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Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.
Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:00AM (2 children)
If your name was dragged through the mud on all the major networks and newspapers and you were accused by women of sexual assault on very flimsy to non-existent evidence, I'm sure you would be more than a little perturbed. He was tried and convicted by the media before any testimony was released.
I was married to a bipolar woman for years and while I was in the process of divorce, I discovered how difficult it is for a man to contradict a poor, helpless woman in distress. Luckily for me, it quickly became glaringly obvious to everyone who was telling the truth and who was lying.
I also dated a girl in high school who spread the rumor as she left town it was to have my baby (her mother moved for a job) despite the fact we had never, ever had any sexual relations of any kind. When she returned a few years later, *SHOCKINGLY* without a baby or any mention of one, she actually tried to get back together with me. Pass...
So yeah, I want to see SOME kind of corroboration or evidence (not secondhand hearsay or speculation) and I DON'T want to hear contradiction or illogical stories before I will convict a person based on the word of anyone. You are welcome to vote on emotion and blind faith but not me.
I guess you missed the part where he said he would support any action the committee decided on. He just wouldn't take the old delay bait and specifically request an FBI investigation from Trump as the Senator tried to goad him into. He knew just like the rest of us that this was all about trying to delay the confirmation in hopes that Democrats would increase their numbers in the Senate after the elections and kill the confirmation along party lines.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:12PM (1 child)
it sounds like you are drawn to women who are bad for you. fix that first.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @04:13PM
Or they're drawn to me.
Regardless of the direction of attraction, the point stands that there are plenty of crazy women out there, women with an agenda *cough* Stormy *cough* and women who tell lies often enough that they truly believe them (case in point: my ex [1]). Nobody should be "believed" solely because of their gender. They should be heard WITH AN OPEN MIND. If you want to accuse someone - man or woman - of something, I want the facts, not some "I feelz they are telling the truth" crap.
[1] My daughter came home from visitation from my ex one day shortly after our divorce, upset and confused. Her mother had screamed at her during an public gathering yelling that an event she remembered never happened. The was visibly near tears saying "But Dad, I remember seeing it. I remember." I had to console her that she was correct and that it did happen. I was there and witnessed it too.