And that was the school mascot…
Wouldn’t trust Flake any further than I can punt a bowling ball. He angles to stay out of sight until he can determine which way the herd is moving, so he run out in front of them and pretend he’s leading.
So bottom line, where are we now? Does this thug get confirmed or not?
I hope I’m wrong, but I suspect he does.
For the shit show one just needed to wait for the Graham Crackers.
I’d still probably bet that he’s confirmed, but it’d essentially be a guess. I do think that confirming Kavanaugh on a party-line vote would be the best-case short-term political scenario for the Democrats’ chances of taking the Senate. And getting Roe v Wade overturned would be the biggest get-out-the-vote benefit to the Democrats in a generation or more.
But I hope he’s voted down. I think he’s a liar and I think it’s more likely than not that Ford’s allegations are true (not to mention the others). We shouldn’t be putting such dishonest (and abusive, obviously) people on the SCOTUS.
He wants to stay in the game as a lobbyist or conservative activist, even if he can’t be a senator. There’s no such thing as retiring from Washington. There’s no such thing as political independence, even in retirement. The Republicans are gonna vote for Kavanaugh, because Kavanaugh will protect the plutocrats who are going to bankrupt the country and make 95% of us pay for it.
Once Americans wake up and understand that ours is a fake democracy and decide definitively that they want a real one instead, then we can have real change. But that’s not gonna happen until a financial apocalypse happens, not the 2008 kind but the kind where people are fighting in the streets over bottles of water and loaves of bread.
One of the accusations is that Feinstein sat on the letter waiting until the last minute to bring it forth and demand a delay for an investigation. The implication is that she should have dealt with this situation when it happened as part of the committee interview/questioning process. If so, then why should the Republicans/Kavanaugh agree to a delay? Why not tell the Dems you should have dealt with this already and F Feinstein for using this woman and her story as a political move?
Why indeed? Sure, if they want to get more information about whether the allegations might be true, they could actually call more witnesses (like Mark Judge and the other accusers), but if they want to stick it to the Dems, why delay at all? Why not just plow through, no matter if the allegations are true or not?
So they can pretend to “listen to the facts” before voting yes.
If the Feinstein maneuver was nothing more than a rank political ploy, but the allegations regarding the Kav are true…he gets a pass because he’s the victim?
Even if there is video showing ALL of the allegations are true, every Pub votes for him claiming the angle of the videos make the actions inconclusive and the videos were made to entrap him 30 years later if he were up for a major political office.
Even if there is video showing ALL of the allegations are false, every Dem votes against him claiming they’re sure he did something to someone because unproven claims against rich white guys still have some element of truth.
Let me clarify. The term “forgot” is not operative with recovered memories. I think it would be “repressed”, or something like that. It was not my intention to say that she “forgot” about it. And the memory of being assaulted might not have been a recovered memory, while the name of the assailant might have been.
I seem to remember reading something about that as this news broke, but that could’ve been speculation, fake news, or a faulty memory on my part. Maybe even a recovered memory just a few days ago when I brought it up here for the first time.
Let’s go with that one.
I listened to every word of her testimony today. It’s a non-issue.
What’s your bottom line: do you believe the allegations or not?
Anyone else find it like beyond weird that he kept a calendar from 35 years ago? Like I’ve found a calendar or two that was older than some of my wine bottles, but never intentionally kept them for decades. What the crap?
Never said that, but it seems that Feinstein is getting a pass on how she played this. Assuming the sexual assault happened, shouldn’t Feinstein had handled the situation more approriately? Isn’t it fairer to accuser not to be handled like a pawn? Isn’t it fairer to the accused (not convicted) nominee that it be dealt with in a timely manner no matter the outcome?
^ This was posted pages ago but deserves highlighting.
Kavanaugh’s performance today was horrifying to those who value integrity, honesty, fair-dealing, and (not least) mental stability.
But it was catnip to those who get their news from Alex Jones. That 25% or so of Americans adored the red-faced yelling, the crying, the claims that the Clintons are behind it all, and most of all the profound self-pity of the aggrieved white male.
And of course Trump will have loved it. Not the crying so much, but the rest of it.
So the Republican Senators—and possible the red-state Dems—WILL fall in line and vote to confirm this blatantly, flagrantly, and brazenly unfit candidate for the SCOTUS.
The Dems? Oh no, they will “listen to the facts” before voting no.
Honestly, do you believe ANYONE on the committee did not make up their mind before this testimony started?
Still waiting for your alternative explanations.
Maybe, but how is that relevant to how senators should vote? Either they think the allegations might be true or they don’t. That should be based on the words of Ford and Kavanaugh and ideally others called as witnesses.