General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Are the Female (R) Senators going to stand with a sex crime victim or their (R) buddies?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)KWR65
(1,098 posts)He could simply withdraw from SCOUTUS nomination and remain in his current office.
idcdu
(170 posts)Or they look hypocritical
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)dchill
(38,433 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)that starts to change the current political calculus, as soon as those Senators, et al, start to feel that threat.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)The political volatility indices keep on accelerating greatly. Even Sunday is not over yet.
[Given the volatility before this victim coming out, I sort of regarded November 'head counts' as mostly play. The political veteran Feinstein has had this on her 'desk' for awhile. Granted the conventional 'wisdom'/pessimism is McConnell/trump will simply bull it through without difficulty. Politics, and trump volatility, may suggest its a lil too soon to certainly call ].
empedocles
(15,751 posts)and Sunday not over yet. Monday morning rw caucuses should be . . . fun.
Freethinker65
(9,998 posts)If, say, Manchin is a yes vote, the GOP will allow one of the GOP women to vote no. Kavanaugh gets confirmed.
Stuart G
(38,410 posts)Bettie
(16,058 posts)whatever the menfolk tell them to do.