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05 Friday Oct 2018

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Never bet on Susan Collins (r) being anything other than a right wingnut republican.

Michael Bersin @MBersin
Once again, as always, the fervent old media belief in the existence of the “moderate republican” is a demonstrable myth.
3:14 PM – 5 Oct 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court as a respected institution is now lost to us for at least the next three decades.

Apparently being “over prepared” for a presidential debate is more disqualifying for ascendance to a high public office.

It’s their world, the rest of us only get to live in it. For now.

05 Friday Oct 2018

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This morning in west central Missouri:

Fog.

The fog machine has been working overtime.

The U.S. Senate cloture vote on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court will take place this morning.

Also, this morning:

L.A. Kauffman @LAKauffman
“What do we do with a drunken justice?” Protesters stage Kavanaugh confirmation kegger outside Mitch McConnell’s home in advance of cloture vote #StopKavanaugh #CANCELKAVANAUGH
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6:59 AM – 5 Oct 2018

The Resistance is up at dawn.

#resist

Fight back by voting on Tuesday, November 6th.

Previously:

“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes…” (October 1, 2018)

republican Investigation: a play in one act (October 5, 2018)

republican Investigation: a play in one act

04 Thursday Oct 2018

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Witness: “This happened.

republicans: “Where’s your corroboration?”

Witness: “Here, here, here, here…”

republicans: “We’re not going to ask them.”

Witness: “?”

Republicans: “See, there’s no corroboration.”

Old Media: “Both sides…”

“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes…”

01 Monday Oct 2018

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This morning in west central Missouri:

Sunrise.

And, yesterday afternoon, via Twitter:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Wow! Just starting to hear the Democrats, who are only thinking Obstruct and Delay, are starting to put out the word that the “time” and “scope” of FBI looking into Judge Kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough. Hello! For them, it will never be enough – stay tuned and watch!
1:56 PM – 30 Sep 2018

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air…”

Previously:

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen…” (October 1, 2018)

Definitely nobody’s fool

28 Friday Sep 2018

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That’s our Claire.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [2017 file photo].

On the questioning of Christine Ford by Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell on behalf of the republican majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Lindsay Wise @lindsaywise
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a former prosecutor, has sympathy for Mitchell:

“I can’t imagine doing either a direct examination or a cross-examination in five-minute increments. And she’s not used to cross-examining people who are telling the truth.”
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5:16 PM – 27 Sep 2018

“Sympathy for Mitchell.” That’s interesting old media spin.

“…she’s not used to cross-examining people who are telling the truth.”

And who did Rachel Mitchell question at the hearing? Christine Ford.

Rachel Mitchell did get to ask a few questions of Brett Kavanaugh (r), but was apparently yanked after the “I like beer” exchange.

Predictable

27 Thursday Sep 2018

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Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

He breaks his silence as the hearing ends:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. Democrats’ search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!
5:46 PM – 27 Sep 2018

There’s a call on line one, from Merrick Garland.

There’ll be a long line on November 6th, of women.

More than one

23 Sunday Sep 2018

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We’re not surprised. At all.

This evening, in The New Yorker:

Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years
By Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer 7:49 P.M.

As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. The claim dates to the 1983-84 academic school year, when Kavanaugh was a freshman at Yale University. The offices of at least four Democratic senators have received information about the allegation, and at least two have begun investigating it. Senior Republican staffers also learned of the allegation last week and, in conversations with The New Yorker, expressed concern about its potential impact on Kavanaugh’s nomination. Soon after, Senate Republicans issued renewed calls to accelerate the timing of a committee vote. The Democratic Senate offices reviewing the allegations believe that they merit further investigation….

They thought they could get away with it. They may still do so. The republicans deserve to lose in November just for their arrogant incompetence.

Previously:

It’s time (September 8, 2018)

Claire McCaskill (D) has got to be the luckiest politician on the planet (September 17, 2018)

And….Boom! (September 19, 2018)

Clueless (September 21, 2018)

A sinking land yacht (September 21, 2018)

Tantrum (September 21, 2018)

Tantrum

21 Friday Sep 2018

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Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

This morning:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Senator Feinstein and the Democrats held the letter for months, only to release it with a bang after the hearings were OVER – done very purposefully to Obstruct & Resist & Delay. Let her testify, or not, and TAKE THE VOTE!
10:29 AM – 21 Sep 2018

In 2016 Merrick Garland’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court languished before the republican controlled U.S. Senate without any hearings and without any votes for 293 days.

Previously:

Clueless (September 21, 2018)

A sinking land yacht (September 21, 2018)