DramatistDreamer

These Republicans who rejected a larger stimulus after the Great Recession because they were squawking about the deficits have the nerve to put deficit busting, ineffective tax cuts in place? They all need to be banished.

See if you can find out why Trump likes this dude so much.

Kavanaugh is a fundamentally dishonest man who has been caught lying on no fewer than five occasions during this entire process. Why that alone doesn't disqualify him speaks to the type of privilege that someone of his ilk has. If Sotomayor or Kagan had acted with the degree of hysterics that Kavanaugh did, they'd have been branded unfit and disqualified. Even Thomas didn't behave this poorly.

Unless one already has been trying but can get no traction. We've seen, as in the case of Ronan Farrow how a lack of support for a story can delay it being carried through to the point of suppression.

Weird.

What? indeed.

Some of these guys are looking for cover.

This is confusing. Is this delaying the inevitable?

Am I hearing correctly about Flake? Folks are saying he flipped...wants an investigation.

From what I've read the vote was supposed to be underway by 1:30pm. Senators still discussing...whatever they're discussing. Also, don't know what this is about.

Just some extra-judicial killings, nbd. This is the world in which we live now.

...but his season is over now.

Flake has surprised no one. We all knew he is paper tiger. He'll then go onto work at some cushy private sector job courtesy of a GOP flunkey.

Condoleeza Rice was in W.'s administration and supported his policies. Rice also accidentally once referred to him as her husband, so I can actually see where some might jump to conclusions a bit there. The only similarities I see between the two is how America loves to use black women to burnish the humanity credentials of white men (and a few black men too). That is, when they are not castigating black women for being unfeminine (which the right-wing frequently did with Michelle Obama).

Who says they're friends? Did you see Mrs. Obama at the London Olympics and other public events? Michelle Obama is a hugger, she hugs just about everyone. Has Bush ever been to the Obama's home? Have the Obamas ever been to the Bush ranch? If not, I wouldn't call them friends. They are cordial and friendly, at best. Michelle is likely trying to demonstrate to the nation that one can disagree and still be friendly but people believe what they want to make them feel comfort with themselves. America does a lot of myth-making in order to try to drive away reality. We can be friendly but a friend who has never come to your home, or you his? Nah, that ain't real, boo. I'm fully aware that the GOP will shift the goalposts on the ABA after touting their credentials for weeks. We all know how ethically and morally bankrupt the GOP is and they are proud to show this.

Interestingly enough, if people bothered to listen to Obama speak, he has said more than once that the rancor coming from the GOP preceded Trump. As for Bush, let's face it: America actively searches for ways to give white men a pass from the egregious acts that they've committed. The American Bar Association that the Republican Senate committee has been citing so much as the "Gold Standard" has asked for a delay to allow for a FBI investigation of Kavanaugh.

Every now and then, my mind has to process that they allowed Tom to call Margo "arousing" right before landing a kiss while on the dancefloor at Bob and Kim's wedding reception. If you ask me, there was a lot more cleverly placed dialogue and situations that were looked risqué in the 80s than in the decades that followed. The writers and directors took a lot more risk with the sound and visuals of the show back then and it made for a show that had a lot more spice to it. In any given scene, there was usually a lot more going on than dialogue, even in a scene when two people appeared to be talking.

I think that Harris flusters Kavanaugh somehow, for some reason. His eyes and head were alternating between trying to make eye contact and darting/looking away. He didn't stumble over words as badly as he did previously but with a lot of effort this time around. Contrast this with the fact that Harris' eye contact never wavered. Her gaze was fixed on him. Anyway, anyone who doesn't want people to think lowly of what the U.S. has now become, should never let them look at video of Kavanaugh's testimony/speech. Disgraceful.

Again, as horrible as Clarence Thomas was/is, he could never have gotten away with dismissing an FBI investigation and still expect to be confirmed.