Right off the bat Grassley to Feinsten’s introductory remarks: “sorry you used unsubstantiated claims”. (And also “they will be looked at at another time.”) ??? How have GOP substantiated their saintly claims about Kavanaugh? They continue to block further FBI investigation.
Prosecutors have good spidey-senses. Mine says Dr. Ford is telling the truth. Her demeanor, the small details, her lack of willingness to force her memory, her emotion, her sense of duty as a citizen. And I believe her when she identifies Kavanaugh as the man who assaulted her.
Can’t watch now. Will wait for the replay so I can stop it and breathe when I need to. The fear is huge.
Also, I keep having a recurring thought I wanted to share. Several of you have written that this kind of behavior is not a one time thing, and with high school and college incidents we see that is true. So I wonder where KavaNOaugh is getting his sexual kicks these days. Does he have a mistress? Does he frequent kinky sex parlors? I mean I don’t think that “power over” sense of entitlement stopped when he passed the bar or got married or whatever. Just sayin’, and wondering.
Sick how this is reduced to credibility and GOP trying to undermine Dr. Ford because GOP will not do the needed FBI investigation. Murkowski has commented on their pushback. Collins doesn’t know why Judge has not been subpoenaed. ‘Not a trial for Ford but a “job interview” for Brett Kavanaugh’ and his character. Dr. Ford says she is 100% it was Kavanaugh. Women who have been assaulted are listening and coming out about it and Senator Durbin described this upside to this terrible fiasco so well. Also true in my own case.
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is it me seeing wrong ….or has grassley changed his “female background model” (I mean the woman they had purposefully put in camera shot behind him … probably to improve the gender-related optics) ….. ????.
He is also going on about trying to give the impression that the Democrats are at fault for the current composition and timing of the hearing
Senator Whitehouse: we owe her a sincere investigation, she passes preliminary credibility, has known facts, consistency, willing to take a lie detector and be questioned in Congress, has met all requirements but there have been No investigations into her claims. She asked for FBI to be involved however that turned out – because she might be more helpful on details. Never in the history of background investigation has an investigation not been pursued when new derogatory information was brought forward. Don’t think this has ever happened before…that Kavanaugh’s alleged accomplice has not been examined tells you all you need to know about how credible this performance is. However long it takes I will do whatever in my power to give your claims a full and proper investigation.
Every GOP campaign strategist and Hill staffer wishes they had the button to open the trap door under Rachel Mitchell’s chair. What a total and complete Political disaster for Republicans.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says she will never forget the "uproarious laughter" between Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge as Kavanaugh attempted to rape her.
Wow the polygrapher Jerry came to Dr. Ford at the airport right after her grandmother’s funeral.
How stressful is that? She said she found it stressful and longer than she thought it would be. Remembered crying. Never taken any other polygraph. Said she was scared of the test itself but “comfortable it would reveal whatever it would reveal”.
Watching this woman, moved by Blumenthal's comments, really gets to me. She is not just revealing the facts of her assault. She is also revealing the emotional cost of a life living with such an assault.
yep an educated and accomplished woman. No surprise Dr. Ford is so damn credible. No surprise p*** grabber Trump wants to get his partner in crime onto the SC.
Its the mocking laughter that most kids remember, there are two things that kids don’t forget. One is being laughed at, the other is being embarrassed by someone.
DE Sen @ChrisCoons says 3 women he knows, incl a high school classmate, have contacted him in the last hour to tell him about their surviving sexual assault “It is striking how many survivors of sexual assault are watching and are choosing this moment to come forward”
I kept silent as a16 year-old to prevent my brother who was getting into fights at that age, and my Dad who truly loved me,
from going ballistic on the perpetrator who was my first boyfriend. As time went on it seemed pointless to talk about it.
Till now when it was important to support Dr. Ford.
I’m so sorry. My heart hurts. Trying to have lunch now, and I’m crying… this has all been so difficult to relive from so many of us… hugs to youđź’•
I know one thing – if this is the best technique the “female assistant” has, she’s doomed. Truthfully, as you intimated, I think she does believe Dr. Ford and is calling it in.
@LindseyGrahamSC behind the cameras (making faces, looking annoyed, we hear) and in the corridors is a big tough guy. But he, too, declined to interview Dr. Ford BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN and he couldn't handle it. Who would vote for someone afraid of half the population?
Obviously people in South Carolina. I’ve often wondered how Graham has stayed in office. He’s showing his true mean spiritedness now that John McCain is gone.
Dr. Ford is credible and persuasive. She is also unbelievably brave. Until I heard her talking about what she experienced, I didn’t fully appreciate the terror she felt in that moment, the horror of the physical assault and the psychological trauma of believing she might die.
The “Republican prosecutor” is asking the questions Republican staff & senators want her to ask. That’s how this works. Staff provided the map etc. It’s possible none of the questions originated with Mitchell.
something tells me that one day, more will be revealed about that double-faced and shameless liar from SC, lindsay graham ….. his actions and pronouncements have taken many continuously contradictory turns
– She’s nailing her testimony – She’s a damn hero – GOP prosecutor Rachel Mitchell is a disaster – Chuck Grassley needs to go home – Lindsey Graham goes berserk in Senate hallway – Brett Kavanaugh is in deep trouble – It’s still only 2pm
Millions of Americans are watching a victim of sexual assault be cross examined while Republicans have refused to call the individual she places in the room with Brett Kavanaugh. Dr. Blasey Ford's courage in the face of this treatment is remarkable.
Just a reminder that Betsy DeVos is making it harder for young women to come forward to report sexual assault and rape. She vowed to strengthen protections for the accused.
This is what it looks like when Republican men who are COWARDS try to use a woman as a human shield and it fails spectacularly. pic.twitter.com/pFMrOFSqQT
Even the prosecutor said there was a better way to handle the questioning. Too late, Prosecutor. You don’t get to fly across country as “an expert,” conduct it, see it didn’t go well, then say it could have been arranged better.
At this stage of my life (and age), I can barely swig down one glass of wine and want more, but after watching that godawful hearing, I'd like to become "incoherently drunk" for the rest of the afternoon. #KavaNOugh
BREAKING Senator Blumenthal just quoted Senator Lindsey Graham in a book he wrote years ago, defending sexual assault victims and saying how hard it is for victims to come forward.
Graham’s rant in the corridor shows the direction the Republican Assistant and GOP is desperately hoping to go.
They are using Dr. Ford’s lack of total recall. Also Grassley announcement that the committee “would have come to CA” instead of her flying to DC: Weren’t they saying NO WAY until just this week and trying to cut her off? Also questioning her air-travel difficulties. I too am no longer comfortable flying after a bad experience with lack of air and cramped conditions, but you can bet would find some way to do it for something this important. Or for a long awaited vacation. Or death in the family, whatever. In her case I think she had to fly in the past because of research? And she was surprised by Grassley saying the Committee would have come to her. He is such an b-s-er.
For a moment there I thought Lindsey Graham has going to have one of his tall virile and handsome office staff members pull a couch out in the hallway so he could faint on it.
He’s so over the top, he’s ridiculous. The guy is almost the most senior member on the Judiciary Committee and he acts as though the world is coming to an end if the Republicans don’t get their way.
Did we know before today, when Grassley casually mentioned it at the end, that they received (among those including two others at the party) a sworn statement for the record that Mark Judge didn’t recall the incident? Not sure I caught that right, and I don’t want a replay of Grassley’s voice back in my head, TYVM.
Senator Graham is complaining that he felt ambushed by the allegations against Kavanaugh. You know who felt ambushed? Dr. Ford felt ambushed when Kavanaugh & Judge pushed her into a room, locked the door & sexually assaulted her.
Just a reminder that Betsy DeVos is making it harder for young women to come forward to report sexual assault and rape. She vowed to strengthen protections for the accused.
Kavanaugh walks into hearing room in catatonic state. Wife walks in looking like she’s thinking about how she’ll spend the settlement money, just to stay with this clown until after the hearing.
What a riot. Kavanaugh is proving he doesn't even have the temperament to be a judge much less a justice. Just like he did when he tried to refuse a young immigrant woman a legal abortion, by tricks, a charade, and her calendar. This is not somebody we need on #SCOTUS. #Evil
Kavanaugh is practically screaming in outrage. Saying he had agreed to any kind of investigation. “She does not know me.” Being mad and outraged means truthful in GOP terms. Grrrr
So if he has such a great professional history – how is he stupid enough to believe that Presidents can do anything they want and not be criminally investigated? And that Nixon should not have resigned. How the hell is that?
Ah, he didn’t list going to church on his calendar nor brushing his teeth, he said because “going to church was like brushing my teeth” = Not something to make a note of. Maybe going to parties was like brushing his teeth. And maybe he was cunning enough to leave those out so he could show his Dad these calendars at any time.
All Ford’s witnesses deny being there suddenly announced right prior to Kavanaugh’s turn. He is including all the details the prosecutor was querying Ford about proving it was a well rehearsed GOP plan. Knowing everything you did from a calendar down to every detail is kin to preparing an excuse and lie.
Right, because as we all know from our high school days, during the Summer, we would only stay out late or go to a party on a weekend night. During the week, we would ensure we were home early, usually by 5 or 6 pm.
Funny how with all this crying, no tears are streaming down his face.
^^^ And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how he'd treat a woman in this place in time. Even though he "loves" women because he "didn't have any sisters."
When Kavanaugh’s calendar was presented …many asked if it was normal that a boy now a man would hold onto a calendar after all these years…indeed in fact make one at all….i think that i know why he had a calendar and held onto it after all this time…it was his TROPHY…his tribute to how many “conquests” (assaults) he had…
The Obama Diary 
buckle up, buttercup….
the moment is indeed here …. may strength go towards the victim
okay, I have to try and control my anger towards this scumbag, grassley
Sen Feinsten has entered all the allegations by other victims into the senate record.
great
Right off the bat Grassley to Feinsten’s introductory remarks: “sorry you used unsubstantiated claims”. (And also “they will be looked at at another time.”) ??? How have GOP substantiated their saintly claims about Kavanaugh? They continue to block further FBI investigation.
Dr. Ford is doing well with her opening statement. She is brave and a true American hero.
I do not know if I could have the same strength as Dr. Ford ….. this is not easy
At work cant watch following updates, pray Dr. Ford is sustained by our many thoughts and prayers real ones not NRA fake ones
Dr. Ford… you are on my thoughts today. You are strong and brave… we all stand beside you. You are my alone
You are not alone. My phone seems to have a mind of its own
Can’t watch now. Will wait for the replay so I can stop it and breathe when I need to. The fear is huge.
Also, I keep having a recurring thought I wanted to share. Several of you have written that this kind of behavior is not a one time thing, and with high school and college incidents we see that is true. So I wonder where KavaNOaugh is getting his sexual kicks these days. Does he have a mistress? Does he frequent kinky sex parlors? I mean I don’t think that “power over” sense of entitlement stopped when he passed the bar or got married or whatever. Just sayin’, and wondering.
He coaches a girls’ HS basketball team
All of this
https://mobile.twitter.com/CluneEsq/status/1045303228076720129
https://mobile.twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1045106109311328256
When Dr. Ford says what she remembers the most about the assault was the “laughter,” that was very powerful.
yes, it definitely was …. reminds one of those horror movies in which demonic laughter is included in a scene as perpetrators attack their victim
It was a display of complete humiliation. It was a display of owning.
the ‘mistaken identity’ guy is the person who introduced Kavanaugh and Judge to her!! No mistaking who was who.
Someone tell me this isn’t really from today
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheVinylToy/status/1045330726227505153
Sick how this is reduced to credibility and GOP trying to undermine Dr. Ford because GOP will not do the needed FBI investigation. Murkowski has commented on their pushback. Collins doesn’t know why Judge has not been subpoenaed. ‘Not a trial for Ford but a “job interview” for Brett Kavanaugh’ and his character. Dr. Ford says she is 100% it was Kavanaugh. Women who have been assaulted are listening and coming out about it and Senator Durbin described this upside to this terrible fiasco so well. Also true in my own case.
is it me seeing wrong ….or has grassley changed his “female background model” (I mean the woman they had purposefully put in camera shot behind him … probably to improve the gender-related optics) ….. ????.
He is also going on about trying to give the impression that the Democrats are at fault for the current composition and timing of the hearing
Senator Whitehouse: we owe her a sincere investigation, she passes preliminary credibility, has known facts, consistency, willing to take a lie detector and be questioned in Congress, has met all requirements but there have been No investigations into her claims. She asked for FBI to be involved however that turned out – because she might be more helpful on details. Never in the history of background investigation has an investigation not been pursued when new derogatory information was brought forward. Don’t think this has ever happened before…that Kavanaugh’s alleged accomplice has not been examined tells you all you need to know about how credible this performance is. However long it takes I will do whatever in my power to give your claims a full and proper investigation.
Klobuchar rebutting Grassley’s snarky diatribe: “George Bush ordered that the (FBI) investigation be opened again.”
Yep, when this so called prosecutor had the large map brought out I knew it was over.
Wow the polygrapher Jerry came to Dr. Ford at the airport right after her grandmother’s funeral.
How stressful is that? She said she found it stressful and longer than she thought it would be. Remembered crying. Never taken any other polygraph. Said she was scared of the test itself but “comfortable it would reveal whatever it would reveal”.
I thought that the prosecutor was trying to get at because of the funeral her polygraph results could be false.
no it was glossed over. They know that taking it after the funeral would be one of the worst times to try and pull a fast one.
Yep, its like growing up poor, you don’t forget the humiliating moments.
His daughter, of whom he is very proud ….
When are these mofos ever actually prepared for anything.
The answer is never, and I believe it because this is the first Whitehouse that I can remember is always being caught off-guard by something.
yep an educated and accomplished woman. No surprise Dr. Ford is so damn credible. No surprise p*** grabber Trump wants to get his partner in crime onto the SC.
Its the mocking laughter that most kids remember, there are two things that kids don’t forget. One is being laughed at, the other is being embarrassed by someone.
I’ve heard that’s also the thing that Trump really hates.
“It is striking how many survivors of sexual assault are watching and are choosing this moment to come forward”
But can you imagine all the survivors that keep silent and go through life in silence.
I kept silent as a16 year-old to prevent my brother who was getting into fights at that age, and my Dad who truly loved me,
from going ballistic on the perpetrator who was my first boyfriend. As time went on it seemed pointless to talk about it.
Till now when it was important to support Dr. Ford.
I was raped on the evening of my 16th birthday. Standing up.
Standing with you bridgeriverpass….
love
I’m so sorry. My heart hurts. Trying to have lunch now, and I’m crying… this has all been so difficult to relive from so many of us… hugs to youđź’•
love
More hugs to you, today, as you go through this!
love
many thanks to u both.
women don’t expect much in the way of support. It is a given.
truth!!! …. and for some, even coming forward at this moment is still hard to do ….
Deep down, even the “female assistant” thinks that Dr. Ford is telling the truth.
I know one thing – if this is the best technique the “female assistant” has, she’s doomed. Truthfully, as you intimated, I think she does believe Dr. Ford and is calling it in.
Obviously people in South Carolina. I’ve often wondered how Graham has stayed in office. He’s showing his true mean spiritedness now that John McCain is gone.
It is time for the people of South Carolina to get tired of the likes of Lindsey Graham. He is a disgrace.
If that’s the case then Mitchell is a tool for agreeing to be used as a tool.
I felt like the prosecutor at the end was trying to blame Ford for not talking to them in her own state. Saying it would have been easier for her.
something tells me that one day, more will be revealed about that double-faced and shameless liar from SC, lindsay graham ….. his actions and pronouncements have taken many continuously contradictory turns
thanks Nerdy. Kamala gets to the point every time.
Yep, Lindsey Graham is showing his ass in the hallways of the United States Senate building.
Go vote! lol
Hugs to you, this day, Tally!
Even the prosecutor said there was a better way to handle the questioning. Too late, Prosecutor. You don’t get to fly across country as “an expert,” conduct it, see it didn’t go well, then say it could have been arranged better.
Graham’s rant in the corridor shows the direction the Republican Assistant and GOP is desperately hoping to go.
They are using Dr. Ford’s lack of total recall. Also Grassley announcement that the committee “would have come to CA” instead of her flying to DC: Weren’t they saying NO WAY until just this week and trying to cut her off? Also questioning her air-travel difficulties. I too am no longer comfortable flying after a bad experience with lack of air and cramped conditions, but you can bet would find some way to do it for something this important. Or for a long awaited vacation. Or death in the family, whatever. In her case I think she had to fly in the past because of research? And she was surprised by Grassley saying the Committee would have come to her. He is such an b-s-er.
For a moment there I thought Lindsey Graham has going to have one of his tall virile and handsome office staff members pull a couch out in the hallway so he could faint on it.
–he is gone full TrumpPute now. And a misogynist when he especially should believe in equal rights.
I think I’ve told ya before, Don – you should write novels. 🙂
He’s so over the top, he’s ridiculous. The guy is almost the most senior member on the Judiciary Committee and he acts as though the world is coming to an end if the Republicans don’t get their way.
Yep. It’s so sickening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did we know before today, when Grassley casually mentioned it at the end, that they received (among those including two others at the party) a sworn statement for the record that Mark Judge didn’t recall the incident? Not sure I caught that right, and I don’t want a replay of Grassley’s voice back in my head, TYVM.
Yep, I caught it, and one of the Democrats mentioned something about bringing Judge in so he could testify.
Yes, please. Somebody go find Judge at the beach house. Ugh.
I was thinking the same thing:
Not sure I can listen to KavaNOugh.
By the way, trump hasn’t tweeted all day. I just checked. I’m thinking he’s locked in his room.
I absolutely won’t watch Kavanaugh lie. He is the typical lying republican.
He’s crying as much as he’s lying. I’m thinking I won’t watch much more of it, either.
UGH
He wanted to do that to intimidate Dr. Ford.
And he wanted to get a picture of the both of them together, as to say it was all a big misunderstanding.
oops, …
Zactly GOP officials need Kavanaugh to keep them safe from the fallout of the Russia investigation.
OMG, I wish I was in DC right now.
I don’t think Kavanaugh can carry the weight that’s about to be put on his shoulders.
Kavanaugh walks into hearing room in catatonic state. Wife walks in looking like she’s thinking about how she’ll spend the settlement money, just to stay with this clown until after the hearing.
Your assessment is spot on, though instead in thinking about the settlement money, she looked like she was saying “this motherfucker” to herself.
True that!
Opening: Grassley giving Kavenaugh the heads up that his 3 guys denied any knowledge of the assault.
Fingers crossed, the mofo’s gonna withdraw. Anybody with me?
Trump has mostly likely coerced him not to withdraw. Trump needs him. GOP architects need him for their Next Phase coming soon.
Never mind.
Kavanaugh is practically screaming in outrage. Saying he had agreed to any kind of investigation. “She does not know me.” Being mad and outraged means truthful in GOP terms. Grrrr
Kavanaugh is threatening about “the day that is coming”. Says he “fears for the future”. Bannon would love this ominous picture of the future.
He can kiss my ass.
It’s all about Kavanaugh. Not anything but. No wonder trump “likes” him.
Surely the RWNJs on the committee are wishing HE wasn’t the nominee.
So if he has such a great professional history – how is he stupid enough to believe that Presidents can do anything they want and not be criminally investigated? And that Nixon should not have resigned. How the hell is that?
Ah, he didn’t list going to church on his calendar nor brushing his teeth, he said because “going to church was like brushing my teeth” = Not something to make a note of. Maybe going to parties was like brushing his teeth. And maybe he was cunning enough to leave those out so he could show his Dad these calendars at any time.
All Ford’s witnesses deny being there suddenly announced right prior to Kavanaugh’s turn. He is including all the details the prosecutor was querying Ford about proving it was a well rehearsed GOP plan. Knowing everything you did from a calendar down to every detail is kin to preparing an excuse and lie.
sorry why doesn’t he blow his nose? Continues to sniff…sorry but I would give him an Oscar hands down.
Had that same thought!
I HAVE ZERO PITY FOR HIM. He’s spending more time talking about his yearbook page than anything else.
still no trusty aide handing him a tissue.
thank you and Fuck You Kavanaugh. Talk to the guy who beat you up and Judge because you raped his friend.
ah he just blew his nose…
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/09/27/a-gripping-moment/
Kavanaugh and Mark Judge have been described multiple times as “joined at the hip”. He is saying now “one of the guys”.
he is demonstrating a temper – talking to Feinstein. Many have described him that way.
wah! wah! rich white boy always gets his way. He has been advised to be loud and emotional.
what do you describe as too many beers? “I don’t know…whatever the blood chart says.” ??????????
He doesn’t know how many beers are too many?
Me thinks he protests too much, too loudly and he is playing to the room.
When Kavanaugh’s calendar was presented …many asked if it was normal that a boy now a man would hold onto a calendar after all these years…indeed in fact make one at all….i think that i know why he had a calendar and held onto it after all this time…it was his TROPHY…his tribute to how many “conquests” (assaults) he had…
do you remember Avenatti’s clip from the Calendar: “the FFFFFFFFourth of July”
The “Fs” are boy talk shorthand for terrible things.
he just gave up a not plausible alternative for this.
He is a Judge. He knows how to play the game. The WH has been rehearsing him all week.
Cornyn (Cruz?) and Graham on-camera looking very pleased. (“wow He stuck it (again) to her!”)