Posted on 09/18/2018 3:04:18 PM PDT by cotton1706
Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker said Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of high school-era sexual assault, needs to respond to Senate inquiries, and that the Judiciary Committee should “move on” if she declines.
“I would hope that if someone has been given the opportunity to voice a concern that they have that they would do so,” Corker told The Daily Caller News Foundation in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday afternoon. “So that would be quite something, if she decided she did not want to testify. I would assume the committee would then move on, as they should.”
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who has been on the fence about Kavanaugh, said earlier Tuesday that she finds it “very puzzling” that Ford will not respond to inquiries from the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying “she’s now being given an opportunity to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and to answer questions and I really hope that she doesn’t pass up that opportunity.” (RELATED: Collins Breaks Silence On Kavanaugh Accuser Ignoring Senate Inquiries: ‘Very Puzzling’)
Corker told Politico on Sunday he believed it “would be best for all involved, including the nominee” if they were able to tell their sides of the story in front of the committee. However, according to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, she has so far ignored repeated inquiries from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Wow, this asshole was useful for something.
10 hours ago I thought it might be the worse case scenario.
Its becoming apparent its not happening and its not playing out like the Rats hoped it would.
They haven’t able to convert GOP Senators to kill the nomination.
It’s fizzling out rafhsr than gaining steam. You’re right, 10 hours made a difference.
Leaving the Rats hanging out to dry.
All assholes are good for one thing.
The joke’s been on them
She hasn’t replied yet. If she does, what can she possibly do? Repeat what she’s already said while Fartacus and The Ugandan Giant fling poop? It’s not like she can add anything new. She’s hemmed in by her own BS story. All Kavanaugh need do is what he’s already done, deny even being there (maybe even with an alibi). Dems are trying to stall until after the midterms and turn the FBI into their own political police force. They have no play if the testimony happens.
I am quite sure that her scrubbed social media has been unscrubbed and she knows it. The cat will get out of the bag if she takes the stand. She wanted this to delay the hearing just long enough to give the rats the opportunity to take the gavel from Grassley.
Most likely this was a fill in the blank allegation. When she saw the name Kavanaugh and saw that he was the nominee, she suddenly remembered this never before revealed attack and filled in the blank with his name.
Yeah let her testify. She won’t. She has nothing and she knows it. She’s just playing for time.
So how many years are you giving her to respond Senator Grassley?
Always remember that after the Gop softball-shooting Obama called only one Goper and that was Flake !
No one in leadership just Flake his mole in the Gop.
And they have no play if she doesn’t show up to testify either as Kavanaugh’s strong denials will be played 24/7 on cable news. They hemmed themselves into a corner hoping Trump would lash out and hold the vote anyway. Now they have to put up or shut up and they have nothing to put up.
We’ll see. You could be right. But my money is on her “declining” to show up. More likely she will submit some type of written “testimony”.
I don’t think she is willing to undergo cross examination. She appears to be long on emotion but short on facts to substantiate her “claim”.
Kavanaugh is going to remain calm, thoughtful and distinguished. She will not be able to compete with his demeanor and intelligence IMHO.
With Corker gone, Flake doesn’t even matter. They can get Tester or some other dem who needs to be reelected in a state that hates this kind of character assassination shit to replace him.
I agree ..she will show up!! She is being prepped as we speak!! She is after all a master at deception as a professor at the University she works at!!
They hemmed themselves into a corner hoping Trump would lash out and hold the vote anyway.
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Prolly right. They tried to provoke Trump and lost again.
So what if she does? What can she possibly do or say? Kavanaugh says he doesn’t know her and wasn’t even there. Unless she has photographs from 1982 of the two of them at a party there’s nothing she can say or do to incriminate Kavanaugh.
The Democrats have such a strange and disconnected fascination with sex. When it suits their purposes, they promote anything out of the natural norm as ‘OK’ - while at the same time, they puritanically condemn even the slightest (even imaginary) misstep on the part of a political opponent. They seem to think that we’re all as lasciviously obsessed with sex as they are.
I don’t think these tactics are working anymore...you can’t fool all the people all the time, and everyone has become inured to this crap.
“I think they thought Trump would nuclear with bombastic tweets.”
I admit. I’ve been amazed at how quite Trump has been.
Egg on your stupid face
Traitor to Tennessee right up there with Brownlow
Just think about it - by pleading with Kavanaugh to withdraw, you fell in line with Schumer's cocked-up plan - that he and DiFi felt freaking confident to resurrect Anita Hill! You didn't even question the absurd premise that somehow the Democrats of 2018 would even know who Anita Hill IS? Or question that this was their sole gambit to shore up their fading female vote! That somehow they could run the same goddamn lazy playbook?
Think about it. WE BEAT THEM! In 72 hours, we beat them. We beat them like a gong. I smelled bullshit and poured energy into the doxology. And was rewarded at every. single. step. with evidence that this woman was a fabricator.
This is not my experience here with you, you are a solid. longtime. FReeper. I don't know if maybe you're just not feeling good or having a bad year - if you are, I give you FReegards without reservation. I leave you with my original prescription: Do. Not. Bear. False. Witness.
Precisely, and totally predictable.
Which is why Grassley and McConnell should do what we all know Feinstein and Schumer would do if the situation was reversed: ignore all the bs and caterwauling and ram the vote through on schedule.
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