This would tend to lend credence to my view that if Blasey Ford agrees to come to the hearing, the GOP would find a way to cancel it. The GOP, at present, is hell bent on confirming Kavaânahâ (though I think Trump is hanging back willing to cut the GOPâs legs if this turns badly). The only way the GOP doesnât bring this to a vote is if 2-3 GOP Senators get antsy. That would be more likely to happen if she does testify. There isnât a way for the GOP to confirm Kavanaugh if Blasey Ford appears other than to say that they donât believe her. That would kill them politically. The GOP canât have that hearing. Thereâs a lot of posturing and fronting right now, hoping they can intimidate her into not coming. But if she does come, theyâll cancel it because itâs clear they donât want her to come. Also, if Trump is looking to 2020, the last thing he wants is for Amy Klobuchar or Kamala Harris to burnish their Presidential cred by roasting the GOP over the coals in a nationally televised hearing.
As Iâve said in other threads, Republicans do not care and more importantly women do not matter. At this point they know the allegations are credible and that Kavanaugh is a liar. It is full steam ahead.
Dear Leader is apparently not the only dumbass who needs to stay off twitter.
Thanks for the giftâŚ
The Repubs should be quaking in their boots. Once the House turns Democratic, they can conduct their own hearings on Kavanagh and vote to impeach if the evidence is compelling. The unknown unknowns will become known.
So, no desire to find out the truth so that the highest court in the land of the greatest country on Earth is unimpeachable? Seems shortsighted to me.
âSure, sheâll have a trial â then weâll hang her!â
If itâs just he-said, she-said, the Repubs will rake her over the coals, as they did Anita Hill. There were corroborating witness then who werenât called. The news cycle is still unfolding, so letâs see what gets turned up by Monday.
I donât think you can do that to a professional white woman and not pay at the ballot box. The idea of crusty octogenarians like Hatch and Grassley or their attorneys going after Blasey Ford (who does know how to speak in front of people btw) helping the GOP is laughable. Bill Clinton won a lot of white female votes in 1992 and 1996 because of the energy generated by Anita Hill, the wave of females seeking office, and his position on abortion rights. To repeat the Anita Hill scenario against a white woman would be certain political death for the GOP. In fact, theyâre treating Ford worse than Hill at a similar point.
Seriously - no partisan agenda here on this point - if I had authority over legal counsel on a matter like this ⌠it would be an absolute rule - you offer up any unauthorized comments or opinions on Twitter or any other social media ⌠you will have 15 minutes to get out of the building and never come back. What possesses people in positions of responsibility ⌠involved in a deliberative process ⌠to effectively broadcast extemporanous crap about what they are doing?
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This is small comfort as it takes 2/3 in the Senate to Impeach and remove from officeâper the Constitution. Not very likely, even if the Dems gain a majority, it wonât be a super majority.
Doesnât mean they shouldnât try, but the realities are what they are.
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Treating her worse because the are freaking out over how to get this turd-boy ideolog over the finish line ⌠they will do anything because they know he will obediently do the right wing dance
It probably because itâs the sort of thing they might blab to a coworker at the watercooler in a past era. People would say these sorts of things in the past too, but there wouldnât be an eternal record of it. Twitter has just become the new watercooler and people havenât adjusted to the dynamic that it isnât a private, unrecorded conversation anymore. The people havenât changed, itâs just that the technology has gotten ahead of them.
I still wonder what would happen if he is convicted of perjury while on the court.
Theyâre treating Ford worse than Hill precisely because the GOP is facing certain death if they fail to confirm his nomination. This is the epitome of GOP desperation. They are damned if they do, and theyâre damned if they donât. Going scorched Earth.
Personally, I think the bluffing is the other way around. I think she is going to show up and theyâre scared shitless. Ford is a professor, a psychology professor, so she is not only used to speaking in front of an audience, she is used to choosing words carefully. Itâs the last thing that they want.
"The Washington Post story that first named Ford mentioned Judgeâs memoir, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk, which features the character Bart OâKavanaugh, who âpuked in someoneâs carâ and 'passed out on his way back from a party.'
In a 2016 lament about how social media discourages juvenile delinquency, Judge wrote, âWhen my high-school buddies and I got together and exchanged memories of that time, we found ourselves genuinely shocked at the stuff we got away withââŚ"
If Ted Cruz can read Green Eggs and Ham on the senate floor, then Sen. Feinstein can read a few passages from Fordâs book during Mondayâs hearing.
And then ask âBart OâKavanaughâ to detail all the times he âpuked in someoneâs carâ.
And âpassed out on his way back from a partyâ.
And the names of those âhigh-school buddiesâ.
And the dates they âgot together and exchanged memories of that timeâ.
And what â specifically â made them âgenuinely shockedâ.
And, of course, all the stuff they âgot away withâ.
(You know, the list of corroborating witnesses to testify under oath almost writes itself.)