Republicans don’t care what you think

Vox ^ | 10-6-2018 | Dylan Scott

[Sir Napsalot]

Republicans lost the argument, but they ultimately had the votes.

Forty-nine Senate Republicans and one Democrat just confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the United State Supreme Court. No allegations, no protesters, no public opinion poll showing Brett Kavanaugh is the most unpopular person to be elevated to the nation’s highest court in recent history was going to stop them.

To the senators who confirmed him, it did not matter that Christine Blasey Ford testified for four hours under oath and told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was “100 percent” certain Brett Kavanaugh was the boy who pulled her into a room at a high school party 36 years ago and tried to force himself on her. It did not matter that Kavanaugh appeared to, at best, mislead senators in his own testimony. It did not matter that, unlike Clarence Thomas who also faced allegations of sexual misconduct, the public thought Kavanaugh’s accuser was more credible than he was.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) framed the Senate’s decision simply, days before the final vote: “It is about whether or not a woman who has been a victim at some point in her life is to be believed.”

The Senate has answered definitively: We do not believe her, not really, and we don’t care that the public does.

This is the governing ideology of the Republican Party: We don’t care what anybody else thinks. We have the power. We have the will. We have the votes. We’ll do what we want.

In politics, there’s winning the argument, and there’s winning the vote. Republicans lost the argument, but they ultimately had the votes. (emphasis mine)

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No allegations, no protesters, no public opinion poll showing Brett Kavanaugh is the most unpopular person to be elevated to the nation’s highest court in recent history was going to stop them.

How many people appointed to the Supreme Court recently can most people name?

Everybody knows Clarence Thomas, and RBG is getting a lot of play now, as is Merritt Garland, who didn't get confirmed, but I suspect the others are just a blur to most people (as they are to me).

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently she only remembered the incident in 2012, and did not name Brett Kavanaugh to her therapist...but would not let the Senate committee see the therapist's notes. Maybe the visit to the therapist was "a player to be named later" sort of thing--she was worried Romney might win and might get to choose someone for the Supreme Court and wanted to be ready, no matter who was picked (assuming it was a man).

From what her former boyfriend says, it's clear her whole story is BS.

[Verginius Rufus]

I wonder if Murkowski has ever read the book of Genesis. Does she think Joseph was guilty just because Potiphar’s wife said he was?

[A_Former_Democrat]

If she had, she wouldn’t side with the Democrats

EVER

[YogicCowboy]

Yeah. I wish too. Never happened. Never will.

But Trump will take us closer to that than any RINO.

[TADSLOS]

Ultimately, we are going to have to kill these crazy people or banish them from remaining in the country.

That’s the trajectory we are on.

[William Tell]

"Republicans lost the argument, ..."

Hmmm... My thesaurus lists "debate" as a possible synonym for "argument".

As I recall, the Senate concluded their last 30 hours of debate by taking a vote. And if I am not mistaken, the winners of the debate, that is, the argument, were the supporters of Kavanaugh.