Sen. Sanders Demands FBI Investigate Whether Kavanaugh Lied to Congress

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123. not having a place on the Judiciary Cmte., I'd expect Sen Sanders to do the opposite expected of him

...by his critics. He's done what the majority of Democratic senators have done and not made himself the focus of the crisis.

Suggesting that he's late to the defense of democracy (opposition to Kavanaugh) is at extreme odds with the facts.

More to your inference, though, Sen. Sanders has pinned a point of opposition which only occurred a couple days ago. Kavanaugh just testified, his nomination voted out the floor Friday. This isn't late, it's timely.

I can well imagine his detractors railing against him for granstanding, if he did manage to assert himself in an overt way in these proceedings, but he has correctly deferred to the Democrats on the committee, as the majority of Democrats who are also not on the panel have done.

I'm not surprised, though, to find critics playing the other side of his options to level this nonsense about his lateness to the cause. It's pathetically the only thing detractors can manage to say in response, but, where's the real concern for this nomination in focusing ire on Sanders?

It's false ire, at that. Sen Sanders has been in this fight since it began. As I said to another critic, above, I really don't expect detractors to know much of anything about what Sen. Sanders is actually doing. It's just not in the wheelhouse of those who reflexively express cynicism about the senator.


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