[Intolerant in NJ]

...his client may not get a ‘fair and credible’ hearing...that's the last thing she should want, and the thing she's really fearful of - it will show her to be a lying, manipulative ideologue who tried to sink Kavanaugh with anonymous accusations and then tried to slink back into the dark without taking responsibility - she's going to find something somewhere - the color of the drapes, the shape of the table, the name of the cameraman - which offends her and gives her an excuse to run away as fast as she can.....

[Know et al]

...his client may not get a ‘fair and credible’ hearing

That is an insult to the senators on the judiciary committee. I guess they will sit there and take it.

[rdcbn]

Actually, the reason Ford is balking is because Grassley is insisting on a fair and credible hearing, which is the last thing Ford or the Democrats want.

Team Ford was trying to engineer a hearing where Ford could lie with impunity and face no legal consequences for perjury. At the same time they wanted the intimidate the Republicans into not asking any tough question be an experianced female prosecutor so they could enrage women and mobilize them for the election

Looks like they may have failed and Grassley threaded the needle on this one

Good for him