McConnell just said he has the votes to confirm Kavanaugh.

[Miles Archer]

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@Lawrence

Sen McConnell just said he has the votes to confirm Kavanaugh.

McConnell doesn't lie about that.

That means the "undecided" Republican senators are lying.

That means they will not give Dr Ford a fair hearing.

7:39 AM - 21 Sep 2018

Link to tweet

[HipChick]

1. Rapey Brett to the SC

[Raven]

2. Boy! I I were Ford I'd cancel. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

35. If I were Dr. Ford, I'd file a Criminal Sexual Assault Charge in Maryland to get an investigation.

[MoonRiver]

3. Maybe he's just trying to discourage Dr. Ford from testifying.

McTurtle is a lying sack of shit.

[empedocles]

21. 'Not so fast', McConnell has claimed he 'has the votes' before, - x times

His claim hasn't held up before,

[MoonRiver]

22. I know. Fool me once...

[lagomorph777]

44. If he had a strong negotiating position, he'd be holding the line on Dr. Ford's testimony.

Looks like he's been giving up a lot of ground though.

[empedocles]

61. Does seem that way, hopeful point

[BeyondGeography]

4. Their base has spoken

Kavanaugh gets in or your children and grandchildren will never sleep soundly again.

[Retrograde]

9. Their donors have spoken (n/t)

[JDC]

55. +1

[Girard442]

5. One wonders why he would say that.

Doesn't seem like a great strategy to advertise that your people's minds are made up in advance of testimony, even if they are.

[FiveGoodMen]

23. Post #2 may answer that.

[irresistable]

6. Maybe at this moment, but....

When Kamala Harris starts interrogating him about the Whelan twitter nonsense....Kavanaugh will break down in tears.

Kavanaugh will probably withdraw rather than testify.

[red dog 1]

10. Kavanaugh is too much like his mentor, Shitler, to ever "break down in tears"

but I hope you're right about him withdrawing his nomination, as distant a possibility as that is.

[irresistable]

12. did you watch him when Kamala Harris was questioning him?

he is weak.

[CrispyQ]

29. What was with that questioning about the law firm,

& if he had talked to anyone there about the Mueller case. She came back to it & when she finally got him to say "no" she looked very satisfied. Does she know something to the contrary? Or is this matter closed, now>

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/6/17826498/kamala-harris-kasowitz-question-kavanaugh-hearings

[irresistable]

31. I don't know anything about that, but Whelan opened a big can of worms

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/21/17886430/brett-kavanaugh-news-ed-whelan-trump

the Whelan-Kavanaugh connection in this story is going to blow up, though....Whelan has been advising Kavanaugh in this confirmation process....and has been instrumental in previous confirmations

Link to tweet

[CrispyQ]

32. Wow! I'm behind the times!

I love billable work but it's hard to keep up with the news, things move so fast now. The swamp has never been swampier.

Thanks for the link!

on edit: Holy fuck. I found his tweet. It's not just one, it's an entire series with a map, floor plans, photo & name. He should be charged for this & spend some time in jail. Hopefully the other man will sue.

[red dog 1]

30. No, I missed that

[irresistable]

38. here it is

[red dog 1]

39. Thanks for posting that

I watched it all; and now I'm totally disgusted not only with Kavanaugh, but also Senators Tellis and Lee, who are as despicable as any of the other GOP Trump-loving lairs in the Senate.

[DeminPennswoods]

45. Add the way he turned away from Fred Guttenberg

with a terrified look on his face. Yes, he is weak, just like Trump.

[democratic friend]

37. I believe some lawyer is going to ask questions. Not senators

[red dog 1]

48. Welcome to DU!

[democratic friend]

49. Thank you so much!!!!!!

Can’t wait for November!

[ProudLib72]

7. We need Dr. Ford to file charges

I really hate putting the onus on her, but this is for the protection of everyone.

[red dog 1]

40. What charges could she file; and where (what court) could she file them in?

(I'm not arguing with you; I'm just curious)

[ProudLib72]

53. Sexual assault with Maryland PD

At least everyone is now saying that it's possible. Avenatti mentioned it. There is no statute of limitations in Maryland.

[red dog 1]

56. Well, without any eyewitnesses to back up her allegation, it's a "He said, She said" situation,

and I doubt if Maryland local police could do more than just a preliminary investigation.

Now, if a second sexual assault victim comes forward with an accusation against Kavanaugh, that would be different.

As far as Michael Avenatti goes, he's got enough to handle as Stormy Daniels' attorney, imo.

[red dog 1]

8. I can't believe that Murkowski and Collins have already made up their minds;

but, since this comes from Lawrence O'Donnell, it may just be true, I don't know.

[Moostache]

11. I wish I was shocked...I'm just numb.

That cold feeling that comes over you when you realize something really, really bad is coming true that you did not want to believe.

The entire United States government - from the usurper in the Executive Branch to both houses of the bicameral Legislative being AWOL to the fully politicized and illegitimate SCOTUS - has become a total fraud. There are no standards or separation of powers any longer...there are only partisans and no patriots left.

Turn out the lights on the failed American experiment...1789 - 2018, we ALMOST made it to 240 years before it completely unravelled...at this point, I no longer believe the egg can be unscrambled, we are heading headlong into a dissolution of the current union before 2050, possibly as early as 2020.

No ethics.
No restraint.
No compromise.
No empathy.
No point.

Blow it all up....it is time to consider what replaces the status quo and how to dissolve the union without nuclear exchanges. Turn out the lights, the party ended with the usurpation of Merrick Garland's seat and is complete with the installation of a Banana Republican SCOTUS with Kavanaugh. With no functional branch of government, the only thing left is to watch the wholesale sell off of assets and rise of the American oligarchy to heights last seen in Russian.

Congratulations to Putin. He won.

[bearsfootball516]

15. Extremist/Defeatist talk like this is ridiculous. Midterms are a month and a half away.

GOTV and take back the House and Senate.

[Moostache]

24. If you still think it matters go ahead and hope...

I am going to vote as I always have, and straight ticket Democrat as well, especially in light of the fact that it very well may be the last national election I can participate in, but IF Democrats retake the House (we're NOT getting the Senate too, but to each their own fantasies) what do you really think is going to change?

Control of the chairpersons and subpoena power may offer better tools of resistance, but the GOP really is brazen enough to just not care, Trump already decries the FBI, the Justice Department and the Media as "cancer", "corrupt" and "enemies of the people" with absolutely ZERO consequences. Those statements alone should have shut down the government until he resigned in shame, and that is barely the tip of the iceberg of asshattery and criminality at the heart of the existing government.

Extreme was holding open a SCOTUS seat for 293 days without ever granting the sitting president's nominee a single MEETING or hearing. Extreme was ram rodding Kavanaugh, a political hack and water carrier, into the next opening without allowing full disclosure of his record or vetting of his veracity or even an FBI investigation of charges of attempted rape. Extreme was Citizen's United and Bush's wars and crashing the economy and allowing the banksters to skip out on ANY responsibility for harming MILLIONS of people 10 years ago. Extreme is the continued executions of POC and unarmed citizens by the police state. Extreme is the lack of any coherent strategy for climate change impact mitigation and resource stewardship (soil? air? water?). Extreme was sitting by idly while entire generations of Americans were put into wage slavery by low paying jobs and enormous education debts. Extreme is accepting that anything at all since November 2016 has been the least bit legitimate.

Defeatist is thinking that if only we can get a few committee chairpersons and congressional hearings and an impeachment spectacle that won't EVER get 2/3rd of the Senate to convict EVER, that everything else will return to normal or get better. Defeatist is accepting the Republicans as worthy of being called fellow citizen instead of being called by their rightfully deserved prisoner ID numbers.

They stole the Presidency...TWICE in the last 18 years.
They lied us into forever war...TWICE in the last 18 years.
They stole the majority of the SCOTUS for a generation...
They do not care how many die as long as their paymasters get tax breaks and their zealots get just enough red meat to stay frothy...

The current government is compromised, period. Taking control of a broken car moments before a crash won't stop impact. We are going to hit the wall at full speed and nothing is going to stop that eventuality from here. We have passed the point of no return.

[brush]

25. I fear you might be right. The Kochs are following the Virginia School of James Buchanon...

to install an unbreakable and unelected government by the elite and gaming the Supreme Court is their first move. After that they will go after the Constitution to codify their control by irreparably changing it with amendments that role back all safety nets and right of the 99%, including civil rights.

They even sacrifice control of Congress.

This link was posted earlier here today:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1013191421204058113.html

[Fred Sanders]

36. The point of no return because of a Shitler in power 18 months? I give American democracy more

credit than folding like a cheap suit before a madman with a Twitter machine.

[LenaBaby61]

33. GOTV and take back the House and Senate.

THIS ^^^^

Collins/Murkowski are women, but they're THUGLICANS just like their male counterparts DR. Ford was never going to get a fair hearing. ALL of their minds are already made up.

These SCOTUS thefts were planned years ago by yertle et al.

No one should be shocked. THUGLICANS have shown you who they really are for years. Dems better wake up who don't know this and recognize the truth. Sure Flake, Corker "disagreed" with their president 🙄 But somehow they always fell in line behind him though 🤔

This GOP is truly tRump & putin's party being run from russia. FLATT OUT. HOPEFULLY, Dems will remember to remind folks of that. Dems who haven't better grow a damn spine vs these russian thuglicans, and Dems who don't normally vote, better get their asses out there there and vote or risk us all here in the USA being under russian rule.

[Le Gaucher]

16. seriously - did you expect any different? They are like an unstoppable Machine

I am not the least bit surprised

[red dog 1]

41. Well stated, imo (except for the "Blow it all up" part)

There are no more "checks & balances".. that's for sure.

[Iggo]

13. He can say whatever the fuck he wants.

They're trying to make her not tell her story because it won't matter anyway.

Which is a huge reason why girls and women don't speak up in the first place.

So yeah, fuck him.

[Hugin]

14. Looks like we're going to have two white frat boys from Georgetown Prep on the SCOTUS.

Doesn't seem very representative of American demographics to me... Maybe, we need to shake things up by adding a few soon.

[Vinca]

17. I want Kamala Harris to ask Kavanaugh a couple of questions.

First, she should ask if he joined a secret society while a student at Yale. Assuming he says he did, as widely reported, she should ask him to repeat the nickname of the club. It was known as the "tit and clit" club. Then Mitch can call for a vote.

[red dog 1]

42. Can she ask any more questions?

Or is her time to ask questions over?

[Vinca]

57. The point is, can Republicans vote for someone who admits belonging to such a club?

Can they risk every campaign ad against them to include that response from the person they voted for? It might even offend Franklin Graham!

[red dog 1]

58. Sure they can!

As far as Franklin Graham:
(Title of HuffPo article from 2 days ago)
"Preacher Franklin Graham Claims Brett Kavanaugh Abuse Allegation Is Irrelevant"

[bluestarone]

18. Yea well i believe him like i

believe the FLAT EARTHER'S

[marlakay]

19. I think one of the dem senators should start with

That statement, Sen McConnell says he already has your vote, what does that say to all women across America.

[red dog 1]

43. + 1

I'd love to see that!

[meadowlark5]

20. Or does he know he has the votes with Pence breaking the tie?

[jalan48]

26. I hope every Democrat votes against him. Let's not give the impression he has bipartisan support.

[red dog 1]

46. Democratic Senators Manchin, Donnelly and Heitkamp all voted for Neil Gorsuch

Just sayin'

[jalan48]

50. What a crew!

[njhoneybadger]

27. That means the Koch brothers have made up their mind

They don't care what it cost them in November. Those 5 fucks will do a lot of damage it the next
20 Years.

[dem4decades]

28. So he basically admitted they don't hear women.

And don't care.

[Colombo123]

34. Fake news!

No Flake
No Corker
Plus no
2 women senators
Susan Collins and Liza Morkosky

[red dog 1]

47. Welcome to DU!

I hope you're right.

[berni_mccoy]

51. McConnell HAS Lied about that in the past...

He bluffed about the ACA vote.

He thought he had the votes on a DACA deal as well... but that went down the shitter when Pud pulled the rug out from under him.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-obamacare-repeal_us_596d802be4b0e983c0587b39

[Solly Mack]

52. They were never going to give her a fair hearing.

They are merely going through the motions so they could claim later that they tried.

[torius]

54. They already had them, nothing has changed.

Maybe Murkowski as the sole NO, with Pence as tiebreaker, or maybe all in. Mitch is trying to keep up the spirits of the Evangelicals.
The point of the next week is to get some of them to change.

[Awsi Dooger]

59. Kellyanne Conway said last night that Kavanaugh would be confirmed next week

She blurted it out to Cuomo during a heated exchange. Cuomo seemed stunned and said, "How do you know?"

Conway didn't answer but I sensed she had some inside information on intent to go forward and votes secured, regardless of Ford

[Azathoth]

60. There was never a question he would be confirmed

Kavanaugh could, quite literally, walk into the hearings next week and shoot Ford in the head on national TV, and Collins would still vote for him because he had "given her his word he would seek therapy."

[Jarqui]

62. Here's the video guaranteeing Kavanaigh will be on the Supreme Court

[bettyellen]

63. He's bluffing.