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In fast-moving events, Kavanaugh accuser refuses Monday hearing; nominee appears confident
Washington Examiner ^ | September 19, 2018 02:03 AM | Byron York

Posted on 09/19/2018 4:45:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

On Tuesday morning, Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford's expected testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was being called the most-anticipated event in Washington in decades. By Tuesday night, the whole thing appeared to be off.

Through it all, as Democrats scrambled and re-calibrated their position, Kavanaugh appeared extraordinarily confident.

Ford says that in 1982, when she was 15, a drunken 17-year-old Kavanaugh forced her onto a bed, tried to undress her, and covered her mouth with his hand at a high school party.

Ford revealed her identity in a Washington Post article Sunday. Democrats immediately began calling on Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to schedule a hearing. Early Monday morning, Ford lawyer Debra Katz told CNN that Ford would appear if asked.

"Will your client, Christine Ford, be willing to testify in public to the Judiciary Committee?" asked anchor Alisyn Camerota.

"The answer is yes," said Katz.

Calls grew through the day for Grassley to agree to a hearing. Late Monday afternoon, the chairman said yes. Committee rules call for a week's notice for hearings, so Grassley said the panel would meet next Monday, Sept. 24, to hear from Ford and Kavanaugh.

The news flew through Washington. The hearing was on. It would be a chance, the co

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To: Flick Lives
On some sites ads have overwhelmed the content.

If media organizations were smart, they'd go back to static ads placed strategically around the text. It used to work very well for newspapers. They way it is now, people use ad blockers and/or ignore the ads ... that is, if they don't get flustered and just leave the site.

61 posted on 09/19/2018 5:51:05 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: headstamp 2
She’s trying to become a martyr now as her original narrative is collapsing. She’ll be another Anita Hill.

Yup. The bloody shirt bitter Liberals will wave every time a SCOTUS ruling does not go their way.


62 posted on 09/19/2018 5:51:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: V_TWIN
Next It’ll be a bomb scare when they try to vote.

I'll be looking for it, and won't be a bit surprised if it happens. In fact, I wouldn't consider a terrorist shooting beyond the pale for Democrats. And if I were Kavanaugh, I'd be very keen on personal security. They're that desperate.

63 posted on 09/19/2018 5:53:55 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: BBQToadRibs
Indeed so. Which is further evidence she was assured that she would never have to testify under oath. That assurance was a lie, so now she has to blow a smoke screen while behind it she will cut and run.

But another crucial detail in this story: her lawyer said on live television that she would testify. No good lawyer would do that on their own responsibility which means that she must have lied to her lawyer. A classic way to cook your own goose.

64 posted on 09/19/2018 5:58:22 AM PDT by John Locke
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

On IOS, you cannot block ads.

All you can do is browse mobile sites.


65 posted on 09/19/2018 5:58:56 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That is a feasible scenario, however..... It involves only DiFi and Ford.

I would propose that outsiders selected and are paying Ford after the existence of the letter was leaked by DiFi staff to democrat money sources that fund resistance efforts.

There are powerful others deeply involved in the Kavenaugh destruction gambit

66 posted on 09/19/2018 5:59:18 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s the only one that seems to remember this life-altering event and she can’t even keep her facts straight or remember something that supposedly impacted her whole life...I bet she got caught cheating on her cuckold hubby 6 years ago and that’s when the story was first concocted...


67 posted on 09/19/2018 6:03:07 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: goldstategop

Wily Donkey test drives her ACME rocket skates at Trump one more time. Poof.


68 posted on 09/19/2018 6:04:40 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: All

I hope her life is destroyed forever....


69 posted on 09/19/2018 6:26:54 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: dennisw

“I would not be surprised if Ms Blasey Smith was very trampy in high school.”

If the reports are true, she is still pretty trampy, dumping her hubby for another old dyke.


70 posted on 09/19/2018 6:27:21 AM PDT by Beagle8U (A Muse once bit my Sister.)
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To: goldstategop

https://youtu.be/Upt7ZTvcriY


71 posted on 09/19/2018 6:29:34 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Beagle8U
If the reports are true, she is still pretty trampy, dumping her hubby for another old dyke.

LOL if true....I would not be surprised

72 posted on 09/19/2018 6:30:29 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
She went to an exclusive private girl's school. Some of her classmates have already signed a letter.

I would think that DC's inner circles aren't amused by this. How many of those students went on to be highly connected in DC and other positions of power? Do they seriously want HS rumors and fantasies by deranged classmates to be used against them? That's why I'm saying pictures of her released anonymously would be the best way to end character assassination by one's HS acquaintances.

I'm very sincere about this. The ONE group in my life among whom there'd be no such treachery is my HS friends and acquaintances! I honestly think we'd gang up on anyone who besmirched a classmate or someone in our circle.

73 posted on 09/19/2018 6:31:25 AM PDT by grania
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I usually ‘get flustered and leave the site’; especially when also confronted with those ‘by continuing, you accept’ notices.

This is counterproductive for the sites that do these things. Your ads and content accomplish nothing, if people won’t stay on your site long enough to see them.


74 posted on 09/19/2018 6:35:51 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: grania
I would think that DC's inner circles aren't amused by this. How many of those students went on to be highly connected in DC and other positions of power? Do they seriously want HS rumors and fantasies by deranged classmates to be used against them? That's why I'm saying pictures of her released anonymously would be the best way to end character assassination by one's HS acquaintances.

Remember, only a few years ago, this was a one way street. Old accusations were only used against Conservatives or Republicans.

There was a good reason for that. The Media was a one ideology uniformity, and that ideology was Progressivism.

75 posted on 09/19/2018 6:36:31 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: GreenHornet

...”If the Republicans have any spine at all, they’ll tell her it’s too late. She was given an opportunity to testify, and turned it down. It’s time to go forward and vote and Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation.”...

I agree 100%


76 posted on 09/19/2018 6:38:50 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: BBQToadRibs

How are you going to investigate something like this? She does not remember the day, month or year it happened. The other person(witness) she named categorically denies any such thing ever happened. Her recollection of the event keeps morphing. On top of that the crime does not fall under Federal jurisdiction so the FBI passed it off.


77 posted on 09/19/2018 6:40:26 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Hundreds of her schoolmates, including “Elaine” from Seinfeld are coming out in support of her. They believe her.

The libs support her, the conservatives support Kavanaugh.

Just like our elected leaders.

No integrity.

Kavanaugh is the only one in the conversation that has any integrity.


78 posted on 09/19/2018 6:41:25 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: txrefugee

...”They’ll have till Monday to medicate her and educate her as to the script they’ve written for her. She tried to destroy Judge Kavanaugh, but she will be destroyed in the process. If justice is served, Feinstein and the hater from HI will go down with her.”...

If justice is done, what they have designed for Judge Kavanaugh will come down on their own heads. That will require the involvement of the Supreme Creator of the Universe, but we can hope.


79 posted on 09/19/2018 6:42:52 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: No Socialist

“Elaine” isn’t even a class mate. She just went to the same school a few years earlier. Probably doesn’t even know her. Its just a sorority sister thing.


80 posted on 09/19/2018 6:43:52 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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