Ya it was “spontaneous”
Ya that’s the ticket, 65 people in a matter of hours
That’s “spontaneous”
These 65 women should know they are “aiding and abetting” putting a second sexual predator on the Supreme Court. How many of the 65 know who Anita Hill is? They were still young, but those Hill hearings were pretty widely covered. Shame on them
B’S! They knew this could show up and they had the names identified and the promoters lined up…
I believe that they very quickly contacted 65 people who either knew Kavanaugh, or knew they wanted him on the court.
I believe that while he was sober, he was exactly as described by the signers.
I also believe that it is entirely possible he became extremely intoxicated one night, and did what he is accused of doing. Possible. The signers, and Kavanaugh, have stated clearly that it is not possible.
The obvious course of action is an investigation.
The whole thing should call into question the whole regime of private education in general, and gender-segregated private education in particular. This story of teenage drinking and sexcapades should have every parent wondering just WTF their fancy prep-academy tuition dollars are buying. Clearly, the schoolgirls were no better equipped to deal with entitled horny toads from the boys’ school and for the horny toads’ part, the schoolboys don’t appear to be raised any damned better, either.
In other words 65 Catholic girls who want Roe V Wade over turned…even while they themselves know that rich women like themselves will always have access to services to terminate an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy should they choose. The hypocrisy for the rich Republican religious right is disgusting…before Roe V Wade, women in the middle and lower class relied on back allies to end pregnancies while the rich white girls could fly to high-end medical clinics. What a country…this isn’t Democracy this is an Oligarchy.
The prep for a scotus nominee is throughout strategy. Prepare for any eventuallity…THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY, he is a member of, knew this might come up. they with brett, had the list in hand…
They have done this before.
A mysterious objection. The Federalist Society is an organization which promotes conservative ideas. What is the problem, fundamentally, with that?
Here’s the problem: Liberal lawyers have never founded an organization to promote liberal ideas.
Rather than protesting the intervention of the entirely legal Federalist Society, people should be asking “Where is the liberal countervailing society?”
So the 65 signees for Kavanaugh is a “powerful show of strength in numbers,” but the “hundreds” who signed the letter of support for Ford aren’t even worth an actual number count. That’s how you want to play this AP?
I guess they didn’t see Kavanaugh’s entry in the yearbook about being in the hundred keg club.
I first saw this on my startup page, and, before I clicked, said to myself, “It’s either The Hill or AP.” Gee, how surprising (snark) that Reuters, The Guardian, or McClatchy weren’t first with this small-town “how we all pitched in to rebuild Murphy’s barn” story. Also, about that run-up to Iraq . . . .
The actual process of getting 65 people to sign on to something in a short period of time, that part makes sense. I’ve got high school classmates as FB friends. My wife just had a high school classmate die and she heard the news in under 24 hours. So getting in touch with people and getting signatures isn’t too extraordinary.
The problem is actually believing Kavanaugh had 65 female friends who can attest to his character when he went to an all-boys school. I mean, “She said she interacted with Kavanaugh hundreds of times while they were students”?? That description would only apply to me and a handful of people from my high school and certainly nobody from a different high school.
I sort of expect that some woman will now come forward and say:
“I was at that party with Brett where the attempted rape was supposed to have happened. He never left my side during that whole time at the party where the attempted rape was supposed to have happened. Not even to go to the potty!”
AP: Comforting the comfortable for … since forever.
I would question how many of them still consider themselves Catholics.
“I feel like I would know all that,” said Clark, who socialized with Kavanaugh amid groups of friends at parties.
That certainly seems like a solid basis upon which to confidently weigh in on someone who’ll ruin the country for decades as part of the Supreme Court.
So this is the guy that they want to be the one to overturn Roe v Wade? Really? If I were them I would drop him immediately and go with the next wingnut in line. That way that the controversial decision would not have the stench of having been the decree of a sexual predator, as it now appears it’s going to.
I also believe that he is telling the truth that he does not remember. When I came back from Vietnam I spent the next 18 months more drunk than sober. Eventually I quit drinking after waking up with the car running in a closed garage for the 20th or 30th time. I never did remember how I arrived. I, to this day, have no recollection of much that went on over those 18 months.
More than likely they just made a trip to the local Catholic Hospital and had the procedure. My father was the Board Sec for a local Catholic Hospital in the 40/50s and I remember the board having discussions about how to name the procedure to avoid actually calling it abortion. If you had the money there was no objection. I remember overhearing those discussions because the board would visit different members homes when discussions were sensitive just to avoid any public notice.