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Kavanaugh is less popular than Harriet Miers, and majorities of Americans disagree with conservative/originalist takes on issues like abortion, contraception and health care. Maybe it’s not Dems who are in a cul de sac https://t.co/RNghOalFSE
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 16, 2018
When Kavanaugh was first announced as Trump’s personal SCOTUS pick, I assumed he was just another extremely average Repub apparatchik who’d spent his career trying to rise through unswerving allegiance where his natural advantages and top-tier upbringing had failed. What we knew then of his history — writing pornographic searches for Ken Starr, helping orchestrate the Brooks Brothers riot to put Dubya in the White House, assisting the Cheney regency in crafting legalistic justifications for torture — could just have been careerism, not ideology. Of course, those actions still would’ve made him no more eligible for a slot on the Supreme Court than I am, but at least he could’ve passed for A Good Man, under sufficiently relaxed circumstances…
Guess I should’ve trusted professional GOP operative Rick Wilson: Everything Trump touches dies.
And it looks like the Repubs are going all in on sending the remaining shreds of their credibility down the crapper along with Kavanaugh’s reputation.
BREAKING: Dr. Blasey's schoolmate says Kavanaugh's assault was widely known about and discussed in high school. #mepoliticshttps://t.co/FLJbKGsqYd
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) September 19, 2018
Should have hired Christopher Steele to do the vetting. At least it would have been 100% right & 100% thorough.
— John Weaver (@JWGOP) September 17, 2018
You were in the United States Senate, voting against making MLK Day a holiday. https://t.co/4XXryESEkC
— Kate Waters (@K8_Waters) September 18, 2018
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Scalia's seat was deliberately held open by Grassley and McConnell for over 400 days.
Professor Ford went public less than 96 hours ago.
Don't buy this 'Monday deadline' crap for even a second. Trump & the Senate GOP just want their 5th lockstep Republican vote at all cost.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 19, 2018
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