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Originally posted by chellim1:
Feinstein is toast...
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That’s an unfair slam on toast.

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Originally posted by HRK:
You can't be progressive enough in her district for the supporters/voters of that area, doing this is her way of demonstrating she's capable of being on the fringe of society.

We probably want her to be re-elected, better her than a pure communist... eventually she'll be out, either by age, health or inability to affiliate with the bernsters of the bay...

Part of my assumption was this Kavanaugh stunt would actually HELP her chances at re-election with the zombie electorate in Commiefornia.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
You don't say ...

Ya get the idea that a few of these Republicans have finally figured out the game and are starting to play it by their rules. The ROE should be..."When your opponent is on the ropes and wobbling, its time to go in for the kill."

Just when you thought Democrats couldn't get any more stupid, according to the NYT and the stupid bitch from Hawaii herself, Kavanaugh throwing ice in a bar requires an FBI probe. Unbelievable, couldn't even write this shit as fiction.

an article by Paul Sperry

https://www.realclearinvestiga...it_door_account.html

quite a bit of interesting stuff re Ford

I have been thinking of posting about the fact that the current Ford home was previously owned by Psychologist Sylvia Randall, but the story is very confusing w/o a clear conclusion. Paul Sperry does a better job of telling it.

Sylvia Randall did live at 3872 Duncan Place, Palo Alto, CA. Her business was there too.

3872 Duncan Place is the house that has the two front doors.

Paul Sperry: (snips)

Real estate and other records undercut a key part of Christine Blasey Ford’s account of why she finally came forward with charges of attempted rape against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after some 30 years.

Ford testified last week that she had never revealed the details of the alleged attack until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband. She said the memories percolated up as they revisited a disagreement they’d had over her insistence on installing a “second front door" when they had remodeled their Palo Alto, Calif., home.

The need to explain a decision her husband “didn’t understand,” Ford testified, pushed her to say she wanted the door to alleviate symptoms of “claustrophobia” and “panic attacks" she still suffered from an attempted rape allegedly perpetrated by Kavanaugh in high school during the early 1980s.

"Is that the reason for the second door — front door -- is claustrophobia?” asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. “Correct,” Ford replied.

But documents reveal the door was installed years before as part of an addition, and has been used by renters and even a marriage counseling business.

“The door was not an escape route but an entrance route,” said an attorney familiar with the ongoing congressional investigation. “It appears the real plan for the second front door was to rent out a separate room."

Other documents, including health care-provider registration records, reveal that a marriage counselor listed Ford’s home address as her place of employment, ostensibly using the extra room and door for her clinical practice. That marriage therapist, Sylvia Adkins Randall, sold the home to the Fords in 2007, but continued to maintain the address for her business.

Contacted by phone, Dr. Randall expressed concern about her real estate transaction and prior relationship with Ford being reported.

“I don’t want it to be mentioned,” she said. "It’s personal.”

Randall is a licensed therapist who specializes in treating “disturbing memories from the past." She supports Ford and described her allegation against Kavanaugh as “credible.”

Since the second front door was installed, moreover, students from local colleges have lived in the additional room with the private door. In fact, under congressional questioning Thursday, Ford testified she has “hosted” various other residents there, including “Google interns.”

The attorney said the tenants call into question Ford’s claims about why she installed the additional exterior door in her home.

“Renters and a business operating out of Dr. Ford’s home would explain the added door,” he said. "Clearly, there were business purposes [for it], not just ones related to her anxieties."

Randall said she is not the therapist who counseled Ford in 2012. She said "it’s just a weird coincidence” that the two are connected through the property and share the same profession. Ford is a research psychologist.

Two other marriage counselors who worked for Randall’s now-defunct Palo Alto clinic -- Couples Resource Center -- also shared an address with Ford’s home.

A Senate Judiciary Committee spokeswoman said that Ford’s lawyers have provided neither the therapist's notes nor the therapist’s name to committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), even though they have furnished that information to Democrats on the committee.

“Democrats won’t share it,” she said, just as they withheld the July 30 letter Ford sent to Feinstein for almost two months.

The aide said that Grassley’s office is following “a ton of leads” to learn the identity of the therapist, and offered that Ford’s story about her therapy session and the so-called escape door is a critical part of the investigation into her allegations.

“The investigative side of the committee thinks it’s a good lead,” she said, “and they are pursuing it."

Ford’s attorneys did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by chellim1:
You don't say ...

Ya get the idea that a few of these Republicans have finally figured out the game and are starting to play it by their rules. The ROE should be..."When your opponent is on the ropes and wobbling, its time to go in for the kill."

it continues to amaze me that conservatives in general don't follow this (the ROE) as a matter of principle

every time, every situation, every socialist

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:

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Originally posted by HRK:
You can't be progressive enough in her district for the supporters/voters of that area, doing this is her way of demonstrating she's capable of being on the fringe of society.

We probably want her to be re-elected, better her than a pure communist... eventually she'll be out, either by age, health or inability to affiliate with the bernsters of the bay...

Part of my assumption was this Kavanaugh stunt would actually HELP her chances at re-election with the zombie electorate in Commiefornia.

I'm with you on this - she is absolutely using this to her advantage for re-election. I believe it is indeed helping her when you factor in her voter base...

https://www.politico.com/story...ett-kavanaugh-861232

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday that he doesn’t anticipate the FBI’s final report from its inquiry into Brett Kavanaugh would be made public, adding that such a break from protocol “might actually hurt” the bureau’s ability to conduct such probes.

All 100 senators will have access to the report in a secure setting, but Republicans are worried about breaking precedent by releasing such information, which will be made available before the Senate votes this week on Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, according to GOP leaders.

Some Democrats also have raised concerns about public release of the FBI’s findings. “This is raw information,” Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters.

you know, raw information like the Steele dossier. Certainly can't let the public see that

Whether undecided senators take into account anything other than the FBI report is an open question. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said on Tuesday that Kavanaugh's testimony last week was at times too pointed and added: "We can't turn the court into a partisan body that acts like a legislative body. That's not the purpose of the court." But he also said that wasn't enough to make him vote on Kavanaugh.

"too pointed" as Feinstein recommended lawyers to Ford but never mentioned a word about the sexual assault claims when she interviewed Kavanaugh. "too pointed" as the DEMs reported he was claimed to be involved in gang rapes


"Frankly, Judge Kavanaugh's testimony was better suited for Fox News than a confirmation hearing for the august United States Supreme Court," Schumer said Tuesday on the floor.

Schumer must think Kavanaugh should just sit there and be abused by the DEMs

Republicans have sought to poke holes in the narrative Ford laid out during riveting testimony last week about her allegation against Kavanaugh, but Schumer challenged McConnell to directly address whether or not she was a credible witness.

"Does he believe or not believe Dr. Ford?" Schumer asked. "Yes or no. I happen to believe her. He refuses to answer that one way or the other because he knows that Dr. Ford had tremendous credibility."

Here is where REPs are playing a dicey game. Some said she was credible. But they also say because there is no corroboration, they don't believe her. I hope eventually REPs flat out say not only is she "not credible", but that she is lying. Might be too direct for a politician to say

One wonders why Schumer doesn't believe the allegation against him. I mean, it's credible, isn't it?

Why didn't the reporter ask him that?

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"Does he believe or not believe Dr. Ford?" Schumer asked. "Yes or no. I happen to believe her. He refuses to answer that one way or the other because he knows that Dr. Ford had tremendous credibility."

Here is where REPs are playing a dicey game. Some said she was credible. But they also say because there is no corroboration, they don't believe her. I hope eventually REPs flat out say not only is she "not credible", but that she is lying. Might be too direct for a politician to say.

This is only "dicey" because of the abject cowardice Republicans as a group operate under when it comes to dealing with women. I mean come on, there is a very simple response to Schumer's BS that most people would accept (obviously not mentally ill liberals, but who cares about them).

How about this Chuckie...

"Do I believe Ms. Ford? I do believe something traumatic happened to her in the past. Do I believe her allegation that Judge Kavanaugh is responsible for that trauma? No, because Ms. Ford has provided nothing tangible, or corroborating, to support that allegation. Her simple unsupported accusation is not enough to warrant destroying the life and career of Judge Kavanaugh, a man who up until this confirmation hearing, and after six FBI reviews, had never faced a single charge of improper behavior with women, or anyone else for that matter."

How frickin' hard is that?

So, McConnell states that ONLY SENATORS will be allowed to see the FBI brief on Kavanaugh.

Anybody want to bet their next paycheck that it somehow magically gets leaked to the media?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
So, McConnell states that ONLY SENATORS will be allowed to see the FBI brief on Kavanaugh.

Anybody want to bet their next paycheck that it somehow magically gets leaked to the media?

My money's on...."I am Asparagus".

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
So, McConnell states that ONLY SENATORS will be allowed to see the FBI brief on Kavanaugh.

Anybody want to bet their next paycheck that it somehow magically gets leaked to the media?

That's a given with the democrats and what they leak will be very selective and taken out of context.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
So, McConnell states that ONLY SENATORS will be allowed to see the FBI brief on Kavanaugh.

Anybody want to bet their next paycheck that it somehow magically gets leaked to the media?

What kind of Flake would do such a thing?

In point of fact Kavanaugh has repeatedly said, both during the hearings and otherwise, that he believes Ford underwent some kind of traumatic experience somewhere at some time.

Since Kavanaugh knows he didn't commit an assault of any kind on Ford - and has said so - there's absolutely no reason for him to believe Ford's allegation that he assaulted her.

But Kavanaugh's a vicious sexist insensitive brute, you see, because he didn't believe Ford when Ford same something that Kavanaugh knows for a fact to be untrue.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
In point of fact Kavanaugh has repeatedly said, both during the hearings and otherwise, that he believes Ford underwent some kind of traumatic experience somewhere at some time.

Since Kavanaugh knows he didn't commit an assault of any kind on Ford - and has said so - there's absolutely no reason for him to believe Ford's allegation that he assaulted her.

But Kavanaugh's a vicious sexist insensitive brute, you see, because he didn't believe Ford when Ford same something that Kavanaugh knows for a fact to be untrue.

You forgot angry drunk as well.

All such things should be made public, at this level, barring *very real* national security concerns. Release the damn report. Keeping such things secret is a terrible, terrible idea.

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All 100 senators will have access to the report in a secure setting, but Republicans are worried about breaking precedent by releasing such information, which will be made available before the Senate votes this week on Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, according to GOP leaders.

Some Democrats also have raised concerns about public release of the FBI’s findings. “This is raw information,” Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters.

Hmm....

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All such things should be made public, at this level, barring *very real* national security concerns. Release the damn report. Keeping such things secret is a terrible, terrible idea.

We all know **some** Senators will selectively remember, and leak, parts of it... so maybe it would be better to just release the whole thing.

On the other hand, some of the witnesses did not ask to be a part of this and are entitled to a degree of privacy, IMO.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
So, McConnell states that ONLY SENATORS will be allowed to see the FBI brief on Kavanaugh.

Anybody want to bet their next paycheck that it somehow magically gets leaked to the media?

What kind of Flake would do such a thing?

I see what you did there

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

What kind of Flake would do such a thing?

One who will soon be relegated to the Durstbin of history.