Whether enough pressure can be placed on Sen. Susan Collins, who will speak to the Senate in a few minutes, and Manchin to vote "no" tomorrow is doubtful. Collins in particular has been weaseling her way around this nomination, trying to have it both ways and using the rigged FBI "investigation" as a fig leaf to vote the way she was going to anyway. She's up for reelection in November 2020, and needs to be defeated. Manchin probably sees a "yes" vote as the way to ensure his election, but at what cost? He's going to have to look over his shoulder for the next 4 weeks at angry West Virginian Dems, who may decide to sit this one out in protest. He's already being warned that funding from a Dem super PAC will be withheld if he votes "yes" tomorrow.
UPDATE: Weasel is as weasel does -- joining sad excuse for a man Jeff Flake, phony Collins rambled on echoing the Trump line before saying she will vote yes on KavaNut, dismissing Dr. Blasey Ford and the other witnesses (40 of whom were never interviewed by the FBI) while praising KavaNut's record and criticizing Democrats. This awful, awful woman needs to be reminded every day of her soulless hackery, then defeated in 2 years. She's a world- class phony inside and out. (Here's where you can contribute to funding her opponent in 2020. Be patient, though -- the site has had so many hits, it's crashed.)
UPDATE II: Add chickenshit "Democrat" Joe Manchin to the list of shame; MSNBC is reporting he's voting yes, too. Of course, he waited until Collins said she'd vote yes, making it inevitable. Fuck him.
UPDATE III: Steve Benen caps it off --
Fifty-one senators heard Kavanaugh lie repeatedly. They heard him peddle partisan conspiracy theories. They confronted credible allegations against him. They reviewed his highly controversial views about shielding presidents from legal scrutiny. And they nevertheless concluded to give him the powerful job anyway.
History will not be kind.
