A little bit nutty and a little bit slutty redux
by digby
Trump today:
President Trump on Judge #Kavanaugh confirmation process: “This is a con game being played by the Democrats.” pic.twitter.com/rHDDaTO4z0— CSPAN (@cspan) September 25, 2018
At least he didn’t say she was too ugly for Kavanaugh to shove his wang in her face. That was positively restrained of him considering what he said about the women who accused him of grabbing their crotches and forcing his tongue down their throats.
But he’d better watch himself:
Republican Party leaders may be insisting that they will install Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, but Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is offering a blunt warning of her own: Do not prejudge sexual assault allegations against the nominee that will be aired at an extraordinary public hearing on Thursday.
“We are now in a place where it’s not about whether or not Judge Kavanaugh is qualified,” Ms. Murkowski, a key swing Republican vote, said in an extended interview in the Capitol Monday night. “It is about whether or not a woman who has been a victim at some point in her life is to be believed.”
One of two Republican women in the Senate who supports abortion rights — Susan Collins of Maine is the other — Ms. Murkowski was always expected to be a critical vote in Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. But she is making clear that, beyond matters of abortion, she is deeply troubled by Christine Blasey Ford’s story of a sexual assault by Judge Kavanaugh when she was 15 and he was 17.
Collins might be wobbly too. If those two go then we might see a couple of the other GOP women or a few Republicans who call themselves men make a move too. (I doubt it but you never know.)
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