Chyron in ABC Video: Republicans Say Allegations Won’t Delay Kavanaugh Vote
I guess it’s good to know precisely how seriously Republicans actually take allegations of sexual assault. (i.e., They don’t. Not at all.)
So, just to keep this straight:
Things that are not okay in GOP World: Democratic Presidents having consensual sex, putting their feet up on the desk, or liking Grey Poupon mustard.
Things that are okay in GOP World: Sexual Assault by Republican presidents, Republican Senate candidates, Republican judicial nominees, and Republican Supreme Court Justices. And associating with Nazis.
Family values. Right.
Democrats in reddish States, like Jones, need to stop pussyfooting around, and put things in terms that even RWNJ voters can understand:
I cannot support this nominee because of his extremist views about Presidential power. According to Mr. Kavanaugh, if the President of the United States pulled out a gun and shot a Cabinet Secretary through the head, it would not be possible to arrest him and try him for murder. In this country, we do not elect kings. We don’t have absolute monarchs. Mr. Kavanaugh’s views on this subject are unacceptable in a Supreme Court Justice.
Forget about the abortion debate. Forget about the old, unprovable allegations of sexual assault. Stick to a simple message, instead.
And tan suits
Attempted rape.
that’s a “legitimate” point.
Slate has an excellent piece on the excellent reasons women don’t come forward in situations like these. The powerful men accused of sexual harassment and assault “resign” and then mysteriously surface a few months later. What did they suffer? And yet the women who accuse them? Tarred forever as “hysterical,” “difficult to work with,” etc., not to mention little things like death threats.
Can you imagine the lovely things our “president” would say about this Kavanaugh accuser if she came forward? God, I hate the GOP.
What the hell is a “deep dive” in a Supreme Court confirmation? Kavanaugh’s inward two-and-half with a full twist hearing vs. the Senate’s belly flop of vetting and a vote?
If the woman were to come forward, I wonder what Kavanaugh’s children would think hearing her describe what happened.
Some role model. Do as I say, not as I do.
Not only what would his daughters think, what about their teammates he says he’s been coaching for years?
Such as perjury.
That’s a solid one, too.
In addition, Mr. Kavanaugh has, on more than one occasion, lied to a Senate Committee. I cannot vote to approve a nominee who perjures himself.
Straightforward, understandable message.
Roy Moore: “Especially sexual assault of minors. Don’t forget that!”
I think that he meant a derp dive.
I hope he means that Senators are learning more about Kavanaugh’s history in spite of GOPer efforts to hide it and are building a case to present when his nomination reaches the floor of the Senate. More will be revealed on the floor and hopefully part of that will be evidence from Kamala Harris that Kav really did perjure himself when he denied having improper/illegal communications with law firms with business before Bush’s DOJ.
- Cult-like devotion to their leader? Check
- Detached from reality? Check
- Harmful to those around them? Check
- Will probably all end up in jail? Oh, yeah…
Sure, “Manson Family Values…”
The fit is hitting the shan as we speak… WAPO just (1330 edt) broke the story that his victim has self identified… Brave lady.
Interesting times, indeed.
That’s behind a paywall can you tell us what it says?
In his opening statement at his confirmation hearing this month, Kavanaugh referenced his time at the Catholic institution with great reverence: “The motto of my Jesuit high school was ‘Men for others.’ I’ve tried to live that creed.”
But the school Judge has described in his books is a very different sort of place. In his 2005 book, God and Man at Georgetown Prep, which is now out of print, Judge apparently paints the school as overrun with gay priests who promote a form of liberalism that wrecks Catholic education. He also describes an institution where alcoholism was rampant, a theme he detailed in his 1997 addiction memoir, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk.
That book chronicles Judge’s time as a teenage alcoholic. Like many works of the genre, it devotes a lot of ink to the kinds of debauchery that leads to AA and recovery. While there’s nothing in the book that resembles the incident reportedly described in the private letter given to the FBI, Judge says his own black-out drinking while he and Kavanaugh were Georgetown Prep students “reached the point where once I had the first beer, I found it impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated.”
Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her name or her consent, drawing a blanket denial from Kavanaugh and roiling a nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed.
Now, Ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it.
Here are the first two paragraphs… that should be within the bounds of “fair use”