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Post by karinec on Sept 27, 2018 20:49:43 GMT
Lindsey Graham, please shut the fuck up. He needs to put on his big girl panties and calm down!!!
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 27, 2018 20:50:37 GMT
Lindsey Graham is really a raging arse.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 27, 2018 20:50:46 GMT
And I want to smack Lindsay Graham. ME TOO!!!
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Sept 27, 2018 20:50:56 GMT
Durbin: Will you turn to Don McGahn right now and ask for an FBI investigation?
Kavanaugh - still no direct answer
Grassley: We're not suspending this hearing!
Graham livid at Durbin. "This is hell. This is crap!"
Everybody's temper is now defcon 1.
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Post by flute4peace on Sept 27, 2018 20:51:02 GMT
Wow! Sen. Durbin just put him in a box! BOOM! Quoting myself because even after Grassley had his little fit Sen Durbin put the "You can't handle the truth" move on him. Man. This guy is good. He almost cracked him!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 27, 2018 20:51:32 GMT
Graham's going to have a stroke! We can only hope. Man, I detest that guy. He went way over the line! I would think he is in contempt of Congress....
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Sept 27, 2018 20:52:39 GMT
Graham’s campaigning.
Thank you, Jesus, for our good prayerful daughters and Godspeed, Justice Kavenaugh.
He also gave Kavenaugh permission to keep on keeping on with the Democratic senators.
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Post by flute4peace on Sept 27, 2018 20:52:49 GMT
Aand I just muted Graham (I'm delayed a bit due to watching online). Surely they have EMS on standby?
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Post by papersilly on Sept 27, 2018 20:52:52 GMT
what did i miss? i had to sit down with a client and turn down my computer. i just caught the last part of Graham's fit....
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Post by karinec on Sept 27, 2018 20:53:38 GMT
Ok, I'm tired of him avoiding questions. Really undermines his credibility.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Sept 27, 2018 20:53:43 GMT
Durbin: Will you turn to Don McGahn right now and ask for an FBI investigation? Kavanaugh - still no direct answer Grassley: We're not suspending this hearing! Graham livid at Durbin. "This is hell. This is crap!" Everybody's temper is now defcon 1. Partisan my butt! Republicans thought they were going to steer this clean through the tunnel. They are acting like complete assholes.
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Post by flute4peace on Sept 27, 2018 20:53:57 GMT
And the press photographers are crapping all over themselves with excitement lolol (I am one, I can say that)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 20:55:00 GMT
Lindsay Graham is giving press statements after the completion of the Hearing and he is livid. I have never seen him so enraged. He is completely deflecting it off Kavanaugh, and claiming it is just a Democratic ploy. Says their is no reason for an investigation. Graham. I thought he was going to have a stroke. “THEY (Dems) SET THIS UP!” Seriously…Dems thought back in 2012 to get in cahoots with Ford, bamboozle a therapist, and in the intervening years bamboozle three of her friends, conspire with a polygraph expert, two attorneys (who presumably, don’t care about losing their licenses!), conspire with Eshoo, AND WAIT SIX YEARS to deploy their dastardly plan. Amongst all the obvious questions that are beggared once past the incredulity is this: Why wait? Why didn’t they just deploy this plan for Gorsuch? You are way too intelligent to pretend you think this is the way a set up would have gone down. And we're all way too intelligent to buy your reduced to the ridiculous version of how it would be.
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Post by hop2 on Sept 27, 2018 20:55:41 GMT
Graham’s campaigning. Thank you, Jesus, for our good prayerful daughters and Godspeed, Justice Kavenaugh. He also gave Kavenaugh permission to keep on keeping on with the Democratic senators. This is the exact behavior that has independents like me who used to vote R looking elsewhere to vote. I just hope people actually go out to vote. While we still have a democracy
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Sept 27, 2018 20:55:46 GMT
What an arrogant, condescending, prick of misery.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 27, 2018 20:56:03 GMT
"...Senator, I like beer! do you like beer? what do you drink?" (plaintively)
Instead of just answering 'yes, ralphing refers to vomiting related to alcohol'
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Post by flute4peace on Sept 27, 2018 20:57:01 GMT
Did the security guy go up and warn someone sitting in the gallery while Graham was speaking? Looked like someone just off-camera sitting next to Dr. Ford's attorney.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 27, 2018 20:57:54 GMT
all the sudden I have a HUGE feeling of deja vu...
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Sept 27, 2018 20:58:09 GMT
He is “performing”.
She was reliving.
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Post by lindas on Sept 27, 2018 20:58:33 GMT
I feel sorry for both of them. Two lives destroyed, two families destroyed, a career ruined and when it's all over with we still won't know the whole truth. All politics aside, if she presses charges in Maryland... If he is found guilty, will you still feel sorry for him? Honest question here. If she files charges, regardless of the outcome, I will still feel sorry for both of them just in a different way.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Sept 27, 2018 20:58:54 GMT
(Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Who’d’a’thunk we’d hear “I LIKE BEER” so often at a hearing like this, especially when unprompted?)
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Sept 27, 2018 20:58:56 GMT
YES!!!
But the republicans were too much of in a hurry to cram him in.
“Biden believes that the FBI should have investigated in this case in advance hearing From CNN's Arlette Saenz In a statement, Bill Russo, a spokesperson for former Vice President Joe Biden, responded to comments Biden previously made in 1991.
"There is clearly an effort on the part of the White House and Senate Republicans to take out of context then-Senator Biden’s statements about the role of the FBI in the judicial nomination process to create a smoke-screen for their unprecedented refusal to have the FBI conduct an investigation into credible charges," the statement said. "Senator Biden made those comments in response to Senator Hatch's attempts to frame the FBI's 1991 report on Clarence Thomas as exculpatory. His point was that the FBI plays an investigative role in the nomination process; they do not make recommendations. That is the sole responsibility of the Senate -- to advise and consent. Vice President Biden believes that the FBI should have investigated in this case in advance of Dr. Blasey Ford's courageous testimony today, just as they did in 1991."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 20:59:06 GMT
I find it very interesting how they questioned Ford about if anyone showed her questions. Did anyone see Mitchell walk back into the courtroom with Kavanaugh’s people? That’s ok???
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 20:59:10 GMT
Yes. He's a "victim of revenge on behalf of the Clintons." People are pretty pissed off that Clinton isn't president...this idea is not as far fetched as you may think. I disagree or if they are it’s a very small minority. I think people are just appalled and embarrassed on a daily basis by trump’s words and actions along with the lengths the GOP in Congress are going to protect trump. I mean let’s face it, how many times have you seen the President of the United States laughted at while giving a speech at the United Nations? And that was just one hour out of his day. Then we witnessed the spectacle of his press conference. I believe the vast majority of Hillary voters have moved on and are looking toward the midterms to bring some sort of sanity back to DC and who we want as the nominee in 2020. Many are almost being pushed into activism because of trump’s destructive policies. It’s almost breathtaking how much chaos one old man can do. People don’t have time to be angry that Hillary didn’t win. At least that is the way I see it.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 27, 2018 20:59:13 GMT
Did the security guy go up and warn someone sitting in the gallery while Graham was speaking? Looked like someone just off-camera sitting next to Dr. Ford's attorney. Missed that...............
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Post by lizacreates on Sept 27, 2018 20:59:16 GMT
I never thought I would hear the word "flatulence" in a congressional hearing. This is really going to be one for the history books no matter the outcome.
(Cornyn likening Dems again to McCarthy. That's getting old. You wanna talk about "decency," Senator? Garland. How decent was that?)
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Post by papersilly on Sept 27, 2018 21:00:22 GMT
all he does is whine about his reputation. did Ford do that? did she whine about her reputation? not that i remember. hers was testimony was based on civic duty. his is to preserve his reputation. Mr. head of his class, football star, basketball star...
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Post by Rhondito on Sept 27, 2018 21:02:05 GMT
He is “performing”. She was reliving. She seemed very geniune.
He seems very rehearsed. He and his team sat down and made up answers and excuses for everything in his yearbook and for each allegation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 21:02:51 GMT
I'm glad to read your takes on how he's coming off. I agree and hope our bias isn't painting our assessments. Without a doubt, it is.
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Post by flute4peace on Sept 27, 2018 21:03:44 GMT
Did the security guy go up and warn someone sitting in the gallery while Graham was speaking? Looked like someone just off-camera sitting next to Dr. Ford's attorney. Missed that............... I rewound it. He definitely said something to someone. Walked up from the back, leaned over slightly to someone, then walked back to his post.
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