This morning, a copy of the FBI report on the allegations of sexual abuse leveled at drunken sexual assaulter and rageaholic Brett "KavaNut" Kavanaugh was delivered. The White (Supremacist) House received the first copy, and is already spinning the results as "nothing to see here, let's vote." Here are some numbers to reflect on:
One -- The number of copies available to the Senate to review, in a compartmentalized space in the Senate. Dessicated corn stalk and Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Chuck Grassley got the copy at 8 a.m., Ranking Member Sen. Dianne Feinstein gets the copy at 9. Committee Rethugs see it at 10 a.m., and Committee Dems see it at 11.We'll find out whether this rushed and limited product will be considered to be valid by Rethuglican Sens. Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins (and let's not forget red state Dems like Sens. Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp). There's reason to believe that the three Rethugs in question will use the report as a fig leaf to allow them to vote for KavaNut, despite his manifest hyperpartisanship and temperament disqualifiers. About which, a final number:
Five: The number of days the FBI took to complete its investigation, one that was supposedly scoped to interview contemporary witnesses to the alleged assaults of Dr. Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez.
Nine -- The number of people interviewed by the FBI. Neither Dr. Ford nor KavaNut were interviewed. Remember that Ford took a polygraph test and passed.
Forty -- The number of people coming forward to offer to be interviewed under oath, but who were ignored by the FBI, presumably at the instruction of the White (Supremacist) House. A number of witnesses included contemporaries of Ramirez, KavaNut's classmate at Yale, who stated that he waved his junk in her face in a drunken state.
1,200 + - The number of law professors and legal scholars signing a letter opposing KavaNut's confirmation over his "unprecedented and unfathomable demeanor" at last Thursday's hearing where he showed a "lack of judicial restraint." That's putting his entitled, arrogant, and combative hissy fit mildly.
Dessicated corn stalk - yuk yuk!
ReplyDeleteOne Fly -- So many descriptions, so little space!
ReplyDeleteOnce again, Republicans run the game. WTF is going on with ONE COPY of the report being doled out on an f'ing schedule? What next, the Senators have to stand on one foot while they read it? This is a circus, and the Dems look like the crew that sweeps up the shit from the elephants.
ReplyDeleteKavanaugh has nothing to fear. He's been in since Day One. There were moments of sanity, the Dems tried, but this was a fix.
Don't wanna be Donna Downer, but man, this looks bad.
I'm only in the US for 3 months out of the year and I can tell you it's the most stressful 3 months. My fellow Americans are uncaring and angry. Well, most of them it seems. On the roads, in the stores, bars, restaurants and streets people seem hostile and I'm in a tourist area right now with vacationers!
ReplyDeleteWe try to walk or bike places we go and we damn near get crushed by cars in crosswalks with people flipping us off for getting in the way of their SUV. A jerkoff in a passing truck yelled for us to get a job. Wtf. Walking on a path for bikes and joggers a couple on bikes forced me off the path mumbling asshole as they passed.
I see people laughing with El Douche at his love me fest mocking Ford and I can tell you I'm not surprised at all. There is something wrong with almost half of this population. I'm an old white guy who lives in fear of old white guys. The crazy old fks are messing things up. I'm worried that before the election they'll find something to rally the "Patriots". Kavanut might be it but I fear worse, like maybe a Venezuelan conflict. I just don't trust these aholes. We're already playing bumper boats with the Chinese.
Almost out of time here. Waiting on my ballot and then getting the fk out. I wish you all well. See you next summer in better times?
PJ
donnah -- Can't argue with you that the fix has been in from the beginning by corrupt, cynical and power hungry Rethuglicans.
ReplyDeletePJ -- Very sorry you've been treated like that. It's becoming typical behavior of the unhinged Trumpers who believe that it's their time to rage and dominate, to dispense with "political correctness". The tide will turn against them eventually as a new more progressive generation comes up. As old white guys ourselves, we feel your sense of frustration and fear that our contemporaries are dooming us in the short term.