- Question Kavanaugh for days. Land blows.
- Renew motion to adjourn when done.
- Walk out just prior to vote stating expressly that the proceedings are illegitimate.
Sen. Joe Manchin (R-WV). There. Fixed it.
I actually laughed out loud when I read Manchinâs comment. I love how southern white trash think theyâre somehow the arbiter of manners. I think he needs to worry less about how he was raised and more about how his state is subsiding on a steady diet of heroin and carcinogens and how having Kavanaugh on the court is only going to make that worse.
Culture! Heritage!
Take turns asking, âWill you overturn Roe v Wade?â Yes or no.
âNot how I was raised,â
White bread dough?
Frankly I want one bold Senator to sex shame the bastard and ask why he was so obsessed on how many digits President Clinton used to vaginally penetrate Monica Lewinsky.
I think the way they handled it was better than just staging a walk out, it got all over the news and both Harris and Booker got good coverage for their remarks. I think a simple walk out would have turned against them.
I agree with @nemo on how to proceed
Question Kavanaugh for days. Land blows.
Renew motion to adjourn when done.
Walk out just prior to vote stating expressly that the proceedings are illegitimate.
If For nothing else For THIS:
Sen. Lindsey Graham defended attacked Democrats for being what he called âhypocritesâ about Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh during the first day of confirmation hearings, and said 'you canât lose the election and pick judges.
Unless youâre a Republican
The hippocracy knows no bounds
This coming from the pack of weasles that wouldnât even allow a hearing on Merritt Garland , wouldnât even let him on Capitol Hill to be interviewed by senators
I am so mad and fucking frustrated I cannot see straight
Show some balls or Fallopian tubes.
These dirty rotten motherfuckers have had their way with you .
Donât wring your hands saying âNothing to be done , nothing to be doneâ like some kind of fucking Waiting For Godot play
Do Something!
We want a response
Ok, it is obvious this entire show is plodding along to a predetermined result. They have zero chance of changing minds there in the room. The Republicans are so canned in their behavior it is obviously a script they are adhering to tightly.
Fine.
They know Kavanaugh is being rammed down our throats. We know why.
Time to use the venue differently. Make it painful to have the Democrats in the room. Dropping some of the âdecorumâ would be excellent. Snark is a sharp edged tool for one example. Let it all hang out guys. Liberals\Democrats are good at it. Faster, cleverer and far more flexible. And it is on the record.
Manchin represents the West Virginia coal miners of John L. Lewisâs notoriously violent UMW, and he is offended by Democrats insisting on a right to vote on a motion to postpone yesterdayâs hearingâ a motion they would have won because they showed up on time for the hearing, while 3 or 4 Republican members hadnât bothered to? The Democrats werenât decorous enough? Is Manchin just punking the political class, which knows no history and has no sense of humor? With all this ghoulish humor, we still need to remember: No Manchin in the Senate means No Democratic Senate.
I wish months ago, the Dems had agreed to refuse ANY nominee by a president under investigation. Period. I never get the sense theyâre in the game. Yesterday Grassley kept asking them if they were going to interrupt him all day long. The answer should have been yes. They delayed things by less than an hour. The keening protesters should have only made noise when an Repub was speaking. Feinstein, seated next to him could have had the most powerful statement by simply turning her head and saying to him, âcome on - this is crapâ.
Indeed, Kavanaugh will get his seat. So unfortunate that the threshold isnât 60-votes which would have required more moderate judges occupy the SCOTUS. Another thing to thank McConnel for - right?
On NPR yesterday, I think I heard Nina Totenberg say that she knew Kavanaugh, and that his face had an expression she had never seen before. Some of the vehemence of the Dem opening statements - Sheldon Whitehouse âthe Robertâs 5â for example were scathing, Amy Klobuchar - also very eloquent.
Maybe some of it could get through to Kavanaugh himself -as well as the American public⌠(always the optimist).
I understand your frustration but we live in the real world and these red state Dems gotta do what they gotta do. We should be grateful to them, imagine the senate without Tester, Heitkamp, Manchin, etc⌠we couldnât even consider the possibility of a majority. I will be proudly voting for Phil Bredesen to turn Tennessee blue this fall. Iâm sure he will take all kinds of positions that will piss me off, but the alternative is another rubber stamp for Trump, so frankly I will suck it up and deal.
I was raised to try to make everybody happy. This is why itâs so cool to grow up.
I tend to cut him a lot of slack considering the people heâs representing. Heâll never be a progressive hero, but having him as a D in the Senate is still valuable.
Yes. Much more startling this way. It was the best thing I have watched in a long time.
Yeah. More like the British House of Commons. Hear, hear.
Southern. Itâs sour dough.