Here’s the latest: NEW: Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers say she accepts the Judiciary Committee’s invitation to testify next week, requests further negotiations over details of hearing: pic.twitter.com/FomW2BssGr — Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) September 22, 2018 Note the same old passive-aggressive snark … Continue reading →
[Scroll down to see UPDATES below] Excerpt from Ford’s lawyer’s letter in response to Grassley’s deadline of 10 PM this evening [and this is not The Onion]: …The imposition of aggressive and artificial deadlines regarding the date and conditions of … Continue reading →
I know the answer: of course it can. I keep trying to get away from this story, but stuff keeps happening. I was happily away from my computer all afternoon, seeing old friends from out-of-town who were visiting the area, … Continue reading →
This writer says Feinstein got exactly what she wanted out of the Ford accusation against Kavanaugh: propaganda points for the 2018 election. I tend to be pessimistic as a rule in politics. But I wonder. I don’t see it quite … Continue reading →
For the “believe the women; Kavanaugh is guilty as the day is long” crowd on the left, there remain the inconvenient accusers. These accusers are female, too, like Kavanaugh’s. In nearly all instances, their stories of sexual wrongdoing on the … Continue reading →
I’ve written about this subject before, and I’ll probably write about it again. But apparently it requires repeating: Anyone who says that members of a certain group always tell the truth is lying. There is no such group on earth. … Continue reading →
If Kavanaugh and Ford is the second act, Thomas and Hill was the first. Please don’t quibble with me. I know that Bork preceded that. But I’m talking about sexual allegations mounted against a SCOTUS nominee after the initial hearings, … Continue reading →
Ford’s position conforms quite nicely with the Democratic strategy of “we need to postpone the vote on Kavanaugh till something happens—like maybe a new Senate is elected that is Democratic, or enough Republican senators bow to the pressure and refuse … Continue reading →
…the following question: Why should I, or anyone else, care what the 53-year-old Brett Kavanaugh did in high school, short of a criminal act? And even certain criminal acts would be okay—for example, Obama’s doing coke—if the person has reformed … Continue reading →
This seems to be the strategy: President Donald Trump’s senior advisor Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends that the president supports Ford testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Conway also said that the accusation should not disrupt Kavanaugh’s … Continue reading →
[Scroll down to see UPDATE below.] Slowly, with exquisitely perfect timing, the news reveals itself, in order to give strength to the cries to delay the vote on Kavanaugh. The entire idea is to delay it long enough to get … Continue reading →
There are many things wrong with the accusation against Brett Kavanaugh that Diane Feinstein publicized recently. The vagueness of the charges, their antiquity, and the suspect timing, to name a few. But the one I want to focus on now … Continue reading →