Questions for Ford That Aren't Being Asked

Mitchell is completely ignoring all of this in an effort to play nice.

Meanwhile, Kavanaugh's chances are plummeting.

4) Her own immediate family doesn't appear to be backing her up, either. Her mother, father and two siblings are all conspicuously absent from a letter of support released by a dozen relatives, mostly on her husband's side of the family.
The letter attests to her honesty and integrity. "Why didn't her parents and brothers sign the letter?" a congressional source familiar with the investigation wondered.
5) This summer, Ford tried to reach out to old friends from high school and college to jog her memory. They couldn’t help her. "I've been trying to forget this all my life, and now I’m supposed to remember every little detail," Ford complained to one friend in July, according to an account in The San Jose Mercury News.
6) Yet she still pushed forward with her bombshell charge, contacting The Washington Post tip line and Democratic lawmakers, while hiring a Democratic activist lawyer. Ford is also a Democrat, as well as an anti-Trump marcher, raising questions about the motive and timing of the allegations along with their veracity.
7) Ford contends that notes her therapist took in 2012 corroborate her account. But they don’t mention Kavanaugh.
They also point up inconsistencies in her story. For instance, her shrink noted that Ford told her there were "four boys" in the bedroom, not two as she now says. The notes also indicate Ford said she was in her "late teens" when she was assaulted. But Ford now says she may have been only 15.

On Fox News, Bret Baier says hearing from Blasey Ford "is a totally different thing" than reading her allegations.

Chris Wallace: "This was extremely emotional, extremely raw, and extremely credible... This is a disaster for the Republicans." pic.twitter.com/aSbznSJdHC
— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 27, 2018

Meanwhile, Ford is wasting what little time Mitchell has, and Mitchell is permitting her to do so.

For example, Mitchell was asking about the polygraph. Rather than saying "Returning to the polygraph," she said something like, "You took a polygraph on August 7th, is that correct?"

At this point, Ford's amazingly deficient memory got to speak about what it didn't know for about 30 precious seconds as she be-bopped and scatted about travel plans.

The date of the polygraph did not matter, and mentioning it only served to grant Ford the chance to deploy her semi-retarded brain to waste more time babbling and goo-goo-ing.

Mitchell keeps asking questions with this sort of invitation for a rambling response, instead of Yes/No questions. And she never instructs Ford to please limit her answers to Yes or No.

Honestly, I think it's over, unless Mitchell has saved her haymakers for the last round. Which I doubt. Her demeanor suggests that she's not just playing at being friendly towards Ford, but that she actually is friendly towards Ford. It's like she wants to be galpals with her.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 01:00 PM

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1 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2018 01:01 PM (YxTUV)

2 Are you now or have you ever been an honest person. Why or why not.

Posted by: Carpe Manana at September 27, 2018 01:01 PM (PbH71)

3 I think Mitch has the votes. This is all for political reasons. The prosecutor has been told to go soft.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2018 01:01 PM (oVJmc)

4 Maddening that these are not being asked, but let's be honest, none of it matters. Judge's fate was sealed the minute Grassley postponed the vote. There was never a way out of this after that which resulted in Kavanaugh getting confirmed. Once the premise was accepted he was done.

Posted by: Hercules at September 27, 2018 01:01 PM (zEhep)

5 I think she is going to tie in the when did you hire lawyer, to when was polygraph.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at September 27, 2018 01:02 PM (jsWA8)

6 this whole thing is a joke

Posted by: brak at September 27, 2018 01:02 PM (VckGX)

7 In before 500!

Posted by: tbodie at September 27, 2018 01:02 PM (wKcYr)

8 Agreed, Mitchell is awful.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:02 PM (vnpiz)

9 Yawn.

There is no evidence.

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:02 PM (MAstk)

10 If you ain't got shit, you must acquit...

Posted by: CSMBigBird at September 27, 2018 01:03 PM (jsWA8)

11 Done? No way Republican senators want to go through the exact same thing again with another candidate, now that the door is open to baseless gang-rape allegations. Kavanaugh is a sure thing.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:03 PM (e44Qj)

12 Yeah, yeah...Chris Wallace probably thought Hils was gonna win in 2016, too.

Posted by: lizabth at September 27, 2018 01:03 PM (RFh5Y)

13 Not being able to remember if the polygraph was THE DAY OF HER GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL? Or the day after?

Jeebus.

Oh, and she can't remember if she showed the WaPo the therapist's notes or just told them. WaPo says they saw the notes.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:03 PM (ptqGC)

14 Kav is fucked.

Posted by: Cashin at September 27, 2018 01:03 PM (zyfzX)

15 I ran out of popcorn.

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (K4qvO)

16 Chris Wallce is a Valley Girl. Raw emotions do not equal truth.

Posted by: tbodie at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (wKcYr)

17 My only worry anymore is Collins.

The woman is super into being moderate and reasonable. Balancing that with a performance that she may consider credible (we don't, but this is Susan Collins we're talking about), and we may have the equation for her voting no.

I'm still leaning towards Cocaine Mitch whipped already, and knows how the vote will go, and this dog and pony show is really just for show to make the Furious Four feel better about themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (8o3AL)

18 Posted by: Hercules

You say so, one-name.

Posted by: Carpe Manana at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (PbH71)

19 The force of denial is strong in here.

The Democrats and their lawyers have not helped this woman, it's true, but she's pretty solid for what she is. And the Dems are making a reasonable case that the Republicans don't want to get to the truth.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (7YrFp)

20 Kavenaugh was dead the moment the Democrats pushed a live hearing into the process. This isn't about facts, this is about an emotional woman on TV with a wavering voice, tears just short of being shed.

Emotions rule, facts drool. It's the damn Nixon-Kennedy debate all over again.

Add to that some Republican senators who run on emotion, and at least one who would give an arm to shove a needle in Trump's eye.

We'll be lucky if Kavenaugh isn't hauled out the room, dragged down the street, and hung from a bridge.

Posted by: MW at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (hNTtn)

21 Kav needs to come in, and produce into evidence statements from all the other supposed witnesses..

Posted by: Paolo at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (NgKpN)

22 Analyzing this loonies motive, intent and testimony is like picking through turds for corn.

Posted by: Joshua's dad at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (m0clb)

23
May the guilty lose out. May the innocent prevail. My best bet is all these women are hair on fire anti-Trump pro abortion operatives.

Here's a question: "What is your opinion of abortion?"

Posted by: Sphynx at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (rXie1)

24 Willowed:

920 760 The questioning is going fine. You can't beat up a witness l like this. I've prosecuted and defended rape cases. You simply cannot beat up the accuser. Juries will resent you for it. You ask your questions, be polite about it, and don't make a spectacle of yourself.

The summation has to be respectful and calm. The dems are doing what they are expected to do...testify for the accuser. We should not be surprised by that.

Kavanaugh will be the make or break of this proceeding. If he comes off as sympathetic and victimized, and buttresses his testimony with facts, he should be good to go.

Posted by: ObjectionThuthtained
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This

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at September 27, 2018 01:02 PM (9B/d

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (9B/d8)

25 Internal GOP poll: Morrisey, Manchin tied in http://W.Va . Senate race http://hill.cm/2uvwaOa

Trump to WV on Sat.

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (MAstk)

26 Kav has got to be seething with anger. I feel so sorry for him and his family.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (ptqGC)

27 Somebody should tell Corker that ethics committee is going to investigate every single one of his stock trades unless he votes for Kavanaugh.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (e44Qj)

28 Byron York

To put it mildly, this hearing isn't working for GOP. Dems are asking big, meaningful questions. What do you remember? What did you feel? Could it have been anyone else? Getting big, meaningful answers. GOP's Mitchell focusing on little stuff. Huge contrast.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (2I4LM)

29 Beginning to think Mitchell is a GOPe sandbag... She has no intention of asking Ford any hard questions... this is all Kabuki designed to try and thread the needle, allowing the NeverTrump wing to thwart the President, while providing cover to vulnerable Dem's and squishy RINO's to vote NO and avoid any electoral backlash... Sickening

Posted by: I smell something rotten at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (IBt/r)

30 wow , troll central. more trolls than regulars...

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (bUjCl)

31 Blasey Ford looks disgusting, hippocampus protruding, at the senate hearing.

Very disrespectful!

Posted by: Mr. Donald J. Trump at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (ismre)

32 Since I got willowed:

Boss stayed home to watch it and asked us to watch via streaming at work so we can talk about it tomorrow and I'm sorta paying attention while I'm getting crap done.

I listened to Rush while out getting lunch and he nailed it. The Republicans are treating this as a deposition and the Dems understand it is theater.

The question is will the true audience of this, namely the R senators, see the act or the substance of the ever changing stories.

Prediction: GOP fucks this up. Sasse votes no because Muh Principles.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (mf5HN)

33
I'm not really into armchair quarterbacking myself, but I see your points, and agree that some of it could be done differently.

Keep in mind though, this is theater and not an actual prosecution.

Posted by: Frag at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (cOANc)

34 If the vote doesn't go through, McConnell needs to step down. I think we can all agree on that.

Think it'll happen?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (4ErVI)

35 But Kav is the GOPe candidate. They won't blow up their own candidate.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (e44Qj)

36 Posted by: Paolo at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (NgKpN)

One of the best being her fame friend who said under threat of felony, I was not at a party like that and don't remember one.

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (MAstk)

37 When Kavanaugh comes up, I think we're going to find out why the Dems wanted the Fabulist to appear AFTER Kavanaugh.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (Pqytn)

38 Posted by: MW at September 27, 2018 01:04 PM (hNTtn)

Real victim in all this? Basic rule of Law, which is the basis of a Republic.

He is being accused of attempted Rape in a Political show trial, where Senators (Blumenthal) have already admitted they have made up their minds, and that the 'Jury' is the American People.

Republic is dead... Moose on Canadian border should have told us.

Posted by: Paolo at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (NgKpN)

39 5 I think she is going to tie in the when did you hire lawyer, to when was polygraph.
Posted by: CSMBigBird at September 27, 2018 01:02 PM (jsWA

But that's the point, isn't it? You have to surmise where she's going with this shit. And she failed to drive it home before the fucking break. Now Ford gets to gather herself, and get some coaching - even though I presume that that's against the rules. It's like a team down on the opposing two yard line letting the clock run out for halftime.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (vnpiz)

40 Chris Wallace must be undergoing conversion and receiving estrogen injections.

Mitch has the 50.

Posted by: chinese rock at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (wJ/0D)

41 "cpurick"

Go away chemjeff, you got banned for a reason

Posted by: Frag at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (cOANc)

42
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Wednesday announced that he's seeking an injunction in federal court designed to stop a final vote on Brett Kavanaugh, asserting an obstruction of his constitutional duty to advise and consent on nominees.
Article 1 Section 5
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
The court should dismiss before lunch.

Posted by: undocumented illegal so-called environmentalist at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (e8kgV)

43 So Dershowitz was right last night when he said the Republicans fucked up by picking a prosecutor and not a defense lawyer to question her.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (ye3s4)

44 How long is this recess? I missed it.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (2I4LM)

45 Please let this just be theater and Mitch has done his job getting the ducks in a row.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (72PAC)

46 Posted by: Paolo at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (NgKpN)

Serious sock fail... LOL...

Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (NgKpN)

47 All accounts to be settled at baseball ground.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (fA1SL)

48 Meanwhile, Ford is wasting what little time Mitchell has, and Mitchell is permitting her to do so.

Par for the course for congressional hearings. I've never seen a Congressional hearing where anyone was actually questioned correctly. Even with all the big-shot prosecutors and trial lawyers who infest Washington, they all seem to suck when it comes to questioning at hearings.

Of course, this is because (as with all government action) those acting have very different interests (and fears) than those who actually depend on the outcomes. Kavanaugh and his lawyers have no right to directly question Christine Fred Blassey.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (VE0m1)

49 I am so angry I pawed an ugly chick rather than the hotties I usually do.

Posted by: Bart O Kavanaugh at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (Nl4ZT)

50 Real victim in all this? Basic rule of Law, which is the basis of a Republic.

He is being accused of attempted Rape in a Political show trial, where Senators (Blumenthal) have already admitted they have made up their minds, and that the 'Jury' is the American People.

Republic is dead... Moose on Canadian border
should have told us.
Posted by: Paolo

This.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (YxTUV)

51 So Dershowitz was right last night when he said the Republicans fucked up by picking a prosecutor and not a defense lawyer to question her.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (ye3s4)

that is a good point

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (2I4LM)

52 44 How long is this recess? I missed it.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (2I4LM)

30 minutes

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (4ErVI)

53 The questions aren't meant for the "prosecutor" to destroy the "Fabulist". The questions are to prep the Republicans and Kavanaugh to take her testimony apart.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (Pqytn)

54 I taught Mitchell how to absolutely gut a witness during a Congressional hearing. She's a quick study, I tellya.

What with my crazy former federal prosecutor skilz, I'm once again saving the republic.

Posted by: Trey Gowdy, Future Lobbyist at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (9vQJW)

55 This farce is making me go full Insomniac. You never go full Insomniac.

The only things that will keep my hateful heart beating are dreams of being a canal boss.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (iTq0c)

56 TWO FRONT DOORS - WE "HOST" GOOGLE INTERNS.

IS SECOND DOOR IS FOR TENANTS - NOT A PANIC EXIT?

LOOK AT RENTAL PRICES ON THAT STREET - WOW!

PROPERTY RECORDS FOR REMODEL, USE OF PROPERTY - ANYONE LOOKING AT THIS?

Posted by: TakeFice at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (rTg/B)

57 I listened to Rush while out getting lunch and he nailed it. The Republicans are treating this as a deposition and the Dems understand it is theater.

The question is will the true audience of this, namely the R senators, see the act or the substance of the ever changing stories.

Prediction: GOP fucks this up. Sasse votes no because Muh Principles.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:05 PM (mf5HN)

Alexandria ! glad you are here ! I wanted a pro to comment. seems like a deposition. but what do you think of the questions Mitchell is asking ?

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:08 PM (bUjCl)

58 Maybe it will be Sasse or someone else who wont vote yes.

But, the DEMS seem to be treating this like an election, but it is not. It is about the few Senators still on the fence. The majority of those who are vulnerable this year are Democrats in red states, not GOP in blue ones.

The hearing could be going better, but it depends on what the Sasse/Flake/Collins people wanted. Thats really all this is.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 27, 2018 01:08 PM (wGbBR)

59 here's one of my questions

https://nypost.com/2018/09/27/two-men-tell-senate-that-they-not-kavanaugh-assaulted-ford/

Posted by: Total Control Racist at September 27, 2018 01:08 PM (z2W2E)

60 I listened to Rush while out getting lunch and he nailed it. The Republicans are treating this as a deposition and the Dems understand it is theater.

Exactly right. This is not a fact-finding exercise. It IS theater, it IS a trial, NOT a deposition. Mitchell appears not to grasp that. She's treating it as though she's just getting background information that she can use later at trial to impeach the witness. Except that this IS the trial.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:08 PM (vnpiz)

61 DOCTOR Ford, have you ever had an orgasm, and if so, was it on the night of Obama's election?

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2018 01:08 PM (HgMAr)

62 The Republicans should have hired Perry Mason...

Posted by: JH at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (9zhXE)

63 I think the goal of Mitchell is to tie Ford to specific dates, and sound nice to her, and get her off stage as soon as possible. Then, check K's documentation. That's what I would do.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (7ZVPa)

64 It's all bullshit^25.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (NWiLs)

65 55. Canals will be a great consolation, amd vital infrastructure.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (fA1SL)

66 53 The questions aren't meant for the "prosecutor" to destroy the "Fabulist". The questions are to prep the Republicans and Kavanaugh to take her testimony apart.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (Pqytn)

Why do I have the feeling they got nothing?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (4ErVI)

67 Is Ford under oath?

Posted by: Doctor Uptalking Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google [ at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (FHB7B)

68 DOCTOR Ford, have you ever had an orgasm, and if so, was it on the night of Obama's election?
Posted by: wth at September 27, 2018 01:08 PM (HgMAr)

multiple !

Posted by: Dr. Ford at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (bUjCl)

69 30 minutes
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (4ErVI)

thanks

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (2I4LM)

70 >>>3 I think Mitch has the votes. This is all for political reasons. The prosecutor has been told to go soft.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

I could not disagree more.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (PA9oZ)

71 The whole 5 min setup was stupid. As a prosecutor you need time to build up and go in for the kill. Can't do that in 5 minute increments in between another 5 minute speech. Kills the rhythm

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (xpYDi)

72 Fat lady hasn't sung yet. I think the odds are still 50/50. I mean letting this smear stand is worse than bad. It's an impossible crisis.

Posted by: Max Power at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (Hucnr)

73 Prediction: GOP fucks this up

Mission Accomplished

Posted by: Joshua's dad at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (m0clb)

74 Scanning the comments this morning The Horde is lining up on 1 of 2 thought processes.

1. This is a court of law and the prosecutor is a disaster.

2. This is a court of opinion with only 4 people that matter. The prosecutor is playing to them perfectly.

Oh, and both sides are very emotionally invested in their opinion.

Posted by: tbodie at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (wKcYr)

75 I taught Mitchell how to absolutely gut a witness during a Congressional hearing. She's a quick study, I tellya.

So the secret is to adopt a soporific tone to lull the witness into a coma?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (vnpiz)

76 Not knowing the date of a polygraph that just took place seems to be useful to me. How are we to know that anything you claim to remember is true?

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Admittedly I am not watching this because it doesn't actually matter. The votes have already been whipped. The only way this could change anything is if some real bombshell was revealed and that was unlikely. Otherwise people (and more importantly - senators) will remain confirmed in whatever beliefs they already have.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (hLRSq)

77 Willowed. This is my opinion-She is full of shit.
I can't listen to this bullshit. This liar's voice is way too
irritating.Here's my take on the "Beach Friends" nonsense.She grew up
near DC rich. Lots of people in DC, and Baltimore for that matter, own
houses at the Delaware beaches. She was here for her mother's funeral,
whatever and she wound up at a friend's house in Bethany beach or
wherever. They are barking moonbat liberals like her.

They start
talking and she says, "remember when we were all worried about Romney
winning the election in 2012? When they started talking about the judges
he would pick they mentioned Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, 2 guys I knew from
high School. I cooked up some bullshit story about being attacked at a
party by an important person on the courts in DC with a therapist friend
in Palo Alto. I didn't give any names or specific dates so we could use
it against either one. Should I use it against Kavanaugh?"
Liberal loonbags-Yes, I have a friend at the Post, we can get it to them.

Posted by: Timon at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (eiZez)

78 So Dershowitz was right last night when he said the Republicans fucked up by picking a prosecutor and not a defense lawyer to question her.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (ye3s4)

I don't buy that. People who aren't even lawyers could have done a much better job - on the fly, too.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (VE0m1)

79 so

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (bUjCl)

80 the cowardly repubs gave this lunatic an infomercial to the nation to smear Kavanuagh and because she conveniently can't remember anything, it is impossible for him to prove otherwise.

BRILLIANT REPUBS!

Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (YoaSV)

81 Agree 100%. If the Republicans would ever once stop basing their decisions around media optics, they might actually start winning some battles.

Posted by: MountainWalker at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (W/kEM)

82 I swear to christ sometimes I understand why the muslims love sharia law. They probably dealt with this shit 1300 years ago.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (9Om/r)

83 If this is hard for people to understand, this reminds me of my barking-mad Leftist brother, who often tells made-up stories.

To be clear, I'm sure he really BELIEVES these stories he made up. But the common thread is that they serve to reinforce some political notion or point he wants to make. In short, it's a "convenient" memory.

People tend to believe what they want to believe, and even - especially with long ago memories - remember things the way they WANT to remember them.

But people who make up such stories always run into trouble when anybody who knows ANYTHING about the situation hears about it.

By way of example, my brother was telling people that our father watched FOX News all the time, but was nonetheless not fooled by them. When challenged on whether our father even watched FOX with regularity he said he knew this because he had "lived with him as an adult". I knew that could only be referring to 1986, immediately after he finished college, which he confirmed.

So I confronted him with the fact that FOX did not even exist yet at that time - a fact anybody can just look up. That's when he blocked me on FB. (LOL)

Posted by: Optimizer at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (hOOi9)

84 You guys are completely wrong about Mitchell because yoy are not the target audience

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (vJCwr)

85 DOCTOR Ford, when people call you on the phone do they ask if your Mommy is home?

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (HgMAr)

86 No f'n way Cruz would have ever let these questions go unanswered. Flake led them down the garden path.

Posted by: MountainWalker at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (W/kEM)

87 she wasn't raped. Why the fuck is this "raw emotions" and muh scared thing going on?

also, this never happened, which is another important point.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (Ejm4y)

88 Mental illness is tough to watch!

Posted by: Tentotwo at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (yhf6w)

89 It's a PERFECT slander: Can't provide an alibi because she doesn't remember day, date, location, even the year.

Never mentioned it to anyone in 30+ years; no family, no friends, no therapist before 2012.

Never once mentioned Kavanaugh's name before July. It was designed to torpedo this guy, and it just might work.

Posted by: Not Enough Lamp Posts at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (S1+dw)

90
Dr. Ford is about as attractive as an Edsel. (Sorry, 'ettes, don't hit me with too many lashes)

Posted by: Sphynx at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (rXie1)

91 I listened to enough Rush to confirm my judgement call that the GOP Establishment incompetence is just far too overwhelming to overcome. I feel sorry for the Kavanaughs, and will despise the Democrats Socialist Scum until my dying day for doing this to a good man!

Posted by: Hrothgar's Consulting Service,VLLC at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (n9EOP)

92 So, in recess means this *#%@show isn't over yet ?

*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (58Au8)

93 Lies, lies and more lies.

Republicans were always going to be boxed in by the optics of mean old white men questioning a poor rape victim.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (Mzfcs)

94 70 >>>3 I think Mitch has the votes. This is all for political reasons. The prosecutor has been told to go soft.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

I could not disagree more.
Posted by: ace at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (PA9oZ)

===========

The very fact that we are having the hearing is for political purposes.

And it's because of the Furious Four and their insistence on looking virtuous.

The question is: Is that look from just having the hearing enough for all four? Or, are they actually looking for reasons to vote against an extremely qualified member of their own club based on nothing accusations that will lead to even more of this behavior from their friends across the aisle?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (8o3AL)

95 84, You guys are completely wrong about Mitchell because yoy are not the target audience.
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You may have a point there. The audience is 3 people. flake murkoski and Collins.

Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (YoaSV)

96 84 You guys are completely wrong about Mitchell because yoy are not the target audience
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM (vJCwr)

The Unreliables are the target audience. You think they're basing their vote on evidence or appearances and emotionalism?

Posted by: MountainWalker at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (W/kEM)

97 Ford's story is shot full of holes. Its a tough act out there -- show all the holes in the story without "attacking" Ford.
There is enough there for a GOP senator to say that they weighed her credibility/story against Kavanaughs and decided to confirm.

Posted by: Revenant at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (NUNXH)

98 So Dershowitz was right last night when he said the Republicans fucked up by picking a prosecutor and not a defense lawyer to question her.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (ye3s4)

No way. The dems/presstitutes would have screamed bloody murder. The rs had to go with a prosecutor because (like in everything else) the dems control the narrative.

Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (Z48ZB)

99 Dershowitz also said that ALL accusations must be investigated. Infinite accusations, infinite delays.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (IqV8l)

100 The GOP fucked up by giving a hearing. no police report, no hearing.

is this bullshit show trial a fuck up? no.

Ford can't sit there for hours without doing more than an "i was scared" routine.

when did it fucking happen?

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (Ejm4y)

101 THIS IS A CLUSTER FCK. Bring out the HAMMER

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (JvYb0)

102 1. This is a court of law and the prosecutor is a disaster.

2. This is a court of opinion with only 4 people that matter. The prosecutor is playing to them perfectly.

Oh, and both sides are very emotionally invested in their opinion.
Posted by: tbodie at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (wKcYr)

I go for #1 AND #2 (except for the prosecutor playing to them perfectly).

This effectively IS a trial, and the jury is the court of public opinion. Even if the four vote to confirm, if the court of public opinion thinks otherwise, Kavanaugh is in trouble. He'll have a cloud hanging over his head the rest of his days.

It is imperative to get the court of public opinion on side; then the four bent reeds will follow. The converse proposition doesn't make.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:12 PM (vnpiz)

103 Cspan caller who was the victim of sexual assault.

Asks, "Do you believe Dr. Ford was credible?"

Caller, "No."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (KUaJL)

104 67 Is Ford under oath?
Posted by: Doctor Uptalking Moron Robbie - Google Takeout will let you download all your docs on Google
___________

Who gives a f**k, you deplorable a**h***?

* takes several gulps straight from a handle of Scotch *

Posted by: DistHillary at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (9vQJW)

105 Ace: "her semi-retarded brain"

That's be the one she used to earn 3 academic degrees, including a PhD, and to simultaneously fill a teaching position at one university and a research position at another, one of those 2 being recognized as among the top 20 academic universities in America, and to write and get published some 76 articles all published in acknowledge academic journals, rendering her a generally accepted national leader on the issues involved and processes available for recovery therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual assaults?

But, hey, this is Ace's blog and he's the leader here, so I guress we can now expect him to recite to all of us his OWN points of credibility, as well as the rationale that underlies his calling her brain "retarded".

As for Ace's attacks on Mitchell, the Dems WARNED Grassley this was the wrong way to go. Don't blame Mitichell, a well known and award winning prosecutor of long experience, when it's Grassley who tied her hands.

Finally: What's that saying Ace always says about honest witnesses and how it's impossible to cross examine them? If that's accurate, Mitchell never had a chance in the first place.

Brettbart is toast, folks.

Posted by: Brutus O'Kavity at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (x+yK4)

106 If you're not listening to the cspan feed right now, you just missed a great moment.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (KUaJL)

107 I wonder if AG Sessionzzz selected this "prosecutor"?

Posted by: Hrothgar's Consulting Service,VLLC at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (n9EOP)

108 I sure hope they're some haymakers buried somewhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (I2dne)

109 The way to handle this was to respectfully dismantle her case by exposing her inconsistencies. They're floundering on that score because this prosecutor is horrible.

Posted by: MountainWalker at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (W/kEM)

110 sorry, ace...what haymakers?

What do you think is going to happen. This isn't a trial.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (Ejm4y)

111 Posted by: TakeFice at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (rTg/B)

Hmmmm Hosts Google Interns...

So, getting paid directly by Big Data?

And her Internet presence scrubbed... something very hard to do...

Is it Big Data backing her, more than Soros?

Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (NgKpN)

112 I agree it is a disaster for Republicans, which is why Flake insisted on it.

To pretend otherwise is silly. He wanted this stink bomb on his way out, this was his revenge, and after meeting all of Flake's demands, my guess is the ass clown still votes no on Kavanaugh

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (UfkIY)

113 Just checked with Mrs928, she is unimpressed. At least, I am interpreting 'What a liar!' as indicating she is unimpressed.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (yQpMk)

114 Could I use one of those breathalyzers I can buy at the gas station to prove I'm not drunk if I get pulled over?

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (FHB7B)

115 Wow. Look at all the new friends we have today.

Posted by: Aviator at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (2cuLk)

116 DOCTOR Ford, have you ever attended a political rally and if so, when and where?

Posted by: wth at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (HgMAr)

117 Berserker: I'd be game for a few stonings right now.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (iTq0c)

118 Did anyone else see this. Sheila Jackson Lee handing Ford's attorney an envelope right before the testimony.https://twitter.com/wade222/status/1045334749454036992

Posted by: Timon at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (eiZez)

119 >>Meanwhile, Kavanaugh's chances are plummeting.

This spectacle is the tantrum that Grassley and his folks were obliged to render. They get their tantrum, we get our nominee. We probably couldn't have gotten our nominee if they'd been denied their "moral victory."

Steady as she goes.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (Bdeb0)

120 First, not a troll. Kav is toast. As a PA professional, this is not going well for the committee. From her opening statement, it was lost. You can't 'win' this on a technicality so much- its an emotional thing with moderates and dems- so you have to keep it there.

I don't see how Kav can pull this out- nor do I see the nomination going forward at all. The excuse will be 'we must look at the other accusations as well as this' and of course never fulfill those as the nom will end.

Might as well pull Kav in now, and get this over with...

Posted by: The Mr Wolf at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (YkEgi)

121 the republic was lost with woodrow wilson. everything else is just bullshit, wrapped in bullshit. the election of trump just delays the inevitable. the proceedings (i'm not watching. i've seen this shitshow before) are just theater for the democrats to pretend they care. whyanyone thought this would turn out different astounds me. no wonder putin doesn't fuck with the u.s. we're already full commie. the rest is just pretend.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (KP5rU)

122 I think it's time for ~~Rocky~~ Mitchell to switch back to southpaw and come out swinging in this round.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (QLvwG)

123 Honestly, I think it's over, unless Mitchell has saved her haymakers for
the last round. Which I doubt. Her demeanor suggests that she's not
just playing at being friendly towards Ford, but that she actually is
friendly towards Ford. It's like she wants to be galpals with her.
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In other words this has played out exactly as Cuck Grassley planned it.

Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (XQvuQ)

124 I listened to enough Rush to confirm my judgement call that the GOP Establishment incompetence is just far too overwhelming to overcome. I feel sorry for the Kavanaughs, and will despise the Democrats Socialist Scum until my dying day for doing this to a good man!
Posted by: Hrothgar's Consulting Service,VLLC at September 27, 2018 01:11 PM

Well the dems aren't going to like the new rules the've created when the shoe is on the other foot. All you need to do is find one volunteer to allege something from 35 years ago and voila, career ovah!

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (w2Myr)

125 105 Brutus

She believes in recovered memories. She's an incompetent clown.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (2yngH)

126 That's be the one she used to earn 3 academic degrees, including a PhD, and to simultaneously fill a teaching position at one university and a research position at another, one of those 2 being recognized as among the top 20 academic universities in America, and to write and get published some 76 articles all published in acknowledge academic journals, rendering her a generally accepted national leader on the issues involved and processes available for recovery therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual assaults?

=========

reminds me of the Glen Greenwald trolls.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (Ejm4y)

127 here's a question:

she claims she was almost raped and feared for her life. yet, she says 6 weeks later she ran into mark judge at a market and said hello.

why?

Posted by: mjc, the very, at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (Pg+x7)

128 How much time is left in the hearing?

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (MAstk)

129 Will our hero win in the end? Will Penelope get free abortions? Tune in next week! Same bat channel, same bat time!

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (gmo/4)

130 I don't think the "Fabulist" will have much impact on changing the female turnout in November, but, the impact on male turnout in November will be stunning.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (Pqytn)

131 >>If you're not listening to the cspan feed right now, you just missed a great moment.

What happened?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (W+vEI)

132 My hot take is that the prosecutor is getting the easy stuff out of the way out. She's going to get the most hard-hitting questions at the end where Ford has the least amount of time to "correct" anything she says that pokes holes into her story.

Everything so far is ground work. I wouldn't expect us to get into anything useful until the last couple exchanges.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (KUaJL)

133 she wasn't raped. Her trauma is therefore less. also, none of this happened. so her trauma is much lessened.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (Ejm4y)

134 41 "cpurick"

Go away chemjeff, you got banned for a reason
Posted by: Frag at September 27, 2018 01:06 PM (cOANc)

Gawd, I had no idea the horde was so elitist. I'm just calling them like I see them.

The problem isn't that her story is believable. The problem is that if it isn't true she's been weaving it for six years. And she did send a letter about Kavanaugh before he was tapped.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (7YrFp)

135 Not watching, can't be that bad guys.

Suppress your inner Eeyore.

Posted by: MAGA at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (8MVWZ)

136 Brettbart is toast, folks.

Come back noon tomorrow.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (yQpMk)

137 Brutal cavity search: why are you here?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (Mzfcs)

138
Chins up, people. I don't believe that Senator Cruz has ceded his time.

As I've mentioned, apparently not often enough today, only 27% of Americans believed Anita Hill.

Posted by: Remembered My Nic at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (URwyc)

139 The question woman is a prosecutor? Where? Disney Land?

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (RrqtM)

140 That's be the one she used to earn 3 academic degrees, including a PhD, and to simultaneously fill a teaching position at one university and a research position at another, one of those 2 being recognized as among the top 20 academic universities in America, and to write and get published some 76 articles all published in acknowledge academic journals, rendering her a generally accepted national leader on the issues involved and processes available for recovery therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual assaults?

How much is Soros paying you....?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (tVWQB)

141 I thought she blocked all this out of her memory until it came up in therapy three decades later. How is it that she knew it was causing her academic and other problems in college? Is she just looking back at her awful college performance and diagnosing it after the fact? If she remembered the incident at the time, when exactly did she forget it???

Posted by: VA MKZ at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (dj5C0)

142

Brett talks last.

We've only heard half of the proceedings so far.

We might be surprised.

I'm still remaining optimistic until I hear Kav.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (2I4LM)

143 As long as there's a vote, Trump and McConnell might prefer Kavanaugh go down. Whips up the base something fierce ahead of the elections, and the next nominee will be a conservative woman. A brilliant political tactician might even have set all up this way. But everyone knows Trump and McConnell are too dumb for that, right?

Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (cCsPW)

144 Can you imagine being an adult returning to college and having a 50+ year old professor who talks this way?

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (FHB7B)

145 Oh, ace, I think you're 100% off on this.

There is no evidence, there has been any evidence, there are contradictory sworn statements by the only other people allegedly involved, she doesn't remember all sorts of things and obviously has come off as goofy and a bit addle-brained.

She didn't have to detonate, TV-style, to fail. She only had to do exactly what was most likely. She brought nothing - apart from the non-credible specific memory of only two or three matters, among all of the relevant material.

Media is desperate to invent a completely different reality - see the comments excerpted in the post - but I don't see a groundswell of popular reaction based on this nothing-burger of a bizarre 35-yr old accusation that lacks any evidence.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (QDnY+)

146 Have we found anybody that knew Obama 35 years ago that can say he raped her with exactly the credibility here?

I know he's old news, but it would be very fun to watch him say exactly the same words and get a different treatment.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (xeeHA)

147 Kavanaugh will be confirmed.

This is a net win for us. Watch.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (aPoJ5)

148 The GOP has no one to blame but themselves here.

They've courted and tolerated these backstabbing RINO cucks for decades, even ran run for president, and now that bill coming due.

Dems never have to worry about redstate Democrats pulling shit. When the chips are down, Manchin, McCaskill and all the rest will vote party line 99 percent of the time.

Posted by: El Kabong at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (datdl)

149 "Posted by: Brutus O'Kavity at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (x+yK4)"

Hi, you're obviously new, so you aren't aware, but no one here cares about credentialism.

Ok bye!

Posted by: Frag at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (cOANc)

150 PROPERTY RECORDS FOR REMODEL, USE OF PROPERTY - ANYONE LOOKING AT THIS?
Posted by: TakeFice at September 27, 2018 01:07 PM (rTg/B)

What's the date of the remodel?

Tax assessment would go up after remodel...

Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (Z48ZB)

151 Ace: "her semi-retarded brain"

That's be the one she used to earn 3 academic degrees, including a PhD, and to simultaneously fill a teaching position at one university and a research position at another,

Yeah ... in Psychology. LOL.

one of those 2 being recognized as among the top 20 academic universities in America, and to write and get published some 76 articles all published in acknowledge academic journals, rendering her a generally accepted national leader on the issues involved and processes available for recovery therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual assaults?

Posted by: Brutus O'Kavity at September 27, 2018 01:13 PM (x+yK4)

Psychology ... that was the field where the research is so ridiculously awful that over a third of these great academic papers can't be reproduced - and you can bet your butt they gave as much leeway to "reproducibility" as they could.

Funny how this "psych Ph.D." is such a head case and can't seem to remember jackshit about anything halfway important ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (VE0m1)

152 That's be the one she used to earn 3 academic degrees, including a PhD,
and to simultaneously fill a teaching position at one university and a
research position at another, one of those 2 being recognized as among
the top 20 academic universities in America

Oh hey, look, somebody who is entirely unfamiliar with her education, her reputation as an educator, her research, or who funds it.
Get the fuck outta here.

Posted by: lurker at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (eAshZ)

153 Where are all the trolls coming from?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (a0IVu)

154 F it. Out For Justice is on AMC, you big mamaluc's.

Rather see Segal bust guinea's skulls.

Posted by: Redenzo at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (14qvS)

155 Done? No way Republican senators want to go through the exact same thing
again with another candidate, now that the door is open to baseless
gang-rape allegations. Kavanaugh is a sure thing.
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Just like there was no way they could screw up repealing obamacare in full after campaigning on it exclusively for 6 years.

Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (XQvuQ)

156 Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (NgKpN

Interesting... Kavanaugh has ruled against Regulations on many instances... and is against Net Neutrality...

Google is FOR Net Neutrality....

How... interesting...

Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (NgKpN)

157 CSPAN stacking the call-in deck once again.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (r9UYA)

158 That's be the one she used to earn 3 academic degrees, including a
PhD, and to simultaneously...

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That's easy.

Vagina.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (FHB7B)

159 #120
LOL

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (Pqytn)

160 I think Mitch has the votes. This is all for political reasons. The prosecutor has been told to go soft.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles

I could not disagree more.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2018 01:09 PM (PA9oZ)

Unfortunately, I think that Ace is correct. If the votes were there the questions would be designed to leave Ford some dignity but still cast aspersions on her motivation and memory and mental state.

I think the questions were designed to make the senators look good, or at the very least not horrible people. They are acting selfishly and not in the best interests of the party or the country.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (wYseH)

161 i like how she giggles throughout her performance, like a little school girl...

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (bUjCl)

162 >>I'm still remaining optimistic until I hear Kav.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (2I4LM)

Exactly. Some folks here are used to sports that are won by the first team that scores. Sheesh.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (Bdeb0)

163 I've got to say that all the people commenting on her voice is rather upsetting.

Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

164

And thus, the republic died, shitting the bed with it's last gasp.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (43zjF)

165 Lotta goddamned furries and bronies swarming the blog lately.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (fA1SL)

166 I had to scroll back to the top to make sure I was on the right blog reading some of these comments.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (yQpMk)

167 Dr. Ford, you need to wipe your mouth, there's still a little bullshit on your lips.

Posted by: mpfs, Society of Dregs Founding Member, Pennsyltucky Chapter at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (v77tW)

168 Go back to the chart showing 6.2 miles as the crow flies from the 1-mile radius around the country club to Ford's home.

How did she get from A to B and how long did it take her?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (QLvwG)

169 82
I swear to christ sometimes I understand why the muslims love sharia law. They probably dealt with this shit 1300 years ago.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (9Om/r)

I should not laugh at this, but I did. Thats because I threaten Heidi with becoming a muzzie. ""You have beautiful eyes honey. They would really stand out if you wore a burka."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (DdV1P)

170 161: Totally staged.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (mlmZR)

171 This is exciting! I hope no one lives.

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (gmo/4)

172 Dowdily dressed, big smeared up glasses, hair falling all over her face. She is put together perfectly for the part of a woman who, even after all of these years, is so damaged she can't pull her self together even before the audience of the world. She was coached extremely well. And once again the Repubs lose there place like mercury slipping through the fingers.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (dI3/S)

173 @MZHemingway

Friend says: "Her long-term memory is bad. Her short-term memory is bad. The only memories she is firm on are the ones required to stop Kavanaugh."

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (W+vEI)

174 If I heard correctly at one point, I understand Mitchell is asking questions given to her by each Republican Senator.

Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (1Mlyg)

175 Did anyone else see this. Sheila Jackson Lee handing Ford's attorney an envelope right before the testimony.https://twitter.com/wade222/status/1045334749454036992
Posted by: Timon

Lawyers usually wait until after to get paid.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (YxTUV)

176 146 Have we found anybody that knew Obama 35 years ago that can say he raped her with exactly the credibility here?

I know he's old news, but it would be very fun to watch him say exactly the same words and get a different treatment.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (xeeHA)

The only women that knew Obama 35 years ago would complain that he kept hitting on their boyfriends.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (cAnNx)

177 Don't blame Mitichell, a well known and award winning prosecutor of long experience, when it's Grassley who tied her hands.

Did she actually ever convict anyone? Hard to believe. Who gave her the awards? Defense attorneys? She's awful at this. Take some No-Doz, and act like you give a rat's ass, OK?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (vnpiz)

178 I think the questions were designed to make the
senators look good, or at the very least not horrible people. They are
acting selfishly and not in the best interests of the party or the
country.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (wYseH)
It makes me sad to say this but I do agree w/ you and ace. Kav is toast and this has ruined his life and that of his family. I am not sure what the political ramifications of this will be headed into the mid terms - galvanizing for the republicans or not?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (a0IVu)

179 It's great how everyone is now an expert on questioning witnesses. Tomorrow they'll be experts on nuclear weapons. Next week they'll be experts on the mid-term elections.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (e44Qj)

180 120 First, not a troll. Kav is toast. As a PA professional, this is not going well for the committee. From her opening statement, it was lost. You can't 'win' this on a technicality so much- its an emotional thing with moderates and dems- so you have to keep it there.

I don't see how Kav can pull this out- nor do I see the nomination going forward at all. The excuse will be 'we must look at the other accusations as well as this' and of course never fulfill those as the nom will end.

Might as well pull Kav in now, and get this over with...
Posted by: The Mr Wolf at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (YkEgi)

I agree with every word. I even still want Kav, but it will never happen.

And that makes us both trolls here.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (7YrFp)

181 I think most people who think a woman could make this up aren't really surprised that she could fake it for cameras.

Posted by: Frag at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (cOANc)

182 Well the dems aren't going to like the new rules the've created when the shoe is on the other foot. All you need to do is find one volunteer to allege something from 35 years ago and voila, career ovah!

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (w2Myr)

New Rulez same as Old Rulez:

Believe all women that accuse Republicans becasue a woman cannot lie about sex.

Do not believe any women that accuse a Republican, becasue it's clearly a case of "Bitch set me up!"

Posted by: Hrothgar's Consorting Service,VLLC at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (n9EOP)

183 I will say, on the positive side of things, I'm noticing a lot of apolitical people that I follow on social media are actively watching and engaged right now. Most of them are dunking on Ford and laughing at the train wreck qualities of this. I have seen most of them this engaged since 2016.

Could be something. I'm hoping it's something. But I'm just so used to Failure Theater and Cuck Defeat Mechanics.

Posted by: El Kabong at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (datdl)

184 Note, the OP says she was credible and powerful because of... FEELZ...

And these were... Men?... well... Males anyway.

/spit

Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (NgKpN)

185 look, if this was a trial, then the facts would matter.

like when this fucking happened.

I imagine corroborating witnesses would matter. Because Brett, you guys, have 5 people who said this never happened.

So.........I don't know what Ford is doing that is so magical. Eventually, the prosecutor is going to these things...or she does suck.

and, if this was a trial, Gator would have an attorney bring these things up on his own.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (Ejm4y)

186 172: And the little girl voice takes you back to a damaged 15yo's first feel up. It was so terrible, but not worse than having mummy know you were out drinking.

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (mlmZR)

187 Funny how this "psych Ph.D." is such a head case and can't seem to remember jackshit about anything halfway important ...

In fairness, she is heavily medicated.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (yQpMk)

188 >>160 I think Mitch has the votes. This is all for political reasons. The prosecutor has been told to go soft. Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Concur. She'd only be grilling Ford if they needed a vote or two. This is a lagniappe tossed to the whiners so they can claim "the moral high ground."

Kavanaugh is going to have plenty to say.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (Bdeb0)

189 I'm not making any predictions. This has no real precedent.

My only prediction is that if this tactic works, we're less than a decade away from blood in the streets.

It's going to be a big, magnificent canal.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (iTq0c)

190 I think the questions were designed to make the senators look good, or at the very least not horrible people. They are acting selfishly and not in the best interests of the party or the country.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (wYseH)

So it's a day ending in -day then.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (cAnNx)

191 Back at the Starboard in Dewey Beach in the early 90's I was attacked worse than her standing in line for the can. Girls would routinely walk by and grab your junk. To this day....I fucking laugh about it. Fun times.

Posted by: Timon at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (eiZez)

192 Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

She talks like she's 12.

Your vocabulary removes any doubt that you are 12.

Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (1Mlyg)

193 174 If I heard correctly at one point, I understand Mitchell is asking questions given to her by each Republican Senator.
Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (1Mlyg)

What? They can't read? And why is Mitchell's affect so flat?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (vnpiz)

194 she claims she was almost raped and feared for her life. yet, she says 6 weeks later she ran into mark judge at a market and said hello.

why?
Posted by: mjc, the very, at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (Pg+x7)

If this were a deposition, and i hope someday Judge sues her and deposes her, there would be all sorts of questions from this, including who she was there with (her mom? friend? and she still says nothing?) - date, time, etc. This woman would crumble in a real deposition.

Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (Z48ZB)

195

EM PAREGORIC SUPPOSITORIES FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (7AQC5)

196 I think the questions were designed to make the
senators look good, or at the very least not horrible people. They are
acting selfishly and not in the best interests of the party or the
country.

That doesn't mean much.

if it's designed to make them look like they aren't horrible, it could be because, "hey, we listened, and we're voting to confirm, but we let the loon speak."

Posted by: GMan at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (sxq57)

197 Tell me again why I'm supposed to vote for Republicans?

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (jWe5r)

198 Did any male really expect for a female prosecutor who specializes in prosecuting men accused of sexual predation from NOT treating her in a friendly manner?

She's got her instructions from the committee chairmen and I'm sure she was told to bend over backwards to appear fair to Ford even to the point of letting lies and other obvious holes in her testimony go by without question.

This is a travesty. A made for tv movie.

And the hick from Iowa is going to let it happen.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (ZUlgm)

199 143 As long as there's a vote, Trump and McConnell might prefer Kavanaugh go down. Whips up the base something fierce ahead of the elections, and the next nominee will be a conservative woman. A brilliant political tactician might even have set all up this way. But everyone knows Trump and McConnell are too dumb for that, right?

Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 27, 2018 01:16 PM (cCsPW)

And in the process ruining Kavanaugh's life and career?

Fucking awful.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (4ErVI)

200 this is good for the country, I think. a catharsis. the whole #MeToo laid bare. the BS laid bare. this is an antidote

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (bUjCl)

201 Kav is toast, but we still win the war. Trump nominates the most alt-right woman out there- someone not even on the short list. We win.

Posted by: Valiant at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (3MiF8)

202 163
I've got to say that all the people commenting on her voice is rather upsetting.

Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

I swear i turned on the car radio and when she first started speaking and I thought it was a commercial for a new minions movie. True story.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (DdV1P)

203 Indelible in the hippocampus.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (fA1SL)

204 why does anybody watch a predetermined shitshow? proffessional wrestling is more mystic than this shit. vince mcmahon would do a better job orchestrating this.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (KP5rU)

205 CSPAN call-ins are scary.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (r9UYA)

206 Primary everyone. That is all.

Posted by: SarahW at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (Sp1NT)

207 172 Dowdily dressed, big smeared up glasses, hair falling all over her face. She is put together perfectly for the part of a woman who, even after all of these years, is so damaged she can't pull her self together even before the audience of the world. She was coached extremely well. And once again the Repubs lose there place like mercury slipping through the fing

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she wasn't raped. and this never happened. So...her trauma is just a sign she's a damaged person.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (Ejm4y)

208 My only prediction is that if this tactic works, we're less than a decade away from blood in the streets.

I've been saying for *years* (you could probably search the archives here for it) that there's going to be a shooting war between the sides here by 2020.

I'm sticking with it, but God it sucks.

Posted by: GMan at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (sxq57)

209 If COllins and Murkowski vote no and Corker and Manchin vote yes then Kav passes, right? Corker has no principles so I'm pretty sure he can be persuaded to vote yes.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (e44Qj)

210 I don't think any woman listening is buying this.
It's patently fake

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (dMvl+)

211
Well the dems aren't going to like the new rules the've created when the shoe is on the other foot. All you need to do is find one volunteer to allege something from 35 years ago and voila, career ovah!
Posted by: Minnfidel

Horse hockey! They'll vote to confirm as they always do.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (IqV8l)

212
She
never got home after the party.

She was found wandering along the highway by a
15-year-old French prostitute named Chloé with webbed feet and her
common-law husband, a self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with
low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.
The details after that are inconsequential.
Though it should be mentioned that from him she apparently did inherit
the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane
lament.

Posted by: Troll Feeder at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (HyDMf)

213 There's a novella Billy Budd by Herman Melville. I so deeply wish that Ford would meet with Claggart's fate at some point.

She is archetypal scum.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (/qEW2)

214 Concur. She'd only be grilling Ford if they needed a vote or two. This is a lagniappe tossed to the whiners so they can claim "the moral high ground."

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (Bdeb0)

What is the point of getting a vote or two if they lose in the court of public opinion?

Truly, these people are idiots.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (vnpiz)

215 Finally got some IHeart Radio signal ... heard a bit of the shit show.

One day ... Republicans and those who love them MAY learn that just laying back, looking "reasonable" and "mature" while waiting for Dems to beat themselves ain't enough to consistently win.

Today was not that day.

The ultimate cuck-surrender would be cancelling the vote ... to spare the Fickle Four the embarassment of voting no.

I hope Mitch at least makes 'em vote.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (DUqif)

216 "Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (7YrFp)"

No Jeff, the problem is that you were asked to leave and not come back, and yet here you are.

Posted by: Frag at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (cOANc)

217 >>CSPAN call-ins are scary.

Seminar callers, I assume.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (W+vEI)

218 Without the when or where and corroborating witnesses, anyone who says she is credible is a half tard .

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (2DOZq)

219 Well the dems aren't going to like the new rules the've created when the shoe is on the other foot. All you need to do is find one volunteer to allege something from 35 years ago and voila, career ovah!
Posted by: Minnfidel at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (w2Myr)

Moot point. We don't play that way.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (H8QX8)

220 Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (iTq0c)

More like at the end of Trump's term.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (ZUlgm)

221 What? They can't read? And why is Mitchell's affect so flat?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (vnpiz)

I think one of the conditions of testimony was that Ford, being so fragile, couldn't take questions from male Rebuplicans.

Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (1Mlyg)

222 Gosh we seem to have lots of new commenters today!

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (RrqtM)

223 The only hit I saw this morning was the map showing she lived EIGHT miles from the club and doesn't remember how she got home.
Lying c*nt

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (JvYb0)

224 i am not a troll !

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (bUjCl)

225 Go back to the chart showing 6.2 miles as the crow flies from the 1-mile radius around the country club to Ford's home.

How did she get from A to B and how long did it take her?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM

A decent clip for a youngster would be about 3 miles per hour. Two hour walk? Bullshit.

Posted by: Remembered My Nic at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (URwyc)

226 why does anybody watch a predetermined shitshow? proffessional wrestling is more mystic than this shit. vince mcmahon would do a better job orchestrating this.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at September 27, 2018 01:21 PM (KP5rU)

somethin' to do

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (2I4LM)

227 207: Just an act. Even the pictures on the internet show a smiling woman, and an undamaged one. Sorry this is calculated as hell

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (mlmZR)

228 oh, that's cute you guys.

the shoe on the other foot?

the shoe will never be on the other foot as long as we are cucks.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (Ejm4y)

229 210. I think most women aren't listening to this. They'll only hear what the press says about it.

Posted by: Troll Feeder at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (HyDMf)

230 If COllins and Murkowski vote no and Corker and Manchin vote yes then Kav passes, right? Corker has no principles so I'm pretty sure he can be persuaded to vote yes.
Posted by: bjstuggzzz

_____________

No way does Manchin save Republicans like that.

He sure as hell didn't when McCain put the thumbs down on ObamaCare.

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (UfkIY)

231 Not sure why anyone, including Ace, are surprised. It was cake was baked weeks ago. Dems won. Come next year, Trump will be impeached, economy will implode at which point the Dems will successfully blame the Repubes for the decline. Go home.

Posted by: JPV at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (T6elx)

232 I've got to say that all the people commenting on her voice is rather upsetting.

Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

---

I suspect a major difference is your tendency to rarely if ever insist that people call you "doctor" when you're legally prevented from writing prescriptions.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (FHB7B)

233 It's going to be a big, magnificent canal.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (iTq0c)

Wide and deep enough enough for 2 aircraft carriers to safely pass each other going in opposite directions.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (QLvwG)

234 How many five minutes does the Fat girl from AZ have?

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (JvYb0)

235 >>she wasn't raped. and this never happened. So...her trauma is just a sign she's a damaged person.

I'm getting the impression she is an overly emotional person who is manipulative AF. Don't upset Christine!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (W+vEI)

236 Nah ,she's getting caught. Can't fly-more sorties then the Air National Guard, my grades slipped-UNC, Pepperdine, Stanford. She's "hella" successful for being "brutalized"

Posted by: pahound at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (BLWQY)

237 163 I've got to say that all the people commenting on her voice is rather upsetting.

Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

Your voice is nothing like hers.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (cAnNx)

238 I think one of the conditions of testimony was that Ford, being so fragile, couldn't take questions from male Rebuplicans.
Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (1Mlyg)

No they wanted the Republicans to question her, so that it would be evil old white men abusing a rape victim all over again.

Posted by: Iblis at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (9221z)

239 I can't stand the TV commentary. Even on FNC. It isn't about, or shouldn't be, whether the accuser is likeable. She's made an accusation of sexual assault. What matters is whether the ACCUSATION is credible. There is ZERO evidence for it. This should be about whether or not this actually happened. So far, there is nothing other than one hazy accuser, whose story does not add up and is contradicted by the people she claims are witnesses. But all we hear about is how nice the witness seems. Grotesque.

Posted by: Matt at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (YQ4mh)

240 Without the when or where and corroborating witnesses, anyone who says she is credible is a half tard/

========

seriously. Witnesses, when. She doesn't have it.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (Ejm4y)

241 Nothing like some Monday morning quarterbacking.

Fuck it -- Kavanaugh confirmed or not, I will break glass and crawl over it to vote this year, and I will be voting against the Democrats.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (xzbXP)

242 SPAN call-ins are scary.

Seminar callers, I assume.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (W+vEI)

The commenters on the VOA channel on YouTube are surprisingly critical of Ford.

Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (1Mlyg)

243 Why doesn't Mitchell cut to the chase and ask her if she's ever been raped?

Posted by: Under Fire at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (r9UYA)

244 Posted by: The Mr Wolf at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (YkEgi)

Yes, let's surrender our way to victory. Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Whatever (not Ever) at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (sXefu)

245 Just LOV all these nics never seen before today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (AllCR)

246 Anyone calling for a pull of the Kavanaugh nomination is either a hopelessly naive conservative or a full fledged progressive. Trump, Grassley, McConnell must force a vote. Put the defeat squarely on soft Rs...either on the committe or Senate at large...and run on it in November. Or, Kavanaugh gets sworn in. Only losing move for Rs is no vote.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (cCsPW)

247 230 If COllins and Murkowski vote no and Corker and Manchin vote yes then Kav passes, right? Corker has no principles so I'm pretty sure he can be persuaded to vote yes.
Posted by: bjstuggzzz

_____________

No way does Manchin save Republicans like that.

He sure as hell didn't when McCain put the thumbs down on ObamaCare.

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (UfkIY)

=============

From what I understand, I think Corker is a yes.

Bush has been pushing for Kavanaugh behind the scenes, and Corker is a big Bush guy.

I doubt he votes no.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (8o3AL)

248 I might watch Kavanaugh's testimony. My prediction: Amazing!

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (Pqytn)

249 Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

You don't sound like a fucking child.

You sound short, but not 12-years-old.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (wYseH)

250 This is a travesty. A made for tv movie.

And the hick from Iowa is going to let it happen.
Posted by: jakee308 at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (ZUlgm)
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This is only the first act. The R's and Mitchell know is testimony and tailored her questions to Ford so they can blast through them.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (G0vdT)

251 she wasn't raped. and this never happened. So...her trauma is just a sign she's a damaged person.

--

At worst 2nd base while clothed.

You know. Being a teenager.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (FHB7B)

252 Seems like all the democrats have is FBI !! Delay delay.

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (JvYb0)

253 Sorry Ace, but I'm going with the lawyers here in the comments who say that the prosecutor from AZ did exactly what she should have been doing, and that was asking questions in a calm non accusatory manner.

Too many people on this blog treat everything that happens in Washington like it some movie script they can write. Two thirds of the people on here were insistant that Ford would never testify, despite Grassley going above and beyond Senate rules to get her live testimony. She has been coached like all witnesses are , you think before you give testimony your lawyers don't explain how you should behave, etc.?

Kavanaugh himself stated in his interview last week that he doesn't question that something may have happened to Ford, as he doesn't know. What he does know is that he wasn't the one to do it to her. He will certainly present the same defense this afternoon and the Dems are going to try to convince everyone that he did this to her last week. That is what the biggest problem he and the Rep. face right now. The three Dems and several Rep. that are being pushed by leftists to vote him down are going to be targeted by the Dems into not having to imagine Kavanaugh doing this as a minor boy, but they are going to make him out to be a secret evil lurking rapist that no one has known until now.

Just watch. All the questioning by the Dems this afternoon will be geared at making Kavanaugh a CURRENT sexual predator.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (wAWL+)

254 Let's hope Mitchell is pounding double espressos during the break. No more "Night of the Living Dead," OK?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (vnpiz)

255 229 210. I think most women aren't listening to this. They'll only hear what the press says about it.

Posted by: Troll Feeder at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (HyDMf)

The press will chop it up, and only show a few soundbytes from her waterworks-on-demand moments, when she sounded the least dubious.

Anything else will get ignored.

Posted by: Cato by Phone at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (J+mig)

256 I am NotTrollicus!

Posted by: NotTrollicus at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (IqV8l)

257 235 >>she wasn't raped. and this never happened. So...her trauma is just a sign she's a damaged person.

I'm getting the impression she is an overly emotional person who is manipulative AF. Don't upset Christine!

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right?

The kind of person (ahem, girl) who will lie at the drop of the hat.

"Sorry, can't testify, afraid to fly"

"uhh...I don't know who paid for lie detector"

"yes, I got lured upstairs or whatever by two boys but drinking and trauma make me unable to remember anything else"

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (Ejm4y)

258
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford just said that she would've been willing to have Senate Judiciary Committee investigators come to California to speak with her, but that it hadn't been made clear to her that they were willing to do so.

Sean Davis

Retweeted Jeremiah Stephan Dunleavy IV

If this is true, then her attorneys could face sanction for deliberately withholding material information from the client, which might be why her attorney immediately grabbed the mic and refused to let Ford answer the question.

but this is still bs
she wasn't closed off from the web, the news, her phone, the tv, the papers that were all talking about it

or was she just flying all around the world, so didn't see it?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (2I4LM)

259 234 How many five minutes does the Fat girl from AZ have?
Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (JvYb0)
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Good question.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (G0vdT)

260 172 Dowdily dressed, big smeared up glasses, hair falling all over her face. She is put together perfectly for the part of a woman who, even after all of these years, is so damaged she can't pull her self together even before the audience of the world. She was coached extremely well. And once again the Repubs lose there place like mercury slipping through the fingers.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (dI3/S)

she seems like a scatter brain.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (0O7c5)

261 I sound 12 yo on the phone
it's great for getting rid of telemarketers

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (dMvl+)

262 JFC, had to mute that C-SPAN video link during the "recess." Nothing but calls from women telling their own stories, one after the other, after another. Horrible stuff, but completely unrelated to Ford/Kavanaugh (because Ford is a liar, full of shit, and it never happened...not with BK, anyway).
But exactly what the Donks were going for...paint this scenario, then have everybody project their (legitimate) experience onto this canvas.
"How can you be against these poor women?"

Posted by: Oedipus at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (CXLVd)

263 You don't sound like a fucking child.

You sound short, but not 12-years-old.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (wYseH)

Yeah, but surfing fcks up your voice! Axe Dr Ford

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (JvYb0)

264 A decent clip for a youngster would be about 3 miles per hour. Two hour walk? Bullshit.
Posted by: Remembered My Nic

3 mph on flat, level terrain. Boy Scout hikes were anything but flat, level terrain. That's where we learned about 3 mph.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (YxTUV)

265 255 229 210. I think most women aren't listening to this. They'll only hear what the press says about it.
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hi guys. The "press" has said a lot of things over the last two years which most people have ignored.

fuck them.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (Ejm4y)

266 (looks around)

And anyway, doesn't AtC have to uptalk?

(runs away)

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (FHB7B)

267 246 Anyone calling for a pull of the Kavanaugh nomination is either a hopelessly naive conservative or a full fledged progressive. Trump, Grassley, McConnell must force a vote. Put the defeat squarely on soft Rs...either on the committe or Senate at large...and run on it in November. Or, Kavanaugh gets sworn in. Only losing move for Rs is no vote.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (cCsPW)

============

Yeah. I don't see how Susan Collins voting no and killing the nomination convinces Republican voters to not vote for Republicans any more.

The point would be to punish those who did it, right?

And how do you punish someone like Collins, aside from actually (miraculously) getting her our of office? You make her irrelevant in the caucus by getting more Republicans in office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (8o3AL)

268 The only thing that could explain Mitchell's approach, and this is far too charitable, would be this is inside baseball to sway the GOP squishes on the basis of bad faith: the failure to allow the committee to fly to California and so forth.

That said, Kavanaugh has to be given an up or down vote.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (gl+0K)

269 Sorry Ace, but I'm going with the lawyers here in the comments who say that the prosecutor from AZ did exactly what she should have been doing, and that was asking questions in a calm non accusatory manner.

Calm, non accusatory manner? Absolutely.

Bored, offhand manner? No.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (vnpiz)

270 And that makes us both trolls here.Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (7YrFp

No, what makes you a troll is acting like a troll. Tough concept I know.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (aPoJ5)

271 I'm going to reaffirm my support for Mitchell and how she's proceeding. I believe she knows what she's doing.

Posted by: m at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (Ot4ka)

272 Question on evidence... shouldn't she testify naked in order to form an opinion on the likelihood of assault?

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (RrqtM)

273 They aren't going to hammer her, this is political. They lost when they agreed to let her appear, rather than simply restrict things to a written deposition. Mitchell is doing a good job, given the format and limitations put on her.

Anybody with sense and honesty can see this for what it is. We go back and forth between 5 minute sets of meaningful discussion and heartsell and grandstanding.

This woman is 100% sure, and waxes poetic with weird academic answers about the hippocampus rather than answering a simple question in a straight forward way, yet can't remember basic facts like whether she handed her sensitive therapist records over to a journalist or not, just weeks/months ago.

She is afraid of flying and needed help getting on the plane today, yet it turns out she flies all over the damn place all the time. Literally. All the time. All over the world. She's flown many times in just the previous weeks and months.

Her polygraphy was this traumatic experience, that lasted a long time, yet she was only asked two fucking questions! And she can't remember whether it happened on the same day as her grandmothers funeral or not. Wait wut, you took a polygraph while grieving the death of your mi ma?

But she has lots of degrees, y'all. She's so smart. She's a psychologist. But doesn't know what the word "exculpatory" means. Doesn't acknowledge the malleability of memory. It's like Eben Alexander, the neurosurgeon, and his NDE claims. He's a supposed expert that somehow doesn't understand basic neuroscience. This woman is a psychologist that doesn't understand basic psychology.

But we only get brief glimpses every other 5 minutes.

The whole thing is a sham.

I'm fully confident GOP will cave. Because this is about heartsell. I'm sure several will vote no, Flake, Collins, Murkowski. They'll get just enough defectors. And every one of them should be added to the list, right next to Jim Acosta and Don Lemon.

Posted by: The Punisher at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (/fvMN)

274 117 Berserker: I'd be game for a few stonings right now.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (iTq0c)

Christine Bill DeBlaseyford is a convincing argument for instituting Purdah.

Posted by: Hikaru at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (UnA8+)

275 I wonder if Roy Moore would like to hang out.

Posted by: Bart O Kavanaugh at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (Nl4ZT)

276 Jeebus you all.

I thought today was "hair on fire" day.

I didn't know it was "shotgun a fifth of jack and slit wrists" day

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (TN1P5)

277 There's NO trauma. None of her smiley pix say damaged and dowdy, and her social media was scrubbed to tone down all aspects of a happy successful life as a Stanford prof with a sinecure job. If this site sees a damaged woman, maybe we are done

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (mlmZR)

278 165 Lotta goddamned furries and bronies swarming the blog lately.

many hands make light canal work

Posted by: Anachronda at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (xGZ+b)

279 How much time is left?

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (MAstk)

280
Did she actually ever convict anyone? Hard to believe. Who gave her the awards? Defense attorneys? She's awful at this. Take some No-Doz, and act like you give a rat's ass, OK?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (vnpiz)

Sex crime prosecutors are accustomed to men bieng the perps and are very tough on them . Women are the victims in most cases so they go very easy on women.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (TAmPV)

281 163 I've got to say that all the people commenting on her voice is rather upsetting.

Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

...and when i say Ford sounds like a minion, i don't mean our dear AtC sounds like a minion. I want to be perfectly clear on that. AtC's voice (alto i believe) is much much more sultry. Its beautiful...song like even.
*peeks out blinds*

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (DdV1P)

282 test

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (bUjCl)

283 I hope Mitch at least makes 'em vote.
Posted by: ScoggDog

____________

So do I. I want names.

I'm already assuming Flake is a no, saying something like he needs more time for a full investigation of the other claims and darn it, we don''t have time until next year.

But I don't think politically Collins and Murkowski survive if they vote him down. They'll lose their next primary or be forced into retirement. So they really need to assess if its worth ending their career over this.

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (UfkIY)

284 Dr. Ford, you need to wipe your mouth, there's still a little bullshit on your lips.
Posted by: mpfs, Society of Dregs Founding Member, Pennsyltucky Chapter at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (v77tW)

LOL.

Posted by: tbodie at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (wKcYr)

285 at the least she'll get a turn on the red carpet (oscars call out and standing o), a spread in vogue and the cover of vanity fair.

Posted by: mjc, the very, at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (Pg+x7)

286 I haven't seen any of ithis hearing, but if Mitchell is as ineffective as I keep hearing then I am unsurprised. Old guard, establishment, hand-wringing Cuckpublicans are well experienced at getting their butts kicked by their Democrat counterparts. That is just one of the reasons I finally left the GOP last year. It's almost useless.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (hO6X+)

287 sigh

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (bUjCl)

288 What is the point of getting a vote or two if they lose in the court of public opinion?

Truly, these people are idiots.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity,
just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (vnpiz)

=======================================
A bit premature, there, Jay. Let's wait and see how Kavanaugh responds.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (Pqytn)

289 I mean, how many R Senators are left to give her Five minutes? I think maybe five?

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (JvYb0)

290 True fact - AtC never uptalks when she and her sister summon Mothra.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (fA1SL)

291 We need to have 112 GOP Senators, 643 GOP House members, and 4 GOP Presidents elected this November in order to get appointments of conservative justices to the Supreme Court confirmed!

Send money today.

Posted by: The RNC at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (9vQJW)

292 The press will act as they always do, as Goebbels to the Democrats Little Corporal, but people will ALSO see things the press doesn't want them to.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (xzbXP)

293
Dr. Ford, you need to wipe your mouth, there's still a little bullshit on your lips.

Posted by: mpfs, Society of Dregs Founding Member, Pennsyltucky Chapter at September 27, 2018 01:18 PM (v77tW)

yeah, i laughed. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (9Om/r)

294 189
It's going to be a big, magnificent canal.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (iTq0c)

From sea to shining sea.

Posted by: rickl at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (xjiRE)

295 No they wanted the Republicans to question her, so that it would be evil old white men abusing a rape victim all over again.

Posted by: Iblis at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM

Ted Cruz is still young-ish -- and I suspect has not ceded his time.

This is a nine inning game and Ted is gonna come out of the bullpen in the ninth throwing high and hard ones .

I'd pay 'pay per view' for that eventuality.

Posted by: Remembered My Nic at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (URwyc)

296 I think Mitchell is setting her up. I also think the fireworks are coming with Kavenaugh's testimony.

Posted by: Dailydish at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (Z0huu)

297 Its all about Feelz over Factz.

Republic is gone.

Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (NgKpN)

298 I don't know if anyone else has come to the same conclusion, but at this point Kavanaugh has no choice, but to at a minimum file a lawsuit against this woman and her attorney to clear his name. The GOP isn't backing him, and our media betters only require her "bravery" to be swayed.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (s6n97)

299 What are the actual age differentials? She is 15 and Kav is 17? At 15 girls were still considered porch monkeys when I was 17. Cute, but not touchable.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (2LelM)

300 Posted by: tbodie at September 27, 2018 01:10 PM (wKcYr)

-------

I'm of a third opinion - all 100 votes are already decided.

The yes votes want this hearing so they can say "we heard her out, and weren't convinced."

The no votes want it so they can say "oh, the poor woman is credible, and that's why we're making an otherwise unjustifiable no vote."

All of this is just going through the motions.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice* at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (AzW6q)

301 It's great how everyone is now an expert on questioning witnesses. Tomorrow they'll be experts on nuclear weapons. Next week they'll be experts on the mid-term elections.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (e44Qj)

It's uncanny how well you know me!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (hLRSq)

302 So she only decided to speak because reporters were showing up at her home and class room. Yet she was the one who went to the WAPO. WTF did she think would happen? And yes, that's a rhetorical question. Sorry, she's a political operative who is full of shit. But for dems and some gopers, as always it's about feelings and emotions. Not facts. There's not been one dammed thing that can or has been corroborated by anyone. It's an unprovable allegation, but that never mattered. Fuck these people. If they are the new rules then they are not going to like them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (w2Myr)

303 Mitchell is setting her up for a Colombo moment. Ford isn't smart enough to see it. Will Mitchell be able to make a summation of her professional opinion? That remains to be seen.

The Dems are doing what I expected. What we will see when Judge Kavanaugh appears will be completely different. The Dems will be a ravening horde of harpies. That is where they will lose this.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my hate cannot be found) at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (O9qtX)

304 227 207: Just an act. Even the pictures on the internet show a smiling woman, and an undamaged one. Sorry this is calculated as hell
Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:23 PM (mlmZR)

+++

Way, way different from the girl sitting on a surf board and wearing a wet-suit, grinning from ear to ear.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (dI3/S)

305 Dr. Christine Blasey Ford just said that she would've been willing to have Senate Judiciary Committee investigators come to California to speak with her, but that it hadn't been made clear to her that they were willing to do so.

Sean Davis

Does she speak English? Grassley made that painfully clear, as evidenced in news reports.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (vnpiz)

306 This show is for Collins and Lisa. So far I don't see this helping sway them to a Yes vote.

Were this a trial, it definitely raised reasonable doubt for a jury. But it is not a trial it is political theater and Ford is winning in that aspect.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (xpYDi)

307 We're gonna have the best canals, really. The best anyone has ever seen, believe me.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (fA1SL)

308 Keep in mind. Kav is last and hasn't been sitting on his laurels while this has been going on. I suspect that he'll have real documentation and facts on hand to refute this garbage. Think about his background vs. her handlers and his experience as a jurist. He's not coming in empty handed.

Posted by: Bosk at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (fjMEv)

309 291 We need to have 112 GOP Senators, 643 GOP House members, and 4 GOP Presidents elected this November in order to get appointments of conservative justices to the Supreme Court confirmed!

Send money today.

Posted by: The RNC at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (9vQJW)

============

It's easy to make fun, but when your 51 seat caucus includes Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, yes, the proper solution is more Republicans in the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (8o3AL)

310 What if Ford flees and doesn't come back?

Posted by: m at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (Ot4ka)

311 remember, evasive story telling...

alcohol makes me forgetful and men monsters.

I have no idea how I got there or how I left, I am just swept along by events.

I'm sorry my trauma from not being raped...errr everything short of something happening that would lead a normal person to go to friends, police, or parents...happened but in some strange middle ground of "meh, fun time with boys" to "they beat me up and tried to rape me" and I never told and there's no proof.

This is a show thing. Gator will get his turn. Who knows, maybe he'll have a breakdown on the stand and confess. but since this didn't happen, gator probably won't.

Posted by: Georgetown Prep Alumni Relations at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (Ejm4y)

312 "What is the point of getting a vote or two if they lose in the court of public opinion?"

I'll take a loss in the "court of public opinion" for a Constitutionalist justice.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (xzbXP)

313 >>>262 JFC, had to mute that C-SPAN video link during the "recess." Nothing but calls from women telling their own stories, one after the other, after another. Horrible stuff, but completely unrelated to Ford/Kavanaugh

Julie Kelly over at American Greatness had a pretty good column last week on how a lot of abused women seem to be using this as their own national therapy session. Basically, how it's just childish thinking and narcissism to inject your own trauma into a national debate to score political points for 'validation.'

Posted by: El Kabong at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (datdl)

314 Mitchell is setting her up for a Colombo moment. Ford isn't smart enough to see it. Will Mitchell be able to make a summation of her professional opinion? That remains to be seen.

God, I hope so. I'm totally unimpressed so far.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (vnpiz)

315 Let's wait and see how Kavanaugh responds.
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (Pqytn)

How unreasonable to see how the accused presents his case! We must declare it's all over now!! /sarc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (AllCR)

316 Yeah I will agree with the thought that the prosecutor is doing her job the right way.

This is a person who talks to actual victims of sexual assault, as well as more than a few who lied through their teeth about it.

"You're a lying whore" isn't in this woman's vocabulary even when she's talking to an obvious liar.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (4ErVI)

317 The ONE THING that you would remember if that situation happened is how you got home.

Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (Z48ZB)

318 I'm strangling the next person that describes the claims as credible.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (XILzY)

319 >>right?

The kind of person (ahem, girl) who will lie at the drop of the hat. "Sorry, can't testify, afraid to fly"

I stopped watching, but the exchange about flying? That was the real Ford being called out on her manipulative sh#t. She giggled when she had to admit she's flied all over the world and said it her little girl voice, "I thought he would come to me." Get it? She lied about a phobia to not testify, she lied about PSTD to get a second front door so they could "host Google interns." I bet she demands a lot of things because of her emotional fragility...

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (W+vEI)

320 well, the theme was, she needs to be heard. now we are hearing. a day ago they were not even sure she'd show up...must not've been doing too well in prep...

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (bUjCl)

321 True fact - AtC never uptalks when she and her sister summon Mothra.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (fA1SL)

Better start digging and I don't mean a canal.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (hLRSq)

322 Wow, the baseless panic.

Nothing has been added to the picture. A picture without dates, times, normal details, and contradicted by every other human named, as well as by decades of Kav's life.

What would "going well" look like? "You're damn right I ordered the Code Red!!!" moment? Ain't happening, usually doesn't happen that way.

Not watching but at some point either Grassley or the prosecutor needs to lay out how Ford has - still - offered no evidence for her claim, apart from her recollection (which obviously is put in doubt by her general memory problems), how all the other people allegedly present deny any of this happened, and how this is not a credible basis for any decisions about anything.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (QDnY+)

323 2 things.

It is claimed that women who have been assaulted as a child will retain a higher pitched voice into adult hood.

The reason for the delay by Feinstein may have been that they had to teach her how to act and have rehearsals with questioning to prep her. Prepping a witness is common practice by lawyers. They can't tell them WHAT to say but they can tell/show them HOW to say it for maximum response by the jury.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (ZUlgm)

324 I'd suggest water boarding and field telephones. We'd have Mrs Magoo remembering all sorts of shit.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (2LelM)

325 282
test

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (bUjCl)
TROLL!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (DdV1P)

326 Ms. Mitchell is reportedly very good at getting to the truth in these kind of cases. It's always easier to gut the prey once you have it lying on it's back getting it's belly rubbed....

Posted by: Ronald Vennell at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (NEG3O)

327 We need to have 112 GOP Senators, 643 GOP House members, and 4 GOP Presidents elected this November in order to get appointments of conservative justices to the Supreme Court confirmed!

Send money today.

Posted by: The RNC at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (9vQJW)

I was told there would be no math on the blog.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (4ErVI)

328 I'm so pissed about all of this. She can't remember when, or where, how she got there or how she left. Everyone said to have been there-including her best friend!-deny being there. She can't even remember things from two months ago, yet she gets to sit there and ruin a man's life and likely his career while the Democrats and the media and far too many Republicans tell her how brave she is.

This is the most vile character assassination I have ever seen. It's evil what's being done to this man and his family.

Posted by: Chris at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (gI9Bk)

329 Mitchell is doing an excellent job. Be patient

Posted by: Jane at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (IoEGj)

330 Posted by: Bosk at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (fjMEv)

Exactly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (AllCR)

331 306 This show is for Collins and Lisa. So far I don't see this helping sway them to a Yes vote.

Were this a trial, it definitely raised reasonable doubt for a jury. But it is not a trial it is political theater and Ford is winning in that aspect.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (xpYDi)

==========

It depends on what they want.

I believe that they just want to give Ford a chance. They'd never admit it, but they are demanding kabuki theater to get their votes. It makes them feel better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (8o3AL)

332
Replying to @seanmdav

saying your friend was there and them saying they weren't there seems significant.

.....

YUP.

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (MAstk)

333 Mitchell is setting her up for a Colombo moment. Ford isn't smart
enough to see it. Will Mitchell be able to make a summation of her
professional opinion? That remains to be seen.

You'll know it's coming when you here her say "Just one more thing...."

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (xPl2J)

334 Yeah. I don't see how Susan Collins voting no and killing the nomination convinces Republican voters to not vote for Republicans any more.

The point would be to punish those who did it, right?

And how do you punish someone like Collins, aside from actually (miraculously) getting her our of office? You make her irrelevant in the caucus by getting more Republicans in office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

_________

I can see it breaking against Republicans nationwide because it's dispiriting and giving Republicans control seems futile, so what's the point.

Also, this is a major fuckup of leadership and people are going to this we need a purge and need to destroy the current GOP

I'm not motivated that way, but Kavanaugh going down would not be a good thing from where I'm standing

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2018 01:30 PM (UfkIY)

335 309
291 We need to have 112 GOP Senators, 643 GOP House members, and 4 GOP
Presidents elected this November in order to get appointments of
conservative justices to the Supreme Court confirmed!

Send money today.

Posted by: The RNC at September 27, 2018 01:27 PM (9vQJW)

============

It's easy to make fun, but when your 51 seat caucus includes Jeff
Flake, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, yes, the proper solution is
more Republicans in the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (8o3AL)

who embrace the US Constitution as written, and believe in conservative small government.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (jxbfJ)

336 318 I'm strangling the next person that describes the claims as credible.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (XILzY)

DiFi?

Posted by: m at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (Ot4ka)

337 216 "Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:15 PM (7YrFp)"

No Jeff, the problem is that you were asked to leave and not come back, and yet here you are.
Posted by: Frag at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (cOANc)

Seriously, you need to get over this Jeff guy. It's a big day, and you're gonna see new faces here. Some of them have minds of their own -- get used to it.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (7YrFp)

338 Every R who votes no, the canal gets two feet deeper.

We're eventually going to break through the mantle.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (iTq0c)

339 Dowdily dressed, big smeared up glasses, hair falling all over her face. She is put together perfectly for the part of a woman who, even after all of these years, is so damaged she can't pull her self together even before the audience of the world. She was coached extremely well. And once again the Repubs lose there place like mercury slipping through the fing

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she wasn't raped. and this never happened. So...her trauma is just a sign she's a damaged person.
=====

Exactly. She's a fucking liar.

I worked with a woman who told me the following story:

She started dating her current husband in the late 70s. She got pregnant. They were young. He was obviously scared by all this and left her. She had an abortion.

Eventually they got back together, married, had two kids. Then in the 90s, she started fucking around on him big time. They went to counseling.

The counselor asked her, "Why do you have so much hostility toward your husband?"

Her response: "I'll never forgive him for leaving me when I was pregnant because I got so upset it made me lost that baby."

To this day, he believes she lost that baby, the therapist believes she lost that baby.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (vg8iE)

340 The payoff $$ Ford has already received can be used for a makeover because, good lord, she needs one.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (r9UYA)

341 OT: Fenelon, thanks for all your help. I have completely disconnected from email and telephone since Tuesday afternoon, so if you've emailed me, I haven't read it yet. I think I'll stay unplugged for a long while.

Check out Screwtape Letters 10 and 11. He's talking about me.

Thank you again, and I apologize to you and any offended ettes for all my women-bashing, but I have to call it as I see it.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (mk9aG)

342 Don't have the votes. Mitchell is the fall guy. Her sabotage is deliberate. She takes the heat when the votes aren't there.

This does open up a whole new front in confirmation hearings. Innuendo is the new facts.

Sigh. Well, guess it's time to polish up the testimony to accuse Patty Murray of hoovering little boys weenies while teaching preschool.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (e1mEI)

343 someone asked why Mitchell's affect is so flat? Um, ever watched a prosecutor at trial? This is how they always asks questions. Covered a lot of trials in my time, and Mitchell's affect is normal. It's also professional

Posted by: Jane at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (IoEGj)

344 "You're a lying whore" isn't in this woman's vocabulary even when she's talking to an obvious liar.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (4ErVI)

But after this shit show is over, revenge right?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (DdV1P)

345 As much as I would like to see fireworks, if the GOP hired Mark Levin to do the questioning, you know how the media would spin that.
That being said, Mitchell better ramp it up a wee bit after the lunch break or I'm going Eeyore on this whole thing, at least until the Judge speaks.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (Bcfof)

346 Mitchell is setting her up for a Colombo moment. Ford isn't smart enough to see it. Will Mitchell be able to make a summation of her professional opinion? That remains to be seen.

=

her lawyers are...but there's only so much they can do...

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (bUjCl)

347 White, Leftist, female privilege is destroying our Republic!

Posted by: Fritz at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (Z9C5C)

348 Julie Kelly over at American Greatness had a pretty good column last week on how a lot of abused women seem to be using this as their own national therapy session. Basically, how it's just childish thinking and narcissism to inject your own trauma into a national debate to score political points for 'validation.'
Posted by: El Kabong at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (datdl)

I'm afraid that that's probably right. And not just "abused women," but women who consider themselves abused in their own minds, whether or not anything actually happened to them. I've seen this at first hand in academia, with women who acted as though they'd been in the patriarchy's Tet Offensive, when nothing remotely of the kind had happened. I knew this because I'd been there at the time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (vnpiz)

349 I'm with Ace on this.

This woman, who probably isn't telling the truth - is a meteoric fireball of utter destruction to Kavanaugh. It's a sad state of affairs but I think his nomination, nigh his livelihood is over.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (kI/3T)

350 Sorry but I trust that Trump has had quite a bit of input in today's proceedings.

And being a master mass media manipulator he knows what look to give to the hearings - that EVERYONE will be exposed to in one way or another.

The prosecutor has been great. People aren't watching this to be persuaded about the veracity of the claims. Most have made up their mind. The rest will simply get a superficial "feel" for what went on today.

Trump knows what that feel should be. He also knows what the D's are expecting and will take advantage of.

Just watch.

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (aPoJ5)

351 Well, I don't know what to think so far. I haven't watched it all, and I am sure most people don't have the time.

I guess if you are all "girls are raped all the time this will show them!" you are like, okay, this guy is toast!

We haven't seen Kavanaugh yet. He's going to get a lot of questions about drinking. There will be hysterics. He will be 100% sure that he DIDN'T assault her.

So deadlock. Unless they bring out the mistaken identity guy.

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (Z5y53)

352 All of this is just going through the motions.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice* at September 27, 2018 01:28 PM (AzW6q)

I think you're right. But I would include Collins and Murkowski as predisposed "no's"

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (H8QX8)

353 Her moments when she was trying to act traumatized and then switched to laughing were so obvious that she was faking it.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (hECVl)

354 People call Trump unhinged. If I was in this hearing in any capacity I'd have started gnawing faces off an hour ago.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (iTq0c)

355 That they allowed her to testify last is indicative of how it will turn out.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (ZUlgm)

356 Because there's two kinds of women. There are two kinds of women and
you, as we well know, are not the first kind. You, my dear, are a slut.

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (gmo/4)

357 'As a concerned conservative, I am very concerned by the concerning testimony of credible Dr. Christine Blaisey Ford, PHD. Her credible testimony, given as a distinguished professor and author of more than 70 peer-reviewed papers should carry much weight as a credible accusation against Brett K.

I am not a sexual assault survivor myself, but I think I speak for every survivor of sexual assault when I say that the Republicans are acting shamefully in potentially allowing this monster on the highest court of the nation.

I think K-dawg is toast, and republicans need to cut their losses, since this is not the hill to die on, if they keep it up, the blue wave in november is going to be huge.'

Saved you trolls some time. Y'all can go back to the gloryhole now.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (KUaJL)

358 You don't sound like a fucking child.

You sound short, but not 12-years-old.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (wYseH)

Yes, I've heard AtC and she sounds like a very smart accomplished lawyer (even though she speaks in rather short sentences)!

We'd be cheering at every question if AtC was there.

Posted by: Hrothgar's Consorting Service,VLLC at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (n9EOP)

359
First, not a troll.
Posted by: The Mr Wolf

A guilty conscience is an obvious thing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (c07y/)

360 Reading the comments without watching the hearing is kind of like that Japanese movie where the witnesses all remember different things.

Posted by: rickl at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (xjiRE)

361 >>Truly, these people are idiots.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:22 PM (vnpiz)

Typical. Not unlike the "blue wave" wishcasters, the Hillary exit-poll-counters, and the other "two-birds-in-the-bush" gamblers who such profoundly at political math, these people prefer the abstract. If Kav gets in, but Ford makes a spectacle, they can bank on a November gullywash. I see Kav getting in (for the long haul), and I see any resulting (temporary) congressional blue-tide in November as unfortunate but endurable.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (Bdeb0)

362 The "Fabulist" forces Grassley and the Republican committee members to jump through whoops to force her to testify, and when she finally shows up, she lies to them and changes her previous written testimony multiple times during the hearing. Grassley knows what he's up against - now. Kavanaugh will be seated on the Supreme Court on the first Monday in October.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (Pqytn)

363 360 Reading the comments without watching the hearing is kind of like that Japanese movie where the witnesses all remember different things.
Posted by: rickl at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (xjiRE)

==========

Rashomon.

If you haven't seen it, find it out and watch it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (8o3AL)

364 I'm not happy with how this is going, but I'm willing to wait for Kavanaugh's testimony.

More importantly, I'm hoping that either he or someone on the committee has a bombshell to drop.

It's possible. They've had 20-30 investigators and staffers on this for weeks. Just the past day or two we started hearing about all the people they had interviewed under oath.

There is hope.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (Ri0Ku)

365 Susan is positively glued to these proceedings. I haven't seen her this intense since the LL Bean half-price sale.

Posted by: Corbin Uriah Cuthbertson-Klein at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (ismre)

366 I suspected a disaster in the making when Mitchell was selected. A sex-crimes prosecutor is bound to be sympathetic toward the "victim"'s point of view.
She's from Arizona; quite likely a Flake plant.

Posted by: one-eyed cat peepin' in the seafood store at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (/sTHK)

367 Mitchell is setting her up for a Colombo moment. Ford isn't smart

enough to see it. Will Mitchell be able to make a summation of her

professional opinion? That remains to be seen.

You'll know it's coming when you here her say "Just one more thing...."

And that's the very moment Grassley says "We're out of time, thank you..." And they trot off for martinis.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (TUU1F)

368
I guess Sheldon, Spartacus, Camel-toe, 'Mazing Maisie and Chi-Fi haven't had their at-bats yet. The shit hasn't begun to flow for this shit show.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (pNxlR)

369 And somewhere in Europe, George Soros sits at his desk, a long-haired white cat in his lap, purring as he pets it, and smiles.

Everything is going according to plan!

Posted by: The Truth at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (UsCnO)

370 I am not watching so I cannot comment on this woman's demeanor. BUT, I don't care how much she fake cries, the facts still don't back her up and if the R's don't confirm they will lose BIG com November (and in addition are scumsuckers). Also, she has been caught in multiple lies that have been reported... maybe none of those lies are presecutable but they all impeach her character.

Also, Kav gets his turn too.

Posted by: redbanzai at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (qpJwS)

371 Didn't Grassley have the option of no Ford hearing? Didn't he have a Friday 10 pm deadline? Why did they desperately want this lady to testify?

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (e44Qj)

372 Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (mk9aG)

No need to thank me, :^) and I am praying that your friend gets the help he needs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (AllCR)

373 "Keep in mind. Kav is last and hasn't been sitting on his laurels while this has been going on."

What is he going to say that he hasn't already said? You can only claim you weren't there and never did it so many times. Meanwhile the Dems on the committee are going to use their 50 minutes crucifying him.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (ye3s4)

374

Where's Jackstraw.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (2I4LM)

375 Mitchell is showing up Edsel as a liar and an opportunist with a convenient on/off memory. I don't believe Edsel is coming off as credible at all. She's trying to seem unworldly. FAIL. Maybe it's the annoying voice but she is a piece of work. A 15-year-old tired mind trapped in a 50-year-old body.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (2NqXo)

376 The second door is a private entrance for the Google employee tenant.
That $4k a month in rent is why she wanted it.

She slipped when she said that, taking about how it's not aesthetic but they host Google interns ... completely unrelated

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (TN1P5)

377 362 The "Fabulist" forces Grassley and the Republican committee members to jump through whoops to force her to testify, and when she finally shows up, she lies to them and changes her previous written testimony multiple times during the hearing. Grassley knows what he's up against - now. Kavanaugh will be seated on the Supreme Court on the first Monday in October.
Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (Pqytn)

=============

I have very low opinions of Murkowski and Collins.

They may say, "Her emotions were genuine, therefore she must be telling the truth, no matter what inconsistencies keep popping up with every word."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (8o3AL)

378 This going out on a limb but there is a specific reason for Mitchell to show the map of the local area, the country club, and getting her to admit that she was driven home even though she doesn't remember it.

They have the guy was at the event and...wait for it...they have the driver who took her home.

Hows that for a Columbo moment.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (G0vdT)

379 someone asked why Mitchell's affect is so flat? Um, ever watched a prosecutor at trial? This is how they always ask questions. Covered a lot of trials in my time, and Mitchell's affect is normal. It's also professional
Posted by: Jane at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (IoEGj)

I've never been involved in criminal proceedings, but have been in civil ones. Is there a difference in approach between the two?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (vnpiz)

380 EM PAREGORIC SUPPOSITORIES FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at September 27, 2018 01:20 PM (7AQC5)

That just never gets old. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (9Om/r)

381 I'd suggest the Pear of Anguish if you want the truth.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (2LelM)

382 My only thought left is "if they turf this nomination, do I vote against the Dems or do I stay home? Is voting against the Dems even worth it if the Repubs can't get this over the line?"

If they get him confirmed, then the choice is easier. But this is really the only question on my mind at this point. Maybe I am too narrow-minded, but I see this as more of a litmus test of Republican balls, strategy and commitment to (actual) principles than as about a particular SCOTUS nom.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (I2dne)

383 I think I heard the C-SPAN guy say there are 3 remaining senators up for questions on each side. So, go time for prosecutor Mitchell.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (QLvwG)

384 270 And that makes us both trolls here.Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (7YrFp

No, what makes you a troll is acting like a troll. Tough concept I know.
Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:26 PM (aPoJ5)

Oh yeah, I'm a troll because I've basically been saying exactly what Ace is saying here, except I was saying it first?

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (7YrFp)

385 My bad I heard he gave a statement at the beginning so I thought he testified first.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (ZUlgm)

386 Hmmm.... gonna be an early night for Kavanaugh.

Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (NgKpN)

387 At the slow pace they are going plus these breaks the Judge will finally get to testify next year.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (Bcfof)

388 They're baaaack.

Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (1Mlyg)

389 360. Rashomon

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (fA1SL)

390 I'm seeing morons on Twitter saying that she is "obviously" a victim of something. Mind readers. Time travelers.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (e44Qj)

391 How the hell do you not know who paid for the polygraph?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (hECVl)

392 The story came up during a marriage counseling session when they where quibbling (squabbling) over a home renovation?

Like: If I don't get the granite counter top I want, it'll be like I'm being raped all over again!

Posted by: What? at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (fRgt5)

393 Chris Wallace is an idiot

Posted by: shoey77 at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (pAqZ4)

394 It aint over til its over, BK will mount a legal defence, should appeal to the presumption of innocence and rebut her testimony (they must be furiously collating, under pressure) 72 hours. Trump is ump, he can withdraw or signal support in the next 72 hours. He can read terrain, a withdrawl will trammel up the consequent: a new nominee for the midterms or Trump will signal support. BK can hold the line of he matches her emotional persuasion. The Dems will try to rattle him with toilet talk "did you gang-rape girls".

Posted by: potadas at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (9wOdt)

395 Geez...someone should have told her to comb her hair before coming back to the hearing.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (cF8AT)

396 The Senate Committee offered her the opportunity to be heard.

Contrary to mind-numbed feminists, they are under no obligation to believe her just because they heard her.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (vbJig)

397 How about a guest questioner- Rudy Giuliani? I think he wants to win and is not of the Swamp, as far as I know.

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (qb5PP)

398 Chris Wallace is a Democrat

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (bUjCl)

399 If we're going to re-enact a Kurosawa movie I pick Ran.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (iTq0c)

400 I for one, would like to congratulate Ace. Welcome to the big time. The level of trolls on this blog today clearly illustrate your now outsized influence. OTOH, cut it out with the Eeyore stuff- let the process play out.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (Y24LV)

401 Is she sponsored by Coke?

Posted by: Bret at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (dqLR/)

402 399 If we're going to re-enact a Kurosawa movie I pick Ran.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (iTq0c)

===========

Ikiru.

At least we'll get a nice little playground from it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (HpbDW)

403 267 Kavanaugh going down because a handful of soft Senators wouldn'r do the one simple thing that would guarantee the long held conservative goal of an originalist-leaning Supreme Court reinforces Trump's drain the swamp narrative from 16. It will, or should, be the crux of every R congressional candidate's closing message. Anti-establishment fury won't make small distinctions.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (cCsPW)

404 Jane's gettin' serious.

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (Bdeb0)

405

Sounds like they opened up the crypt of Dem senators this round.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (2I4LM)

406 It's all over, Kavanaugh is toast. Gonna be an early night.

Posted by: NewOneNamedPoster at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (tu3iY)

407 Mazie Hirono brings shame upon herself and dishonor to her ancestors.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (fA1SL)

408 So deadlock. Unless they bring out the mistaken identity guy.
Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2018 01:32 PM (Z5y53)

Yup. It never plays out like in the movies or TV. Deadlock, divided country, etc. But will Kavanaugh have the votes? What is the algorithm of political reality and pressure? Based on history, I would have to say GOP caves.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (H8QX8)

409 Good point on Fox right now. Ford seemed to clearly not know about Grassley saying they'd come to CA. Did her attorney not tell her? Did she want her to come to DC and make the hearing a circus?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (ptqGC)

410 > Mitchell is setting her up for a Colombo moment. Ford isn't smart
enough to see it. Will Mitchell be able to make a summation of her
professional opinion? That remains to be seen.

She has lawyers...

Posted by: The Punisher at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (/fvMN)

411 Can we put some grain alcohol in the pear of anguish? Kinda loosens up these tight ass broads if you know what I mean. Helps my bud MJ get some action.

Posted by: Bart O Kavanaugh at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (Nl4ZT)

412 Fifteen minutes left for questioning!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (v1udk)

413 Uh oh. Maizie Hironohito is up now.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (vnpiz)

414 GRAHAM isn't having any of it!

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (MAstk)

415 This lady is whack-o.

Posted by: Deep Moron at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (1Mlyg)

416 Oh gawd Hirono.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (G0vdT)

417 Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (Y24LV)

Good points.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (AllCR)

418 It is claimed that women who have been assaulted as a child will retain a higher pitched voice into adult hood.

==

as a woman of hgh pitch, I resent the implication

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (dMvl+)

419 Seriously, you need to get over this Jeff guy.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (7YrFp)

You're missing the point.

He isn't confusing you with someone else...he is insulting you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (wYseH)

420 *hic* *squirt* *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (Z9C5C)

421 395 Geez...someone should have told her to comb her hair before coming back to the hearing.

Looks fine to us.

Posted by: Einstein, Dr. Erwin Corey, Nick Nolte on Meth and Phylis Diller at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (vbJig)

422 If what she said happened to her, by K or anyone else, and she left the party and went straight to the police, what would they have done? No bruises, no cuts. No physical evidence of harm. Her word against theirs? Also, she escapes what she describes as a drunken groping attack by two teenage boys and is traumatized by this for 30+ years? Seriously. I worked with rape survivors for more than a decade, women and men who went through harrowing physical and emotional torment, and I guarantee they would all be sickened by this woman's performance.

Posted by: IanDeal at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (5mrLG)

423 OMG! From the side she looks like hillary!

Posted by: Ever at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (OLS0m)

424 Oh God, Maize. Drink.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (r9UYA)

425 Mitchell doesn't need a Columbo moment, She's shown that Ford has no memory of really anything.

If the GOP had been smart they'd have got their hands on later yearbooks that show this bitch whooping it up, preferably with a prom date. Surely somebody from that school could have a yearbook and not be a pussyhead

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (mlmZR)

426 HA! How dare you ask questions of this accuser

Posted by: DJ at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (MJ7Tg)

427 Hironohito: we know no such thing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (vnpiz)

428 Oh, and if you all didn't catch it, Mitchell got her to admit she walked past everyone at the party when she left, "I had to, " Ford said.

But her written statement says she ran out of the house, a fact Mitchell placed in front of her but did not press.

Hmmmm

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (TN1P5)

429 So what I'm getting is that it's the format of the questioning that is hurting Kav. But now it's his turn, right?

Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (kD8Fh)

430
Geez...someone should have told her to comb her hair before coming back to the hearing.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (cF8AT)
It's her rape victim hair.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (ptqGC)

431 NYT REPORTER

Just an observation. I was watching this hearing mostly on a ABC live stream on Facebook, and a flood of people (many women) were criticizing Ford's inability to remember details and her willingness to fly. Twitter feels like the other side of the bubble

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (MAstk)

432 Ahh! Time for another blood transfusion from little boys.

This week's blood is from 15 year olds, not 10 year olds. They've hit puberty already, and the hormones do so much for my excitement!
Everything is going as planned. I own these Democrat Senators like livestock. Well dressed livestock.

Posted by: George Soros at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (UsCnO)

433 Chris Wallace is an idiot

FINALLY SOMETHING WITH EVIDENCE TO BACK IT UP!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (oVJmc)

434 If she's "credible", then I must have no idea what the hell "credible" means.

Posted by: Hikaru at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (UnA8+)

435 I liked Kurt Schlicter's list of questions.

Again, still waiting on the actual vote.

But I have gasoline nearby in case my non-existent hair (don't judge, bald is beautiful) needs to catch fire.

Plus I got a scorching deal on ammo from SGAmmo. 5k CCI .22lr for about $300.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, well-armed dreg of society at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (bcbK8)

436 I'm just sick of the farcical shitshow that is the government.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (NWiLs)

437 who the fuck are all these people? I don't recognize half of yall.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (d7Ww2)

438 "This is not a criminal proceeding."

But there are lots of criminals in attendance.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (vnpiz)

439 THE FIRE RISES!

Posted by: Senator Jeff Flake at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (lVev3)

440 Mazie Hirono brings shame upon herself and dishonor to her ancestors.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine

Ritual seppaku is the only answer!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (YxTUV)

441 BANZAI!!!!

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (xPl2J)

442 419. IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE TROLL IS TOO STUPIDLY SPERGY TO UNDERSTAND HE JUST GOT SHAT ON.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (fA1SL)

443 If we're going to re-enact a Kurosawa movie I pick Ran.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (iTq0c)

=====================================
Ran-Lear for the win!

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (Pqytn)

444

Attacking prosecutor.
This Horono chick is a piece of work. Nasty.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (2I4LM)

445 TJM - Nah, I want this testimony to end the way Lady Kaede ended up. Who's got a spare katana?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (iTq0c)

446 Tojo is up. I berieve you that lound eye laped you

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (OLCnA)

447 You guys are killing me. I'll come back after Pimpmaster Kev's testimony to see if y'all's dyspepsia has improved.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (yQpMk)

448 Some of you Debbie Downers here are ridiculous. They've poked more holes in Ford's story than one could find in a planet-sized hunk of swiss cheese.

Quit getting so disheartened and have a FIGHT attitude, like Trump does. Hint: that's why he wins.

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (GdJ+p)

449 From what I understand, I think Corker is a yes.

Bush has been pushing for Kavanaugh behind the scenes, and Corker is a big Bush guy.

I doubt he votes no.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:24 PM (8o3AL)

---------------

Unless their hatred of Trump, and their desire to see him bloodied, are so intense that everything else becomes secondary... Or, unless you all forget, this has nothing to do with Kavanaugh... It's all about Trump and the left's desire to finally land a blow against him after 2years of flailing wildly and getting pummeled by him...

Posted by: I smell something rotten at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (IBt/r)

450 Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:33 PM (Pqytn)

Having dealt with prefiled written testimony most changes are to correct typos and errors in math. Not to change how events actually occur.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Club Seal Now Open at The Baffin Island Resort! Get a Time Share Now! at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (hLRSq)

451 430
Geez...someone should have told her to comb her hair before coming back to the hearing.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (cF8AT)
It's her rape victim hair.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (ptqGC)

It's all the rage this season.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (NWiLs)

452 431 NYT REPORTER

Just an observation. I was watching this hearing mostly on a ABC live stream on Facebook, and a flood of people (many women) were criticizing Ford's inability to remember details and her willingness to fly. Twitter feels like the other side of the bubble
Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (MAstk)

==========

That makes me feel better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (HpbDW)

453 Mazie Hirono: granddaughter of whore house owners.

Yeah, she's all about Teh Wimmin.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (ptqGC)

454 Take notes, everybody! This is the play, from here on out.

Posted by: The DNC at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (qb5PP)

455
Man hater D HI is up. Wow, amazing how brave Dr Ford is, up for a Nobel Prize no doubt.

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (JvYb0)

456 Oh yeah, I'm a troll because I've basically been saying exactly what Ace is saying here, except I was saying it first?
Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:35 PM (7YrFp)
----------------

#neverskankles, it's like you never left.

Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (qC1Sy)

457 430
Geez...someone should have told her to comb her hair before coming back to the hearing.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (cF8AT)
It's her rape victim hair.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (ptqGC)

+++

Yup. Deliberate.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (dI3/S)

458 395 Geez...someone should have told her to comb her hair before coming back to the hearing.
Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (cF8AT)

Lawyer probably ruffled it up to give her a more assaulted aura

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (mlmZR)

459 Is Mazie the sexist going to ask more than one question?

Posted by: JAS at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (3HNOQ)

460 I think Dice might have it. This may well just be air cover for both yeas and neighs to hide behind because the outcome is already known - all things to all men.

I am not usually that cynical, but it is worth considering IMO.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (I2dne)

461

Trashing Trump.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (2I4LM)

462 445 TJM - Nah, I want this testimony to end the way Lady Kaede ended up. Who's got a spare katana?
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (iTq0c)

=============

I want a quiet, celebrated life that leaves an impact on the world.

Or, I guess I could go with induced civil war.

Just as good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (HpbDW)

463 They had better have her Sicilian brother in the gallery.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (FTlwv)

464 It's her rape victim hair.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:38 PM (ptqGC)

LOL!

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (cF8AT)

465 Lindsey has been working behind the scenes too...jsut saying...he wants Kavanaugh on SC

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (bUjCl)

466 GRAHAM reminds people this is about facts not emotions.

Posted by: HA at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (MAstk)

467 Shit show... When do we ask anything meaningful?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (O2RFr)

468 "It was like he touched your breast over your clothes all over again!"

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (FHB7B)

469 458 395 Geez...someone should have told her to comb her hair before coming back to the hearing.
Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:36 PM (cF8AT)

Lawyer probably ruffled it up to give her a more assaulted aura
Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (mlmZR)

Is she wearing a one-piece bathing suit under her clothes?

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)

470 Mazie Hirono brings shame upon herself and dishonor to her ancestors.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine

Crazy Mazie is prima facie evidence that we should cut Hawaii loose and tell the Japs it's all theirs.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (kqsXK)

471 Seriously. I worked with rape survivors for more than a decade, women and men who went through harrowing physical and emotional torment, and I guarantee they would all be sickened by this woman's performance.

Posted by: IanDeal at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (5mrLG)

I'm hearing callers on national and local talk radio make the same point, rape survivors all. Another point I made to a friend: If a man, or two teenagers, or anyone really wants to rape you, the odds are very good that you will be violated. Unless you're some kind of ninja fighter.

But this is all besides the point. Her story is bullshit, all designed for the feelz and fuck FNM for signing on to it...so far.

Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (kD8Fh)

472
Seriously, you need to get over this Jeff guy. It's a big day, and you're gonna see new faces here. Some of them have minds of their own -- get used to it.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:31 PM (7YrFp)

we don't show faces here.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (TAmPV)

473 Inserted the element of character into this.

Yeah, and Democrats are all about character. Blumenthal, the greaseball that lied about being in Vietnam is sitting right there. ChiFi, who had a ChiCom spy on her staff for 20 years, while she was shoveling money for HIGH. SPEED. RAIL. to her husband, is also sitting right there.

Character? Right.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (vnpiz)

474 Fox is just fake news for a less gullible audience. Their goal is to make you accept a leftist premise while making it sound like a conservative point. These people are bigger weasels than CNN.

Posted by: The Ultimate Bohab at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (6sTXj)

475 WTF? All the (R) Senators ceded their time?

Not one wants to sum up?

Ball-less old dudes.

Posted by: Remembered My Nic at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (URwyc)

476 Mazie: "All men are always wrong, and always guilty. Do you agree?"

Posted by: Ham Sammich at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (rXBPR)

477 Hell, even a fucking squish like John Cornyn is saying Dr. Ford's story doesn't add up. And you guys are worried?

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (GdJ+p)

478 Observation: Media is entirely focused on criticizing "the Republicans" while all the rest of America is focused on Ford's lack of credibility.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee times three at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (CaRQc)

479 When do we ask anything meaningful?

In a Congressional hearing? Bwhahahahahaha.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (v1udk)

480 Yeah, I think Kavanaugh is finally toast.

All the eyeores here were probably right.

It only takes Flake, Murkokeski and Collins to vote no, and he's done. And Collins and Murkokeski will now probably vote no because of GURLLL POWERRR!

Have to wait now until after the midterms, and see if the Repukes get more Senate seats (Flake will be gone in the next Congress) and take away all of Murkokeski's priviledges and perks. She can go caucus with the Democruds for all I care.

What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (vcOmj)

481 Yoko Maize Hir-Ono

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (4RysI)

482 She's referring now to a "crucible."

Ironic, no?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (vnpiz)

483 Believe it or not, Patty Murray is dumber than Maize Hirono.

I know it is difficult to fathom, but it is true.

Patty couldn't even read the Demo bullet points.

Posted by: George Soros at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (UsCnO)

484 Interesting, they host Google Interns.

Kav is anti Net Neutrality, and anti Government Regulation.

Google is PRO Net Neutrality.

Someone sanitized her online information, and its an ongoing effort as shown by the almost immediate scrubbing of her online yearbook, once someone found it.

We know there is a Hillary, and Soros, connection... but is Big Data involved too?

Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (NgKpN)

485 Is she wearing a one-piece bathing suit under her clothes?

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)

Dammit, Insomniac, you beat me to it.
*fistbump*

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (8iiMU)

486 465 Lindsey has been working behind the scenes too...jsut saying...he wants Kavanaugh on SC
Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (bUjCl)

============

There are powerful establishment forces that want Kavanaugh on SCOTUS.

And Trump doesn't like to lose.

Seems like the perfect combination to get Kavanaugh over the line despite almost anything the Left throws at him.

But then, Collins...and Murkowski...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (HpbDW)

487 Well, husband just texted me his aunt may be dying. She's been in hospice care for a while.

Just turned 90, survived lung cancer once (life long smoker), and she's had it again for over a year now.

Husband has medical power of attorney and is back and forth to ATL. His three siblings who live there are worthless.

Sigh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (ptqGC)

488 A reminder that the case against Tom Robinson looked sewn up as well against him, until Atticus got Tom Robinson on the stand, and his testimony facilitated by Atticus' questioning decimated them. Or as the kids say now, he DESTROYED THEM.

Maybe that's a bad example. Tom was completely innocent, and got convicted anyway...

I hate this. I hate all of this. This is destroying both women's ability to accuse ACTUAL rapists, and Kavanaugh's family's entire life and future, all in one foul farce.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (hvf9s)

489 "... to every victim of sexual violence ..."

Uh, Maizie, that's what we're here to ascertain. Assuming it is begging the question.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (vnpiz)

490 Is she wearing a one-piece bathing suit under her clothes?

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)

She's never taken it off since dreamboat Brett touched her 'there'.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (QLvwG)

491 I don't know how any woman moves on after a drunken grope at a teenaged party she should have not attended in the first place. We should all be rocking and crying in a corner. amirite? If she's brave, she's brave to lie on worldwide TV on the Senate floor

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (mlmZR)

492 Mazie Hirono just referred to Kavanaugh as a "damaged" person who has had credible accusations lodged against him.

Posted by: m at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (Ot4ka)

493 I don't see how Kav can pull this out- nor do I see the nomination going forward at all. The excuse will be 'we must look at the other accusations as well as this' and of course never fulfill those as the nom will end.

Might as well pull Kav in now, and get this over with...

Posted by: The Mr Wolf at September 27, 2018 01:14 PM (YkEgi)

Admit it, you lust after Justin Trudeau's eyebrows, don't you?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (iwUO9)

494

Her lawyers paid for the polygraph

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (2I4LM)

495 Not watching...just listening via Rush -

Is Hirono giving Dr Ford a Pedicure while this is going on?

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (4RysI)

496 I had to go shower...did Mitchell ever get to further her question on the distance from the party to Ford's home?

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (cF8AT)

497 Posted by: Don Q. at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (NgKpN)

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (AllCR)

498 So who cares about who paid for the polygraph?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (vnpiz)

499 My question is this.

She was too young to drive and claims someone had to have driven her there and back. If she fled before the party was over was someone just there waiting for her with the engine running? Wouldn't she have had to call for a ride? And would not that person remember picking her up if she was so upset? She already testified that it was a 20 minute drive to her house which would be at least a three hour walk.

Seems to me that sort of walk after a trauma would be burned into her memory too had it happened.

And this was before the advent of cell phones so she would have had to do this out a house. She testified she did not want her parents to know she was at a drinking party, so did she lie to them and hide her emotional state, or did someone else pick her up?

Posted by: Thatch at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (LeDJk)

500 Just keep in mind, if Ford is fuzzy on the details, they can be filled in.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (G0vdT)

501 490 Is she wearing a one-piece bathing suit under her clothes?

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)

She's never taken it off since dreamboat Brett touched her 'there'.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (QLvwG)

Ew. Going to take a bathtub full of GooGone if she ever wants to take it off.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (NWiLs)

502 >>>I've never been involved in criminal proceedings, but have been in civil ones. Is there a difference in approach between the two?

Criminal prosecutors shoot fish in a barrel, and have all the time in the world. They do not have experience dealing with "50:50" scenarios, or with the need to keep things super tight for the audience (criminal juries have much more patience). They really should have gone with a civil trial person.

Posted by: wooga at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (68GeL)

503 Good grief. Now she's all hoarse. 'Cause brain exhaust.

Oh, she has a GoFundMe for her security, but doesn't know how to collect it. Because Phd.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (ptqGC)

504 "Kurosawa movie" Rashomon is iconic, but I urge you to check out the director's lesser known films, especially outside the samurai genre, to find some real gems.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (mk9aG)

505 Let's get this hearing over with, I got a "train" to catch! WOO WOO!!

Posted by: Bart O Kavanaugh at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (Nl4ZT)

506 F*ck it, let's go embolding.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (FHB7B)

507 as a woman of hgh pitch

I assume we're not referring to AtC here, correct? ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (ctuyM)

508
Yeah, I think Kavanaugh is finally toast.
All the eyeores here were probably right.

Kavanaugh hasn't had his shot yet and you're throwing in the towel. Awesome.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (TAmPV)

509 Hell, even a fucking squish like John Cornyn is saying Dr. Ford's story doesn't add up. And you guys are worried?

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (GdJ+p)

It is better to always expect the worst and be surprised when good happens than to be locked into an endless "Steiner will come!" feedback loop.

YMMV.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (kqsXK)

510 504 "Kurosawa movie" Rashomon is iconic, but I urge you to check out the director's lesser known films, especially outside the samurai genre, to find some real gems.
Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (mk9aG)

============

Like Seven Samurai!

No samurais in that one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (HpbDW)

511 459 Is Mazie the sexist going to ask more than one question?

Shut up white man.

Posted by: Bret at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (dqLR/)

512 Holy Crap! The letter again?

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (v1udk)

513 Mitchell is focusing a little on the money aspect now.
Now a question on ChiFi letter.
Sounds like setting up an argument about the motivations for this shitshow.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (8iiMU)

514 So all her evidence is she knows it was Kav but doesn't know when or where it was and the people she said were there said they weren't and shes totally believable? Oh and she doesn't know who paid for the polygraph and she flies all the time and her story to the WaPo is different than her story now? For fuck sake

Posted by: It's me donna at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (O2RFr)

515 They have the guy was at the event and...wait for it...they have the driver who took her home.
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Wouldn't she just say that was a different event?

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (aPoJ5)

516 Sigh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (ptqGC)

+++

I am so sorry. I think I remember you are quite fond of this aunt.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (dI3/S)

517 sad Jane; but 90 is a helluva run...

Posted by: pahound at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (BLWQY)

518 Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at September 27, 2018 01:37 PM (dMvl+)

Hey tell it to those who believe it.

It's just something I've heard bandied about by some talk/tv show hosts.

Can't recall just who right now.

The idea being that sexual assault infantilizes some women and that leads to a type/tone of voice even into adulthood.

And you will find that men who have been abused as children will have a different tone (less masculine) of voice into adulthood. But that doesn't mean everyone and of course the tone could be just genetics.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (ZUlgm)

519 Wow. Mitchell asked a followup about who paid for the polygraph. Female lawyer grabbed the mike and said let me put an end to this and answer that her lawyers did. Male lawyer grabbed the mike and said, "As is customary."

Posted by: m at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (Ot4ka)

520 Sorry Jane.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (FHB7B)

521 Wait, does the "Fabulist" suddenly remember where this event took place?

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (Pqytn)

522 Kurosawa movie" Rashomon is iconic, but I urge you
to check out the director's lesser known films, especially outside the
samurai genre, to find some real gems.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:43 PM (mk9aG)

There's a good one I saw, a detective story set immediately after the war. Good movie. Called "Stray Dogs" If I remember correctly.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (xPl2J)

523 Hirono:

"There is no stockade...be happy in your work!"

Posted by: Zod at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (Bdeb0)

524 490" Lucky her, maybe some DNA evidence...a flake or two of Kav's skin in the fibers. Nah, she was a party girl and probably went to a different one the next day and got drunk again

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (mlmZR)

525 I've missed lots of this hearing but, based on what what my squishy mother and full-on lefty sister are saying to me, Ford sucked wind. They found her annoying and completely incredible, and wonder what the hell the Democrats were thinking putting her on to testify.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee times three at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (CaRQc)

526 "Kurosawa movie" Rashomon is iconic, but I urge you to check out the
director's lesser known films, especially outside the samurai genre, to
find some real gems.

'Police Academy 7: Operation Tokyo' is my favorite.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (oVJmc)

527 OMG, she is a dimwit.
She doesn't know if someone spoke for her?!??

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (8iiMU)

528 Sorry. "event".

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (Pqytn)

529 Mencken: "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

The GOP: " Every so often (really pretty much always), we are tempted to raise our noses in the air, sniff, hoist the white flag and being slitting our own throats".

Posted by: quilp at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (Fxgkp)

530 GoFundMe = Money laundering

Posted by: Under Fire at September 27, 2018 01:45 PM (r9UYA)

531 Where are all the trolls coming from?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (a0IVu)

The very fact that there are so many is evidence that $oro$ senses he is losing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (iwUO9)

532 As is routine!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (QLvwG)

533 What about the two men who claimed they assaulted her and that it wasn't Kav?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (Mzfcs)

534
There's a good one I saw, a detective story set immediately after
the war. Good movie. Called "Stray Dogs" If I remember correctly.

Stray Dog
Ikiru
High and Low

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (oVJmc)

535 Ford is lying. I have questioned and profiled enough people in my time to see this bytch for what she is.

Posted by: Old Nam Vet at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (8Z167)

536 I'm reminded of what Churchill said when he complained after the battle of Jutland that Jellicoe was the only man who could have won the war in an afternoon, and didn't. He also admitted that he was the only ma who could have lost it in an afternoon.

If they had gone with a defense attorney, the cry would have been she's attacking the victim. Prosecutors are seen as helping build cases, and victims.

They have to stage this, and not fuck up. The dems are there to pretend briefly that they care about rape victims.

Posted by: Blue Hen at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (nEOLy)

537 George Soros sits at his desk, a long-haired white cat in his lap, purring as he pets it, and smiles.

And teh kitteh smiles as it gives him a major dose of Toxoplasma gondii.

Posted by: Basement Cat at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (3C9q2)

538 If the pansy GOPe senate doesn't confirm Kav, Trump should veto their damn spending bill, forcing a shutdown and throwing them all into chaos. That should have been his deal with Mitch.

Posted by: Zombie "Build the dang fence" McCain at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (7A6l6)

539 What about the two men who claimed they assaulted her and that it wasn't Kav?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (Mzfcs)
+++++++
Not credible

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (I2dne)

540 n00d.

Skank #4 accusation is a lie. Just like all others.

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (cAnNx)

541 Here's what I hope: Mitchell meets with GOP Senators and provides them an assessment of her credibility. Not that this would be public, but extra info for RINOs.

The other thing is that Mitchell is gathering details that may match testimony from the two men who have given statements that they are possibly the boys who jumped Ford, not Kav.

Trying to be optimistic here...

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (W+vEI)

542 GoFundMe = Money laundering
========

Like with a Maytag?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (vg8iE)

543 hot mike !

Posted by: runner at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (bUjCl)

544 One thing is clear from this hearing, this woman is insane and shouldn't be allowed to operate a vehicle.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (4RysI)

545 If the GOPe is good for one thing, it is failure theater.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (p0nVR)

546 Alright, Althouse is fully believing that Ford and the Democrats are winning this.

If Kavanaugh gets through, I'm going to stop reading her because I only read her for a particular point of view that I suspect reflects an important swing vote in the country and she'll have gotten something rather big wrong.

If Kavanaugh gets voted down, I'll keep reading her because she'll have gotten it right.

I'm sure you're all very grateful for my updates on my RSS feed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (HpbDW)

547 480 Yeah, I think Kavanaugh is finally toast.

All the eyeores here were probably right.

It only takes Flake, Murkokeski and Collins to vote no, and he's done. And Collins and Murkokeski will now probably vote no because of GURLLL POWERRR!

Have to wait now until after the midterms, and see if the Repukes get more Senate seats (Flake will be gone in the next Congress) and take away all of Murkokeski's priviledges and perks. She can go caucus with the Democruds for all I care.

What a stupid time to be alive.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at September 27, 2018 01:41 PM (vcOmj)

Troll Alert!!!
At least it was when I said that.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (7YrFp)

548 Lindsey Graham has been doing yeoman work over the Kavanaugh nomination.

Now there's something I never thought I'd type.

So, for all of you naysayers, let me repeat: Lindsey Graham has been backing Kavanaugh to the hilt. That should at least give us an idea that things are not yet circling the drain.

Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (qC1Sy)

549 Wow, she seems like a dingy broad.

Is she dumb, or playing dumb?

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (Z5y53)

550 519 Wow. Mitchell asked a followup about who paid for the polygraph. Female lawyer grabbed the mike and said let me put an end to this and answer that her lawyers did. Male lawyer grabbed the mike and said, "As is customary."
Posted by: m at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (Ot4ka)

-----

Lawyers don't take a shit without billing someone for it. As is customary.

Posted by: MAGA at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (T2gkC)

551 This reminds me of the scene in Heaven Can Wait about the line of questioning regarding socks and cocoa.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (v1udk)

552 Now she is saying she never authorized the letter's release.
Then why was it released?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (8iiMU)

553 Is that a Lace Wig she's wearing. Good for all occasion

Posted by: Mr. Wednesday Night at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (ismre)

554 Have a Coke and a smile, bitch.

Posted by: Coca Cola at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (gC2IV)

555 I am so sorry. I think I remember you are quite fond of this aunt.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2018 01:44 PM (dI3/S)

Yes. Was just up there three weeks ago and she looked better than she has in ages. She was enjoying all the hummingbirds on her feeders, and I gave her a hand-held one.

She's a crusty old girl. AF retired, and an enthusiastic Trump supporter. Which drives everyone in my husband's family nuts. She adores my husband, me, and our son because we're not lib loons and we've always been good to her.

I wonder whatever happened to the Obama toilet paper she displayed in her bathroom?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (ptqGC)

556 Is Grassley even a lawyer?

Posted by: Under Fire at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (r9UYA)

557 What about the two men who claimed they assaulted her and that it wasn't Kav?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (Mzfcs)

---

THAT WOULDN'T BE JUSTICE!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Beach Friends at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (FHB7B)

558 Mencken: "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

I'm assuming this was written before helicopters were invented.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (9Om/r)

559 Why do I get the sense Mitchell is closing in.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (G0vdT)

560 "My question is this."

Aaaargh. Stop with the logic! NONE of this is about logic or facts. It's about emotions and impressions and hysteria and a vicious popular mania. We know that neither the congresspeople, nor the general public, are going to examine the evidence dispassionately and critically.

The votes are ALREADY bought. The votes are ALREADY decided.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (mk9aG)

561 Mail Order Brides are really looking up after this shit show.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (2LelM)

562 No question about her scrubbing her social media accounts! Un-fucking-believable!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (v1udk)

563 Are we sure ford isn't an ESL? She can't seem to understand English very well.

Posted by: Ever at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (OLS0m)

564 Sorry Ace, but I'm going with the lawyers here in the comments who say that the prosecutor from AZ did exactly what she should have been doing, and that was asking questions in a calm non accusatory manner.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 27, 2018 01:25 PM (wAWL+)

Agree. I've investigated several vehicular homicides and always tried to keep it it non-confrontational. The objective is to lock the perpetrator into a story and then blast holes in that story later. Not watching (cuz werkin') but have gathered the impression that the AZ prosecutor has exposed numerous contradictions in Dr. Crazy-pant's allegations. Her mission is NOT to pound on the table and yell, "You're a crazy lying b!tch!!!!!"

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (YQ4mh)

565 yeah; the dems are up, in the top of the first-

Posted by: pahound at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (BLWQY)

566 Spartacus is up! T Bone is standing with him

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (JvYb0)

567 559: The Senate will not let her lay a glove on Ballsey, wouldn't be good for re-election to be meanies

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (mlmZR)

568 So who cares about who paid for the polygraph?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara,
========
If the answer is George Soros, would that matter?

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (SGLWh)

569 https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/with_replies

There is a note Mollie posted from a friend.

My response, exactly.

This is hours of I don't know and I don't remember, or allowing the lawyers to respond, or changing the story and details.

She sounds like a first class ditz. The classic dumb blond stereotype. She is as dumb as a rock. And a liar.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (2I4LM)

570 Corey Booker up.

Posted by: m at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (Ot4ka)

571 533 What about the two men who claimed they assaulted her and that it wasn't Kav?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 27, 2018 01:46 PM (Mzfcs)

Yeah, why aren't men instantly believed when they confess crimes?

Posted by: Iblis at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (9221z)

572 I agree with every word. I even still want Kav, but it will never happen.

And that makes us both trolls here.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (7YrFp)

Then you two should get a room. That shit won't pack itself.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (iwUO9)

573 Aaaargh. Stop with the logic! NONE of this is about logic or facts. It's about emotions and impressions and hysteria and a vicious popular mania. We know that neither the congresspeople, nor the general public, are going to examine the evidence dispassionately and critically.

The votes are ALREADY bought. The votes are ALREADY decided.

Are you not entertained?

Posted by: Maximus Decimus Meridius at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (ctuyM)

574 Oh good, Spartacus is up.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (nS/wE)

575 So, Mitchell is going for: if you didn't plan on being public, why did you professionally erase social media in August?

Posted by: Ever at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (OLS0m)

576 How many minutes does the AZ Fat girl have left?

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (JvYb0)

577 So that last question about the WaPo unnerved her AND her jackboot attorneys.

I hope someone screencapped her Guilty Eye sidelong glance.

Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (kD8Fh)

578 This 5 minute back and forth nonsense is insane. It completely railroads Mitchell's job.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (Bcfof)

579 Why do I get the sense Mitchell is closing in.

Really? I'm expecting Mitchell to ask for a three way with Dr. Crazy-Fraud's husband.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (v1udk)

580

Roger Simon

NO ONE IS HONEST FOR FEAR OF BEING ATTACKED BUT... Dr. Ford strikes as a remarkably flakey and clueless person few intelligent people would find of any interest or would want to befriend. Didn't even understand the word exonerate. PhD? Well, maybe. That's the academic world.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (2I4LM)

581 Julie Kelly over at American Greatness had a pretty good column last week on how a lot of abused women seem to be using this as their own national therapy session. Basically, how it's just childish thinking and narcissism to inject your own trauma into a national debate to score political points for 'validation.'
Posted by: El Kabong at September 27, 2018 01:29 PM (datdl)

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Got in a *HUGE* argument with my Fiancé a few nights ago about this... She was raped as a teenager, and for her, this entire thing has "triggered" her all-over again... She doesn't care about facts, or about anything... To her, all that matters is Ford's accusation... Because when she was raped, no one believed her... She just kept saying, "Why would she lie?" and thinking she was incredibly brave for coming forward... Pure, raw emotion... no facts... She just knows in her bones that Ford is telling the truth and Kavanaugh must be guilty...

Posted by: I smell something rotten at September 27, 2018 01:50 PM (IBt/r)

582 576: Not enough

Posted by: CN at September 27, 2018 01:50 PM (mlmZR)

583 you would want to save everything controversial for the second half of blasey's testimony so she does not have a chance to recover and regain her footing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 01:50 PM (MTjB1)

584 The MOST courageous liar in the country!

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:50 PM (JvYb0)

585 574 Oh good, Spartacus is up.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (nS/wE)

Great, is he going to ask her how she organized her closets for her Google renters?

Posted by: Iblis at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (9221z)

586 568
So who cares about who paid for the polygraph?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara,

========

If the answer is George Soros, would that matter?

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 01:48 PM (SGLWh)
Would it matter to Collins, Flake or Murkowski? No. But it could further undermine the veracity of her claims.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (jxbfJ)

587

Sean Davis

You wouldn't know it from the insular echo chamber that is Twitter, but this hearing has gone poorly for Ford and her credibility, and gets worse for her the longer it goes on. No evidence, no facts, bizarre memory gaps, lies about flying, no idea who bought polygraph.

This is exactly how I feel when I step back. No more crocodile tears (for which there weren't to begin with). The emo-heart-strings didn't work for most women.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (2I4LM)

588 Corey- can i just get a quick touch? (who am I kidding?)

Posted by: pahound at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (BLWQY)

589 Wtf is senator googly eyes rambling about

Posted by: Brian Williams at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (9N+85)

590 Why hasn't Booker and Feinswine been booted of the committee yet?

Posted by: Iblis at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (9221z)

591 everything in dc is wheels within wheels these days. no one cares about the truth of her testimony or whether it is only verifiable only how she comes across.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (MTjB1)

592 Is he gonna cry?

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (aPoJ5)

593 585
574 Oh good, Spartacus is up.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader Contributing
Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at September 27, 2018 01:49 PM (nS/wE)

Great, is he going to ask her how she organized her closets for her Google renters?

Posted by: Iblis at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (9221z)
Probably offer her the co-chair of his 2020 presidential campaign.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (jxbfJ)

594 That's it, Dr. Ford is just too credible, Kavanaugh is toast. When she describes the trauma she went through, it's almost as if I'm transported back to that day, and am bearing witness to violence and horror that would turn most men's bowels to water.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (jjaLl)

595 Wow. Mitchell asked a followup about who paid for the polygraph. Female lawyer grabbed the mike and said let me put an end to this and answer that her lawyers did. Male lawyer grabbed the mike and said, "As is customary."
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Hmmm. Explicit waiver of any privilege regarding billing/reimbursement of the polygraph?

Interesting possibilities.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (Qj6Lw)

596 Let's not chop off everyone's dicks yet, people that are worried...

Kavanaugh did brilliant in his TV interview, remember. He will not get ruffled on the stand, and he will be able to ninja dodge leading questions, and he will look like the nice guy done wrong that he actually is.

THIS is why the prosecution goes first and the defense goes second, in my mind. So the accused gets the final impression of the jury, and so the defendant can see the case being built against them and fight that narrative. And why the libs were trying to blow up that process by Ford squealing she could go last.

The prosecution is trying to build a wall of condemnation against him, brick by brick by brick. Kavanaugh can hopefully tear out chunks of that wall and send it tumbling down.

Posted by: LizLem at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (hvf9s)

597 T Bone wrote his speech!

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (JvYb0)

598

Sparcy up

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (2I4LM)

599 592
Is he gonna cry?

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (aPoJ5)

She is.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (jxbfJ)

600 I agree with every word. I even still want Kav, but it will never happen.

And that makes us both trolls here.

Posted by: cpurick at September 27, 2018 01:19 PM (7YrFp)

Then you two should get a room. That shit won't pack itself.

Thank you, I needed a laugh at this point. Yelling at the television doesn't seem to be helping my disposition.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (v1udk)

601 Lawyers don't take a shit without billing someone for it. As is customary.
Posted by: MAGA at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM

Why wouldn't you bill for your premium product?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (ctuyM)

602 "Stray Dog, Ikiru, High and Low"

Yes, yes, and yes! To which I would add Scandal.

My advice to movie buffs is: always look for the stuff the critics haven't put in the pantheon.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (mk9aG)

603 This is so smart....
Focusing on the how she got her accusations into the public. Poking holes in her statement. Making it obvious that she was used by the dems.
She seems like a typical slightly naive academic who probably was assaulted by someone not Kavenaugh but is very confused and is being used by democrats who ignored her stated wish to be anonymous.
This is making the democrats look like shit.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (myjNJ)

604 well, maybe Flake demanded he get to pick a friendly prosecutor ... since that was a condition for him getting hired by CNN ... hard to tell since at this point ... Anything Goes.

Trump Russia lies by our own FBI to coverup massive Hillary sellouts for decades ... Anything Goes.
idk, still absurd, maybe they have the votes ... and this is just part of the deal. Average people seem to think this is nuts, but they won't get any air time.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2018 01:53 PM (Cus5s)

605 Oh, Christ, now we've got the admitted groper.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:53 PM (vnpiz)

606 449
Or, unless you all forget, this has nothing to do with Kavanaugh... It's all about Trump and the left's desire to finally land a blow against him after 2years of flailing wildly and getting pummeled by him...
Posted by: I smell something rotten at September 27, 2018 01:39 PM (IBt/r)

But mostly stepping on rakes.

Posted by: rickl at September 27, 2018 01:53 PM (xjiRE)

607 Spartacus-asking questions in Latin-nice!

Posted by: pahound at September 27, 2018 01:53 PM (BLWQY)

608 haahahahh

Chuck Todd: Ford Is a 'Victim of the Democrats Playing Politics'
"She's done a great job of exposing the Democrats of playing games," Todd said. "It's almost as if Dr. Ford was a victim of the Democrats playing politics."

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:53 PM (2I4LM)

609 Let her waffle for all the world to see. The very fact she cannot give straight answers to very simple questions should be setting alarm bells off on the lefts infinitesimally small mind that this woman is being less than truthful.

I think Mitchell is doing a good job given who she is working for. She is letting Ford hang herself with her own retractions and corrections and hazy memory details (or lack there of). The more Ford talks the more she punches holes in her own credibility.

Posted by: Mailman at September 27, 2018 01:53 PM (RykDQ)

610 n00d

Posted by: buzzion at September 27, 2018 01:53 PM (cAnNx)

611 Sean Davis

You wouldn't know it from the insular echo chamber that is Twitter, but this hearing has gone poorly for Ford and her credibility, and gets worse for her the longer it goes on. No evidence, no facts, bizarre memory gaps, lies about flying, no idea who bought polygraph.

This is exactly how I feel when I step back. No more crocodile tears (for which there weren't to begin with). The emo-heart-strings didn't work for most women.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2018 01:51 PM (2I4LM)
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Agreed, he memory is so bad it strains her credibility that she can actually remember the event accurately.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (G0vdT)

612 argument with my Fiance a few nights ago about this
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you may want to re think some things.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (SGLWh)

613 Brinklayers and Craftworkers?

T-Bone goes deep!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (v1udk)

614 Lambda Legal? Isn't that a fruit organization?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (vnpiz)

615 Why are all these Dem's entering all these fake letters into the record?

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (JvYb0)

616 I was waiting for the bricklayers to weigh in. Experts in catcalling.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (dNzKv)

617 Let the droning begin.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (vnpiz)

618 She answered that already! Her damn beach friends!!!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (v1udk)

619 More on Vocal Fry
https://tinyurl.com/lpu2jps

Up Talk
https://tinyurl.com/jf94lgv

Posted by: Iblis at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (9221z)

620 I swear to effing God all you people saying Kavanaugh is toast just go slit your wrists already. Enough for fucks sake. I came here to stay informed since I can't watch from work and it's all Kav is toast, this is bad for Kav blah blah... Jesus... I'm out for awhile. I can't take this.

Posted by: Jewells45 at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (kG5hP)

621 616 I was waiting for the bricklayers to weigh in. Experts in catcalling.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 27, 2018 01:54 PM (dNzKv)

Can't get more reliable than the bricklayers, whose relevance to this is obvious.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:55 PM (vnpiz)

622 ruh-roh

Posted by: pahound at September 27, 2018 01:55 PM (BLWQY)

623 s it, Dr. Ford is just too credible, Kavanaugh is toast. When she describes the trauma she went through, it's almost as if I'm transported back to that day, and am bearing witness to violence and horror that would turn most men's bowels to water.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at S

yes, yes, yes, the horror of wrestling with some guy who did not grab a tit, did not kiss her, did not do anything other than try to take her clothes off, at which he failed, and cover her mouth.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 01:55 PM (MTjB1)

624 OH SNAP one of those lawyers came from DiFi

Posted by: That's MISS Lurkalicious to you, Moron at September 27, 2018 01:55 PM (qPW+O)

625 Waaat? When did she first request an FBI investigation? WTF? What is the point?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:56 PM (vnpiz)

626 That's it, Dr. Ford is just too credible, Kavanaugh
is toast. When she describes the trauma she went through, it's almost as
if I'm transported back to that day, and am bearing witness to violence
and horror that would turn most men's bowels to water.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 27, 2018 01:52 PM (jjaLl)

You obviously didn't see my post in the last thread. No water bowels here. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:56 PM (9Om/r)

627 Is she dumb, or playing dumb?Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2018 01:47 PM (Z5y53)
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Playing

Posted by: ... at September 27, 2018 01:57 PM (aPoJ5)

628 Back to the legal fees. Christ. It's Soros. We all know that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:57 PM (vnpiz)

629 " I swear to effing God " I contend that NONE of us can possibly know what will happen. And that it is best not to get too emotionally invested in any particular desired outcome.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:57 PM (mk9aG)

630 Admit it, you lust after Justin Trudeau's eyebrows, don't you?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2018 01:42 PM (iwUO9)

Nothing of the sort- far from it. Been commenting here for over 10 yrs. All y'all are newbies. I'd say more but it would take Dave Reaboi to prove it.

Posted by: The Mr Wolf at September 27, 2018 01:57 PM (YkEgi)

631 ...and they are pro bono

Posted by: That's MISS Lurkalicious to you, Moron at September 27, 2018 01:57 PM (qPW+O)

632 Now for a tough question: "What did you have for lunch?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:57 PM (vnpiz)

633 Sorry, I wrote that just to see what it felt like to write some really really stupis shit....... if anyone took "turns men's bowels to water" seriously, well.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 27, 2018 01:58 PM (jjaLl)

634 Remember Kavanaugh speaks last - and people tend to remember the last thing they're told.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 01:58 PM (vnpiz)

635 " I swear to effing God " I contend that NONE of us
can possibly know what will happen. And that it is best not to get too
emotionally invested in any particular desired outcome.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 01:57 PM (mk9aG)

I almost don't give a shit what happens. I'm convinced that with each passing day we get closer to helicopter rides, and that will be some cool shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:59 PM (9Om/r)

636 Am I the only one here that doubts that she's really in any danger, whatsoever? That probably, some harmless troll said something nasty or threatening, at most, and that she's moved because (1) it makes her more of a victim and (2) she's an unbalanced kook.

Posted by: Optimizer at September 27, 2018 01:59 PM (hOOi9)

637 Who is the prosecutor working for?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 27, 2018 01:59 PM (dNzKv)

638 This is better than The View!

How horrible that mean man Kavanaugh is!

He RUINED her! Poor womyn!

Posted by: LIVs and Dems at September 27, 2018 02:00 PM (UsCnO)

639 Re Wallace and Brett Baier

I lot of married men today are whipped. If they have wives who cry and get upset they are conditioned to sh!+ themselves. Sadly, these two fellows are likely conditioned to crouch and grab their balls when they see a middle aged woman crying.

I blame divorce courts.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:00 PM (Qj6Lw)

640 636 Am I the only one here that doubts that she's really in any danger, whatsoever? That probably, some harmless troll said something nasty or threatening, at most, and that she's moved because (1) it makes her more of a victim and (2) she's an unbalanced kook.
Posted by: Optimizer at September 27, 2018 01:59 PM (hOOi9)

I think her shysters would put out that she'd been threatened pretty much as a matter of course.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:00 PM (vnpiz)

641 You obviously didn't see my post in the last thread. No water bowels here. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2018 01:56 PM (9Om/r)

Yeah I did- clearly you were not the target audience for my post ... heh!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 27, 2018 02:00 PM (jjaLl)

642 Anecdotal here but a middle age woman from work, votes regularly, usually Republican, but not overly informed, watched the 'first half' with me and thinks the woman is not credible and her convenient memory lapses sounds fishy.

Posted by: Derptastic at September 27, 2018 02:00 PM (DB16e)

643
620 I swear to effing God all you people saying Kavanaugh is toast just go slit your wrists already. Enough for fucks sake. I came here to stay informed since I can't watch from work and it's all Kav is toast, this is bad for Kav blah blah... Jesus... I'm out for awhile. I can't take this.
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A-fucking-men. Some of you people are as big a pussies as the Never-Trumpers.

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 02:00 PM (GdJ+p)

644 Until just now she didn't know who was paying all of the fees?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 27, 2018 02:01 PM (dNzKv)

645 "with each passing day we get closer to helicopter rides"

I've fired a lot of 30cal at the moon, that disturbing lunar oppressor, over the years. I'm ready for the helicopters. And the killer robots. As long as they get inside 500 yds.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:01 PM (mk9aG)

646 Kamel Toe is up

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 27, 2018 02:01 PM (jxbfJ)

647 Hell yes she's on trial. C'mon Kameltoe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:01 PM (vnpiz)

648 644
Until just now she didn't know who was paying all of the fees?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 27, 2018 02:01 PM (dNzKv)

Mighty generous of her lawyers to go pro bono

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 27, 2018 02:02 PM (jxbfJ)

649 BK can hold the line, all he has to do is appear as credible. No slam
dunk possible, no ground can be gained, just keep what you got. He can
match her emotional power by demonstrating virtue, specific rebuttals
and confidence.

Posted by: potadas at September 27, 2018 02:02 PM (9wOdt)

650 Mighty generous of her lawyers to go pro bono
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 27, 2018 02:02 PM (jxbfJ)

I believe that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:02 PM (vnpiz)

651 So, the woman that climbed to the top of the heap by using willie's man-parts as her bootstraps is all "member of the sisterhood" with the "assault victim."

Posted by: Ever at September 27, 2018 02:03 PM (OLS0m)

652 They are playing soft with her because they intend to present the two guys who actually did the assault and show that she is simply confused about who did it.

Posted by: An Observation at September 27, 2018 02:03 PM (pmmBv)

653 so, who else detected slight changes in the background music with the prosecutors most recent round of questioning about the friend balsey had in common with kavanaugh?

slow, soft, hints of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-sX2Y0W8l0

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 02:03 PM (MTjB1)

654 Now Kameltoe is citing social "science." All of which is a joke.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:03 PM (vnpiz)

655 The second door is a private entrance for the Google employee tenant.
That $4k a month in rent is why she wanted it.

She slipped when she said that, taking about how it's not aesthetic but they host Google interns ... completely unrelated

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 27, 2018 01:34 PM (TN1P5)

In other words, she and her husband are doing so poorly financially, they have to take in boarders.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2018 02:03 PM (iwUO9)

656
In other words, she and her husband are doing so poorly financially, they have to take in boarders.
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the terribly traumatized woman lets strangers sleep under her roof for money, riiiiiiiight.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:05 PM (DTxf0)

657 Corey Booker as friend of the assaulted woman. That is a good point: he knows a lot about assaulted women.

Posted by: An Observation at September 27, 2018 02:05 PM (pmmBv)

658 646
Kamel Toe is up

Usually she is in a down position.

Posted by: Willie B at September 27, 2018 02:05 PM (UsCnO)

659 For lunar assault, I recommend 300H&H. I see they haven't surrendered yet. I just checked, and the dam thing is still there. Little help, anybody?

For killer robots, 30-06 is fine.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:06 PM (mk9aG)

660 somehow booker did not use the line "as one who has sexually assaulted women and really enjoyed it"

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 02:06 PM (MTjB1)

661 Mitchell's questioning technique is fine. It's the constant interruption for Democratic grandstanding that's making this into a sh*tshow.

Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at September 27, 2018 02:06 PM (tSFch)

662 Chuck Todd: Ford Is a 'Victim of the Democrats Playing Politics'
"She's done a great job of exposing the Democrats of playing games," Todd said. "It's almost as if Dr. Ford was a victim of the Democrats playing politics."

If I am confirmed, I promise that all people will be treated fairly in the court and not as pawns of a political party.

P.S. suck it.

Posted by: Brett Kavanagh at September 27, 2018 02:06 PM (nEOLy)

663 "We're almost done????"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:07 PM (vnpiz)

664 For lunar assault, I recommend 300H&H. I see they haven't surrendered yet. I just checked, and the dam thing is still there. Little help, anybody?

For killer robots, 30-06 is fine.
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Any advice for me? I've got a nephilim problem.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:07 PM (jk+CO)

665 Yeah, Kamala, I always contact my congressman for a local criminal matter.

Posted by: smiiin jack at September 27, 2018 02:08 PM (yDxHh)

666 So many unanswered questions.

Was the second front door a six-panel door or a colonial with a high-mounted Wessex fan-window?

Were both doors left-handed, right-handed or different?

If there was no storm door, did the doors swing out or swing in?

Why does a door make you think of sexual assault, but not a bed or a couch?

Posted by: Bob Vila at September 27, 2018 02:08 PM (vbJig)

667 here comes the fun

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 02:09 PM (MTjB1)

668 I think it would be so cool if Boston Dynamics would release their whole zoo into a football stadium, and everybody in the stands had Garands.

I would pay $1000 for a ticket, AND I would bring my own ammo too. That concession-stand ammo is way too expensive, and the waiting lines are murder.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:09 PM (mk9aG)

669 This is a shitshow. Dim grandstanding. Vote.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at September 27, 2018 02:09 PM (0OmEj)

670 The second door is a private entrance for the Google employee tenant.
That $4k a month in rent is why she wanted it.

If confirmed I swear that SCOTUS will make such high rents illegal.

P.S. Didn't expect that curve ball, did ya?

Posted by: Brett Kavanagh at September 27, 2018 02:09 PM (nEOLy)

671 The second door is a private entrance for the Google employee tenant.
That $4k a month in rent is why she wanted it.
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The rent is TOO DAMN HIGH!

Posted by: rent is to damn high guy at September 27, 2018 02:10 PM (DTxf0)

672 Rush just said Ford has 2 houses, in Santa Cruz and Palo Alto.

Last week, a 700 sf old house went for over $2 million in Palo Alto.

Leftist hives.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 27, 2018 02:11 PM (UsCnO)

673 I've got to say that all the people commenting on her voice is rather upsetting.

Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at September 27, 2018 01:17 PM (mf5HN)

You weave obscenities throughout the podcast into a complex tapestry of rage; it lets your adoring fans ignore the "Calvin and the chipmunks" delivery. It's just one of the many reasons why the Horde loves you Empress.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at September 27, 2018 02:11 PM (bML9A)

674 Here she comes y'all

Posted by: That's MISS Lurkalicious to you, Moron at September 27, 2018 02:11 PM (qPW+O)

675 "I've got a nephilim problem." I haven't handloaded for nephilim, but I know some guys who bought their way into a hunt next week. I'll ask them what cartridge is best. I think with nephilim, you don't want a clean kill. You need to pump em full.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:11 PM (mk9aG)

676 the big risk for kavanaugh is blumenthal testifying that he was there and helped judge and kav rape blasey, in vietnam

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 02:13 PM (MTjB1)

677 I've got to say that all the people commenting on her voice is rather upsetting.

Those who listen to the podcast know why I am sensitive on this point.
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My wife has an extremely high voice.

Especially when excited.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:13 PM (DTxf0)

678 A-fucking-men. Some of you people are as big a pussies as the Never-Trumpers.
Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 02:00 PM (GdJ+p)

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I'm sorry... but am I the only one here who hasn't forgotten how many fucking times we've been through this exact scenario before... how many times we told ourselves, *this time will be different*... We've been screwed by the GOP leadership *TOO MANY TIMES* for me to take it on faith that they aren't planning to shit the bed on purpose so they can go on "losing" honorably... or whatever the fuck you want to call it... If I'm wrong, and this is all lead-up to some knock-out blow that will single-handedly crush the Dem's, then I'll gladly admit to being wrong... but telling those of us who have valid concerns to just STFU and stop being a Moby is insulting...

Posted by: I smell something rotten at September 27, 2018 02:13 PM (IBt/r)

679 Whoa I think I got a hit! Let me check the telescope ...

Rats, it's just Tycho.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:14 PM (mk9aG)

680 so that is it?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 02:14 PM (MTjB1)

681 Grassley is in the bag.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:15 PM (vnpiz)

682 Wow.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 27, 2018 02:15 PM (Bcfof)

683 The Republicans allowed this fiasco to happen with the format they chose.

The prosecutor asks a (ridiculous) question and then Ford runs 2 minutes worth of time off the clock in her long out whiney answers and then that is followed up by a dem tear-jerking fest.

If I tried really hard and I mean really hard to believe a he said/she said sexual assault person from 35 years back that is being used as a political, I would......Well, I would tell her/him to go pound sand.

Posted by: Drider at September 27, 2018 02:15 PM (6uV+4)

684 680 so that is it?
Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2018 02:14 PM (MTjB1)

Yeah, really. So when was Jumbo going to get to the point of ... anything at all?

We now know Ford's lawyers bought her lunch, and validated her parking. Great. Well worth this whole shitshow.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:16 PM (vnpiz)

685 I'm sorry... but am I the only one here who hasn't forgotten how many fucking times we've been through this exact scenario before... how many times we told ourselves, *this time will be different*... We've been screwed by the GOP leadership *TOO MANY TIMES* for me to take it on faith that they aren't planning to shit the bed on purpose so they can go on "losing" honorably... or whatever the fuck you want to call it... If I'm wrong, and this is all lead-up to some knock-out blow that will single-handedly crush the Dem's, then I'll gladly admit to being wrong... but telling those of us who have valid concerns to just STFU and stop being a Moby is insulting...
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I think the point may be that we are in agreement about the history. However, past performance does not predict the future yadda yaddaa, blah blah.

We'll see a vote cuz, he aint withdrawing. We'll know only then what will happen.

If you must emote, go ahead. If necessary break out the mussy hair doo and the smeared up glasses.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:17 PM (DTxf0)

686 "So you had a pastrami sandwich at lunch? How paid for that? Was it you, or your lawyers? Will they bill for that pastrami sandwich? Did you get a kosher pickle with it?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity, just back from the mid-Atlantic at September 27, 2018 02:18 PM (vnpiz)

687 "So you had a pastrami sandwich at lunch?"

Geez, where can you even find real pastrami anymore??? Those lawyers are f'n rich!

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:19 PM (mk9aG)

688 I agree, Ace. Mitchell is just terrible. Not ready for prime time.
"How did you know how to submit your letter to a congress person but not the senate or White House?"
"Has any doctor discussed with your your anxiety problems and suggested you cut down on your caffeine intake?"
And now I think Ford is leaving?! Now that they're getting close to some real issues.

Posted by: PJ at September 27, 2018 02:19 PM (qlTN9)

689 I think they got enough for the Senators to use in debate. Without inflicting collateral damage. Badgering her would not have accomplished more.

Posted by: That's MISS Lurkalicious to you, Moron at September 27, 2018 02:21 PM (qPW+O)

690 So you had a pastrami sandwich at lunch? How paid for that? Was it you, or your lawyers? Will they bill for that pastrami sandwich? Did you get a kosher pickle with it?"
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Hmm. Interesting questions actually. Kind of thing you might ask if you had documentary evidence that before she did anything, she got written confirmation that everything would be paid for, right down to the sandwich tray. . .

Maybe not.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:22 PM (jk+CO)

691 Shooting the moon, you have to lead the target. A lot. They have scopes out now that do all the calculations for you. With 300H&H, you lead it by about 17 days. So you have to be sure to come back in two weeks and watch the hit.

No effect so far, so it would really help if some of you morons would sack up, arm up, and help me with this. I feel like I'm out-mooned.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:23 PM (mk9aG)

692 What were the Dems saying wanting the others didn't testify?

VietNam Blumenthal wanted them out of the record.

Actual court documents.

All 3 were interviewed under oath, by the Senate committee, under penalty of perjury and jail time. All 3 people who have come forward have denied everything! Said she was not telling the truth.

*insert 4 letter word here*

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 27, 2018 02:24 PM (UsCnO)

693 I'm sorry... but am I the only one here who hasn't forgotten how many fucking times we've been through this exact scenario before... how many times we told ourselves, *this time will be different*... We've been screwed by the GOP leadership *TOO MANY TIMES* for me to take it on faith that they aren't planning to shit the bed on purpose so they can go on "losing" honorably... or whatever the fuck you want to call it... If I'm wrong, and this is all lead-up to some knock-out blow that will single-handedly crush the Dem's, then I'll gladly admit to being wrong... but telling those of us who have valid concerns to just STFU and stop being a Moby is insulting...

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But you people are acting like this hearing itself has been a disaster when it's been anything but. Dr. Ford's credibility has been destroyed, she's been caught in bald-faced lies (fear of flying, etc.) and hasn't put for even a scintilla of new evidence to support her bullshit accusation. And yet you are already throwing in the towel and conceding defeat.

And that's before Kavannaugh has had his turn.

Jesus tits, people.

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 02:24 PM (GdJ+p)

694 " Dr. Ford's credibility has been destroyed"

So true, and so irrelevant to the outcome. Which nobody can yet guess, so don't fret.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:26 PM (mk9aG)

695
I'm sorry... but am I the only one here who
hasn't forgotten how many fucking times we've been through this exact
scenario before... how many times we told ourselves, *this time will be
different*... We've been screwed by the GOP leadership *TOO MANY
TIMES* for me to take it on faith that they aren't planning to shit the
bed on purpose so they can go on "losing" honorably... or whatever the
fuck you want to call it... If I'm wrong, and this is all lead-up to
some knock-out blow that will single-handedly crush the Dem's, then I'll
gladly admit to being wrong... but telling those of us who have valid
concerns to just STFU and stop being a Moby is insulting...

Posted by: I smell something rotten at September 27, 2018 02:13 PM (IBt/r)

With a crooked, lying press, this Senate farce is about all we get to get out the reality of this garbage.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 27, 2018 02:26 PM (UsCnO)

696 Ace goes wobbly. I'm surprised.

Posted by: strawdog at September 27, 2018 02:27 PM (Cssks)

697 I'm sorry... but am I the only one here who hasn't forgotten how many fucking times we've been through this exact scenario before... how many times we told ourselves, *this time will be different*... We've been screwed by the GOP leadership *TOO MANY TIMES* for me to take it on faith that they aren't planning to shit the bed on purpose so they can go on "losing" honorably... or whatever the fuck you want to call it... If I'm wrong, and this is all lead-up to some knock-out blow that will single-handedly crush the Dem's, then I'll gladly admit to being wrong... but telling those of us who have valid concerns to just STFU and stop being a Moby is insulting...

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But you people are acting like this hearing itself has been a disaster when it's been anything but. Dr. Ford's credibility has been destroyed, she's been caught in bald-faced lies (fear of flying, etc.) and hasn't put for even a scintilla of new evidence to support her bullshit accusation. And yet you are already throwing in the towel and conceding defeat.

And that's before Kavannaugh has had his turn.

Jesus tits, people.

Posted by: thirteen28
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Actually thirteen if you look closely, the poster admitted to posting "concerns". So, venting.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:28 PM (Qj6Lw)

698 So leading the moon by 17 days, you have to make sure that it's not a new moon when you anticipate the projectiles to arrive. Otherwise you will not be able to see the impacts.

I wasted 20 rounds that way once. Learned my lesson.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2018 02:29 PM (mk9aG)

699 Even Lindsey fucking Graham has bucked up and showed some balls.

Meanwhile, Ford goes and throws here "friend" Leland under the bus for health problems after being questioned about Leland's *sworn* testimony that this is all bullshit.

OMG DISASTER FOR REPUBLICANS THE SKY IS FALLING BUCKETMAN LIVES RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 02:29 PM (GdJ+p)

700 Meanwhile, Ford goes and throws here "friend" Leland under the bus for health problems after being questioned about Leland's *sworn* testimony that this is all bullshit.
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Stay Classy San Diego.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2018 02:30 PM (Qj6Lw)

701 Been watching since lunchtime, and I'm not convinced. Ford talks a good game, but the real show will begin when Kavanaugh takes the stand. IMHO, if he can stand tough in the face of everything that has been heard so far, he's a shoo-in.

Posted by: DynamiteDan at September 27, 2018 02:31 PM (MqzWH)

702 Mitchell's cross exam is terrible, questions should have been in your polygraph yo say 6, in your affidavit you say 4, correct?

You don't remember the year, correct?

You don't remember the day, correct?

You don't remember whose house it was, correct?

You don't remember the address, correct?

You don't know how you got there, correct?

And you don't know how you got home, correct?

Your best friend who you say was there, says she was not and did not even know who Brett Kavanaugh was the the time, correct?

This is how it is done. Mitchell for whatever reason did a terrible, appallingly bad job. Maybe she just sucks at being a lawyer.

Posted by: I am Gracchus at September 27, 2018 02:33 PM (akLGN)

703 Maybe all the babbling and goo-goo-ing is the point.

Let the public see she's either a liar or a nut. Or both, they're hardly mutually exclusive.

Sometimes the Perry Mason route isn't the way to go. She seems to be caught in lie after lie and all they get is, "I can't remember". She's coming across like an absolute ditz.

Most women aren't going to buy that for long, especially with that Dr in front of her name.

PS I think Mr Peebles up top is right. Even Flake seems to have broken with the Demos on this and Senate races are tightening. Manchin is dead even in WV, so those red state voters have to be considered.

A lot of spines may have stiffened after Cruz was jumped Friday.

Posted by: formwiz at September 27, 2018 02:34 PM (3rwvI)

704 This is how it is done. Mitchell for whatever reason did a terrible, appallingly bad job. Maybe she just sucks at being a lawyer.
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Yeah, all she did was expose her lying about her fear of flying, contradict herself multiple times about who and how many were at the party, throw her friend and other witnesses under the bus, show that she can't even remember dates from the last month, that she doesn't know who paid for the polygraph ... yeah, but Ford looked credible to Mitchell's questioning besides that ...

smfh ...

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 02:38 PM (GdJ+p)

705 Then after a line of question like 702 above, you say, but you do remember that you had exactly one beer to drink, correct?

Drawing the obvious implication that wherever she had a bad feely with a bad boy who we will will never know, that she was hammered.

Also, likely that she has been telling this kind of victim badge since it became popular, and then, to make it all the much better she made the bad boy the most powerful person she knew of to make the story even more fabulous. Then, once stuck telling enough people, she was trapped and did not want to look foolish so she brazened ahead.

I think she likely did have an experience, which is why she sounds pretty good describing it, but intentionally kept it vague as to other details so she could successfully cut and past Kavenaugh into the story. She is a pile of crap, but I am not hopeful about the nomination at this point. What dumbs hits, should said, so sad, too late, not going to play this game and voted as originally scheduled.

Bummer

Posted by: I am Gracchus at September 27, 2018 02:40 PM (akLGN)

706 704, I missed that part, so I stand corrected. Good, I look forward to seeing that part of the hearing.

Posted by: I am Gracchus at September 27, 2018 02:41 PM (akLGN)

707 @704 -- agree. Throwing her friend under the bus was appalling and unhelpful. So if she is getting care she is not credible? Is that the deal? Wows. I don't think that the combo of the serious memory issues and that backhand was good for the witness. Remember role of this lawyer. Just a microphone guys. It's for the Senators to take this up in debate. Maybe the goal was for it to be enough for a vote to send it to the full Senate and let them decide.

Posted by: That's MISS Lurkalicious to you, Moron at September 27, 2018 02:42 PM (qPW+O)

708 Wow, I don't know where he got his balls, but Lindsey Graham is suddenly The Terminator ... he is en fuego!

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 02:46 PM (GdJ+p)

709 the press of course is focused on the circus outside
as the cray cray will come leaping out in 5 minute increments shortly in the kavanaugh side

Posted by: paulnjax at September 27, 2018 02:48 PM (nbaBy)

710 707 @704 -- agree. Throwing her friend under the bus was appalling and unhelpful. So if she is getting care she is not credible? Is that the deal? Wows. I don't think that the combo of the serious memory issues and that backhand was good for the witness. Remember role of this lawyer. Just a microphone guys. It's for the Senators to take this up in debate. Maybe the goal was for it to be enough for a vote to send it to the full Senate and let them decide.
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More simply, if Leland's credibility is in question because of health problems, then so is Ford - who admitted to health problems under oath this morning.

She doesn't get to decide which standards apply to whom and which ones don't, and he doesn't get to decide that they apply only to others but not to her.

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 02:48 PM (GdJ+p)

711 I'll tell you what that annoying little girl voice is all about.

It's about where her maturity stopped. Being a cheerleader in high school. It's a "I'm a cheerleader" voice. I'm one of the cool kids. Ugly but still a cool kid. Hell, even her comment about using separate doors at the grocery store because she was embarrassed to be seen with her mother is quite telling.

It's childish, self-centered and narcissistic.

Ugh, run from a woman with that kind of voice.

Posted by: Screeching like chalk on a chalkboard at September 27, 2018 02:51 PM (tAK9/)

712 the last question why did you not take a full forensic interview is the nicest way to say you did not go to the police though you feared for your life

Posted by: paulnjax at September 27, 2018 02:54 PM (nbaBy)

713

I'd follow this but the pearl clutching here is too much to contend with.

Kavanaugh will be seated--and if by some malignant stroke he ISN'T, I will come hereto the middle of the room, and apologize, then y'all can take your shots.

Posted by: irongrampa at September 27, 2018 02:55 PM (S/hVx)

714 Here's my most basic question (well, pair of questions):

(1) If Kavanaugh is innocent, what could he have done in his life (yes, his WHOLE life) to be secure from the threat of being disbelieved on the stand?

IFAICS, pretty much nothing. OK, apparently he drank a fair bit in HS, but as far as anyone corroboration of his life as a whole, it's been not merely clean but exemplary.

(2) If Ford is telling the truth and was assaulted, what could she have done in her life to make her story more believable?

OK...she could have spoken about this at the time; she could have gone public earlier; her testimony would not contradict itself at several points, etc.

IOW, Kavanaugh would be screwed pretty much screwed no matter how he lived his adult life; a false charge that cannot be proven or even corroborated would sink him.

Therefore, should false charges be brought against any man, he is to be judged guilty.

Posted by: philolurker at September 27, 2018 02:59 PM (w+per)

715 Stop being so depressed. Burden of proof is on Ford, and Mitchell is poking holes left and right.

Posted by: MikeN at September 27, 2018 02:59 PM (o/eHL)

716 BTW, if Kavanaugh is not seated, I want the president to go DEFCON 1 on government corruption. Whatever he has, on anyone, should come out...and damned be to proper procedure.

Posted by: philolurker at September 27, 2018 03:01 PM (w+per)

717 I don't know who the aliens are who kidnapped the old Lindsey Graham and replaced him with the new, improved one ... but please, aliens, keep the old one. He probably liked the anal probes anyway.

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 03:03 PM (GdJ+p)

718 Gateway has a clip of Sheila Jackson Lee slipping an envelope to one of Ford's lawyers on the down low. What the hell is this????

Posted by: James Douglas at September 27, 2018 03:03 PM (blnJH)

719 I think the prosecutor has done an excellent job letting Ford hang herself, change her story 4 times, and throw her best friend under the bus. Remember, this whole thing is to give cover to the 3 Rs and 3 Ds to vote for Kavanaugh becuase now Ford Blowsie seems like the least believable person on the face of the planet.

Kavanaugh's testimony will be the final killshot and those currently undecided will hear from voters - particularly women back home in AK, AZ, ND, WV - that you can't treat a decent, honorable man like this who has given his life to publice service.

Posted by: horn at September 27, 2018 03:10 PM (95zYl)

720 719 Agreed. Ford didn't get even one single new fact into the record to support her allegations, meanwhile facts she had put into the record got knocked down due to her contradictions. And she looked awful throwing a lifelong friend under the bus.

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 03:14 PM (GdJ+p)

721 Are any of the parents of the six party goers still alive?

Have the parents been questioned?

Posted by: goatweed at September 27, 2018 03:56 PM (iR3Gu)

722 Mebbe Grassley / McConnell already have the votes locked in, and don't really care anymore how this goes; that they are just letting this show proceed on a softball basis to minimize the Dem's ad campaigns.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at September 27, 2018 04:23 PM (o7l6R)

723 This is it boys and girls. The GOP will never be able to nominate a man for any appointed position again. It's all women all the time.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2018 04:48 PM (50gG9)

724 Here is the $64000 Question AT WHAT LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE DID THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS ACOURE and WHO'S ON FIRST,AND WHO IS BURIED IN GRANTS TOMB and WHERE IS JIMMY HOFFA BURIED?

Posted by: Tamaa the Bird 1000 Voices at September 27, 2018 04:50 PM (wGqjj)

725 717 I don't know who the aliens are who kidnapped the old Lindsey Graham and replaced him with the new, improved one ... but please, aliens, keep the old one. He probably liked the anal probes anyway.
Posted by: thirteen28 at September 27, 2018 03:03 PM (GdJ+p)

Didn't you see the video from McCain's funeral between Huma, Graham and the Generals? My guess is he got caught diddling little boys and somehow the administration got the evidence, but instead of prosecuting him they decided it was better to OWN a senator.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 27, 2018 04:51 PM (50gG9)

726 Has anyone mentioned Ashley Kavanaugh's face during portions of Brett's testimony? She was so done with it all. She doesn't have a good poker face, and I loved it. She looked pissed rather than defeated. Her softest moment was when Brett talked about their daughter. That was a gut punch for everyone.

It's interesting to note the genuine emotions displayed by the women in Brett's life (wife, mother, female friends) as opposed to Blasey-Ford's...display.

Posted by: cathexis at September 27, 2018 11:15 PM (UO10O)

727 Did not find her to be credible in anyway but the lawyer cross examining her was poor. The GOP seemed afraid to challenge her on her obvious lies.

But her little girl voice, constant whining without real tears told the truth. She is a real psycho.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at September 27, 2018 11:49 PM (HmRSI)

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