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A Great New Track by John Hiatt Refutes Its Own Title: "Over the Hill"

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goddamnedfrank9/23/2018 8:55:57 am PDT

re: #235 Danack

(Recycling someone else’s idea to sound smart)

Both Senator Grassley and Mitch McConnel are bluffing on allowing Dr Ford to testify in public.

Both Grassley and Mitch McConnell know that Kavanaugh won’t survive Dr Ford’s and Kavanaugh’s own testimony on the subject of sexual assault. So their only path to winning is to make Dr Ford not testify.

They’ve both come out with really strong confident statements saying that “sure, we’ll let Dr Ford testify and then get him on the supreme court anyway” in the hope that if Dr Ford thinks her testimony won’t change anything, then there would be no point putting herself through the horrible publicity of actually testifying.

Unless Dr Ford withdraws and doesn’t appear before the committee, and assuming Kavanaugh himself is too bone-headed to with draw his nomination before then, Senator Grassley is going to have a sudden change of heart the morning of Dr Ford’s testimony and suddenly realise that “he doesn’t want to subject Dr Ford to any embarrassment” and so for her good, he’s going to withdraw/block Kavanaugh from being considered.

Idea taken from: dailykos.com

I don’t think they can block her from testifying now but I agree that there was a stratagem of saying they wanted to hear from her while being also negotiating in bad faith in an attempt to stack the deck against her accepting their “offer.” Now that she’s called their bluff I think their only out is to hope that Kavanaugh withdraws his nomination, which I don’t see happening either because he, his Federalist Society backers and Trump all want this too badly. From their perspective a real threat exists that nobody can get confirmed after the November elections so they’re doing everything in their power to jam him through come hell or high water.