Chuck Grassley is a total disgrace to the Senate and the Country
As many are pointing out, the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Lindsay Graham, and the other Republican thugs in the Senate are demanding ground rules for the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford THAT ARE WORSE THAN THE ONES IN PLACE WHEN THE HATCHET JOB DONE ON ANITA HILL WAS CONDUCTED.
There was an FBI investigation, of sorts, a three day "investigation" done when Anita Hill's account of her sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas came to light and Chuck Grassley has demanded that Christine Blasey Ford's complete biography AND COMPLETE TESTIMONY are due at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday morning so the Republican Senators staffs can leak selected and no doubt distorted accounts of that to FOX and Sinclair and other Murdocian Republican propaganda outfits.
Joe Biden covered himself with shame during his clumsy, less than effective conduct of the hearing when Anita Hill gave her testimony - a lot of that was certainly because he felt entirely embarrassed to be conducting a hearing on the topic of sexual harassment. But that was twenty-seven years ago, before Brett Kavanaugh and others in the Starr inquisition of the Clintons informed even very young children about such things as oral sex and semen stains on dresses. What Chuck Grassley is doing is an obvious set up to attack a victim of an attempted rape that would put the sleaziest rape defense lawyer in a better light. He's giving a group of all-male Republicans a chance to destroy the victim of an attempted rape on camera without her having the protection of evidence produced from an investigation.
In the mere days since Christine Blasey Ford bravely and responsibly put her name before the public the attacks on her by Republicans and right-wing thugs, domestic and I have no doubt, financed by foreign money, has made me think that Diane Feinstein's reluctance to forward the letter informing her of Brett Kavanaugh's attempted rape was far more justified than I thought last Sunday. Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch and Lindsay Graham, especially, have led that troll attack on her. They are disgusting, their good-friends in the Senate, especially their Republican colleagues should never allow them to live this down, it should color their biographies and their place in history. The Republican women in the Senate and on the Senate Staff have to be made to own this, as well. If Collins and Murkowski had come out against Kavanaugh on the basis of what they know he will do to Roe v. Wade, this wouldn't have happened. Every hour they don't announce they will vote against Kavanaugh they are more responsible for what their male colleagues are doing.
They know the picture of old white men grillingva woman on a story of sexual assault is one they don't want to be in. So, ridiculous barriers to her even showing up let them off the hook.
ReplyDeleteThey hope.
I hope she calls their bluff and forces Grassley to call off the hearing. Or, better, that she shows up and stands up to Orrin Hatch and Lindsay Graham and Chuck Grassley.
DeleteI don't ever trust predictions but the one that Sam Seder made that Kavanaugh faced with Mark Judge being his character witness pulling out is something that I think is within the realm of the improbable instead of the impossible.
If the Republicans put him on the court Democrats should mount a full scale investigation of him to force him to retire or to impeach him. All of the sitting Republicans on the court lied during their confirmation hearings but he's the most lavish of liars among them. I can't think of anything more likely to sober them up than the possibility of them being removed. The idea that Democrats should hold back because it will unleash Republican depravity is clearly wrong, we've seen it unleashed without any Democratic action of that sort.