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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:39 PM Sep 2018

'Kavanaugh will be on the U.S. Supreme Court': McConnell just erased any doubt about Republicans' in

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Source: Washington Post

A big reason Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s accuser says she doesn’t want to testify in the Senate without first having her claims investigated by the FBI is she doesn’t think she’ll be treated objectively and fairly by politicians.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just thoroughly justified Christine Blasey Ford’s concerns. In comments Friday, he laid plain his intention to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, apparently no matter what Ford has to share.

“Here’s what I want to tell you,” McConnell said Friday morning at a summit for social conservatives. “In the very near future, Judge Kavanaugh will be on the U.S. Supreme Court. So, my friends, keep the faith. Don’t get rattled by all this. We’re going to plow right through it and do our job.”

There is no other way to read McConnell’s comment other than that the Ford allegation doesn’t matter to him, at least not when he’s so close to fulfilling his goal of firming up the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 conservative majority weeks before an election.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/21/kavanaugh-will-be-us-supreme-court-mcconnell-just-erased-any-doubt-about-republicans-intentions-hear-ford-out/?utm_term=.6319a6925168



This government, of the GOP, by the GOP, and for the GOP shall not perish from the earth.
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'Kavanaugh will be on the U.S. Supreme Court': McConnell just erased any doubt about Republicans' in (Original Post) Stonepounder Sep 2018 OP
Very very big problems ahead, assuming we all agree we will NOT tolerate this shit? Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #1
Blue wave! thegoose Sep 2018 #6
Agreed, crossing fingers Putin doesnt get too involved, just heard he hacked Rohrbach Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #7
Knew it all along DownriverDem Sep 2018 #14
a summit for social conservatives elleng Sep 2018 #2
Kavanaugh will have to be impeached and convicted. bitterross Sep 2018 #3
November 6, take both houses of congress and a majority of statehouses, Dawson Leery Sep 2018 #4
GOP misogyny is strong pecosbob Sep 2018 #5
Sentence First -- Verdict Afterwards mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 #8
Kavanaugh could rape her on live TV and he'd still be confirmed durablend Sep 2018 #9
K&R red dog 1 Sep 2018 #10
Yes, and Turbineguy Sep 2018 #11
Bastardo!!!!!!!!! Chickensoup Sep 2018 #12
Locking.... DonViejo Sep 2018 #13

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. Very very big problems ahead, assuming we all agree we will NOT tolerate this shit?
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:40 PM
Sep 2018
 

thegoose

(3,115 posts)
6. Blue wave!
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:45 PM
Sep 2018

Enough of evil old white men running our lives. Fuckers.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
7. Agreed, crossing fingers Putin doesnt get too involved, just heard he hacked Rohrbach
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:47 PM
Sep 2018

election in CA i think...or more than that.

DownriverDem

(6,206 posts)
14. Knew it all along
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 03:04 PM
Sep 2018

Women are watching. We will make the repubs pay. They are ramming this through because they know their midterm chances are not good.

elleng

(130,156 posts)
2. a summit for social conservatives
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:42 PM
Sep 2018

keep the faith.

B.S.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
3. Kavanaugh will have to be impeached and convicted.
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:43 PM
Sep 2018

It will be only the second impeachment of a justice. But it is very clear he lied in his confirmation hearings for his current position and he's lying now for the Supreme Court.

We have to stop "moving on for the sake of the country" and fight back.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
4. November 6, take both houses of congress and a majority of statehouses,
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:44 PM
Sep 2018

Democrats would be wise to use these majorities to defy the court on any 5-4 controversial decisions, such as taking away voting/civil rights as well as worker rights.

The fucking USSC has been highly partisan since they stuck us with Shrub. I have had enough of this shit!



If this bastard court gives us any trouble, I say cut their funding!

pecosbob

(7,511 posts)
5. GOP misogyny is strong
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:45 PM
Sep 2018

I hope everyone remembers this in November. Blue dogs are hereby warned...cross this line at your peril.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,904 posts)
8. Sentence First -- Verdict Afterwards
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:47 PM
Sep 2018
Friday, February 18, 2011

Sentence First — Verdict Afterwards



‘Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.

‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first - verdict afterwards.’

‘Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. ‘The idea of having the sentence first!’

‘Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple.

‘I won’t!’ said Alice.

‘Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.

‘Who cares for you?’ said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’

At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.

‘Wake up, Alice dear!’ said her sister; ‘Why, what a long sleep you’ve had!’


— From Chapter 12 of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

durablend

(7,416 posts)
9. Kavanaugh could rape her on live TV and he'd still be confirmed
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:49 PM
Sep 2018

(it's a disturbing optic but it's the truth)

red dog 1

(27,648 posts)
10. K&R
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:56 PM
Sep 2018

Say goodbye to our founding fathers' constitutional "checks & balances"

Turbineguy

(37,212 posts)
11. Yes, and
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 02:57 PM
Sep 2018

Obama was a one-term President.

Turtle McFucklips.

Chickensoup

(650 posts)
12. Bastardo!!!!!!!!!
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 03:00 PM
Sep 2018

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
13. Locking....
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 03:04 PM
Sep 2018

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