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WA(?) state rep:

So okay, let’s do it. @senatorfain, you raped me the night I graduated from Georgetown in 2007. Then you had the audacity to ask me to support your campaign. I’ve been terrified of running into you since moving home and seeing your name everywhere.

I’m done being silent.

— Candace Faber (@candacefaber) September 27, 2018

Manchin was a yes previously, so this has me slightly quizzical and hopeful.

HIGH DRAMA: Flake, Collins, Murkowski and Manchin - the senators who will determine whether Brett Kavanaugh gets a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court - are privately huddling NOW. @tedbarrettcnn

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 27, 2018

Speak softly and that’s it https://t.co/BXROe7ljxL

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 27, 2018

I'm with Khan. Dude is a drunk. But you could tell that up front - the irrational rage at being called out matches the story from the 90s about going ape at a dinner with friends after a few drinks.

BOOKER: You drank on weekdays in high school, right?

KAVANAUGH: Well you see, in the summer, after sports, when the sun started to go dow--

B: Yes or no?

K: Let me explai--

B: Is that a yes?#slippery pic.twitter.com/XlFaeCjhuJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh refuses to answer @CoryBooker's straightforward questions about whether he thinks Ford is part of a left-wing plot, and then also refuses to discuss if he wishes she wouldn't have come forward at all. #dodging pic.twitter.com/LNP4AxfHgT

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

He is so desperately scared of any process that would seek full testimony from Mark Judge. That’s the only thing anyone needs to know.

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 27, 2018

If Kavanaugh is confirmed to SCOTUS after the ugly fiasco we've witnessed today, it will discredit the court for a generation at the very least.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121 https://t.co/QtKtbcy01h

— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 27, 2018

It's a play to lock in Trump's support - he feared being pulled. If that holds all he needs are the senators. I still think it's 50-50 with the ones in question.

Kavanaugh shouts down Leahy so he can talk more about how a perfect kid he purportedly was in high school. Complete disrespect. pic.twitter.com/jSgrVp3wz7

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

I was shocked and horrified by Kavanaugh's tantrum. But I'm a liberal.

Conservatives, on the other hand, have been fed a steady diet of outrage and anger for years. It's the lens through which they view politics. They're going to eat it up and declare his testimony a home run.

— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) September 27, 2018

I think it's great Trump is sticking by it. Make every R take the vote. Go ahead.

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 27, 2018

President Trump is "riveted" and telling people, "This is why I nominated him," in a positive way, per person close to him. Talking to lots of people inside WH about how he likes how Kavanaugh is fighting back. Admires the defiance.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) September 27, 2018

Again, the press at large are not buying this.

"I drank beer with my friends—almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers, sometimes others did. I like beer. I still like beer." — Brett Kavanaugh #KavanaughHearings pic.twitter.com/8h8ua1hr4l

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh on his high school days: "We drank beer. We liked beer." He says he may have had too many on occasion. Asked how many was too many, he says, "I don't know...whatever the chart says, uh, the blood-alcohol chart."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh cuts off Feinstein mid-question and starts admonishing her.

Then says: "The Swetnick thing is a joke. That is a farce." Declines opportunity to say more. pic.twitter.com/Tjp5J3WQNz

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh wants you to know that he drank beers, drinks beer, loved beers, still loves beer, but definitely never drank so many beers that he blacked out from the beers pic.twitter.com/d7he0FF1J3

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Oh, I can't stand SNL these days and I am fairly certain almost none of them support Kavanaugh - even conservadem Lorne Michaels.

WH staff source: “Kavanaugh is losing it.”

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) September 27, 2018

If you wrote this character into a script, the studio notes would say, “Too on-the-nose. So obviously a prototypical example of white male privilege attempting to stomp on the oppressed. Tone it down.” pic.twitter.com/MkfjNGeZ5c

— David Chen (@davechensky) September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh has been talking for well over 30 minutes. He's now guzzling water and telling us that he "never had sexual intercourse or anything close to it during high school or for many years after that." pic.twitter.com/3pbiETsT08

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh points out that he's treated some women well, and some even seem to like him pic.twitter.com/yMJwH4BXwp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

KAVANAUGH: "I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer. But I did not drink to the point of blacking out and I never sexually assaulted anyone." pic.twitter.com/kefMaexCwR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

I don't know what's going on anymore. Kavanaugh is now providing a scouting report of his football team from the summer of 1982. pic.twitter.com/IzZYQMfF6F

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Whoa:

I don't know what's going on anymore. Kavanaugh is now providing a scouting report of his football team from the summer of 1982. pic.twitter.com/IzZYQMfF6F

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh, as part of his fiery speech, says this all is, in part, "revenge on behalf of the Clintons."

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) September 27, 2018

"I will not be intimidated into withdrawing. ... You may defeat me in the final vote, but I will not quit," Kavanaugh says. "I have never sexually assaulted anyone."

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) September 27, 2018

Just in case you thought Kavanaugh couldn't make his case worse: He is livid and very aggressive.

He just said "the whole country will reap the whirlwind"!

"WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!" OH MY GOD.

"My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed" - US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh reacts to sexual assault allegations against him#KavanaughHearings https://t.co/h2XHDCCojT pic.twitter.com/ovPMw0Clfk

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) September 27, 2018

Following comments from Senators, Kavanaugh says "People have been willing to do anything to make any physical threat against my family, to send any violent email to my wife, to make any kind of allegation against me and against my friends to blow me up and take me down." pic.twitter.com/ZNhvwhevxW

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) September 27, 2018

"The media" is not pushing that line, though. You certainly have some folks trying to #BothSides it like Chuck, but the fact is it has been a net disaster for the GOP and very little of the mainstream media is trying to spin it as anything else. Chucks aside, that is the overwhelming narrative that is here today.

16 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Kavanaugh has to do is make a sad face and put in eyedrops and blink, and everyone will swoon about how he is the real victim.

Carl, I'm sorry but that is just not true, and with the exception of a few boorish comments from guys like Chuck Todd it is not remotely what is playing out on TV in the mainstream media or in the public discourse today.

We can and should be skeptical and wary of what will occur and pragmatic to a fault, but I think to not acknowledge how this is playing out is just kneecapping ourselves and frankly, doing a disservice to Professor Ford.

This picture of women in a sports bar watching the #KavanaughHearings should scare the crap out of Republicans. This is going to reverberate. The @GOP didn't just shoot itself in the foot. It put a grenade in its pants pocket and pulled the pin. #MeToo #BelieveSurvivors pic.twitter.com/C7pyW7LqfF

— Eugene V. Belitsky (@Jhenya_Belitsky) September 27, 2018

and i have said this before, but the fact that the Trump administration’s accomplishments are exactly those things the median Republican could support, nothing more or less, is illustration of how ineffective he has been relative to his position

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) September 27, 2018

Lindsey Graham is having a meltdown on national TV pic.twitter.com/xApZ4Gpa1L

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 27, 2018

Ol' Chuck is getting roasted on Twitter.

Lindsay Graham feels "ambushed" he says

— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) September 27, 2018

They may, they may not. I've thought Kavanaugh was doomed since last week and I still think so. I'm not the only one.

“Why did the polygraph happen in a hotel room?”

“I had just left my grandmother’s funeral.”

Rachel Mitchell is doing a truly terrible job of obeying the number one lawyer rule: don’t ask a question if you don’t know the answer.

— Danielle Ingrid Anais Tcholakian (@danielleiat) September 27, 2018

honestly shocked that Mitchell didn’t ask Blasey Ford if she was sure her grandmother really died

— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) September 27, 2018

DR. FORD: I was sexually assaulted and I can speak specifically - with scientific precision - about how it has affected my life.

RACHEL MITCHELL: What’s this on your LinkedIn about Tahiti?

— Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) September 27, 2018

Every prominent Republican I've spoken to in the past two hours believes the decision to have Mitchell do the questioning is an unmitigated disaster.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 27, 2018

I confess. I figured Maj Republicans might have taken the break, said, wow that was terrible. Let's have Mitchell shift gears. But I give them credit. They're plowing full speed ahead with lighting themselves on fire.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 27, 2018

Rachel Mitchell, a career sex crime prosecutor, now saying the best way to interview victims of trauma is not "this setting, in five minute increments."

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) September 27, 2018

watching these dudes preparing to blame the female prosecutor who they hired specifically for this is really something https://t.co/a0eNMvylU2

— ☕netw3rk (@netw3rk) September 27, 2018

By allowing this to continue with no FBI investig and with a Fox appearance Kavnaugh likely lost the SCt and will be hard pressed to keep his seat on DC Circuit. If he gets up later and lies he's ruined his own life. All by his lonesome.

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 27, 2018

The “prosecutor” just spent a ton of time trying to raise suspicions about how #ChristineBlaseyFord will pay for her polygraph and other expenses, only to be face-planted — and silenced — by the shocking revelation Ford is relying on GoFundMe sites.

— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) September 27, 2018

i cannot figure for the life of me why the prosecutor got hung up on who would pay for the polygraph only to have revealed that Americans of good will have been raising money for her. She MUST be throwing in the towel

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 27, 2018

If literally, all you've got is Did George Soros, in fact, pay for your polygraph? you've got nothing. #KavanaughHearings

— Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) September 27, 2018

And her lawyers shut it down fast.

The GOP is so blinkered that they can't conceive of this as anything but a game, so they rely on conspiracy theory questioning to play to the base. But it is playing horribly on TV. This is a complete wreck for them.

These Holton Arms seniors have been rotating in and out of the hearing, sharing one ticket, “in support of our alumna” #BlaseyFord #kavanaugh pic.twitter.com/uFGDt6Yrjg

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) September 27, 2018

Booker is talking about heroic it is for Ford to have come forward.

Ford appears to be weeping again.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) September 27, 2018

"You are opening up to open-air hurt and pain that goes on across this country," Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) tells Christine Blasey Ford. "And for that, the word I would use is nothing short of heroic." https://t.co/j0e7TIiavz pic.twitter.com/dPm76LYT5w

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) September 27, 2018

....He's really not, though. At all. Not with the public and by the looks of things not with the Congress. It's 50-50 at best right now.