Consensus building!
Now you just need a couple of other people to say you said that and its as good as fact.
Perhaps so.
But I just don’t think that he helped his cause with all of the “Left Conspiracy/Deep-State/Clintons/DEMS-just-mad-that-Trump-Won” Rant.
I could give 2-shits about his drinking in High-School and is Preppy Frat-Boy antics…but these are obviously deeply-held beliefs that just (IMO) came out at the wrong place at the wrong time.
There is simply no way in Hell that Kavanaugh could look at anyone with a straight face now and claim impartiality. And from my perspective; that’s regrettable for someone whom is otherwise so qualified for the position.
Again; it should be interesting how it all plays out.
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It helps if a couple of senators think your believable…
I tell you what, Pat.
Lindsey Graham put (especially) his Republican Colleagues on notice…play or pay.
With that said…of the ones who could swing all this; Flake is quitting…and Murkowski has the support of Native Americans in Alaska who oppose Kavanaugh for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with all the crap that has been brought up in these “hearings”.
Damn funny quote by Murkowski:
"Oh, man! I tell you what!..
"When I first signed up for this job; I was thinking I’d just be hashing out bald eagles and glaciers and tundras and stuff… not determining the judicial course that the entire damn country will be taking for decades to come…”
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Sounds like something I’d say.
(Her husband does have this “Grizzly Adams” vibe about him…)
You aren’t the first person I’ve seen say something along these lines. Having not watched the hearings, what exactly did Graham say/do that the rest of the GOP should be watching out for?
Well all of this ‘believable’ crap and “why would she lie?” crap, I say why even bother with judges?The irony is centuries of jurisprudence is being dispensed of in the case of approving a judge, where you’d think standards should actually be higher not lower.
“Why would she lie?” Hell if I know? Save for people lie all the time. People have motivations for doing things I don’t understand all the time. She brought zero information to the table.
That should have been a “Thank you, Madam… Case dismissed. Move on to the vote.”
Appearing credible doesn’t mean shit. Kavanauh appearing credible for decades did not spear him this debacle. And the best of criminals appear credible all the time.
Somebody is that congress needs to grow a pair soon.
“We are not going to conduct or hold up the business of the government on hearsay, period.”
I wish I had a lense into an alternate world where the GOP said fuggit and forced a vote early. I’m kinda curious how it would have all shaken out
He was taught to smile wrongly, as a joke.
Such a world would be absent a certain senator, from Snowflake AZ. Oh to live in such a world.
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Ford’s testimony is not hearsay.
Au contraire. If the Senate forces a vote before Ford can ever speak to Congress I’m betting it’s an instant confirmation. Throw in a trump tweet that says “Why would anyone vote for disloyal Congressmen” and bobsyouruncle
Lmao, you may be right. However, I reserve the right to still think Flake is a desert baked turd.
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Could be worse. He could be one of those ‘tow the line at all costs’ types.
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If I elect a man on a platform that he then shits all over, that’s not principle, that’s bad representation.
Cholera polls better than him in AZ, and it is obvious why that is.
Mind you, this is easier to determine in the UK, where parties publish detailed manifestos that we can use to hold their feet to the fire.
We also deem collective party responsibility as much more important.
If he was elected on partisan lock and key that would really just give me 1 more reason to never go to AZ tbh.
Good thing that intense intentional tribalism didn’t result in banning kitchen knives
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I don’t profess to know AZ Politics…so I will have to take your word for whatever you profess…
But Flake has made it clear that he was elected on a more “traditional” Conservative Platform (which he feels is dying a sure but slow death); and not one of “Trumpian Conservatism”.