be a Dow theory buy signal ... it means, according to the theory, the economy is supposed to be improving and therefore you have six to nine months of a higher stock market," said Art Cashin, UBS director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange.
Boeing was up nearly 1 percent Thursday morning.
"The Dow was waiting for Boeing to start to move. It looks like it's ready. It's gone nowhere for eight months. It's had a really nice week," said Todd Sohn, technical strategist at Strategas Research.
Financials wake up
Second, financials found their footing this week, after lagging even as interest rates moved higher. Trading in the sector Wednesday laid the foundation for more gains.
"What we look at is we had a statistically significant move. In plain speaking terms, it had the strongest move in two months, higher than average volatility," said Sohn. S&P financials were up 2 percent Wednesday. "J.P. Morgan had its best day in two months."
The Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF was up 0.8 percent Thursday.
China bottom?
Another positive sign is that Chinese stocks seem to be weathering the latest trade actions.
"When the president came out with his tariffs, China didn't go down. It just had two potent rally days, and didn't give it back. That added a little confidence to this move, that maybe China bottomed. China has been a headwind for the past two months," said Scott Redler, partner at T3Live.com, who follows short-term technicals.
Shanghai stocks were essentially flat Thursday but were up 1.8 percent for the week to date.
Tech shakes off some weakness
The Nasdaq was up as much as 1 percent Thursday, as tech names joined the rally as the best-performing sector. The S&P technology sector was up 0.2 percent for the week but more than 1 percent Thursday.
Redler said tech made an important move Wednesday when the QQQ, an ETF representing the Nasdaq 100, held its 50-day moving average, a sign of positive momentum.
"Tech is actually helping it along," he said. There had been doubts about technology's leadership recently, as social media, like Facebook lost ground, semiconductors declined and the sector looked vulnerable to trade actions. Apple was up 1.3 percent.
The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF was up 1.2 percent Thursday, and Facebook was up 1.4 percent.
Stocks outperform bonds
Stocks moving higher and bonds selling off are a positive sign. The jump in interest rates, with Treasury yields moving higher, has not fazed the stock market yet. The 10-year yield has risen above 3 percent and was at 3.07 percent Thursday.
"Stocks are outperforming bonds. That's the ultimate in risk appetite," said Sohn. Treasury yields move opposite price.
The S&P 500 zipped past its recent high of 2,916 and was around 2,930 Thursday.
While finanicals picked up, a laggard was the S&P utility sector, off 0.3 percent Thursday and down 2.2 percent for the week. The sector is viewed as a safe haven, and the sector's high dividends are viewed as a good place to find yield.
Source: Strategas Research
Sohn said it's not clear at what point bond yields would challenge the stock market, but he believes it would take a yield well above current levels.
Just the fact that the Dow has caught up with the S&P and other indexes that have made new highs since January and February's stock market sell-off is a positive. Redler said the Dow joining in shows more broad-based buying. That is important, with the market hitting highs even without FANG — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet — in the lead.
"If the S&P closes above its high, the first push would go to 2,940," said Redler. "It could work its way up to 3,000 in the fourth quarter
Back in July, some Senate Democrats started demanding that the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be delayed until after the Mueller investigation is finished.......
.....As I wrote in July, President Bill Clinton was under criminal investigation in 1993 when he nominated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm her nomination just 42 days later.
A year later, Clinton was actually under subpoena when he nominated Justice Stephen Breyer. The Senate voted 87-9 to confirm his nomination and no Democrat feigned concern or suggested delaying the confirmation process.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said that the American Bar Association’s rating is the “gold standard” for evaluating judicial nominees.
Eighty percent of Trump’s nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals received a “well qualified” rating from the ABA—a higher percentage than any of the previous five presidents of both parties. Yet most Democrats voted against more than three-quarters of those nominees.
Let’s be honest, these Senate Democrats oppose Trump’s every policy, nomination, decision, thought, word, and deed. So does it surprise anyone that senators who are unalterably opposed to the president and to his judicial nominees would scrounge around for some way to interfere with the Kavanaugh confirmation process?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08...ile-under-investigation-trump-should-get-his/
Bruddah IZ
DA
Yawn
Bruddah IZ
DA
Facts donʻt matter to nutters like Iʻole.
Back in July, some Senate Democrats started demanding that the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be delayed until after the Mueller investigation is finished.......
.....As I wrote in July, President Bill Clinton was under criminal investigation in 1993 when he nominated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm her nomination just 42 days later.
A year later, Clinton was actually under subpoena when he nominated Justice Stephen Breyer. The Senate voted 87-9 to confirm his nomination and no Democrat feigned concern or suggested delaying the confirmation process.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said that the American Bar Association’s rating is the “gold standard” for evaluating judicial nominees.
Eighty percent of Trump’s nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals received a “well qualified” rating from the ABA—a higher percentage than any of the previous five presidents of both parties. Yet most Democrats voted against more than three-quarters of those nominees.
Let’s be honest, these Senate Democrats oppose Trump’s every policy, nomination, decision, thought, word, and deed. So does it surprise anyone that senators who are unalterably opposed to the president and to his judicial nominees would scrounge around for some way to interfere with the Kavanaugh confirmation process?
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