Setyembre 20, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford communicates that she “would be prepared to testify next week" on "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety."

The NYT has obtained the letter from her lawyer to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

But the letter also says that a Monday hearing "is not possible and the Committee’s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event" and — backing off from an earlier demand — that Blasey just has a "strong preference" for an F.B.I. investigation before she testifies.

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le Douanier ayon kay ...

If anything, CA would probably replace her w/ a more lib D.

Darrell ayon kay ...

I know I'll win.

What losers say.

le Douanier ayon kay ...

"What losers say."


DJT.

wwww ayon kay ...


RE: Evil twin stuff.


This 35th reunion is gonna be awkward af

-Liam Donovan

Darrell ayon kay ...

Trump said "You won!"
But he wasn't talking about Leftists like you, adSs.
And he was right--WE won. The US of A.

Darrell ayon kay ...

Check Christine Blasey Ford for a suicide vest, too. Especially if you see the Democrats going for a bathroom break.

le Douanier ayon kay ...

Yes Darrell,

We already saw your "frisk" recommendation in the pre-200 comments.

Dilution = weakening. Something to be avoided when ya start out weak.

IMHO.


P.S. When you say that we won almost trillion dollar deficits so that the job creators can get even richer than the average folks who will eventually get stuck w/ the bill, why is that something you proclaim? Your betters would like to figure out how to keep you (and such) gonin' for a decade or more.

le Douanier ayon kay ...

If your betters keep jabbering about locking up crooked HRC, is that enough?

How about locking up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, will that divert yo for a decade?

Darrell ayon kay ...

Alexandria Occasional-Cortex.

FIFY

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

I would say this is confirmation that she won't appear at all. Even if you gave her next Thursday as the date, by next Tuesday she and her lawyers would be claiming that was also arbitrary, and it makes sense to wait until the following week. At this point, Grassley and the Republicans are on good ground to hold firm for Monday, but Trump can offer to fly her with Secret Service for her "safety concerns". Ball is really in Grassley's court, now.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

On the theory of the doppelganger: they do look uncannily alike both then and now.

I will note something here: it is very unlikely this theory is being floated in a vacuum by Kavanaugh's lawyers. It is far more likely that the classmate himself is the one who brought this to NR or Kavanaugh and his lawyers- it is also possible that the other people at this gathering remember it in Garrett's home and remember Ford being there.

wwww ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
wwww ayon kay ...
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FIDO ayon kay ...

Does the attempted rape and the successful sexual attack of a girl performed by an almost adult beat a boss who does creepy sexual stuff to his gal subordinates?

So, do I think the absolutely unsubstantiated allegations of one TEEN drunkenly fumbling with another TEEN, asserted by a woman with psychiatric issues, a contradictory story, with no witnesses, no date, no location

Is somehow the same as

A REAL ADULT who

Allegedly assualted a woman in Oxford

Admitted to multiple consensual affairs

Allegedly had State Troopers in full regalia pick up his doxies

Admitted to sexually harassing a minimum of TWO employees (one ALMOST a teen...did you see what I did there? )

ANOTHER 'alledged' rape with details, TIMELY reports, witnesses, and personal idiosyncrasies by old Bill in the story

And Bill being Besties with a known and charged pedophile/sex pervert who is KNOWN to have taken a super secret junket to THAILAND.

One of these has locations, witnesses, grudging admissions of wrong doing, consistent stories and a pattern of behaviors...and then we have the singular unconfirmed assertions of a wacky liberal Feminist without a shred of evidence.

There is a term 'false equivalence'. You might look it up one day.

I get you are trying to reveal inconsistency and bias and you are doing a great job...of revealing your own.

Lewis Wetzel ayon kay ...

What is PB&J blathering about, now?
Jesus Christ it is like he cannot even understand that he is blathering.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

If you had a good friend in Kavanaugh's position, wouldn't you consider taking the bullet for him? Here there is no criminal jeopardy for Garrett if he wrote that he tried to feel Ford up 36 years ago in a drunken haze. Indeed, there is probably little reputational risk either since, as has been noted repeatedly, even Kavanaugh doing this shouldn't have been disqualifying. And who knows, maybe it was Garrett that Ford is remembering. This is part of the problem with Ford's lack of detail- it can be filled by just about thousands of plausible "confessions"

The Crack Emcee ayon kay ...

Michelle Malkin: Hollywood Women Speaking Out Against Kavanaugh are ‘Unthinking Cult’

The difference between me and most conservatives: I won't forget I said this next week, whereas they'll pretend it never happened and anyone who said it did is a Democrat and a liar.

Darrell ayon kay ...

So Democrats are destroying whatever credibility they have left and Republicans have to apologize for taking the right positions now?

No wonder everybody hates you, Crack.

The times you are right are rare, and you always have to deliver a parting shot at your self-proclaimed side. Join the fucking opposition already--you're more than half-way there.

Drago ayon kay ...

More pretend and conjured nonsense from our resident Guy-on-the-corner-with-doomsday-message-on-a-sandwich-board Crack.

Andrew Shimmin ayon kay ...

Ford's denial doesn't invalidate the Whelan theory, since it's premised on her being genuinely mistaken. If Judge denies it, it's done. Probably even if the one-armed man denies it, it's done. No one answered the door at his home. Maybe he knew it was coming?

I hope Whelan's right; no other explanation would make as many people wrong, all at once.

glenn ayon kay ...

Jim at won the internet in post #1 with

“Shut up and vote.”

PhilD ayon kay ...

"lt's michelle maglalang the hate filled, feces 4 brains and ugly as phuk anti immigration filipino anchor baby"

One of the comments at crack's link. And it isn't the only one of its kind. And of course there is no doubt there that Kavenaugh did the dirty deed, no proof needed (/s).

So what crack's message is here is anybodies guess, unless he really wants to out himself as a racist idiot. But the few times I bother to read anything from him already has convinced me of that.

readering ayon kay ...

Remember that letter attesting to kavanaugh's character signed by a large number of his prep alums? They included the guy accused by Ed Whelan. Go figure.

MayBee ayon kay ...

If you think about it, all court and hearing dates are arbitrary.

I don't get it. Testify or don't.

Matt Sablan ayon kay ...

Where would the FBI start investigating? They'd question her. Then what? Canvas Montgomery County got parties that happened in 1982 give or take a year?

Leland ayon kay ...

I think the time has come to quit treating Blasey Ford as some weak victimized woman needing special care. She's a privileged woman with a PhD. There is no reason for her to be making demands of the US legal system that fly in the face of the Bill of Rights.

No, you don't get to demand the defendant testify first. No, you don't get to demand that the defendant leave the room when you testify. No, you don't get to demand that when you make a criminal allegation, that only legislators can examine the validity of the allegation.

She's no longer just accusing Brett Kavanaugh of a crime; she's trying to set a precedence that our Bill of Rights is unfair to those who accuse people of serious crimes. She should be treated accordingly.

MayBee ayon kay ...

She's no longer just accusing Brett Kavanaugh of a crime; she's trying to set a precedence that our Bill of Rights is unfair to those who accuse people of serious crimes. She should be treated accordingly.

Leland- yes. Those who support her and push the idea of "credibly accused" and the campus tribunals are *why* I would support a Kavanaugh even though I am pro-choice. There's a lot more at stake than Roe v Wade.

Matt Sablan ayon kay ...

The mob begins. They are trying to get him fired from his teaching job. Ayers gets tenure though.

Temujin ayon kay ...

Calling Keith Ellison. Keith Ellison. Karen Monahan. Calling Karen Monahan. Please report to CNNNBCCBSABCMSNBCNYTIMESWAPO.

Please hand them the story about a real abuse that happened in current time, with real medical records. They seem to not be able to find this story. Because an abused woman needs to be heard and believed. Right?

Matt Sablan ayon kay ...

Ellison? That's just a local crime story.

stlcdr ayon kay ...

From a political point of view (it has nothing to do with 'assault' except as a tool to demonize an opponent) it keeps the democrats winning in the republicans back on their heels. From what I've seen, there has been nothing to demonstrate that Kavenaugh team or the republicans a plan for this situation. It's all being controlled by the democrats.

Whatever republicans do will favor the democrats. Vote on Monday? Fires up the base for the mid terms, and with enough demonization about how the republicans are anti-women, in favor of protecting white men, etc. etc. may sway enough middle of the road, voters. Delay and it allows the democrats to make up those very same smear tactics. Oh, too many threats against Ford? We need to delay, again, until the republicans get a hold on their attack dogs.

Hopefully enough people see through this charade. Hysterics don't matter, just which check box is checked at the voting booth (I'm going on the assumption that Kavenaugh being voted to the supreme court doesn't actually matter one way or the other).

BUMBLE BEE ayon kay ...

How empowering this is. Change the Senate rules CAUSE SHE"S A GIRL/VICTIM.

BUMBLE BEE ayon kay ...

This is Feinstein's legacy I suppose. Great historical event!

Michael K ayon kay ...

Blogger readering said...
Remember that letter attesting to kavanaugh's character signed by a large number of his prep alums? They included the guy accused by Ed Whelan. Go figure.


So ? I figured and concluded that the guy who did it knows damn sure that Kavanaugh didn't.

What do you think it means ?

dbp ayon kay ...

"...the Committee’s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event"

There is nothing arbitrary about Monday. The Senate rules are that no hearing can occur without at least one week of notice. The committee set the hearing for one week from when this issue came to light--last Monday. If they set a new hearing date, the soonest it could be is Monday after next. Ford will undoubtedly come up with some cock-and-bull reason to miss that one too.

readering ayon kay ...

It means what Ed Whelan now concedes, he made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in making the accusation.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

@readering, he’s got you there. Stay away from STEM classes if the ability to reason logically is all that hard.

readering ayon kay ...

But now POTUS goes, hold my beer.

gahrie ayon kay ...

It means what Ed Whelan now concedes, he made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in making the accusation.

Almost as bad as the one Ford made when she made her accusation. I bet she never owns up and apologizes like he did.

readering ayon kay ...

I bet you are right about what she does and does not do but have a different explanation.

gahrie ayon kay ...

I bet you are right about what she does and does not do but have a different explanation.

What leads you to believe/assume that she is telling the truth?

walter ayon kay ...

walter said...
Speaking of squishy..you skipped over the questions re Feinstein.

9/20/18, 11:09 PM Delete
Blogger anti-de Sitter space said...

Walt,
She's a geez....er…,I mean she's a golden years gal who should be in the Senate for at least a buck twenty five, in centuries.
--
So...she's just so old she forgot about it?
Not surprised you don't care. It would be inconvenient.

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