The double-standard should not be surprising

[MissMillie]

Just heard some talking heads say that it would be easy for the GOP to cry foul over the Democrats holding on to Ms. Ford's allegations until the last minute, because they have apparently had this letter in their possession for a few months now.

Um.....

Just when during this confirmation process did the GOP/White House release the Kavanaugh documents they had kept sealed... and how many documents are still not available?

[democratic friend]

1. Great points!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Welcome to DU. . . . nt

[democratic friend]

10. Thank you!

[gopiscrap]

11. welcome to DU

[Lonestarblue]

2. And how many of those hidden documents might have allegations of sexual assault?

Democrats need to demand all background information the FBI obtained on Kavanaugh, along with the other documents Republicans are refusing to release. They are obviously hiding something; otherwise, they would release the documents.

[watoos]

3. This Kavanaugh, this monster,

represents what the Republican party has become.
Back when Obama won and Republicans met in private and vowed to oppose everything he proposed. In other words they all agreed to become strictly political, to put their party interests over the interests of the country. I was naïve, I thought that strategy would fail, I thought the "American people" would see through that awful strategy. I was wrong. With the help of the M$M, Republicans went negative, no, demonized all Democrats. The strategy worked, Republican voters didn't have to vote "for" something, they merely had to vote against something.

The M$M needs to be given more blame for this outcome. Just yesterday I watched a cable news anchor from msnbc ask a Democratic candidate if he will support Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. Why wouldn't he come right out and say that if she was the nominee that he would support her? Why wouldn't he because Pelosi was one of the best Speakers ever? Because the Republican strategy was to demonize a good person so that the mere mention of her name would connote someone "bad." Why didn't that Democratic nominee simply ask the cable news host for one reason why he shouldn't back Nancy Pelosi? I bet that cable news host can't come up with one good reason, because the only reason is that Pelosi is one of those awful Democrats.

[world wide wally]

5. Better yet, why didn't they question whether their opponent would support Jim Jordan?

[NewJeffCT]

6. The media also is telling Democrats that they need to run on more than hatred of Trump

why? In 2010, Republicans ran on just hatred of Obama and Obamacare. They picked up over 60 seats in the House. Did anybody question why they weren't running on anything more than that?

[True Blue American]

4. See how they try to change the subject?

The MSM is very guilty of that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Not the double standard I was expecting, but very valid too! . . . nt

[John1956PA]

9. It was not a "few months." I was six weeks. The letter is dated July 30.

Last edited Tue Sep 18, 2018, 03:57 AM - Edit history (1)

On Morning Joe this morning, Mika exaggerated the time frame to "several months. I will not watch her anymore.

On edit September 18: The post was corrected to read that Senator Feinstein's office held the letter in confidence for six weeks, rather that five weeks as stated in the original version of the post.