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I want to, but he's on the court until the nomination fails. They don't care how bad it looks, how bad it reeks. That seat on the Supremes is their golden ticket, and they won't yield it. They'll have to be forced to relinquish it, and they are willing to go way out of bounds to keep it.

 

There is no way in hell the GOP is going to survive this election season if they allow the hearing to go on tomorrow in which a woman with five college degrees and not a whiff of a blemish in her past tells the nation this:

READ: Christine Blasey Ford's Opening Statement For Senate Hearing

I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified.

It was hard for me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me. Both Brett and Mark were drunkenly laughing during the attack. They both seemed to be having a good time.

Brett's assault on me drastically altered my life. For a very long time, I was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone the details.

The reason this came up in counseling is that my husband and I had completed an extensive remodel of our home, and I insisted on a second front door, an idea that he and others disagreed with and could not understand. In explaining why I wanted to have a second front door, I described the assault in detail. I recall saying that the boy who assaulted me could someday be on the U.S. Supreme Court and spoke a bit about his background. My husband recalls that I named my attacker as Brett Kavanaugh.

 

This is my great fear. Well that and someone with a "Second Amendment solution" (from either side) trying to redress recent wrongs.

 

At this point, there is like a 25 percent chance Kavanaugh may one day vote to keep Trump from being indicted. So they’ll do whatever it takes to get him on with the understanding that he’s there to do exactly what he’s been instructed to do.

 

It's funny what pushes you over the edge into belief. For me, it was her saying that when she was struggling with Kavanaugh and he covered her mouth with his hand, the guys downstairs turned the music up. I find that completely plausible, and I'm don't think that it is something that she could have made up.

 

People in hell want ice water.

 

Maybe you're right. Maybe she's right. But there is still now way of confirming her story other than to accept her word, without corroboration, without physical evidence, without forensic evidence and without details such as time and place. We're being told to believe women. Yes, many, many women who were abused were not believed. But does that mean we are obligate to believe every single woman who comes forward, to the end of time?

 

Okay. I have a question. Assume she's right. Did she think that Brett Kavanaugh was going to show up some time after 2012 when she told her husband, break into their house and assault her again?

 

I don't know, man. Slippery slope.

Probably best to assume they're all lying.

 

I guess that depends. We can debate the merits of that approach, or we could have the FBI investigate and get the testimony of the other person who was in the room when it allegedly happened. That's how disputes of this nature are normally resolved in this country, at least when there isn't a political incentive to do something else as fast as possible.

The current approach looks like a football team who knows damn well they committed a penalty hustling to the line to snap the ball as fast as possible.