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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Well, despite not asking any questions himself during the testimony, Hatch had a nice little Open Mouth, Insert Foot when addressing the press afterwards
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- Reporter: Do you find her credible?
Hatch: It's too early to say. I don't think she's uncredible, I think she's an attractive, good witness.
Other Reporter: "What do you mean by 'attractive', sir?
Hatch: Oh. In other words, she's pleasing.
I'm willing to look at this as a That Came Out Wrong moment, but damn does that not help.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"...So apparently Graham lives in a fantasy world where Bill Clinton was never impeached.
"Yup. That tasted purple."He won't stop, it seems.
Edited by Deadbeatloser22 on Sep 27th 2018 at 7:43:01 PM
"Yup. That tasted purple."I guess what little integrity Graham had left went to the grave with Mc Cain.
Also did he just reveal that any sexual misconduct charges against Democrats from now on can plausibly be considered Republican attacks?
I would like to apologise for my use of the term "lynching".
I meant it in the sense of going after someone as a large group - a mob - without due evidence or the like. I did not consider the implications of the word. Indeed, I didn't even think the word came from an actual name. I figured it was older than it actually was. I will remove it from my vocabulary.
Perhaps I'll use "mob law" instead.
Watching Kavanaugh talk now.
He looks like he's about to break out in hives.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Graham Is all over the place today, he’s shot down the idea of the two guys who ‘confessed’, said all this shit but has now also acknowledged that Ford is a victim, while also saying that Kavanaugh is a victim.
The man is loosing it.
Oh and I’ll repeate my request from before for a linkable non-partisan source for candidate positions in the Georgia governor’s race.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranFor a news outlet source regarding Graham's meltdown
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That alone has a few layers of bullshit caked onto it.
- 1) The accusation hasn't been dropped, otherwise she wouldn't have been at the hearing.
- 2) The Democrats can't "fill the seat" - Trump will still be President after the Midterms, so he still gets to nominate whoever the hell he likes.
- 3) "Very fair"? Such as dumping ten-thousand pages on the Democrats the night before the hearing while withholding a shitload more
under "Executive Privilege"? Elena Kagan, by contrast, had none withheld on those grounds.
“Let me tell my Democratic friends, if this is the new norm, you better watch out for your nominees,” he added.
Edited by ironballs16 on Sep 27th 2018 at 3:23:29 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"To be fair, as devastating as it was to me at the time, (and it really, really was, between the Iraq war and the administration’s persecution of the lgbtq community) Bush did win 2004 fairly. And yeah, if we’d gotten a full Florida recount in 2000 instead of the Supreme Court declaring that Bush’s state campaign chair could decide when to stop counting votes, (yes, that literally happened for those too young to remember it) Bush would have never been in position to run in 2004, but there are so many different could have beens there.
One thing I’m sure of is that if the terrorist 9-11 attack had still succeeded under President Al Gore, virtually any Republican would have won in 2004. I doubt Democrats would have pushed for or gotten the kind of unity and rally around the flag effect Republicans did, and it would have almost certainly have been seen as Gore’s failure due to his intelligence access during the Clinton years. He wouldn’t have been able to blame everything on the prior administration or the changeover as Bush did.
Edited by TheWanderer on Sep 27th 2018 at 3:28:12 PM
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
Well, given that he's married with children, that'd be rather disturbing if it wasn't the case.
Fair point, but I think a lot of married couples would generally refer to their spouse as their best friend.
Edited by ironballs16 on Sep 27th 2018 at 3:54:47 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"

@Native Jovian, are you forgetting 2004, or where there shenanigans involved in that too? Because I've never heard anything really being iffy about Bush winning that time.