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[QUOTE=worstblogever;3928551]Oh man... we get more of Rachel Mitchell for the rest of the day? After the epic failure of this morning? She's going to be in here instead of the boys' club like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Grassley?
The GOP didn't even bring a knife to this gunfight. Just a nail clipper.
This has been a bad day for rape apologists.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but it's all a formality to appear to have heard both sides of the story, right. They have the majority and since none of them have the guts or compassion to go against Trump and the GOP, they confirm him if they want. It doesn't matter what the dems or the general public think.
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[QUOTE=worstblogever;3928551]Oh man... we get more of Rachel Mitchell for the rest of the day? After the epic failure of this morning? She's going to be in here instead of the boys' club like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Grassley?
The GOP didn't even bring a knife to this gunfight. Just a nail clipper.
This has been a bad day for rape apologists.[/QUOTE]
Possible strategy. They get to say they brought in a prosecutor to question him, while she was sympathetic to Ford
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[URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/27/christine-blasey-ford-testimony-response-women-sexual-assault-survivors-cspan"]'I can't cry any more. I'm too angry': women respond to Ford's testimony [/URL]
[QUOTE]“Women everywhere are listening to Christine Blasey Ford’s voice cracking and feeling their own hearts break, just a little bit more, at the world we’ve all inherited,” tweeted the New York Times’ Sheera Frenkel.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]“Extremely emotional, extremely raw, and extremely credible,” Fox News’ Chris Wallace said of Ford’s testimony halfway through the hearing. “Nobody could listen to her deliver those words and talk about the assault and the impact it had had on her life, and not have your heart go out to her.
“This is a disaster for the Republicans,” he said.[/QUOTE]
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Diane Feinstein begins her questioning and then he starts snapping at her about how unfair things are. Smoooooooth man.
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Diane Feinstein begins questioning, and Kavanaugh IMMEDIATELY starts shouting back at her.
Yeah, that's another good look, Brett. Start screaming at the old lady looking for the truth.
"THE SWETNICK THING IS A JOKE!!!"
Holy f***, this is full meltdown.
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I'm watching a man self-destruct....omg this is a disaster for the GOP.
And they wouldn't be in this mess if they just had the candidate vetted.
And if he does get the job, his credibility as a judge is all kinds of fucked. Fucking train-wreck.
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[QUOTE=SuperiorIronman;3928581]I'm watching a man self-destruct....omg this is a disaster for the GOP.
And they wouldn't be in this mess if they just had the candidate vetted.
And if he does get the job, his credibility as a judge is all kinds of fucked. Fucking train-wreck.[/QUOTE]
Does it matter if a supreme court justice lacks credibility?
I mean, there is no place else to go after that lol?
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[QUOTE=ZombieHavoc;3928563]Yeah but it's all a formality to appear to have heard both sides of the story, right. They have the majority and since none of them have the guts or compassion to go against Trump and the GOP, they confirm him if they want. It doesn't matter what the dems or the general public think.[/QUOTE]
But..of course..it does matter ultimately what the public think. That’s the inconvenient thing about democracy...
Surely to goodness enough Republican representatives at hearing are going to do the calculation that Republican party can’t afford to be associated with this.
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Bob ‘n’ Weave Brett is flat out having a meltdown. This is [B]NOT[/B] appropriate behavior for someone nominated for the highest court in the land. Hell, how is this man a judge at [B]ANY[/B] level, giving how he’s acting?
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They could have avoided this and still got what they wanted if they'd nominated a woman. I imagine most of her issues would have been considered a feature rather than a bug.
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[QUOTE=JackDaw;3928584]But..of course..it does matter ultimately what the public think. That’s the inconvenient thing about democracy...
Surely to goodness enough Republican representatives at hearing are going to do the calculation that Republican party can’t afford to be associated with this.[/QUOTE]
You think corrupt puppet politicians appointing judges to a lifetime on the highest court, and then with only a tiny group of people comparatively voting yay or nay, is democratic?
Dude, I don't know if you remember but like, Donald Trump was accused by way more women and mean tweeted insults about them and outright talked **** about them in the media and that dude became president.
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“Some have noted that I didn’t have church listed on my calendar on Sundays. Well, I also didn’t list brushing my teeth. Going to church on Sundays was like brushing my teeth: automatic. Still is.”
— Judge Kavanaugh
Shamelessly pulled from the tweets alongside the livestream.
Cool that he has dates for where he was so investigators can back that up. Problem, this statement puts doubt on where Brett claims to have been. If some things are just automatic, does that include hanging out with friends and drinking a few beers, of which he does not know when to stop. Does that guarantee he does if he goes by the chart of which he claims no origin?
I mean that's cool he has dates, but he's now put those dates into question on their veracity meaning for that to be proven they need to be investigated.
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[QUOTE=ZombieHavoc;3928591]You think corrupt puppet politicians appointing judges to a lifetime on the highest court, and then with only a tiny group of people comparatively voting yay or nay, is democratic?
Dude, I don't know if you remember but like, Donald Trump was accused by way more women and mean tweeted insults about them and outright talked **** about them in the media and that dude became president.[/QUOTE]
I think it likely that if that tiny group of politicians vote this guy onto Supreme Court, it will ultimately cost Republicans a lot of votes in a lot of subsequent elections..including some when their own neck on on the line.
I’ve learnt via these boards a bit about American politics..and realise that it’s very different to U.K. scene. But in U.K..some senior party members would have given Kavanaugh a bottle of whisky and a gun by now, and told him to shoot himself. They don’t like “vote losers”.
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[QUOTE=JackDaw;3928603]I think it likely that if that tiny group of politicians vote this guy onto Supreme Court, it will ultimately cost Republicans a lot of votes in a lot of subsequent elections..including some when their own neck on on the line.
I’ve learnt via these boards a bit about American..and realise that it’s very different to U.K. scene. But in U.K..some senior party members would have given Kavanaugh a bottle of whisky and a gun by now, and told him to shoot himself. They don’t like “vote losers”.[/QUOTE]
Devil’s advocate: the Democratic Party just had their extremely popular President treated like **** and denied his moderate pick that a high ranking Republican suggested. They knew that pick was at stake in the last election. They didn’t win
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[QUOTE=JackDaw;3928603]I think it likely that if that tiny group of politicians vote this guy onto Supreme Court, it will ultimately cost Republicans a lot of votes in a lot of subsequent elections..including some when their own neck on on the line.
I’ve learnt via these boards a bit about American politics..and realise that it’s very different to U.K. scene. But in U.K..some senior party members would have given Kavanaugh a bottle of whisky and a gun by now, and told him to shoot himself. They don’t like “vote losers”.[/QUOTE]
Well, here in the good ol' US of A, we are good and partisan, and the people who voted for Trump and the GOP reps in congress don't really care about the BK accusations. They consider it a smear job by the dems. So they are going to vote even harder for the GOP is BK is not confirmed.
This loses the GOP no votes. You guys give some people waaaay to much credit.
They don't give a ****.