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Trump liked the scorched earth approach:

Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. Democrats’ search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!
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Linky.
 
kellyb said:
He knows he's blacked out before. He's not in denial about that.
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Ugh and on that issue, that stuff from him about "Oh yeah I have a weak stomach - I throw up all the time just from eating bland food or having a couple of beers" was (ironically) deeply nauseating. I'd love to see his medical records subpoenaed....
 
This article matches my impression:

He has, for one thing, all but abandoned the posture of impartiality demanded of a judge. A ranting Kavanaugh launched angry, evidence-free charges against Senate Democrats. “The behavior of several of the Democratic members of this committee at my hearing a few weeks ago was an embarrassment. But at least it was just a good old-fashioned attempt at Borking,” he said, using a partisan term invented by Republicans to complain about ideological scrutiny of an extreme judicial nominee. “This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled by pent-up anger over President Trump in the 2016 election.”

Why they took this revenge against Kavanaugh, rather than the first justice who was appointed after the 2016 elections, when Democrats’ anger over both the election and the treatment of Merrick Garland ran hotter, he did not say. Kavanaugh does not seem able to imagine even the possibility that Democrats actually believe the women accusing him of sexual assault. He is consumed with paranoid, partisan rage.

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Why do I believe Kavanaugh is lying? The charges are credible, and his accusers are willing to put themselves at risk, with no apparent gain to bring them to the public. Kavanaugh has said too many things that strain credulity for all them to be plausibly true. He almost certainly lied about having had access to files stolen by Senate Republicans back when he was handling judicial nominations in the Bush administration. His explanation that the “Renate Alumni” was not a sexual reference is difficult to square with a fellow Renate Alumnus’s poem ( “You need a date / and it’s getting late / so don’t hesitate / to call Renate”) portraying her as a cheap date. His insistence “boof” and “devil’s triangle” from his yearbook were references to flatulence and a drinking game drew incredulous responses from people his age who have heard these terms. His claim that the “Beach Week Ralph Club” was a reference to a weak stomach seems highly unlikely.
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Linky.

It's like Trump and Russian collusion. His denials make him sound guilty.
 
The difference in how Ford and Kavanaugh answer questions today is miles apart. Her answers were direct and credible. He repeatedly wasted time with preset talking points rather than answering the actual questions.

There is so much that could be said about the hearing but it doesn't matter. They're going to confirm him no matter what
 
Kavanaugh is clearly a serial liar. He already showed this long before any of these allegations came out.

If he is confirmed (I do not doubt the scumbags will force it through) I hope the Dems go after him, especially if they control the House/Senate after the mid-terms. There will be nothing to stop them commencing a Congressional investigation, and getting the FBI to to the legwork, and the GOP and Dolt 45 will not be able to stop them from doing so.
 
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More evidence that Republicans just don't care about what Kavanaugh may or may not have done. Morals are secondary to power.
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I did find it somewhat beyond extraordinary that every single Republican on the committee started his (all "his") "questioning" of Kavanaugh with the same deliberately emotive appeal along the lines of "What a horrible thing you and your poor family have been through, Judge (oh and it has been horrible for Dr Ford as well....): just how difficult and hurtful has this process been for you.....?" And then going on to attack the process almost exclusively. Wow.
 
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Hmmm...here we go again with avoiding answering the question about the "ralph club" with a litany of what a choir boy he was.
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Yeah, he wasn't **** faced, he simply tosses after a couple beers. There was a reference in Judge's book that the guy with an almost identical name vomited.
 
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The Feinstein rebuttal when the Republicans tried to accuse her of leaking the letter was accurate, AFAIK. The letter wasn't leaked, the existence of it was.
 
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Oh, my....Graham is having a melt down. He's never seen anything like this? Did he never see the Anita Hill grilling? Manufactured outrage on Graham's part. He's grandstanding....
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Grandstanding to get some sound bites on TV. They know just who their audience is.

They're already replaying his anger on NPR.
 
My word, the photos of Kavanaugh from his hearing today (e.g. the one headlining that New Yorker article) are long going to be (correctly) held against him. And it's not as if he looked snarling and aggressive just once or twice, and was "luckily" caught by cameras on motor drive. Heck, a 12 year old with a shoot-and-wind Kodak instamatic could easily have caught him in that exact expression.
 
Belz... said:
... And after Garland? The GOP deserves everything that's coming to them.
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And it makes all their whining about the left wing conspiracy and :words: look more hypocritical than anyone ever has been hypocritical in history... [/channeling Trump]
 
He will be confirmed. This is nothing but a dog and pony show. The Republicans have made it clear that it didn't matter what happened today, they are going to confirm.

After watching this today, I dislike K on a personal basis which I did not before. He comes across as an arrogant, dismissive, slippery liar.
 
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