Discussion: Grassley Promises 'Safe, Comfortable and Dignified' Blasey Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing

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This is SO PAINFUL to listen to. Her voice, OMG. She is very brave, more than I could be.

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Those three words are the opposite of how I’ve felt every day since that asshole was elected (apply to either trump or grassley)

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I can’t believe that they are needing the “female assistant” to ask their questions. It seems so cowardly! I recall how disgusted I was with the men during the questioning of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearing, but now they are savvy enough to know that they don’t want to look as bad as they did during the Anita Hill questioning.

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Just like Brett Kavanaugh promised Ford a safe, comfortable and dignified rape?

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Leahy using his time to womp on Grassley on not getting the FBI involved. Thanks Blasey Ford for her bravery and takes shots at the WH for suggesting she was “confused.”

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Start calling your Senators now and tell them to inform the Committee staff that Kavanaugh needs to withdraw before he testifies today.

If you don’t know your Senator’s number then call this number and ask for their office.

202-224-3121

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Ghastly desperately trying to blame the Dems for withholding information and they would maintain Dr.Blasey’s privacy, as if anyone believes these clowns don’t leak like the proverbial sieve.

She is extremely credible and we have to believe that Kave-in-aww is toast along with many, many gopers. Weathervane Collins is screwed either way, if she votes to confirm she will be dumped and if the Dems can find a warm body after her equivocation she should also be toast in 2020.

Wonder if F(l)ake will find the courage to do more than talk, not that it matters - he won’t be a Senator anymore and his Presidential ambitions have gone up in smoke as well.

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The man just can’t help himself. So entangled in his own partisanship and politicking, he can’t let it go for more than a moment to actually restore something remotely resembling “dignity” to the proceedings.

Those FBI background checks did not turn up a “whiff of any issue, any issue at all, related in anyway to inappropriate sexual behavior.”

Now I haven’t seen the FBI reports, but this amounts to a bald-faced lie, since they knew about Deborah Ramirez’ allegations a week before they came out, and instead of addressing them, tried to fast-track the confirmation even more aggressively.

We can’t get rid of the McConnell/Grassley/Graham cabal soon enough. An actual “axis of evil” in our very own house.

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I am so angry with this process and the way that Dr. Blasey Ford is being treated! I don’t think I am going to get any useful work done the rest of the day! Time to go on strike!

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It seemed very important to Grassley that it be made clear to all that he is the real victim here.

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“safe, comfortable and dignified.”

extend this decency to women undergoing an abortion, and you might win back your female republicans who love money but aren’t so crazy about your unequal pay thing…

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He is, just not in the way that he thinks.