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Michael Shear and Robin Pogrebin in the Times: “A number of people who overlapped with Judge Kavanaugh at Yale or at Georgetown Preparatory School, the Catholic high school he attended — and who contacted the F.B.I. this weekend to share … Continue reading →

had the sheer, unmitigated gall to blame his present travails on “millions of dollars of outside money from left-wing opposition groups.” For that alone, he deserved to be, not disqualified, but rather laughed off the lists.

are assisting Trump in obstruction of justice by condoning the fake, FBI, White House directed “investigation.”

His sandbagging the FBI investigation is part of his ongoing campaign to destroy the American judicial system. Please, Michael Avenatti, bring on that press conference with Julie Swetnick!

Bob Johnson at Daily Kos writes that Kavanaugh’s “actions have made a complete mockery of his phony ‘concern for his family.’ A better person, someone with a modicum of integrity, humility and decency, would have pulled his or her nomination by this … Continue reading →

as I have, studying theatrical gesture and impersonation, the gamut of performance strategies, of physical and rhetorical posturing generated by the GOP, by Brett Kavanaugh and his apologists, could easily furnish material for an entire book.

the Russian saying: “That was a long time ago, and anyway it never happened.”

Yup, I think so. And, yes, I have compassion for his family. And for Dr. Blasey Ford’ s–not to mention herself. Compassion, however, is something Judge Kavanaugh can muster only for those he’s immediately in contact with–and there, I’m speculating, … Continue reading →

Sen. Whitehoue:  “The court is flying all the warning flags of a captured agency. Dancing to special interest tunes, and rampaging through precedent and principle to get there.”

When Sen. Sasse is what passes for “moderation” and “independence” in the GOP, we know where that party and that “independence” is heading. Prostrate before Trump, pro-perjury Ben Sasse shows that he’s nothing more than a party-line hack.