Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings

[Belsnickel]

(10-04-2018, 03:05 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: EDIT: Democrats wanted the Ford accusations investigated. The FBI investigated the Ford accusations and even went outside the scope and talked to the Second Accusor. Now Democrats are saying "NO, WE WANT MORE".

Actually, Democrats wanted all of it investigated; all three accusers and his behavior in high school and college that he had testified about because of concerns over his truthfulness. The White House, under advisement from the Senate Republicans, limited the scope to the first two accusers. You're trying to characterize the Democrat position as moving, but it has been fairly consistent.

(10-04-2018, 03:05 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: It's over and the longer Democrats continue to delay and smear Kavanaugh, the more they can kiss the House and Senate goodbye in November. I'm already thinking that Republicans will pick up seats in the House and Senate if the election was held today. But alas the Democrats have over four weeks to get the people to forget what they have done.

This is one of those things where it baffles me how people can only see one side's hands being dirty. But whatever, not going to get into that argument on here. What I will say is that this is the reason McConnell said he was scheduling the vote this week even before anything came back from the FBI. He WANTS the Kavanaugh nomination to fail.

If it fails, it is a motivator for the GOP in November. If he succeeds, it's a motivator for the Democrats. If the seat is empty when the midterms come around it will fire up the base and drive people to the polls. For the Democrats it is a lose-lose. If they prevent him from being on the bench then it boosts Republican turnout. If they fail, then they have a dishonest and highly partisan Associate Justice on the bench. This is the type of political calculus that kills the Democrats and is why they are terrible at winning elections.