The next SCOTUS nominee has already been canned

[William Thornton]

Timothy, I don't dispute your figure of false accusations but it has no application to any specific case. There's no 94% probability that Ford's accusation is true. It's looking more and more like this was not all it started out to be.

[Sandy]

I don't know that you could put the accuracy or veracity of Dr. Blasey Ford's testimony into percentages. If you look at the risks she took to come forward, including the threats of angry trump deplorables against her and her family which forced her out of her house, the penalty for perjury in a senate hearing, and the overwhelming emotional struggle of re-living a traumatic experience, it would be understandable if she never mentioned it again and didn't bother with it. The obstacles and stigma that go with any woman coming forward with testimony of this sort is exactly why most don't, and why many wait so long. But all of that considered, it affirms the veracity of her testimony.

If she were the only one, then there might be a legitimate appeal to her lack of memory or to a much more politically centered motivation. But there are others, and all combined, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 people who were either direct witnesses, or able to corroborate the pattern of Kavanaugh's behavior, including staff from Georgetown Prep and teaching staff from Yale.

Not much progress has been made in this area since the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas days, when an all-male senate committee simply ignored a pile of corroborating evidence and decided that it was OK to put a justice on the Supreme Court even if he had a long standing reputation as a rear-end grabber with a propositioning potty mouth. Clearly, women who are victims of sexual assault have no advocates in the justice system, nor in the conservative Evangelical branch of Christianity in America. All of those venues think that whatever a man wants to do to a woman is just fine. That is the message that this appointment sends.

[Tim Bonney]

[Sandy]

[Tim Bonney]

[William Thornton]

The senate did the right thing. He is a great judge with a long appellate record. Who knows? He may swing to your favor. Happens all the time.

Dems sprung the accuser at the last minute and staked it all on her. Turned out to be a sympathetic witness with no evidence. Doesn't matter now but I'd expect more holes in her story. The thing was a disgraceful sham. Dems may have succeeded in pumping up voters...just not only theirs. We will see in a month.

Win some elections. Get your people confirmed. I'd blame it on Hil the inept candidate who squandered a lead pipe cinch election.

That said, I'm not all that invested in politics these days.

[Jon Estes]

[Jon Estes]