I wonder how many more out there feel this way, but can’t quite get up their nerve to say so. I’d bet there are lots more, especially for the reasons given, unless one is a member of the Federalist Society, of course.
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Chuck Schumer might offer that there is mounting evidence that certain behaviors during Judge Kavanaugh’s adolescence, appear to coincide with certain reasons why it was felt the drinking age had to be raised.
I’d rather give Bart’O in Flames more credit.
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Well now the Federalist Society and Leo Leonard will have to carry this taint for decades to come. Thanks Trump!
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Ah, some now previous supporters have started to rethink and publicly come out against the apparent serial rapist with a belligerent personality problem.
Tough call, probably good for their place in the history books, but it is going to hurt them in today’s Republican party.
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his partisanship is precisely why the republicans want him confirmed.
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I hear demons are constructing fire pits 
along the combustion chamber walls to accommodate what they expect to be a long-term commitment to restrain the new arrivals. We can only hope they’ll all be spirited away under cover of darkness sooner rather than later.
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If I had a daughter I would force her to carry a taser and show her where to apply it.
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Avenatti has another woman who is willing to tell the FBI about seeing K spike drinks and generally behave in ways that tend to match what Ford testified, not the boy scout character he described.
I’ll say it again, what Trump and the Republicans are doing is talking about each of the now many accusations in isolation and implying that there are holes in the story or some detail that can’t be proven beyond a doubt, and saying that settles it.
In virtually all cases before Kavanaugh it was “With one woman, okay you might doubt it, but with this many women coming forward, that’s a different story”, i.e. no one demanded proof from every one, the multiplicity of them reinforced each other.
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Absolutely. The only hope is that his got so over the top during that rant that the supposed moderates in the GOP are shamed out of voting for someone that openly extreme, whether it becomes so publicly obvious that he’s an extreme right wing hit man that they actually refuse. Not at all certain that they’d do so but it’s the only game in town at this point.
To be clear he’s probably not more extreme right wing partisan than 3/4 of the Senators in the GOP and several of the justices already on the Supreme Court, he just said the quiet part out loud.Too loud? We’ll know soon.
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I’m waiting for the “You won’t have Brett Kavanaugh to kick around anymore”-speech any moment now.
I’m pretty sure that, as a highly educated person, from the better part of town kind-of-person, Brett Kavanaugh only have contempt for Donald Trump, but he will soon be sitting next to Jenine Pirro on Fox News as a commentator, that will hurt…
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True, but it’s Leonard Leo–-who is responsible for forcing Kavanaugh on the nation.
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The coup started in 2000 with Bush v. Gore (“get over it.”) (Scalia, J.). We got a reprieve for 8 years, but then the right wing got russian help. The only way this gets fixed is with a serious backlash (e.g., white dudes going to prison).
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You are absolutely right
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Before I decide how serious this is, can we get Trump’s opinion on how attractive is former Kavanaugh clerk Bridget Fahey? I have good reason to believe she has “a certain look,” but who knows?
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Ask yourselves, senators, how you would react if you were in court and the judge threw a Kavanaugh tantrum on the bench.
Vote accordingly.
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Exactly. There is no win for the GOP in this play. If they succeed it getting him confirmed he will spend the coming years in (civil if not criminal) court fighting claims of sexual abuse. His lies will be investigated and proven by congress. They are tied to this vicious little man the same way they are tied to that rabid, rancid base on display last night in MS.
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Done, and done.
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True, but we’re tied to them right now as well. Plenty of time for Spanky and His Gang to drive us truly off the cliff…
When I was 18 (and the drinking age where I lived was 21) I thought it should be lowered. I drank sometimes at parties and a few times I threw up later.
When I turned 21, I thought it was just right. I’d learned not to drink to barf stage, so that was proof of my maturity.
When I was 30, I thought 21 was too low, and somewhere around 25 would be better, because I could see that some of the “kids” were acting like kids. Go figure.
When I was 40 and had teenagers, I briefly entertained the idea that maybe we should bring back Prohibition, but my kids (my son is exactly Brett Kavanaugh’s age) followed pretty much the same pattern as my husband and I had, and sneaked a drink now and then but didn’t travel in the circles where sexual assault was considered a drinking game.
I’m in my 70s now, and delight that I can have one drink (but not more) without falling asleep. It enables me to have a glass of wine with dinner, or a beer or margarita with Mexican food. Life is good.
Not so for Brett Kavanaugh, who has shown during the hearings that he isn’t fit to sit on any court. He can’t handle the truth.
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