That’s what the elucidator means?
Skipped ahead again…sorry. will review when I get the chance.
Fucking yes, Kavanaugh nailed it! Nobody changed their view. 54-46. Confirmation Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh’s misrepresentation of the other witness statements is one of the reasons I think he is lying. Mark Judge didn’t even give a denial under oath. And even if he had, Kavanaugh damn well understands the difference between a brief written statement and testimony from a live witness. So it is totally disingenuous to say there is no need to call him. Same with the others.
He is a smart federal judge. He knows better.
There was nothing even close to such dissembling in Ford’s testimony, while Kavanaugh repeated that canard a dozen times, among other misleading statements and probable lies.
…did they vote???
Putting aside the events of the allegations themselves, I thought Kavanaugh’s most blatant dishonesty was about his drinking and about “Renate Alumni”. And neither of those things would be disqualifying if he were honest about it. But, IMO, he was very clearly lying about both of those things.
No one’s voted yet; I think he’s making a prediction.
3 dems?
No. Committee vote tomorrow morning (if they have the votes, that is), full Senate vote next week if it gets out of the Judiciary committee.
That’d be 3 – it’s 51-49 right now.
Beat you to it!
D’ohhh!
I was unable to listen to the whole thing, but can anyone answer:
- Did the Republican stand-in attorney ask Ford if her memory of the event had been ongoing from when it happened or a memory that was recovered during a therapy session?
1a. If she didn’t ask that, am I stupid for thinking she should have?
- How was Flake? I think this whole thing could have been avoided and just have Flake ask questions. I believe he is the only one on the committee who is on the fence. (Yeah, I know everyone wants to hear the the whole thing, but in terms of the vote tomorrow.)
…yeah, about that:
From everything I heard Rachel Mitchell did her job as well as one would expect. And if she wasn’t there to question Ford it would have been a shit-show-from-hell.
They don’t want that, of course. They want to ram his confirmation through so they can make sure women don’t have the free agency to ever inconvenience a member of the aristocracy ever again.
Actually, got a lot of respect in high school, maybe part because I’d been there for six years.
Geraldo Rivera expressing disgust about the process and saying that this was an attempted Dem “coup.” Thought that Kavanaugh was done at noon today, but has reversed.
*Still haven’t read the thread.
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I followed the morning testimony on twitter, and I don’t recall any question like that.
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Flake barely spoke, and his only statement IIRC was to advocate caution and to say that they were only a group of flawed Senators making a very difficult decision based on some very difficult testimony. Decent sentiment, but nothing that actually provides any helpful info, IMO.
Thanks. Flake didn’t ask any questions?
No. I don’t think he spoke at all in the morning session with Ford, and he didn’t ask Kavanaugh any questions.
- No, Rachel Mitchell did not ask that question.
1a. I won’t comment on your stupidity for asking, but it is clear from the record of Blasey Ford’s testimony that this is not an incident that she forgot for a single moment since it happened. No need to elicit a memory that never left – even if one would wish to forget it.
- Flake seems subdued and thoughtful, but I fully expect him to vote to get it out of committee and on to a confirmation vote next week. The confirmation vote… I think is more iffy.