Feinstein trying to save Feinstein
When this is over she will be eating crow for the rest of her time in the Senate.
Posted on 09/21/2018 1:26:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling on colleagues to “show some heart” and wait until at least next Thursday to bring before the panel the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
Feinstein criticized Republican colleagues on Friday for announcing a proposal to bring Christine Blasey Ford before the Judiciary Committee next Wednesday, even though Ford’s lawyers have already said their client cannot appear before Thursday.
“Dr. Ford is receiving death threats. She’s had her identity stolen and her email account hacked. She fled her home wither family. But Republicans want to rush her into a hearing. It’s mean-spirited and candidly shows no sympathy or empathy whatsoever,” Feinstein said in a statement.
She argued that Republicans have no good reason not to wait another day to accommodate Ford’s request.
“It’s just an extra day, why not wait 24 hours?” she said. “Show some heart. Wait until Dr. Ford feels that she can come before the committee.”
Feinstein noted that Republicans delayed former President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, for nearly a year in 2016, denying him a hearing and a vote and keeping the seat open until after President Trump took office.
Senate Republicans have proposed that Ford come before the committee on Wednesday and testify first, allowing Kavanaugh, whom she has accused of an attempted sexual assault 36 years ago, to respond later.
They have agreed to a request from her legal team that television coverage be limited to one camera, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Ford has also requested that Kavanaugh not be in the room when she testifies and that senators––not special outside counsel––interview the witnesses.
Republicans are discussing whether or not to bring in an independent counsel, possibly a woman, to question Ford.
There are no female GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee, and the optics of 11 male Republican senators potentially questioning Ford has drawn comparisons to the 1991 Anita Hill hearings, when all members of the Judiciary Committee were male.
A senior Senate Democratic aide on Friday slammed the GOP proposal as “disingenuous” because Ford’s lawyers has informed them that she would not be ready to testify before Thursday.
Dear Senator DiFi,
Please look in the mirror and you will see the cause of the troubles - YOU! YOU created the short time span by holding back this ‘bombshell’ until the last minute. The next session of the US Supreme Court starts in the FIRST WEEK of OCTOBER, that is why there is an urgency, not that you would let that small fact interrupt you plea for kindness to an accuser who lacks any substantiating facts or contemporary collaboration!
By the way, this no-longer-anonymous accuser is not the only one being harassed, so lets spread some of the sympathy, OK?
There's something about Thursday that's better for them than Wednesday. It's a trap.
That this guy isn't confirmed already is a disgrace.
I would go with Laura Ingraham, but Coulter would work.
No...how about Judge Janine?
Why is FineSwine still on the committee after pulling this stunt?
Why is FineSwine not coughing up the redacted letter?
Will someone in the GOP PLEASE grow some balls and a little spine.
This was nothing but a hit job from the start....treat it as such....geez.
A heart? For a scheming liar? Yeah, right.
Sympathy, empathy and heart?? Oh yeah, because that’s what Democrats embody, right? These people are so transparent.....never mind that Kavanaugh and his wife and children have been receiving death threats for weeks......where is the Democrat’s sympathy, empathy and heart???
Show some brains, Feinstein!
It’s time for you to admit that the Blowsy-Fraud accusations are entirely fabricated, utterly false, completely without merit.
Show some heart???
This woman is single handedly going to ruin the reputation of someone, from what I have read, isn’t only brilliant, but a real stand up guy. I know Diane hates Catholics (”the dogma lives strong in you”), but this woman had 35 years to bring this up; Feinstein had 2 months to raise the issue to the Committee. What a farce.
Tell her to get on a bus today; she will be here by Wednesday.
Yes.
You know, it’s bad enough I have Schiffhead, but I’ve got her and that nitwit Kamala Spareus as well.
Her parents should be called in to testify. How did they not know that their 15 year old daughter went to drunken unsupervised parties with older boys?
The vote on Kavanaugh was supposed to happen YESTERDAY,DiFi.
Are you so daffy that you cannot realize that isn’t ‘just a 24 hour delay”????
0Plse get yourself tested for your mental accuity, Di. You are truly round the bend.
With her latest machinations exposed, I am in the process of rethinking for whom I will vote in November. Thanks to the gutless Republicans here in CA., we now have a system where the two-party system is gone. So if you vote at all for US Senator now, it’s one RAT or the other RAT. I had thought that I’d hold my nose ever so tightly and vote for Fineswine over DeLeon, the reason being she’s going to die sooner than he would ( unless he’s hit by a car ), and he’s an even more worthless POS than I thought she was. Now I don’t know.
Almost forget Mad Maxine, and I’m sure there’s others...
Where is MR Ford????
Feinstein trying to save Feinstein
When this is over she will be eating crow for the rest of her time in the Senate.
Grassley should extract all kinds of procedural promises from dems in a deal. No protesters in future committee hearings. No stupid political delays. No 11th hour bombshells. No bimbo eruptions after hearings have begun. Set schedule for vote without spontaneous delays.
She’s officially out of ammo.
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