Posted on 09/15/2018 9:14:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If U.S. Senators -- and the public at large -- are supposed to give credibility to every anonymous allegation they come across (even one like this one, which apparently was made through a third party), then they are going to end up ignoring them anyway because these allegations are going to end up being made with boring regularity. Importantly, allegations like this aren't going to change the minds of any U.S. Senators voting on the confirmation.
As a reader on a local news thread pointed out, would Democrats feel any better today if the GOP quashed the Merrick Garland nomination not for political reasons, but because a Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee received a letter from a Congressman who received the letter from a constituent who claimed to know someone who was harassed by Garland 35 years ago?
From what I've read, the FBI took the letter and basically tossed it in the trash.
She was thinking - “The guy is so squeaky clean we have nothing but this lie from some snowflake woman who agreed to let us use her id we kept her name out of it...I hope I don’t get desperate enough to have to use this crap...all sorts of things could go wrong.”
“...the Democrats were getting points from liberals (for the most part) because they’d handled the hearings pretty well. They were tough. They stood up. They asked good questions. They pinned Kavanaugh down on lie after lie.”
Really?
Michael Thomasky, what in the hell were you thinking?
There's only ONE President, and the Democrat Party still put Bill Clinton up for election twice.
Um . . . farts in elevators are somewhat difficult to ignore. How about a fart in Florence’s eyewall?
This whole issue is nothing but bullshit probably staged after being cooked up by Feinstein and staff in a dark sewer at midnight.
Pathetic old hag.
This piece lays out arguments that a high school sophomore would make. I really feel sorry for the author. They are either desperately floundering or utterly irrational.
Also, anyone who claims the Dems caught him in “lie after lie”, but fails to notate - even one lie - has no integrity and looks themselves like a liar.
I thought Anna Eshoo got a letter from someone "affiliated with Stanford University" saying that she had information concerning the woman who had allegedly been at the party 35 years ago. Eshoo gave the letter to Feinstein. Feinstein belatedly gave the letter to the FBI. Feinstein's public statement, which blew the whole thing into a controversy, said merely that she had "a letter" concerning Brett Kavanaugh and that "the woman" insisted on anonymity and declined to come forward. Whether "the woman" to whom she referred was the woman who sent the letter or the woman who had attended the party is still not clear, at least to me.
At a minimum, I would think the woman who sent the letter to Anna Eshoo should be willing to come forward. Sending an explosive letter to a congresswoman regarding a current controversial issue is not the action of someone who wants to remain anonymous … unless that person is passing along raw gossip, third or fourth hand hearsay, perhaps even a deliberate fabrication, or alternatively, violating a confidence.
Tomasky's piece is simply inventing an accuser that, as far as we know, simply doesn't exist at this point. I can think of many possibilities. The simplest is that Feinstein got a letter that was nothing more than hearsay, just someone at Stanford passing along a story they had heard, perhaps third or fourth hand. But Feinstein has no excuse for sitting on it for two months, or for issuing a public statement when she had absolutely nothing beyond hearsay to report.
difi doesn’t think, it acts out of emotion and hatred.
These bastards have a file of fake dirt on all good Republicans who might be a threat to their power. They whip out an item when they need it.
High school? You are not even an adult at that point.
She has been working with a communist for so long, her humanity has bleed out, leaving her an old womans white corpse, devoid of anything but misguided hatred of the living. Scary to picture.
“What in the Hell”
She should start familiarizing herself with hell.
Jane “Lying Democrat Party Front Hole Operative” Mayer...
There are credible anonymous accusations that he is a serial homosexual pedophile-rapist...
bttt
Ford (huskily, in a hurried undertone): ...is this Senator Diane Fi...
Senator (sharply): Yes, but I don't have all day! How much do you wish to donate?
Ford (gasping): Yes, that's it, I mean -- it's...it's me, Christine Ford.
Senator (abruptly softening tone): Y-e-e-e-e-s, about the Kavanaugh vote. What is it?
Ford (awkward): Well, it's just that -- it's that -- I'm late.
Senator: This may be useful. How late *are* you?
Ford: Thirty-five years.
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