Anything that makes Trump look like a "loser" will not be tolerated by the White House. While I'm sure GOP Congress would be happy to pick any alternative Heritage/Federalist approved judge, Trump is personally invested in Kavanaugh and will not let it go. He wants his pick to win.
Even at that, I assume they have a stable of them waiting for their chance.
I'm wondering, out of that pool, why him?
A. Did they not vet him well? (yet they seem prepared for this coming up...)
B. They knew, but:
1. Not care? (have some overriding reason)
2. Not appreciate the backlash? (poor judgement)
Early signs point to B, but what was the thought process? We seem left with either incompetence or conspiracy.
Listening to Mitch McConnell bitch about the Dems operating outside the norms of the process. Pot meet kettle.When did she first report this? Sounds like years ago. Amazingly premonitious of her to discuss this with others years before he was nominated to the SC.
Makes sense why Rs had a "supported by 65 women" letter in their back pocket. They knew of it too, nominated him anyway, and prepared to bulldozer the nomination over any opposition.
Question is why?
Why choose this guy with this baggage? Why have to hide so many documents? Why accept his continual lies to Congress? So many questions need to be answered.
Brett Kavanaugh’s former high school pal who a woman says was in the room when the now-Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers called the accusation “absolutely nuts.”
But Mark Judge, now a writer and filmmaker, wrote in his memoir two decades ago that he spent some of his high school years “completely annihilated” on alcohol and trying to “hook up” with girls.
Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at the all-male Georgetown Prep the time of the alleged assault, tells stories in his 1997 memoir, Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk, of getting drunk his first time at age 14, binge drinking at teen parties and a struggle with alcoholism.
His “immersion” into alcohol began the end of his sophomore year during a typical annual “beach week,” when Catholic high school students headed to the shore after school was out. “Now I had an opportunity to make some headway [with girls]. Most of the time everyone, including the girls, was drunk. If you could breathe and walk at the same time, you could hook up,” he wrote.
His drinking became so extreme that he had blackout episodes, and woke up on the floor of a restaurant bathroom with no memory of how he got there. Once “I had the first beer, I found it impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated,” he wrote.
What a huge mistake it was to nominate this guy.
Every time Trump defends scumbags, I keep coming back to Trump defending Mike Tyson AFTER he was convicted of rape by a jury."Trump says Kavanaugh is 'one of the finest people' he's known..."
I'm not sure that's saying much.
When did she first report this? Sounds like years ago. Amazingly premonitious of her to discuss this with others years before he was nominated to the SC.
Makes sense why Rs had a "supported by 65 women" letter in their back pocket. They knew of it too, nominated him anyway, and prepared to bulldozer the nomination over any opposition.
Question is why?
Why choose this guy with this baggage? Why have to hide so many documents? Why accept his continual lies to Congress? So many questions need to be answered.
Nobody should have a problem with this.Senate judiciary committee to hear testimony in open session from Ford and Kavanaugh on Monday according to reports. Committee vote postponed.
Senate judiciary committee to hear testimony in open session from Ford and Kavanaugh on Monday according to reports. Committee vote postponed.
Nobody should have a problem with this.
Heard something on the news today I agreed with... The whole committee (Dems and Rs) should agree to allow an independent investigator to question both Kavanaugh and Ford in the open session. That might help prevent a political shit show. Not gonna happen, but wishful thinking.
In a sane world an impartial party would try to provide the senate with an objective evaluation of the merits of this claim.
We do not live in a sane world.
My inclination is to tell old accusations to !@#$ off. Particularly given the political implications, such things are FAR too important for political power in this nation. Think of the consequences. Delayed vote, he's rejected. New Congress, Dem controlled. No more Republican nominations for SCOTUS.
Now there may be a window in December to get one passed. But after Garland? Naw, this is it. Trump gets Kavanaugh or he gets no one.
Having said that, her making even vague accusations 6 years ago adds credence to the notion that her side of this (may) not be politically motivated. Or, even if it is... she still may be telling the truth, or at least her version of it.
There are several options they could hustle through during the lame duck even if they lose the Senate. Yes, it's like the biggest admission possible on how full of shit the Republicans are to basically do the reverse Garland but they won't care about that.
The Republican senators (all male) will be walking through a political minefield. They could blow this whole thing out of the water if they take the boys will be boys approach, and attack the alleged victim. This will be very interesting.I'm already cringing at what the GOP questions are likely to be/sound like. Probably a huge mistake in retrospect not to put any women on the R side of the judiciary committee...