Discussion: Kavanaugh Tells Lawmakers In Private He Thinks Special Counsel Is Appropriate

Yup. I am definitely going to trust Flake & Co on this.

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Me too. For a second there I was worried, but if someone as principled as Flake thinks heā€™s OK he must be alright after all.
/s

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He will say whatever it takes to get this job. This ā€˜interview ā€˜ is a farce.

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Appropriate as long as Mueller remembers he has no power to compel testimony or indict Prez Crime Boss.

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If he wonā€™t say it in public, then whatā€™s the point? Kavanaugh seems to be the worst nominee in many decades. Opposing him should be a no-brainer.

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Sure, he can say he thinks the Special Counsel is appropriate, but he also seems to think this president can get make it all go away by getting him on SCOTUS.

Words and lack of them matter.

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Well, he definitely seems to want the jobā€¦

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And Roberts believed in and would follow precedent!

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Not.

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How can anyone believe this guy after he lied under oath?

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:laughing: Of courseā€¦ Snark is always my default setting in situations like this!

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He contradicts the thoughts that heā€™s expressed for years in one conversation and thatā€™s good enough.

Itā€™s completely unimaginable to them that heā€™s telling them what he thinks they want to hear just to be confirmed.

Apparently Senators are a bunch of dupes, or maybe we all are for thinking they actually have an interest in doing their jobs.

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I always think itā€™s a good idea to make my decisions based on what someone tells me if it washes away their words, writings and actions that have come before, and is contrary to almost everything known about their public and private life and beliefs,

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And they will all act completely surprised and disappointed when his rulings completely contradict everything he told them in private. This isnā€™t even good kabuki.

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Yeah ā€¦ considering how many of them fell for Mitchā€™s promises of proper debate and regular order back during the immigration reform train wreck, Iā€™m leaning more to ā€œdupeā€ these days.

To borrow a phrase from Tom Petty, I canā€™t decide which is worse.

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Is Kavanaugh applying for a Star Chamber seat, or a Supreme Court seat ?

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Sorta brings Lucy and the football to mind

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I donā€™t think they fell for Mitch at all. They needed a fig leaf.