Jesus, Kavanaugh is becoming a bigger and bigger asshole with each question.
And no, Orrin Hatch, the Democrats were not allowed to call for an FBI investigation.
Who told him that turning questions back on senators was the way to go? I’ve never seen a hearing like this.
That’s what I expect. Those men and women may have a smidge more honor and decency than the rest of the Republicans in the Senate, but I’m still very skeptical that it’s enough to objectively evaluate the allegations against Kavanaugh.
I hope this was said tongue firmly in cheek. I’ll be honest…I’m uncomfortable listening to this stuff and can only listen in short bursts before I need to turn it off. I was trying to follow along while looking in on this thread but the testimony and cross questioning is physically making me feel ill.
I still don’t know the guilt or innocence of the underlying contention between him and Ford, but I’m more convinced than I was that this dude has no business being one of our USSC justices for life. Ugh.
Whoosh?
Seems like it’d be awfully easy for Kavanaugh to say “yes, I’d like the FBI to fully investigate these allegations and clear my name”. And he’s had several opportunities to answer questions with that, but has chosen not to.
Evangelicals do - not - care. I mean they elected Trump, after all.
What matters is that fetuses with anencephaly have more rights than natural born women and minorities. And Kavanaugh can make that happen.
Do I detect a note of sarcasm? Subtle, as quiet as a butterfly’s fart?
This infantile “Yeah I’ve drunk, HAVE YOU? HAVE YOU?” game is just showing how incredibly unfit he is for the highest court in the land.
He’s an entitled hypocritical prick who can’t rein in his temper. Basically, the perfect Trump nominee.
Hey, I’ve got no fight with a man who embraces drinking beer, or drinking anything for that matter. But never in all my escapades and stupors did it ever occur to me that I should rape someone. This whole frat boy date rape shit just sickens me, and we were getting to a point in this society where even drunken frat boys were starting to realize that this wasn’t really good for women. But it’s turn back the clock night in the Senate - the fucking Senate - and the clock seems to be going further and further back into time - like the 1300s.
Whitehouse asked him about it. I can’t find a transcript yet.
I disagree. He’s not some layman, outside the governmental process, and can credibly claim that he doesn’t think subjects of the confirmation process should comment about the process itself. Either to suggest things that should be done or suggest that things not be done.
Christ, this guy is a fucking nutjob.
He confirms my worst suspicions about where Republicans are trying to take this country. They really do want this to become part God state, part oligarchy, part kleptocracy. We’re closer to the precipice. I knew we were headed there, just didn’t think it would be so soon.
He has all the body language of a liar. Those pursed lips are very telling. Crossed arms, head wagging. He’s lying.
He’s commented about the process multiple times so far.
Again, he acknowledged in an email being blackout drunk during a dice game where he had to apologize for his aggressive behavior that he did not recall.
You can see impulsiveness speaking for him, driving him to interrupt, accuse senators of “mocking” him, and turning questions around them on immaturely.
It’s at the point that I can’t see him as a legal powerhouse, because all I see is emotional jerkiness.
Kavanaugh: “GODDAMNED RIGHT I ORDERED A CODE RAPE!!! Er, I mean red.”
He can comment about Democratic Senators’ drinking habits, he can comment about the process being a gotcha to get back at the Republicans over the Clintons, he can say the Democrats are out to get him, but he can’t comment on the process?