Here’s your precious “investigation”
It’s just so insulting.
The WH & Senate majority has done a sham investigation—we detail here @just_security what a real one would look like and this mockery comes nowhere near it. Who do they think they are fooling? The American people won’t stand for it. @AshaRangappa_ https://t.co/tjv70V5ukR
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) October 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1047887425589141504
A distinguished Princeton Professor of Reformation History, Kenneth Appold, vividly recalls learning of the Deborah Ramirez Yale incident with his suitemate Brett Kavanaugh the day it happened. A real FBI inquiry would interview him, and nearly 40 others.https://t.co/CGBTLkN3XB
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 4, 2018
In less than a week, Trump and McConnell have managed to make a mockery of sex assault survivors, the Senate, the FBI, and the Supreme Court. This charade is an insult to the intelligence of the American people.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 4, 2018
Kavanaugh Yale suite mate now a theology professor says he heard at the time about Kavanaugh incident with Ramirez including their identities. He wasn’t interviewed by FBI. This is corroboration under any definition. How is this “thorough” @SenatorCollins? https://t.co/QuSxAZInxP
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) October 4, 2018
I'm watching Senator McConnell's defense of Judge Kavanaugh, and truly, it's like reading 1984. The facts are not the facts. Don't trust what you saw and heard. Listen to & believe the party.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 4, 2018
Not even a full week for an FBI investigation. A single copy of the report given to the Senate. Less than an hour to review. This is a complete sham. @SenateMajLdr McConnell said he’d plow Brett Kavanaugh through, and that’s exactly what the GOP is doing – no matter the cost.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) October 4, 2018
Welcome to the ongoing reality series American Coup.
I always thought that “reality” TV shows were supposed to be unscripted. This one is anything but that. It’s following a play book.
“The American people won’t stand for it.”
Yes, they will.
I cannot help but wonder what the current SCOTUS judges are thinking as they see their court being reduced to just another department subordinate to the wishes of Trump and the GOP, not to mention likely being forced to take such a snivelling, lying, abusive shitweasel into their once-respected office.
I know I’m mixing my metaphors, but the FBI “report” (if only) is the fig leaf the Rethuglicans will use to do their emperor’s new clothes crass, callous, bad-faith playacting.
I dare say that the next time Chuck Grassley loses his car keys, he will confine his investigation to places selected on a similar basis, like to a whole heap of sites he has never been to, with or without them.
Trouble with a whitewash job is that it always finishes up with blotches in it. It’s very hard to find a reliable brand of whitewash these days.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-05/senate-panel-gets-fbi-report-on-kavanaugh-misconduct-accusations/10340030
Susan Collins is saying it’s thorough.
Which is… not a good sign. Hard to believe that she would give up one of the reasons for justifying a no vote unless she was planning to vote yes. My guess is that McConnell knows he’s got the votes but has told Collins, Flake, and Murkowski to hold any announcement so as to maximize pressure on the red state Democrats. That’s a win-win for them: either one or more Dems vote yes, which allows them to claim “bipartisan” support, or the GOP can use the no votes in the campaign.
Every time I think of BK I think of Thor: ‘it can’t be you…you’re just the worst.”
Screechy, and if any Dems vote yes, that will also serve as fuel to keep the Democrats home, citing the ones that voted yes as a reason not to bother to vote.
Do they need to fool anyone? From Clarence Thomas to today, with the Clinton-hunt and ‘Swiftboat Veterans’ along the way.
‘Deplorables.’ ‘Vast right-wing conspiracy.’ NO hyperbole there.
iknklast,
Yeah, and that’s unfortunate. I find Dems like Joe Manchin frustrating, too, but realistically, that’s about the best you can expect from West Virginia. The occasional — or even frequent — shitty votes are just the price you have to pay. The most important vote any senator ever makes is for majority leader. Switch out any two Republican senators for Joe Manchin clones, and (1) Dianne Feinstein would have been chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and could have postponed the hearings and committee vote pending a full FBI investigation, not this one-week quarter-assed job, and after that could have ensured a real substantive process, not allowing Kavanaugh to filibuster or the Republicans to hide behind their “female prosecutor”; and (2) Chuck Schumer would be Majority Leader, and could refuse to hold a vote at all just like McConnell did to Merrick Garland. The three Joe Manchins in my scenario wouldn’t matter unless they were willing to switch parties over it.
On the other hand, wobbly centrist Dems in solid blue states ought to be primaried aggressively. Something Republicans figured out long ago.
Screechy – don’t forget, it was a Red State Dem who put restrictions on abortion funding into the ACA – Ben Nelson, of my state, Nebraska. Then he retired, and left the state to go back to deep red again with no polka dots of blue.