Another problem with Kavanaugh

[sathari]

Pursuant to rydra_wong's last post, for anyone who understandably finds it uncomfortable to talk about sexual assault with Republican senators' office staffers (or indeed Republicans and conservatives generally, or anyone in general), former Senator Russ Feingold, who served on the Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh's confirmation to his present position, has laid out the, AHEM, discrepancies between Kavanaugh's testimony then and information that's come out in the current proceedings and the extent to which that's an issue..

(I suspect I'm not alone in wanting Mr. Feingold to make the rounds of the news shows with this.)

Comments

[rydra_wong]

On the subject of vetting (re: sexual assault and harassment), I thought this was pithy:

https://twitter.com/AdamBlickstein/status/1043509558163976192

[sathari]

So. On. Point. I mean. If you wrote this as satire it'd get thrown out for being over the top. "What, the guy hired to help confirm a SCOTUS nominee accused of sexual assault is himself forced out for sexual harassment? Don't you think that's a little much?" YES, YES, GOP, WE DO.

[rydra_wong]

If you wrote this as satire it'd get thrown out for being over the top.

YUP. See also:

https://twitter.com/rtraister/status/1043133321323196416

"Good morning & welcome to another episode of I Genuinely Cannot Believe What Is Fucking Happening No One Would Ever Write An Actual Episode Of This Because It Is Too Implausibly On The Nose.

On today's show: the president weighs in and I might already be drinking."

[sathari]

Good grief, yes. Rebecca Traister is a national treasure.

[kore]

Oh, Traister's great!