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Ford runs circles around hapless Republicans, who now have a second scandal
she has accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee’s request to testify about her allegation next week while signaling that a final deal on her testimony has not been reached.
she and her client got the headlines they wanted: Ford is coming to tell her story.
Ford attorney Debra Katz repeatedly has stared down Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), swatting away one artificial deadline after another.
If Republicans were hoping to intimidate Ford it didn’t work.
Rather it revealed that there is a slim chance, more than zero, that
Republicans might not have the votes after this next week.
In the past 48 hours or so
Republicans have made repeated, stupid mistakes that have not helped their position.
President Trump attacked Ford, asserting she would have gone to the police as a 15-year-old
if the attempted rape was “that bad.”
Collins pronounced herself “appalled.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) repeatedly vowed he would confirm Kavanaugh.
They’d “plow through” he declared, a remarkable confession that
they’ll bulldoze Ford and vote to confirm no matter what.
The public can conclude Republicans have no problem sitting Kavanaugh even if Ford’s claim is true.
it appears someone communicated her name to Whelan before it was made public.
(Last Sunday, “Ford alerted an associate via email that Whelan had looked at her LinkedIn page,
someone told Whelan what was up,
and any coordination with Kavanaugh (for example, via the right-wing PR outfit CRC, who hyped Whelan’s revelation),
would be separate grounds for denying him confirmation and
would also
ensnare the judge in the host of civil and ethical problems Whelan created.
an employee of CRC on loan to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Garrett Ventry, resigned for falsifying his résumé and for alleged sexual harassment.
Even if they had tried, Republicans could have not done a better job demonstrating
their bias,
inep ude,
unseriousness,
meanness,
unfairness and
general lack of empathy.empathy,Repugs?
There are now at least two related scandals :
1.) Whether Kavanaugh attacked Ford and now is lying, and
2.) the iden ies of those involved in a reprehensible scheme to pin a crime on someone for which there is zero evidence of wrongdoing.
It remains to be seen if Republicans either themselves or through an outside lawyer have the nerve to grill Ford about the attack on her and the lifetime of trauma it unleashed.
Free advice:
Cut their losses,
get Kavanaugh to withdraw and
promise a better nominee with no baggage later this year or next.
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