Rachel Maddow just read a statement from Dr. Blasey-Ford’s lawyers that they are not in a position to respond to the Repugs by 10:00 deadline tonight. Couldn’t help myself but I fired off an email to Sen. McConnell to let him know that sticking to their guns and voting on Kavanaugh on Monday will come back to bite the Repugs, and to share my comments with Grassley and cohorts on the Judiciary Committee.
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You can do it yourself. Faxzero.com lets you send five faxes from your computer each day for free. They even have a handy dandy list by state so you don’t even have to look up the number. All Republican members of the judiciary accept faxes except Sasse. So starting tonight, by Monday morning we can faxes waiting for the Republican half of the committee, McConnell, Corker, Collins, Heller and Murkowski.
Remember, we don’t need to persuade them that we’re correct, necessarily, just that this vote is too risky.
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You mean Dianne Feinstein, who because of her lifelong tendency to show compassion has come to think that’s the way with everybody.
We’ve been through this, LGB. I’ve been calling the well-past-her-due-date Senator “DiFi” since she was on the SF City Council. While the moniker may seem disrespectful to you, I find it a handy way to ward off my impending irreversible carpal tunnel.
While it’s known that I have little respect for her, mostly because of her tendency to show up with a knife to fight opponents armed with high-powered rifles and scopes, I have even less respect for her for helpfully pumping up the fortunes people the likes of her husband, the unrepentantly vulturous Richard Blum.
Sure, she may be a nice lady. Perhaps a compassionate one at that. But I’d rather have more Mazie Hirono and less milquetoast, especially at this critical juncture in our nation’s history.
My apologies for being a bit pissy, @littlegirlblue.
P.S. Me and all my friends referred to her as DiFi. Now I’m wondering if the moniker originally came from Herb Caen.
When Cruz was elected six long years ago the first thing he did was get in her face over her stance on gun control, which is to say pro. There was no rush to her side in cyberspace to say what a gal, sticking up for us. Since then we’ve heard echoes of your complaints about her with the exception of her being too old for the job. But today! My god, she’s Joan of Arc and Annie Oakley and she can do wrong.
I know what carpal problems are like, I’ve suffered through them and right now for most of the day am wearing a cervical collar following surgery on vertebrae. Long story, but I know the discomfort of a keypad/keyboard.
Nevertheless I think the world of her as I’ve said for reasons going back to the day she found one dead colleague and learned another colleague, the mayor of SF, had been murdered. She’s performed with grace and dignity, and IMHO deserves all the respect we can show her.
You don’t have to feel obligated to write back to anyone, and you don’t need me to tell you that. Save your wrists’ usefulness for better things.
P.S. Wait til you find out what Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul is worth. That’ll piss you off plenty.
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I think Chris Hayes sums up my thoughts on this matter best:
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I was thinking that when the lawyer announces she’s there to question Ford on behalf of the Judiciary Committee’s Republicans, Ford should simply reply: “Cowards. They should be here to ask their own questions.”
Feinstein is outraged??? I thought her staff was going out and about telling people “this happened a long time ago, and the democrats should just stick with issues?” Didn’t she sit on this information for a while?
P.S Please forgive me poo englis… some dickhead offered to teach me englis some time ago and i refused