Posted on 09/19/2018 1:23:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk
My hunch at the time was that Specter was offended by the unfair, late-hit aspect of the Hill charges against Thomas. I think the same dynamic is unfolding right now. Sen. Collins is clearly perturbed and offended by the way the allegation against Judge Kavanaugh came to light, and Sen. Jeff Flake (also the wavering Bob Corker) have both said that if Dr. Hill doesnt appear next Monday, the Senate should proceed to a vote. The hint seems to be that all of them, in the absence of any additional credible information, are ready to vote for Kavanaugh.
Keep your eye on them through the weekend. Their public statements will signal how it is going to go. (I expect there will be yet another last minute Democratic attempt to produce new information late in the week or over the weekend to screw up Mondays scheduled hearinga new witness, or some fresh rumors of rumors. So its not over until its over.)
, a large part of the motivation for this stunt is more about energizing the Democratic base in the upcoming midterm election, and also providing their vulnerable red state Senators with a plausible rationale for a No vote. The conventional wisdom is that the matter presents a vote-losing dilemma for Republicans, but I am not sure that the opposite isnt true. I suspect this stunt will motivate a lot of complacent Republicans to turn out in November, with this fresh reminder of what Democrats are like.
Final prediction: If the hearing goes off as scheduled on Monday, Judiciary chair Chuck Grassley wont even get to the verb in his first sentence before he is interrupted by a Democrat demand to adjourn the hearing. Care to start a pool on whether it will be Booker, Harris, or Blumenthal going first?
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both said that if Dr. Hill doesnt appear next Monday
Hill ??
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/19/collins-not-fair-judge-kavanaugh-not-come-forward-testify/
Collins Its Not Fair For Judge Kavanaugh For Her Not To Come Forward And Testify
Double negatives here but the gist from Senator Collins being Dr. Ford, either put up or shut up.
How about this.
If the GOP allows the stinking rat party to destroy this man’s life, the GOP is over.
Don’t lose this battle, you bunch of pink pussies.
Proof reading is our friend. This author is either caught in a time warp or can’t tell the difference between Dr. Anita Hill and Dr. Christine Ford. I don’t think that I can take him seriously.
Sheesh, we already expect these 2 RINOS to screw it up for us so what else is new? I think Flake eventually went for Gorsuch after Trump leaned on his sorry worthless ass..
Democrats will either boycott and not show up or walk out en masse..................
Relax, look at post 3. It appears Collins is perturbed by this circus
Collins is walking a fine line. the left (democrats have been threatening her. if she does decide to oppose kav, it sends a signal that she can be successfully threatened, which means that the threats will come more and more whenever a close controversial vote nears. her only hope is to confirm kav, to let the left know that she cannot be cowed.
This is why I despise GOP almost as much as rats. GOPe just wears smaller pussy hats -
Not much smaller
I really hope that Grassley and the turtle call off the Mon hearing.
If Grassley is willing to go to CA and the accuser still won’t testify, that should give him enough cover to cancel the Mon hearing. What’s the sense of Cavenaugh testifying again when he has no accuser to respond to?
Even the black ladies where my wife works, recognize this hit job for what it is.
Go ahead and call the vote ASAP. The dems are going to scream no matter what you do.
Collins is correct it is not fair. They should substitute Kvanaughs name and insert their son, daughter, husband, sister, brother or wife for his name. Would they think it fair to have 35 year old allegations come out that the accuser does not have to talk about but the accused does? I imagine they would be furious.
This whole thing is ridiculous.
Flake’s office was rude when I called the other day asking the Senator to stand by Kavanaugh. Arizonans who put that man in office should be ashamed.
There will be more over the weekend????
Otherwise the democrats are toast..
This may turn out to be one hell of an election booster for the GOP
But he has to be confirmed
Who the hill is “Dr. Hill”?
Professor Harold Hill? Ive heard about him.
Not ashamed, just pist off at the NRA and others who emailed me to vote for this guy as he was one of us.
Fool me once . . .
Hill - Ford it doesn’t matter! It’s all lies.
Trump should tell people to watch the 8 Democratic Senators up for re-election. Then after the vote suggest that the vote was just a political move and that they need to be removed from office.
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