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ObserverArt9/14/2018 2:02:16 pm PDT

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

Okay, there are a number of problems around this Kavanaugh thing.

First, I’m not sure how seriously I want to take a single anonymous accusation. Yeah, I understand that to make the accusation publicly opens the accuser up to ALL SORTS of abuse from literally the worst people in America. But the ability to face your accuser is key to our system.

Also, without any contemporary corroboration, how can we know how seriously to take this?

Second, the “65 Women He Didn’t Assault” letter is fucking worthless. Even serial rapists don’t rape EVERY woman they meet.

So, you know, the accusation is weak tea, and the defense is weaker tea.

Why even defend it at all then?

The 65 signees seem like a pretty strange step if you know the allegation is that weak. And, I thought the whole coaches girl’s basketball teams and here are the girls show was odd when it happened.

There is a reason the Republicans have been acting they way they have been acting…covering for him, rather than an open book approach.

And that is what all this goes to. If he is such a nice guy and great judge, he wouldn’t need all this cover.

This might not have anything more to it than to show women (two especially!) Kavanaugh is not a friend to women. Add it in to some of the other revelations.

It is another reason to do what the Democrats are doing. Delays things and makes the country ponder this more and make the Republicans scramble.

We all wondered if the Dems would mount any kind of a defense to this nomination. Some even said the Democrats always fold and allow the Republicans to do whatever to get their way, there will be no fight because they never do.

Buying time while digging for more to stop a guy no one wants seems to be politics to me. Historically the Republicans know many times Democrats get cold feet and pull punches. Maybe it is different. Give ‘em a little of their own.

If we want to be spotless, then Mitch McConnell will be happy, because he never fails to go low. Never.

And is this that low? Seems to be a ‘we found a document and it raises questions’ thing. All the rest is the Republican answer and all the internet stuff.