I think this is a smart, if desperate, move by Collins, because Republicans senators doing the questioning would be in a completely no-win situation. If they are aggressive and skeptical of her it will remind everyone of Anita Hill, and if they are gentle and skeptical they will come across as condescending. And there are probably no other significant facts to uncover, so what can they do?
WTF? Insanity all around.
I think she knows that Kavanaugh hired Beth Wilkinson, and she knows that there better be a woman in the room taking the Republican side or the event could quickly go south for the Republicans. In other words, she wants to support Kavanaugh and is trying to make it easier for her to do so.
SoooooâŠhow about you invite some members from that secret society at Yale he belonged to? Any takers, Senators?
Neither is Kavanaugh, but that is the misdirection the GOP is using. If Ford comes across as a credible witness with a plausible story then Kavanaugh is going to have a serious problem. Even though this is neither a criminal âbeyond a reasonable doubtâ nor a civil âpreponderance of the evidenceâ trial, it is much easier for the GOP to say Ford did not meet her burden of proof than it is rebut a question of character.
This is smart? This is an abdication of her responsibility. Period. Sheâs in trouble with her voters back home and this is merely a tactic to avoid taking the heat, by remaining uncommitted at this point as to how she will vote, yet continuing to be âtroubledâ by these ânew developmentsâ. She already has enough facts before her even beyond this awful revelation. She knew going in that this man was anti-choice, and sheâs sold herself to her constituents all these years that she was pro-choice in order to get re-elected each time with support of Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups. Sheâs having a harder time hiding behind that bullshit veneer than ever, because now she has to confront this manâs horrible treatment of women, and his disgustingly obvious misogyny.
Why donât reporters ever ask her about how he delayed a young teenage refugee from getting an abortion, even though that teenager followed all the requirements she was made to follow? He made that girl jump through hoops and wait unnecessarily until it was almost too late, jeopardizing her ability to choose in a manner that made it a safe alternative. And Kavanaugh did that on purpose, because he had power over that young girl to decide her fate as well as her future. Those decisions he made were arbitrary and capriciousâŠand thatâs sick. Heâs a fucking predator. I know one when I see one. His incessant control of a womenâs agency over her own body is whatâs most obvious about his lack of due diligence and thoughtful jurisprudence. He needs to go.
And I need to not read about this shit for awhile because it just makes me more angry by the minute. If I hear these idiot reporters keep saying stupid shit about âhe said, she saidâ one more time Iâm gonna scream. There are ways to assess credibility and I think weâve already arrived at thatâŠbut as usual the media pretends its still up for debate between both sides. Fuck all thatâŠpick a side. You already have enough facts before you. Kavanaugh is a bald-faced, mealy-mouthed liar with more things to hide than almost any nominee for that lifetime position in modern history.
OF COURSE SHE DOES! Any attorney worth their salt knows that you never have a man cross-examine a woman in a rape case. Right now the GOP donât have any women on the Judiciary Committee, as a result, the only people present to cross-examine Professor Ford are all old men. That makes for atrocious optics. But, Kavanaughâs attorney is a woman, and has probably cross-examined hundreds of women in sexual harassment cases.
ââŠevery step you take, every move you make, every vow you breakâŠ
[weâll] be watchinâ youâŠâ
Lucy. Football. Enough saidâŠ
The GOP lackeys are out in force today trying to make the case that the allegations are just âhorseplayâ or just normal âroughâ play.
Which seems odd, to say the least, since heâs denying he was even there.
âUm, yes, I was only roughly horsing around with that girl I didnât know and never saw since I was not there.â
âOur client was never, ever even IN the house where the body was foundâŠ
But, if itâs proven he was, well, he shot the guy in self-defense.â
I sure hope the folks of Maine show Susie the door in 2020âŠshe is a sorry excuse for a senator
Collins? I am good with that
Orrin Hatch is purple faced screaming âI was a shitty ambulance chasing awyer!!! I want to ask questions!!! I was single handedly responsible for Clarence Thomasâ confirmation!!!â
That is my guess as to why they are in such a hurry to rush him through. And why they refuse to release all his material.
They clearly knew about this allegation before this started. They clearly know that there is stuff from the W years that will completely sink him.
But I have had a suspicion all along that they know there is even more stuff (Like the conversations Harris questioned him about). Which leads me to thinkâŠwe are probably only looking at the tip of the iceberg.
Itâs really puzzling how his supporters are all going with some variation of âsure it happened, but long time ago, just rough horseplay, drunk indiscretion of young kid, etc ,etc.â, while Kavanaugh is still going full steam ahead with these absurd âNever happened, Never knew her, Wasnât at party that I still remember to this day, here are 65 other girls I knew while attending an all boy school that I never raped, look at these teen girls I coach!â defense. Its so jarring how wide the gap is between those two points that it makes me think, they (or he) was prepared for this particular eventâŠbut were expecting something along these lines. Which meansâŠshe probably wasnât his only victim.
Heâs applying for a job, Senator Collins - a job for life. And it ainât at the local Arbyâs either, you insufferable clown. And donât think we canât remember your words vilifying Al Franken after he was accused. I donât remember you saying that Al was being railroaded out of the Senate and deserved a fair hearing.
And about every time I and others, both male and female, post something criticizing Phony Media Moderate Senator Susie Creamcheese Collins, someone calls me and others sexist and that Collins is the âgo-toâ female we think we are allowed to criticize. We donât criticize Collins because sheâs a woman; we criticize her because she is a hypocritical asshole. One vote to save healthcare that she later invalidated by being fooled by Mitch McConnell doesnât make her a canonized saint. She deserves all the scorn she gets here until she starts acting like a human being, which goes for every politician, male or female.
Kavanaugh: âI wasnât at that party, even though Christine Ford never said which party it was. And I have never touched a woman in any way in my entire life. All of my children were born due to immaculate conception.â
Collins: âWhat reasonable person couldnât believe a fine, upstanding Christian white man such as this?!â
Collins Wants Kavanaugh, Ford Lawyers To Question Each Otherâs Client
I guess that sheâll have to âfile her petition.â
Mark Judge. Fordâs lawyer needs to interrogate Mark Judge in the Senate.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/9/18/144853/505
"Itâs very unfortunate for Brett Kavanaugh that the only person in the world besides himself and Christine Blasey Ford who might know with certainty what happened in that Montgomery County, Maryland bedroom 36 years ago is someone whom the Republicans absolutely do not want to call as a witness. I say this witness might know what happened because Mark Judge may have been too drunk to have remembered the incident the next morning, let alone after three and a half decades have elapsed. Professor Ford, if she testifies, will undoubtedly state again for the record that both Kavanaugh and Judge were extremely drunk that evening. And thereâs nothing in Judgeâs record to make us doubt this.
In fact, Judge, who is an alcoholic in recovery, wrote a memoir about his teenage and college years back in the mid-1990âs: Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk. He followed that up with another memoir in 2005: God and Man at Georgetown Prep. In the former, he inadequately anonymized Brett Kavanaugh as âBart OâKavanaughâ when describing an incident where his friend âpuked in someoneâs carâ and âpassed out on his way back from a party.â
Itâs clearer from the record than weâd ever normally expect that Brett Kavanaugh was in the habit of getting highly intoxicated at high school parties. Itâs also clear from the record that Matt Judge had some highly dubious judgment about what makes for an appropriate yearbook quote.
I donât know anyone who would have used that NoĂ«l Coward quote about people striking women regularly like gongs in their yearbook. Do you?"