Keep digging, GOP’ers, you’re gonna need a bigger hole to bury this judicial farce…
This is already the year of the woman. Good move Republicans I am sure that is going to make you look great in the eyes of women across the country.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Here’s the Democrats’ best play: they should put KAVANAUGH on the spot, as a matter of his judicial philosophy and temperament. It’s not about him – there’s a witness who claims to have been the victim of a crime. There’s an accused.
And there’s ANOTHER witness.
As a core matter of due process, that other witness must be put under oath to testify. It doesn’t matter if that witness supports the accused, or the one claiming a crime. The record is simply not complete without that third person’s sworn testimony.
If Kavanaugh refuses (why?), he’s simply unfit to serve as a Justice on the US Supreme Court.
The Republican Majority in the Senate represents 18% of the population from mostly white rural states. That 18% controls the lifetime appointments to the Federal Judiciary.
This is America’s so-called “Representative Republic.” This is America’s so-called “Checks and Balances.”
All legal. All Constitutional. Nothing we can do.
Breaking news…
John Thune: “The hiding of this is very suspect.”
But refusing to release and review thousands of Kavanaugh’s work documents from his days as a Bushie lickspittle, well, just you never mind all that.
One awkward thing for this whole scandal with the GOP is they keep saying “Hey, he was young and stupid! Things happen!” but Kavanaugh is claiming it never happened. Talk about mixed messages
We should have destroyed George W. Bush politically and legally when we had the chance.
Obama fail.
Exclusive: George W. Bush is standing by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, whose confirmation has been thrown into doubt amid sexual assault allegations
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(It’s OK If You’re A Young Drunken Horny Prep School Republican)
From a previous post somewhere, sometime by someone… I think we are in the 3rd line.
Narcissist’s Prayer.
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did…
You deserved it.
There was another man in the room. Surely , he’ll testify for his boy. (I already know the answer to this.)
Coryn reserved judgment, noting that there were “gaps” in the memory of Kavanaugh, who could not recall ever meeting Pryor when considering him for a nomination while working at the White House, despite multiple e-mails he sent and received regarding the nominee.
What, no attacks on Nancy Pelosi? You must be slipping.
Gosh, y’all couldn’t be alienating women voters at a better time - I’m tempted to write and thank you, John.
O and let me add here my thanks to the GOP for asking W to campaign for you. You think we’ve forgotten? ahahahahahaha
SO accuser doesn’t KNOW if she was THERE but KAVANAUGH and THE OTHER GUY WAS there. KAVANAUGH wasn’t THERE but IF HE was HE DIDn’T do anything becauSE HE’s GOT daughters for christ’s sake. THE OTHER guy was too drunk TO REMEMBER IF HE WAS there but wasn’t there. KAVANAUGH is the real victim because it happened 37 years ago and WHO among US CANNOT say WE DIDN’T do drunk rape, attempted or otherwise, when we were teens BECAUSE prep school boys like to drink and rough house. And the accuser was dressed LIKE A SLUT in a one PIECE bathing suit.
Nope
The Obstruction of Justice.
The Prevention of Justice
The Perversion of Justice
Yet another GOP trifecta…
I don’t think this hurts our cause as much as some seem to think it does. Other than the questions about how BK can claim he hadn’t attended a party for which she never provided the location or date, much of what he says won’t matter. He’ll be thoroughly coached and ready for the questions. Those in DC and around the country will be watching to see how credible she is. Like it or not, the onus is on her. Does she come across as a sane, competent, respectable individual with little reason to make up such a story? Is she able to provide names of people she disclosed to prior to his nomination? Is she able to provide any other contemporaneous evidence? The most damning piece of evidence to me are the therapist notes, but I suspect GOPers will try to use the fact that she was seeing a therapist to suggest she’s unstable.
“She doesn’t know how she got there,” Cornyn said, “And so that would logically be something where she would get questioned.”
She doesn’t REMEMBER how and with whom she traveled to a party some 30 years ago. That’s not unusual. It’s not weird not to remember the more mundane details that occurred prior to a major trauma, you asshole. Ask your wife what she had for breakfast the day she gave birth to your children. Bet she doesn’t remember, but I’m guessing she remembers the birth.
I’m working on the assumption that Ms. Ford will show up and testify on Monday. As unfair as it is, there is not a lot of leverage for negotiating a delay, more witnesses, more investigation, and the like. If for whatever reason she does not show Monday, it will be a straight party line vote for confirmation. If she does show on Monday and we get a he said / she said, there is a good chance to peel off two votes from the other side. More importantly, the optics of that hearing will be devastating to the other side in November. It is entirely possible that once she agrees to testify, they withdraw the nomination.