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They don't give a crap about

AmericanDreamer — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:48:40 +0000

In reply to Dreamer, your post from Brock

They don't give a crap about misogynistic behavior (see .... Trump) except as it might effect the upcoming election.

You don't think they give a crap if it sinks this nomination? That's the point I was trying to make. Even if they will never get why this should matter to them apart from politics, if it matters for their political goals they may start to pay attention, for those strong self-interested reasons.

Dreamer, your post from Brock

NCD — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:25:07 +0000

In reply to Brock long ago switched sides

Dreamer, your post from Brock:

Kavanaugh was not a dispassionate finder of fact but rather an engineer of a political smear campaign. And after decades of that, he expects people to believe he's changed his stripes.

The GOP groomed Kav, employed him, nominated him, put him on the DC Appeals court, and nominated him again for the Supreme Court.... it's not Kav who "expects people to believe he's changed his stripes", nobody expects Kav to change, the Republicans are counting on it he does not change.

They don't give a crap about misogynistic behavior (see .... Trump) except as it might effect the upcoming election.

I wonder how all of Kavanaugh

moat — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:05 +0000

In reply to Prior to putting Kavanaugh at

I wonder how all of Kavanaugh's personal friends who helped boost his nomination must feel as the drapes fall away from his secret life.

analysis-wise, your point

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:40:21 +0000

In reply to Prior to putting Kavanaugh at

analysis-wise, your point brings up for me the point made by a tweet I quoted on another thread

Nobody accused Neil Gorsuch of attempted rape.
No women.
Nobody who partied with Georgetown Prep boys.
No Ivy League classmates.
No Democrats.

There was a short list. It's been reported that Grassley was not happy with this pick. Given their goal, he should have stood up to Trump and attack this guy right away and let this guy withdraw and get another one up pronto. Stupid stupid. Look, even if they confirm him now, they are going pay with it with fewer votes from suburban women. It's kind of like as Rick Wilson says Everything that Trump touches dies.

Brock long ago switched sides

AmericanDreamer — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:36:39 +0000

In reply to So Kavanaugh is exactly the

Brock long ago switched sides. I'm not aware of evidence suggesting he has any illusions about what today's GOP is about. To the contrary. More than most he long had a front-row seat to observe what the reality was beneath the public facade and spin.

Prior to putting Kavanaugh at

AmericanDreamer — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:33:16 +0000

In reply to So Kavanaugh is exactly the

Prior to putting Kavanaugh at the top of their SCOTUS list I wonder if the Federalist Society's vetting process included vigorous efforts to probe for these types of skeletons in his and others' closets?

I bet the processes they and some others producing SCOTUS lists have been using will undergo some rethinking and adjustments going forward.

One positive coming out of all of this is that pols with an old boys' mentality are on notice that they may no longer be able to get away with ignoring or giving short shrift to the potential for this type of personal conduct to blow up in their faces. One might have thought the Hill-Thomas events would have driven that home. It would have helped if Thomas had been voted down or had withdrawn.

So Kavanaugh is exactly the

NCD — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:20:07 +0000

In reply to I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court.

So Kavanaugh is exactly the guy Republicans want for Supreme Court!!

Brock is either joking us or slyly pretending that Republicans really want a "fair arbiter".

Does the GOP want fair anything? (taxes, health care, elections, voting rights, investigations, civil rights, housing, student loans, consumer rights etc) ? NO. That's why they want control of the Supreme Court folks, and why they want Kavanaugh on it!

In an ideal world, Mr. Brock

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:47:36 +0000

In reply to I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court.

In an ideal world, Mr. Brock would be one of the most important witnesses to call for a confirmation hearing as regards Judge Kavanaugh. Especially as he wouldn't lie under oath about matters related, he knows the consequences well