What, you kidding? Women all over America are swooning with rapture over stern, strong Republican men asserting their manly dominance! Hey, they love that shit, Fifty Shades of Gruesome…
They should conduct a full investigation by professionals (the FBI), including private interviews of Ford, Kavanaugh, Judge, their peers at the time, and any other witnesses, and report their findings to the Senate committee.
they should just delay it as much as they did in 2016, that’s only fair .
And back here in reality the FBI has said they’re not going to do that. So what should happen next, in your opinion?
The President, AG, head of the FBI, or some other high official in the FBI’s chain of command should order them to do so, and/or the Senate committee should make a formal request that they do so.
“What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep. That’s been a good thing for all of us”
That is going to make some sweet campaign ads.
What could possibly go wrong with rushing the vetting process, and rushing confirmation of a SCOTUS judge?
Oh yeah - this. 
I don’t think they do. You think Schumer will be satisfied? The positive thing is that we don’t have to hear Booker or Harris yap on ad infinitum.
She’s not even a Senator anymore. I think the idea is that she would be counsel for the Judiciary Committee. She is an attorney.
See, you’ve prejudged the case by assuming that there is “trauma” at all. That’s what a fair process tries to decide in the first instance. If we construct a process by assuming that she has suffered trauma, then the process is flawed because we assume the very question that we are supposed to be deciding.
Ordering an agency like the FBI to conduct an investigation it does not want to conduct is ludicrous. I trust them to know what they are capable of and not capable of. Order then to conduct the investigation and expect to get a report full or “we were unable to verify…” and “we cannot rule out…” and “we were unable to determine…”
I’m being careful, as should you and the Senate. If you’re wrong, a traumatized woman will be re-traumatized. If I’m wrong, nothing bad happens except a delay in a political process.
There’s a difference between negotiating around terms for the testimony (how many hours, corroborating evidence or witnesses allowed, and so on), which may well not be possible to finish by Monday, and refusing altogether. I do not believe that she will refuse altogether.
The Senate committee could certainly make that request, and I’ve seen no indication that they have or plan to. And I’m not sure that the AG or head of the FBI never gives orders to the FBI on what to investigate.
Without judging her testimony or experiences with Kavanaugh in the slightest, I think the death threats can be judged to have traumatized her. I’m certain the entire experience has been just “awesome”.
Well, that and Brett Kavanaugh’s life gets turned upside down and his reputation is in tatters over a charge he does not have a proper opportunity to refute.
This thing about the Dems having “already made up their minds”. Well, of course, nobody expected anything different. Ask the Heritage Foundation and the Federalists to make a list that explicitly says “Fuck you, libtards!” and you give them shit for not having an open mind?
If B’nai B’rith put up a candidate for Pope, the College of Cardinals would most likely be of one mind, even before they heard what a wonderful guy he is! Because, reasons.
Doing nothing doesn’t help Kavanaugh’s reputation at all, unless an investigation would harm it. An investigation might clear his name. Doing nothing does not.
If Kavanaugh’s not lying, then he should welcome an investigation. Right now there’s an uninvestigated allegation of attempted rape. Everyone who wants the truth revealed should welcome an investigation. Only those who have reason to fear the truth would fear an investigation.
For those who want to believe this accusation is false and was invented to derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation: note the (hypothetical) extreme foolishness of putting the alleged perpetrator’s close friend right there in the room, at the scene of the crime.
Much smarter, if you’re going to make something up, to claim it was just you and the alleged perpetrator.
They should at least try to do an investigation. The Senate does have subpoena powers, they can compel witnesses to testify.
Let’s put it this way. Let’s imagine for a minute that Kavanaugh is innocent. Don’t you think that if you investigate the crazy lying bitch that’s trying to destroy his reputation that you have a good chance of turning up some inconsistencies, or some exculpatory evidence? Like maybe she told someone how she was going to make up the story?
If we’re living in a universe where Kavanaugh is innocent, it’s possible that an investigation will turn up nothing, because this was 30 years ago and all we have is he-said she-said. It’s also possible that it will turn up something that will discredit the accuser. So, maybe investigate a bit? Because maybe something obvious will turn up to reveal that the whole story is a fabrication? Crazy lying bitches might make stuff up, but since they’re crazy lying bitches rather than criminal masterminds sometimes they make mistakes. So maybe she made a mistake in the process of cooking up this false accusation, and we can clear Kavanaugh’s name, at least enough that Republicans and a few red-state Democrats will vote for him, like what was going to happen last week before all this became public.
Or maybe the investigation will turn up nothing, or it will turn up incriminating evidence against Kavanaugh. It seems to me that if Kavanaugh is innocent then there’s at least a chance that the investigation will turn up exculpatory evidence. Which you guys, again, at the risk of sounding concern-trolly, are supposed to want?
Oh, OK. I read your post as implying you thought she might not want to. But the idea that she would, or even should, get to negotiate with the Senate Judiciary Committee about her testimony is, IMO, rather presumptuous. Her attorney said she was willing to “do whatever it takes”. I guess it never hurts to try, but I’m not at all surprised that Grassley is not willing to negotiate.
What makes you think the two boys were close friends or are even in contact with each other any more now?
So, subpoena Ford and have the committee cross-examine her until she trips up? That’s exactly the sort of optics the Dems are hoping for. “Look at the mean old white Republican men, beating up on that poor defenseless woman”.
The odds of anything more exculpatory than Kavanaugh and Judge’s denials coming out of that approach seem slim. The probability of horrible-looking-optics-that-benefit-the-Dems-in-the-midterm seem a near-certainty.