đ¨KAVANAUGH VOTE MOVING FAST; PROTESTS @ NOON FRIDAYđ¨
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
Fri AM: committee vote. Sat: procedural vote. Mon: cloture. Tue: final vote. CALL: 202-224-3121. Gather @ Senate offices 12p Fri to tell say VOTE NO. Bring signs. Wear black. Tweet photos. Spread word. All hands on deck.
Near Phoenix, AZ? Tell Jeff Flake to vote NO on Kavanaugh: meet at noon Friday 9/28 at his office at 2200 E Camelback Rd, Suite 120. Bring signs and friends, wear black, share photos. https://t.co/1WHZfQbcAY
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
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Near Anchorage, Alaska? Tell Lisa Murkowski to announce her opposition to Kavanaugh! Meet at noon (Alaska time) at her office at 510 L St, Suite 600. Bring signs, friends, wear black, tweet your photos, tag your senatorâspread the word on Facebook here: https://t.co/zMd87TTl6K pic.twitter.com/TkebfMlO57
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
Near Portland, Maine? Senator Collins needs to hear from you on Kavanaugh, NOW.
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
Mainers, you are the most important people in the country today. Please head to Collins's Canal Plaza office at NOON Friday to say NO to Brett Kavanaugh!
RT & share on FB: https://t.co/M9q83jSBty pic.twitter.com/4Uy2Id8U7I
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Nevadans. Time is now, as loud as you can, to tell Dean Heller to reject Brett Kavanaugh. 12pm local time, 8930 West Sunset Road, Suite 230. https://t.co/84mY7CwKWC pic.twitter.com/DzlxNjv7U1
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
Texans: you might as well protest Ted Cruz. But then go volunteer for Beto. And take a break on Saturday, Sep 29 at 1:45pm to find Jeff Flake at Austin's Paramount Theatre and convey your Arizonan friends' concerns about Kavanaugh.https://t.co/bapOj3AMK4
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
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Don't forgetâwe need every Dem. Spread the word in IN, WV, ND to urge these Dems to reject Kavanaugh:
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
Donnelly: https://t.co/kaE45OJ83j
Manchin: https://t.co/n9aYc3FEXV
Heitkamp: https://t.co/IdY2Uaz6NT
Don't let Cory Gardner off the hook. Gather at noon at his Denver office, 721 19th St Suite 150, to tell him Kavanaugh does NOT belong on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/dOqUI8YIij pic.twitter.com/8wYho4hIg9
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018
The Obama Diary 
Thank You Nerdy for your Tireless efforts…we in the Diary are forever grateful
Agree 100%
Is this doable???
If I’m not mistaken, I think whichever party are in control of the house or senate they are the only ones that are allowed to call any such procedure/meeting/hearing. I could be wrong but I think that is how the rules work. I hope I’m wrong.
Thatâs our problem. We always follow the god damned rules while all the Republicans just plow through and trample them to death! Fuck the rules! Do you want to keep a democracy or not??
I’m with you desertflower!
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He must mean outside the Senate because they have no power to do so within the minority to do this inside. Nevertheless, I think it’s a good idea.
RISE UP TOGETHER! NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER!!
Correct
https://mobile.twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1045690219469524992
When we take back the House and Senate in November I hope the first piece of business is the removal of Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court, if he’s even on the Supreme Court. I’m still holding out hope that either Collins or Murkowski vote no on Kavanaugh.
Yes. I think this explains why the DEMS are suing for all of his records. They’re building a case because they know they’re gonna regain control of both houses
Impeachment from SCOTUS requires 2/3 vote of the Senate. It will take a long, long time for that to happen. We are screwed if he gets confirmed. Among the first cases to come up when SCOTUS convenes next week:
Gamble v. United States
Docket No. 17-646
Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should overrule the âseparate sovereignsâ exception to the double jeopardy clause.
This is to determine whether states can prosecute crimes in addition to the federal government, i.e., whether Trump can pardon everyone and in addition remove himself and others from further jeopardy of state prosecution.
THIS is part of the reason for RUSH to confirm Kavanaugh. It’s GROTESQUE.
ALSO, I forgot to mention: This is Orrin Hatch’s baby. He’s the one shepherding this through.
More time = More witnesses. So no limits to protecting BK the SAVIOR of the anti-democratic, anti-woman TREASON Party.
The American Bar Association wants a postponement and full investigation:
THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION took the highly unusual step of writing to Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) urging them to postpone any vote until a full investigation can be conducted. âEach appointment to our nationâs Highest Court (as with all others) is simply too important to rush to a vote,â wrote the groupâs president,Robert Carlson. âDeciding to proceed without conducting additional investigation would not only have a lasting impact on the Senateâs reputation, but it will also negatively affect the great trust necessary for the American people to have in the Supreme Court.â (TP)
–GRAHAM just hours before the above announcement, claimed the bar Association’s endorsement of Kavanaugh to be “the gold standard”.
WE DON’T WANT AN ANGRY VOLATILE ALCOHOLIC on the U.S. Supreme Court.
LYING, paranoia and memory loss comes with alcoholism. Kavanaugh even at the end of the hearing lied that he had not watched Dr. Ford on the monitor. We have a photo and witnesses. Trump is compulsive liar and we know the routine.
Anyone who has ever been around an alcoholism can easily cognize Kavanaugh’s erratic behavior, anxiety and wild inappropriateness.
wow. so transparent if you’ve seen it before.
And….
GUILTY.
I have searched and search for a picture. Could someone please post?!
How much longer will the F.B.I let the Senate and the President walk all over them?
EXCELLENT question.
All of this!
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpicyFiles/status/1045684324794863618
Be afraid
https://mobile.twitter.com/OKnox/status/1045687152607203330
Right now, all the Dems need to ask themselves, if the shoe was on the other foot, what would McConnell do? Do that.
BRAVO
Being able to sleep at night matters.
Share please
https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1045694810584219648/video/1
OMG, Amy Klobuchar right now.
The disrespect is stunning but not surprising
https://mobile.twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1045684696665993216
OMG
OMG
he is a terrible liar. thanks for the big news.
Can’t verify this story yet……
NO ANGRY VOLATILE ALCOHOLIC on the U.S. Supreme Court.
NO ANGRY VOLATILE DANGEROUS ALCOHOLIC on the U.S. Supreme Court.
I canât get past that polygraph test that Dr. Ford took, and yes polygraphs arenât allowed in court. You know what, even criminals will ask for polygraph test, even though they know that they are guilty. They believe that they can beat a polygraph test. So when Kavanaugh refuses to even take a polygraph test it tells me everything I need to know. Even a guilty criminal will ask for a DNA or polygraph test on the outside chance that it will clear them, but Kavanaugh, he wants no parts of a polygraph test.
His extreme arrogance, his outsized hubris, is a cover for his shame. He is in extreme denial but at some level he knows that he is guilty and his rageful outbursts belie all this. He’s a walking sociopath.
I love coming here, this place is like therapy for me.
I feel you. ICAM
đ It truly is
OMG:
I can’t seem to verify this yet, so I’ve deleted my reaction but OMG, this better not be true.
Thanks Meta.
Please ignore and if Nerdy stops by please delete.
If you’re a man, how do you look your wife in the face and say that Dr. Ford is lying?
Also saw this -hope it is checked out:
Hi Meta,
Yes you are right. Need to verify content of both tweets from Alan Covington.
I’m sorry for the confusion. I should have researched it before reacting. I’m just so incensed angry right now. I need to take a deep breath.
Its all good, meta!
Thx, Don. God, I’m just so mad and nauseated and furious and rattled. I can’t even express how profoundly disturbing and draining this is. So many criminal creeps in power passing laws and making policies that hurt every single last one of us. And we don’t even know the half of it because of Trump’s insane bullshit firehose of scandals every damn day and our pathetic press who can’t and won’t focus and keep up.
Important to note:
Mad Judge
Thinking the skin tone, physical and behavioral signs of alcohol dependence, or unrecovered alcoholism were very much on display at the hearing.
Wondering if Kavanaugh did any alcohol or drugs in the a.m. prior to the hearing. And also in the absence of such, if denied, might have been ‘driving him crazy’.
Remembering the WH leak saying while prepping Kavanaugh he’d been “weird” and angry around the topics of booze and sex.
He is one of our best senators:
thank heavens for a senator like him. such clarity.
I think they’re trying to get him to change his mind………
Feinstein involved now, too.
Sometimes a person doesn’t have what it takes to do the right thing, they know what the right thing is but they are lacking the courage to do it. Maybe Flake wants someone to walk him down that road.
Yeah, maybe. I wish I had more hope about him but he’s proven to be such a self-serving twit. A lot of that going around.
YESSSSS
DENIAL:
Kavanaugh is in denial. ARE WE in denial about what we saw yesterday?
We also heard Trumputin’s mouthpiece Graham screaming repeated threats: “If you don’t vote xxxx is going to happen to you.”
imo mobster Trump has Kavanaugh in the same vice grip.
How many times did Kavanaugh say the word BEER yesterday?
Be careful, people. And yesterday, it was reported that Facebook is sharing your phone number with businesses (I’m assuming that a phone number is provided is you want two-part authentication for logon?)
so ff’s sake don’t log back in
I deleted my account six months ago and I’m very happy with my decision.
I logged off about a week ago, I’m close to deleting my account entirely.
I understand. It took me a very long time to come to my decision to delete my account. Logging off is a good start đ
More drama, I guess.
-man a veritable parade of saints at the side of the Putin Party tyrants.
Russians using the nomination to divide America.
“The Hamilton 68 dashboard, which attempts to track Russian influence operations on Twitter, is charting a lot of Kavanaugh activity right now.”(https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org)… “The Russian influence networks are working hard on the pro-Kavanaugh side.” (Alliance For Securing Democracy) (Easley)
STOPPUTIN
Disgusting CREEPS.
Apparently, the Democrats have Flake in the anteroom trying to “call out” his better angels.
I see this ^^ has already been reported here – Ha!
But I also like the huddle Sasse is in with Whitehouse in the hearing room. Please God.
I was watching Whitehouse and Sasse talk.
Creepy Grassley – the time clock machine – left the room for a bit. Looks like just he and creepy Cornyn and creepy Graham are the only ones in their seats?
Graham’s leaving – probably to go yell at Flake.
Imagine if nominees Sotomayor or Kagan had behaved as Kavanaugh did yesterday?
When Graham voted for Sotomayor. He said he thought she would “quite frankly be MORE BALANCED than Justice Souter”.
-whutta concept.
Chuck Grassely looks like he wants to slap somebody, anybody.
Graham’s smiling. Not a good sign. He only smiles when something bad happens.
A Russian oligarch has been funding Graham, McConnell, Grassley et al for quite some time (details seem to be missing from the internet).
They’re there to protect Russian interests and one would think Graham earned a couple of hammer and sickly badges yesterday.
Kelly O’ says “serious discussions about delay in vote,” per her sources in the Senate.
is it true that Flake has asked for a one week delay?
Just getting back – you probably know already now that (as I hear it) Flake implied he can’t vote yes without allowing one week for the FBI to do its due diligence, in re-opening the background check. trump says “it’s up to Grassley.” Grassley took the vote today to move the nomination to the floor, so it’s up to McConnell. Graham said he’d be the only one (ugh) who could talk to trump, but so far trump’s being (suspiciously) agreeable. Bottom line – Flake can hold this up, because he’s also talking with other Rs – not just Ds – and that implication is other Rs might not vote yes w/o the FBI’s extended involvement, either.
And now to take my goddess nap! đ
Does it seem to anyone else that Joy Reid’s voice has been reduced??
Yep!
Yes. I think many people have noticed that.
What do you mean?
i mean…other than her show you do not see her guesting or guest hosting on any other program…for awhile she was everywhere….
If one were to design the perfect voice, face of a sexual assault accuser, it would be Dr. Ford. She was perfect, even Fox news thought so.
So what does it say to women that have been sexually assaulted, that don’t have the “gifts” of insight, education, pose, articulation that Dr. Ford brought? Dr. Ford was the best women could hope for to represent us all. I cried watching her strength. For so many of us yesterday was a painful day,a day of reckoning. Dr. Ford become “all of us”, and how proud we were. Yet so many still see Kavanaugh as the victim. Bring in the only witness to the crime…Mark Judge. The R’s did not want a search for the truth..they wanted to “show” us that they “let” the accuser testify.
So the R’s message to the women that have been sexual assaulted? STFU, we don’t care. I think Melania has a jacket for them.
I gotta nap, after that. Republicans gotta go. But good for Flake and Coons!
Can somebody tell me what the fuck just happened?I mean I saw it, but what happened?
I stepped away to calm down so who knows……..
This doesn’t make any sense but I guess we should be glad for table scraps.
Kavanaugh was a deranged nutter on TV – but they are all so compromised.
What next. No one expected Flake to vote NO to get Kavanaugh out of committee and on to the full senate. That is a huge burden for one person. …unless that person is strong. Flake is not. Our only hope now is that the vote in the full senate Flake has cover with 1 or 2 other senators voting no, unless a proper FBI investigation has been completed. The rathe of the GOP on one person would be unbearable…unless of course that person had a strong moral compass.
It took incredible courage (for a change) for Flake to do this today. Hoping his courage shines over some others.
heyyyy…how have you been…i hope all is well with you and your family
Spicy has details
Sorry. Here
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpicyFiles/status/1045735457982689280
https://mobile.twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1045736767406657538
Mark Judge, come on down! You’re the next contestant on “Lie to the F.B.I and you’re going to jail.”
Dialing some chump of a lawyer right now.
Nope, he won’t be able to find a lawyer that will go along with his cockamamie story.
Works for me!
This so monumental in that once the F.B.I shows up to interview both Mark Judge or Kavanaugh they will be under oath and perjury will apply.
Plus I think they’ll also be interviewing the other women who’ve come forward … both of whom (I think I recall) through their attorneys have said they’d be willing to talk with the FBI.
Avenatti says he has a complainant and witnesses, so there’s that.
Yes, he was one of the ones I was thinking was “ready to present.” Yay! Gotta nap. What an exhausting morning! Bye.
And let me tell you something, when that white or black Crown Victoria pulls up to your house and out comes to tall thin G-Men asking you questions. Whatever can pucker up on your body, will pucker up on your body.
OMG. Only because it isn’t MY house, I’m LMAO.
Mark Judge has implied through his attorney that he’ll be getting a “doctor’s note” to get out of being involved, but hopefully the FBI will work through that.
OOOOOPPPPSIEEEEE, he’s available for “media and speaking engagements.”
Oh, yes, saw that! Ha.
Now Collins and Murkowski are almost forced to go along with Jeff Flake in asking for an F.B.I investigation.
Ain’t it grand? Plus, that gives them “cover” so they can stop hiding in their offices. Sunlight’s a powerful thing.
Okay…I am confused. What does the 2 hour rule mean? I read the definition but what does it mean here? What was Kamala Harris stunned?
They had to adjourn at 2:00 pm, by rule a committee has to adjourn by 2:00 pm.
The only relevant thing is this, both Mark Judge and Kavanaugh will have to answer questions from the F.B.I knowing full well that if they lie they will charged with lying.
Don…could Kananaugh not be charged with lying to congress? It lying to the FBI different than lying to congress?
Lying to the F.B.I is easier to prove than lying to congress. So yes he can not be charged if he lied to congress. But the F.B.I is a whole different animal. Kavanaugh can always say he made a “misstatement” to the F.B.I if he’s questioned and then found to have been lying or untruthful. If you want to get caught lying, my best advice is to get caught lying to congress.
I’ll be here until 5 pm to answer all your legal questions.
Thanks Don!
And I’m guessing the FBI is not going to put up with his defiance and all the other BS he pulled yesterday, you know, like turning the questions back on the questioner.
Um, no.
And Murkowski has just said that she supports the delay by Jeff Flake.
OK, I think this may move along…..
I am going to watch this over and over and over and over.
These GOP Senators knows. No Senator Cornyn what is cruel, is almost being rape. Who in hell cares if he is a recovery alcoholic? The FBI won’t offer him alcohol, all they need to do is talk to him under oath.
I can almost guarantee you that wherever Kavanaugh is hiding someone in his group is asking him “do you really need all this trouble in your life.”
I was wondering that but then recalled how bombastic he was yesterday in stating he would never back down. Maybe now after a bunch more sleepless nights and hangovers, he will.
Poor fella, he really thinks he’s calling the shots, the federalist society makes all the decisions when it comes to a Republican sitting on the Supreme Court.
Good Afternoon, TODbots.
I have been offline for over 36 hours.
Too darn confused to what I’m seeing now.
⤠TODville community.
Tears as I read this…
Doh!
So now Kavanaugh is sitting around waiting to find out if he’ll have to talk to the F.B.I., and trust me, he’s already thinking it wouldn’t be so bad not being on the Supreme Court. If I were Kavanaugh, I’d get out before the decision is made for him because his future is being decided by those in the Whitehouse and on Capital Hill.
I’m wondering if he withdraws now, whether that would salvage his circuit position. That might motivate him to do so.
To tell you the truth, Kavanaugh is all in, everything in his life is on the line. Lets put it this way, if the F.B.I comes back with some bad shit, Kavanaugh’s judgeship on the D.C. Circuit is over. The only way he might be able to get out is if he withdraws his nomination, and even then that won’t necessarily stop the F.B.I investigating.
Wow, these two women. Wow.
As I said yesterday, Kavanaugh’s confirmation seems to be taking on water.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Avenatti is going be on t.v. tonight.
Every single republican is a corrupt coward.
If the guy is truly all about recovery then for his own sobriety he has no choice but to come forward.
I’d be surprised if Kavanaugh hasn’t resigned by Monday morning.
GAH
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/09/28/make-those-phones-ring/
Thread
https://mobile.twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1048334242004918272