They should have given Ford a time to show up, and if she didn’t take the vote.
She diddled with them for several weeks while she played Grassley like a violin.
He could have played hard ball with her. She was a flier, and yet she lied and said she couldn’t fly. He offered to come to her, and now she says she didn’t know, even though it was in the news for days.
I could go on. There was not offense on our team.
Grassley backed up, then backed up again, then backed up again...
You never win backing up.
Sounds like an old, senile driver. He thought he had it in Forward.
That might work in the movies. In real life, your plan assumes that Murkowski and Collins would vote for Kavanaugh without holding a hearing for Ford. That was never going to happen.
I disagree.
DiFi timed the release of CBF’s “allegations” hoping Grassley would try to sweep it under the rug. He wisely didn’t and I think it was only about a 1 week reset to the process to accommodate the appearance of Her Royal Highness to the proceedings.
This freaked the Dems and they produced other outrageous allegations.
Princess-Pea was set to appear, but Grassley had already alerted McConnell that the committee would vote Friday, and the Senate would be in session over the weekend keeping the post-committee clocks running.
P-P did her shtick. She didn’t confess, but she wasn’t beaten to death by angry white men. That was a bold move, by the way. If she was given an opportunity, I am sure she was coached to run, crying from the room.
Flake, intentionally or otherwise, provided a means to allow the committee work to complete and for cover for D’s who want to buck Schumer to save their seats that Trump is now out seriously threatening over this.
Grassley used this to get the Dems in and slam the vote through to approve in the committee and send to the Senate with no more time for Dem shenanigans.
We’re here now waiting for a Trump-requested FBI report (they can’t ALL be bad) that will say that Princess-Pea is a psycho and some people need to be charged with perjury. This, while Trump is out switching some key D votes.
I say it has been masterfully executed and pray for a real spanking for the D’s over this in November.
I am just really impressed how both Grassley and Graham have worked to get Trump’s nomination through. This is taking a tremendous amount of guts to push back on EVERYONE to ram this through, but I think that Trump has this game figured out.
Oh, and if anyone is looking for headlines saying “Conservatives are Winning!”, they’re idiots.