Can Democrats actually stop the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh?

Well, they certainly should. The first job of a politician is to win. They can have the best policies in the world, but they are useless if they’re not in power.

And of course NOW we find out:

No, they didn’t. The Senate, not the Republicans, declined to consider him due to his nomination being against their advice - advice the President at the time was constitutionally bound to follow, but instead ignored.

Obama shoudl have nominated whoever McConnell told him to. The legislature tell the President what to do, not the other way round.

This is a false assertion – there have been several pieces of evidence that support Ford’s accusation. But we’ve been over and over this – you don’t think those pieces of evidence count. Fine, I’m not interested in going on and on about it with you. The Republicans got their guy. We’ll see if the Democrats win either the House or Senate and actually do a full and thorough investigation, both of the sexual assault allegations and for perjury.

No, I didn’t imagine at all that you used examples from over a century ago to support your argument.

This is completely wrong in every way.

Forget it. With doorhinge, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

NM - didn’t even see the new page

No, there haven’t. Not one. No-one remembers the party, and no-one remembers seeing Kavanaugh attack her. There is absolutely nothing, apart from her testimony, that suggests that anything like what she claims ever happened. You are trying to spin evidence that he drank, and evidence that he wrote disrespectful things about women, into corroboration of her claims. It is not. That, by the way, is not an opinion, it is an observable fact. Your bias (as so often) prevents you from seeing, and dealing with facts.

You’re leaving out several facts, but I’m not interested in discussing this further with you. The Republicans won this round.

I’m hopeful that most Democrats are as angry as I am about this, and will stay this angry for the next month. We’ll see.

You DID imagine that I said anything about wanting “to return things to how they were”. I said nothing about that. I was merely pointing out Fiveyearlurker’s error.

Apparently the answer to the thread is “no”.

With that I think this has run its course.

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