Popcorn, Check. Coffee, Check. Bad Girl Attitude, Check. [Snide comments at the bottom.]
Okay, I’m ready. Plus, it’s a rainy day so I’m totally ready for this pathetic replica of a “hearing.”
Please feel free to cuss Chuck Grassley here.
Son of a motherless goat Grassley and his damn bullyism. That twit is so defensive. Nobody gets that defensive without trying to hide something. He ended up yelling before the break and contending that Dr. Ford interrupted his precious ram-it-through timeline.
It seems like to me that it was dumber than dog dump to limit the questioning to five minutes and then turning over the Republican questioning to a prosecutor. The Republican prosecutor isn’t able to build rhythm or a case. Not that she could even if she had all day.
Heads Up below.
I guess they couldn’t find
an anatomically correct one.
Lindsey Graham can kiss my big blue butt. For him to call her “a nice lady,” but that Kavanaugh wins by default because she can’t collaborate her case, is the most crazy, patronizing, and incorrect piece of crap I’ve seen in a long time.
Okay, somebody tell me who the hell wants this sneeringly angry, viciously attacking, hate-filled, self-victimized man on television to be a supreme court judge? You know, he’d be a lot more believable if he wasn’t yelling and sobbing.
If Dr. Ford had testified by yelling, screaming, shooting dirty looks, and then breaking down into sobbing uncontrollable tears, she would have been called unbelievable and hysterical. They are calling him defiant. There you have it.
@Fran seyer: Apparently, Lindsey has caught whatever Trump has that causes him to break into unhinged rants whenever he feels wronged–which is most of the time. What’s with Republicans and crazy rants, lately? I’m hoping they’re feeling the walls closing in as November gets closer.
1Nearly every one of these GrOPer SOB’s keeps trying to make a false equivalence argument that a wholly partisan, stacked and manipulated Senate committee ‘investigation’ is the same as an objective independent FBI investigation.
When the hell is some Democrat going to point this clear non-equivalence out?
2That Other Jean,
3if only some of, all of, the Democrats had gotten that worked up when Merrick Garland was being utterly stonewalled by these thieving GrOPers.
Funny how the Senate GrOPers changed the entire format of this inquisition in midstream, ain’t it?
4Dumped the innocuous female barracuda prosecutor speaking for each of them in questioning Dr. Blasey Ford. Then dumping the barracuda and opening the kennel doors and turning the Rdogs loose for Kavanaugh. Aaahhwoooo
OMFG, DetesTed Cruz is up.
Here’s what’s coming up during the first week on the Supreme Court docket:
* Weyerhaeuser vs. Fish & Wildlife Service. This is about whether the F&W Svc. can designate a parcel of land ‘critical habitat’ for an endangered species if the species does not currently live there. The parcel in question is historical breeding ground for the species, though.
* Mt. Lemmon Fire District vs. Guido. An age discrimination lawsuit. The issue is over whether a public political subdivision (the fire district) has to abide by the same employment regs as a private entity.
* Gundy vs. United States. This has to do with a person convicted of sexual assault having to register separately in whatever state he travels thru.
* Madison vs. Alabama. A death penalty case.
* Stokeling vs. United States. The question revolves around what is meant by “violent” force during an armed robbery.
* United States vs. Stitt and United States vs. Sims. A pair of consolidated cases that revolve around the definition of “general burglary”.
* Knick vs. Township of Scott, PA. The township of Scott, PA, ordinance involving cemeteries on private land saying that the cemeteries had to be open to the public during daylight hours. Rose Mary Knick owns property within the township, and said property contains some grave sites. She challenged the ordinance, saying that it violated her Fourth Amendment and Fifth Amendment rights in that it allowed township officers to enter any property w/o a warrant to determine whether it contained a cemetery and it provided no compensation for said entry. This could have some interesting 4th and 5th amendment ramifications.
* New Prime, Inc. vs. Oliveira. A labor dispute over whether a company can compel an employee to undergo arbitration over his true employment status.
* Nielsen vs. Preap. A class action case over whether the DHS can detain lawful permanent residents after they had already served prison sentences for offenses that might have caused them to be deported.
* Air and Liquid Systems vs. Devries. An asbestos case over whether manufacturers can be held liable for injuries caused by products they didn’t make, sell, or distribute.
* Coming up later in the month is Sturgeon vs. Frost, in which John Sturgeon wanted to use his hovercraft to reach moose hunting grounds on a river in Alaska. The state of Alaska said, sure, go right ahead, but the National Park Service said no, that land is in the Yukon-Charley National Preserve. Sturgeon claims the river belongs to the state of Alaska and the feds should butt out. The appeals court ruled for the feds, but if the Supremes overturn the appeals court it could have ramifications for all kinds of cases where state and federal courts disagree.
So, there is a fair number of cases right out of the box where a wing nut like Kavanaugh could have the deciding vote on handing our rights and our treasure over to the 1%.
5eyesoars, you made me snort with laughter. Proud to be one of those meddling wimmen and proud to have raised two more generations of them.
6Kamala Harris put things in perspective by summarizing:
7Dr. Ford asked for an FBI investigation, Kavanaugh did not,
Dr. Ford took a polygraph, Kavanaugh did not,
Dr. Ford asked that Mark Judge and other witnesses be present, Kav did not.
That’s how you establish who is more credible without an impartial investigation by the FBI.
Sandridge: we know it. There just aren’t enough of “we”.
8for both witnesses and senators
9on one side: composed, honest, collected, clear
on the other: yelling and hissy fits
The rage. The tears.
10Perhaps kavanaugh, reverting to form, had a few shots of dutch courage before he entered hearing room.
K, I was wondering if anyone got close enough to smell his breath. Geez he looks like a teevee preacher, all smelly pomade and cologne. Booze would complement nicely.
11Has anyone noticed that the judge’s definition of ‘devil’s triangle’ and ‘boof’ don’t match the ones on Twitter?
12One thing I noticed as Kav shucked and jived during today’s hearing, was how defensive he got when Sen Klobuchar asked a question about “blackouts”. Maybe a Mortimer Filkins test for every federal judge, including Supremes, beginning with Kav.
And btw, he likes beer, dammit.
13Catholic Jesuit publication — has RESCINDED its endorsement of Kavanaugh. Note: Kavanaugh is a 12-year alum of Jesuit run Georgetown prep boys academy https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/09/27/editors-it-time-kavanaugh-nomination-be-withdrawn
14The girlfriend is wearing the Stud’s for Kavanaugh shirt.
15How hard can it be to admit that as a part of experimentation with drinking, he had (a) time(s) when he overindulged? One of my important collegiate revelations was NOT to drink like the freshmen…
16Not only has a major Catholic Jesuit publication withdrawn it’s Kavanaugh endorsement (Kav’s Georgetown Prep is a Jesuit-run school, supposedly the best in US), but the freaking American Bar Association (ABA) has called for a halt of these confirmation proceedings until a full FBI investigation is done and many other witnesses called.
The American lawyers union/professional org has now called for what every fair-minded Democratic Judiciary committee member advocated for yesterday, and what the nominee and every Rethug hypocrite shucked and jived about endlessly.
This should freeze the whole thing, in a reasonable world, but we no longer exist in one of those.
I think that the over-the-top raving partisan performances of Kavanaugh and other Rethugs like Ms. Lindsey convinced them that Brett Kavanaugh does not have the temperament to sit on the Supreme Court.
Bork the mofo.
An amazing day yesterday.
17The man in the room decided that Ford was lying, lying, lying. I disagreed with him and pointed out that the “calendar” thing was a symptom of a controller. He was surprised! His over-ruled deices to deny a 17 year old immigrant girl an abortion was s even more a sure sign of come;give control. Control at that level can also get a release in drinking and assault. The man in the room has yet to ask me why I support Ford. If he ever does, he will be blown away.
18Thank you spell check. the word you mauled was “decision”.
19can you imagine what it must have felt like for the current SP Justices to watch this
wonder if kennedy is proud of his protégé
20s – I doubt he cares. They’re all entitled S.O.B.s
maggie – That’s why so many of us believe Dr. Ford.
21I guess it’s time to pray for the victims of past abuses, and hope this circus doesn’t badly damage them all over again.
I know I’m not doing very well by this.
22Yes, Lindsey seemed angry, but…
Did anyone else notice him looking down at his notes mid tirade to use the term “sham”?
I found myself truly shocked to see that he planned his outrage statements. It totally pulls any sense of “that is real emotion.”
I’m very tired of the Reality TV show of the GOP. Just like the RTV that has so cluttered up the TV–planning and promoting (and editing for) high-drama.
I really want civil discourse, respectful tones, and willingness to actually consider another’s point of view…especially in the three branches of government!
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