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2018-09-23 Home Front: Politix

Prediction: Kavanaugh will not be confirmed before the midterms, or worse.

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-23 05:13|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 At this point, two things are becoming painfully clear. First, Ford is never going to testify.

As many have suspected all along. Time is running out. A vote this close to the mid-term is unlikely. Dems will invoke the federal appellate judge Merrick Garland argument to forestall the vote. I suspect Tucker Carlson has it about right.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-23 05:27|| 2018-09-23 05:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmm it looks like the Democrat Party is having problems getting men to vote for them .

Posted by Bugs Thud4877 2018-09-23 06:50|| 2018-09-23 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 this opinion piece was obsolete within hours after it was written

Debra Katz is no longer on Prof Ford's team.

Another Ford-named witness, the only female, denied, under penalty of perjury, that she had been at the party in question and furthermore said she hadn't even met Kavanaugh.

It has been discovered that the Washington Post had the names of the Ford-named witnesses, back on Sept 16 but pretended not to have them in their news article. This fed the 'we need an FBI investigation' meme.

At this point it seems it is the Republicans that benefit from postponing the vote a week or two to give more exposure to the Democrat's bad faith accusations and speechmaking.

Posted by lord garth 2018-09-23 10:12|| 2018-09-23 10:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Debra Katz is no longer on Prof Ford's team.

Not seeing that in the usual news sites. Source?

Posted by Frank G 2018-09-23 10:37|| 2018-09-23 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I haven't been able to keep up (plus I'm a total rube), but wasn't there in the revelation of the 65 a little of that moment when there's suddenly a shopkeeper or stableboy on every rooftop and the bandits find themselves outnumbered? Probably just wishful thinking, but I'm with lord garth: "Now youse can't leave."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-23 12:41|| 2018-09-23 12:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank G

my mistake re; Katz leaving the team - they hired a new lawyer Michael Bromwich and I thought this was to replace Katz -- it was actually to supplement the Ford legal team

Posted by lord garth 2018-09-23 12:45|| 2018-09-23 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 One link supporting lord garth’s statement is from the National Review dated last night:

Third Named Witness Rejects Kavanaugh’s Accuser’s Allegations

In written testimony sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a third named witness has rejected the allegations made by Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser. Having been asked by a Senate staffer to comment on the charges advanced against the nominee, a lawyer for Leland Ingham Keyser wrote:

Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.

Under 18 U.S.C § 1001, letters to the Judiciary Committee are subject to criminal penalty if false.

Ms. Keyer, whom CNN confirms is “a lifelong friend of Ford’s,” is the third named witness to deny any knowledge of the allegations. The other two, Mark Judge and Patrick Smyth, issued written statements to that effect earlier in the week. Thus far, nobody has backed up the account advanced by Kavanaugh’s accuser, while Kavanaugh and three other named witnesses have rejected it outright.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-23 13:00|| 2018-09-23 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 and Bromwitch is McCabe's atty as well. Forced to immediately leave his law firm "because some of the partners objected to his decision"

Posted by Frank G 2018-09-23 13:15|| 2018-09-23 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Keyser is Bob Beckel's ex and exec produces his podcast (still) - no Republican stooge

Posted by Frank G 2018-09-23 13:18|| 2018-09-23 13:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Keyser was smart enough to ditch POS, dope head, Bob Beckel. She can't be all bad.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-23 13:21|| 2018-09-23 13:21|| Front Page Top

#11 The Pubs need to push on through. The question marks are the Rino Senators. Can they be counted on?

Posted by JohnQC 2018-09-23 18:28|| 2018-09-23 18:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Kavanaugh comes out with having kept his 1982 calendar showing games and other activites but nothing on calendar of what Ford describes.
I felt it wrong for BK to come out with this feeling he should have saved it for his rebut, thinking Ford can tweak her story.
Well now that Fords story may be proved wrong, another lovely has supposidly come out accusing BK of yet another sexual encounter.
Drip Drip Drip

Posted by Jan 2018-09-23 19:42|| 2018-09-23 19:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Drip Drip Drip

Trap snaps closed. Jan’s story of the calendars is from the bloody New York Times itself, and linked by Drudge Report, so it will get wide circulation on both sides of the culture. link.

The calendar pages are one-month pages with each day in a small box. Unusual for a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh seemed to keep track of his days even during summer vacation. The pages show typical teenage activities from the era, including “beach week” after the end of the school year and nights at the theater to see “Grease II,” “Rocky III” and “Poltergeist” with friends.

Judge Kavanaugh was gone many weekends with his parents in St. Michaels, Md., and one weekend in Connecticut with his grandmother, according to the calendars. He listed an interview for Yale University, where he would eventually enroll, and the start of football camp in August, when he stayed in the dorms at Georgetown Prep. He also played summer league basketball.

His friend, Mr. Judge, is mentioned, but the others from that night are not. “Go to Judge’s,” he wrote in July 28. A few parties are listed and with them the names of several friends he apparently went with.

What kind of a person keeps calendars from his youth?

Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-23 19:58|| 2018-09-23 19:58|| Front Page Top

#14 What kind of a person keeps calendars from his youth?

When I was 17, I was not so organized that I was thinking about calendars.

Why is it that Joe Shmoe from Bofunk Junction never gets roped into these kinds of charges? It is usually someone powerful, political, and/or rich.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-09-23 20:04|| 2018-09-23 20:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Drudge Says Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer Set to Break Report on Kavanaugh: ‘Another Woman?’

"According to the all red Drudge report, insiders claim Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer are set to report on a late twist in [Supreme Court nominee] Brett Kavanaugh‘s confirmation that involves a new woman and a 'dildo.'"

If they can't make this one stick, one can only wonder what the next one will be. It is getting sickening. Can only hope the Dem base is also seeing it for what it is.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-09-23 20:33|| 2018-09-23 20:33|| Front Page Top

#16 Oh, btw, I think I seem to recall that Judge Kavanaugh once told me girls had cooties.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-09-23 20:52|| 2018-09-23 20:52|| Front Page Top

#17 The fact that the GOPe can't get a Supreme Court appointee approved with a Senate majority and a Republican president says we're fucked. No future for us.

Posted by Regular joe 2018-09-23 21:19|| 2018-09-23 21:19|| Front Page Top

#18 When I was 17, I was not so organized that I was thinking about calendars.

Some of us did. My mother had four children in four years — on purpose, because my parents married late — and each of us kids had activities that needed chauffeuring, whether by the housekeeper or a parent. There were two big monthly calendars on the kitchen wall to keep track of child and parent schedules, each of us having our activities in a different marker colour. But we didn’t keep our calendars beyond current needs.

When the trailing daughters were in school in the 1990s, their American public school gave each child a planning calendar at the beginning of the year in which to track assignments and outside activities. In first grade the teacher inspected them to make sure they understood how to use the thing. But again, we didn’t keep the things — throwing them out at the end of the school year was part of our start-of-summer ritual.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-23 21:37|| 2018-09-23 21:37|| Front Page Top

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