StrangeSox

He won't answer a single question of theirs. His tactic is to get angry and shout at them for daring to even question him.

Leahy: Are you the person referenced in Mark Judge's book? Kavanaugh: I don't know, you'd have to ask him Leahy: I'd like to. what a tremendous own-goal there

They need two, 50 + Pence gets him in right? Murkowski *seems* like a no right now. Don't trust Collins. Gotta figure Flake is a yes. Don't know what to expect. Either her performance this morning and Kavanaugh's shitshow this afternoon have rankled enough GOP that it's clear McConnell doesn't have nearly enough votes, or they're sitting on 48 or 49 and he's going to bring it to a floor vote regardless of judiciary, jam his caucus and force them to play their cards a la ACA repeal.

Collins choice is lose in the general in 2020 if she votes yes or face a serious and probably successful primary if she votes no.

He sounds like he feels even having to be here is beneath him. How dare he ever be questioned or denied what he wants and believes is due to him.

They are abysmal for him and the GOP. Will it matter? Remains to be seen.

Her recollection of Mark Judge working at a grocery store also matches with his own autobiographical work that describes his time working as a bag boy at a local grocery store.

Boy it sure would be nice for Mr. Kavanaugh if the GOP held a real investigation so that his name could be cleared. Oh well.

you missed a lot of literal crying over calendars and workout routines from the 80's. I still can't believe he brought up the idea that this is all a conspiracy to get revenge for the Clintons.

from his earlier conspiratorial rambling before he began weeping over calendars for five minutes: "Revenge on behalf of the Clintons". Clearly, an impartial man who should be given a seat on the highest court of the land. And his calendar defenses don't make sense, anyway. He's gone on weekends, and apparently high school students never party during the week in the summer. He had football camp the following week, so of course they'd never party that weekend. What.

More or less. A female friend of his confided her assault to him at one point, which proves

I think this is pretty important here. Kavanaugh's whole career was doing political dirty work up until he was made a judge. His reaction here is borderline unhinged and lashing out strongly against conspiratorial democratic forces. In what world could he be trusted to be fair and impartial?

That stuff has devolved into accusations of literal child rape and cannibalism. Q supporters are frequently seen at Trump rallies, often right behind Trump.

His anger and indignation seems to be coming from a sense of entitlement, that he's owed this Supreme Court seat, that it's rightfully his.

It's a performance for Trump is my guess. He was allegedly not happy with his fake-contrite Fox News interview.

so weird how absolutely none of this ever happened to Gorsuch or Alito or Roberts or Kennedy or Souter or Scalia or really any non-rapey GOP nominee

Kavanaugh going whole-hog on the "it's an orchestrated Democrat conspiracy" claims

Kavanaugh coming out sounding very angry/like a huge douchebag boom, roasted:

You cartwheeled into the thread to cast shade on an accuser and seem to have zero interest in actually discussing Kavanaugh or the multiple sexual assault and rape allegations against him.

New Congress will start on January 4th, 2019.

Judiciary Committee vote tomorrow morning. Other Senate votes over the weekend, per C-SPAN just now, confirmation timeline would put full Senate vote Monday or Tuesday. Senate has a whole bunch of arcane rules that generally mean you can't ram things through instantly.

Dr. Blasey Ford's testimony/questioning is over. Kavanaugh's will begin in ~45 minutes.