Pikachu52
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As an aside, people kept saying Kavanaugh was so angry, but it looked more like he was doing his best to hold his angry face so that he could keep from crying.
All I saw was a sniveling little *****.
What's also interesting to note is that all three victims describe their assault in eerily similar settings, these are some pretty coordinated conspirators, yeah?
One thing that should be noted is that when Kavanaugh was on the stand being a “Sniveling Little...” he launched into a clearly partisan attack in which he blamed all the usual right wing bogeymen; The Democrats, left wing money groups and, of course, the Clintons. So immediately we have the nominee for Supreme Court, the top appellant court in the United States, not only making partisan statements but repeating rightwing talking points.
A point to note about his testimony though, that I hadn’t considered until I saw it pointed out on Rachel Maddow’s Show. The basis of the conservative attacks on Dr. Ford have been that she waited until Brett Kavanaugh had been nominated to the Supreme Court before coming forward. She actually didn’t - In her testimony she stated that she decided to come forward when she heard he had been shortlisted as a potential nominee:
The other thing to note is that despite Kavanaugh’s passionate defence of himself, he has in fact committed a crime. Putting aside allegations of sexual assault, Kavanaugh seems to have admitted to underage drinking as a teenager.
In my view the entire conformation process has become toxic and could do lasting damage to the Judiciary. If he is confirmed, a large porition of the country will be angry that a potential rapist appointed to the court by a president who may well have selected him as a get out of jail card. And to get him there the Republican have gone out there way to smear a sexual assault survivor. If not, republicans will - well Lindsey Graham summed up their feelings.
The last time the Supreme Court was seen through this much of a partisan lens, FDR attempted to “pack” the court, sending legislation to congress that would have allowed him to appoint additional justices to break the conservative majority responsible for repeatedly striking down early parts of “the new deal.”
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