04 Thursday Oct 2018
Posted in Claire McCaskill, media criticism, Resist, Roy Blunt, US Senate
Tags
Brett Kavanaugh, Claire McCaskill, investigation, Joe Scarborough, Josh Hawley, media criticism, missouri, old media, Roy Blunt, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
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…”
01 Monday Oct 2018
Posted in Resist, social media
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)
28 Friday Sep 2018
Posted in Claire McCaskill, US Senate
Tags
Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Ford, Claire McCaskill, missouri, Rachel Mitchell, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
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.”
[….]
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.
27 Thursday Sep 2018
Posted in social media, US Senate
Tags
Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
From Senator Kamala Harris (D):
Kamala Harris @SenKamalaHarris
My final question for Judge Kavanaugh: Did you watch Dr. Ford’s testimony?His answer: “I did not.”
5:59 PM – 27 Sep 2018
“I did not.”
That’s all you need to know.
Remember in November.
27 Thursday Sep 2018
Posted in social media
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.
26 Wednesday Sep 2018
Posted in Claire McCaskill, US Senate
Tags
Brett Kavanaugh, Claire McCaskill, Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, missouri, U.. Supreme Court, U.S. Senate
Timing is everything.
Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].
Now the storm swirls.
Senator Claire McCaskill (D), one week ago:
I will vote no on Judge Kavanaugh.
I have been thorough in examining Judge Kavanaugh’s record. And while the recent allegations against him are troubling and deserve a thorough and fair examination by the Senate Judiciary Committee, my decision is not based on those allegations but rather on his positions on several key issues, most importantly the avalanche of dark, anonymous money that is crushing our democracy.
[….]
While I am also uncomfortable about his view on Presidential power as it relates to the rule of law, and his position that corporations are people, it is his allegiance to the position that unlimited donation and dark anonymous money, even from foreign interests, should be allowed to swamp the voices of individuals that has been the determining factor in my decision to vote no on his nomination.
Perfect timing.
26 Wednesday Sep 2018
Posted in Resist
#IBelieveChristine
23 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Claire McCaskill, Roy Blunt, US Senate
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)
21 Friday Sep 2018
Posted in Resist, social media, US Senate
Tags
Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, rape culture, Resist, social media, Twitter, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S.Senate
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)
21 Friday Sep 2018
Posted in Uncategorized
Concerned Women for America “Women for Kavanaugh” tour bus outside the Missouri State Fair Governor’s Ham Breakfast – August 2018.
Poll: More Americans oppose Kavanaugh confirmation than support it
Brett Kavanaugh is first Supreme Court nominee below water in the history of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.…In the poll — which was conducted Sunday (when the accusation from Christine Blasey Ford was first made public) through Wednesday — 38 percent of voters say they oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination to serve on the nation’s highest court, including 27 percent who “strongly” oppose him.
That’s compared with 34 percent who support his nomination, including 25 percent who “strongly” support him. Twenty-eight percent say they don’t enough to have an opinion.
[….]
All other Supreme Court nominees the NBC/WSJ poll has tested have enjoyed positive-negative scores that have been above water…
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)