Many of Kavanaugh’s former classmates contacted the FBI claiming that they know that he lied under oath, but the FBI said they weren’t interested.

As of this morning , the Times was running a letter to the Senate from over 1700 law professors stating that Kavanaugh’s testimony proves he is not fit to sit on the Supreme Court.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/409775-national-council-of-churches-calls-for-kavanaughs-nomination-to

All those nights while a youth in service to the lord, shot to shit.

LL&P

Let him remain secure in that delusion.

LL&P

Ludington seems to have caught on to a feature of Kavanaugh's testimony that also appeared contrived to me, where he kept repeating "I like beer". Someone at the White House apparently told him that this would play very well with Trump's base, and that he should repeat this phrase often, which he ended doing to the point of self-parody.

Again, my favorite part, a quote directly from Kavanaugh former friend and now law professor Charles "Chad" Ludington:

“For the fact is, at Yale, and I can speak to no other times, Brett was a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker. I know, because, especially in our first two years of college, I often drank with him. On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive. On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.”

Yes, ma'am. It always comes back to all politics being local... because it is. What plays in Peoria ain't going to fly in Fresno; that is a fact that will never change.

Great articles too. Thanks! :)

And there's a good chance that it counted in his favor when Trump heard the thumbnail bio on which he undoubtedly based his decision to nominate him. After all, Trump is the ratfcker president. I could make a good case that that's why his base loves him.

This is the thing about ratfckers. The truth is always pliable. Even in categorical statements, it's pliable. The point of ratfcking is to win. This was true when Donald Segretti and all those GOP frat brothers at USC invented the marvelously descriptive term to describe how they messed with student elections in their college days—which, by Kavanaugh standards, of course, doesn't count because certainly what Segretti did in college had no bearing on his career as a lawyer in later life.

Exactly. When Segretti was later caught acting as a ratfcker for Nixon, nobody that knew him was even surprised, just as no one who knew Kav in the White House is surprised that it's been brought up now.

And there's a good chance that it counted in his favor when Trump heard the thumbnail bio on which he undoubtedly based his decision to nominate him. After all, Trump is the ratfcker president. I could make a good case that that's why his base loves him.

I’m going to have ask people to stop accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of lying under oath. It’s really getting in the way of him becoming a Supreme Court justice, which is something he is entitled to because he went to Yale University, was good at sports and likes beer.

He is also white and a man in a position of great power, characteristics that entitle him to a certain number of lies that don’t count. I thought everybody knew about these permissible lies, but apparently not. They’re called “little white-male-privilege lies” and are defined as: Lies about things a powerful white man deems small or unimportant, told to avoid hurting that same powerful white man’s ambitions.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-kavanaugh-lies-ludington-trump-huppke-20181001-story.html

Brett Kavanaugh is a lawyer only because he went to law school and passed the bar. He's never tried a case, at least to my knowledge and, until he became a judge, he put his legal training at the service of high-end ratfcking, keeping the activities at least within sight of the traditional guard rails that stand between lawyers and 5-15 at Allenwood. Segretti was a lawyer. So was Gordon Liddy, who put Chapin to work. At least Liddy worked as a lawyer, being the prosecutor who busted Timothy Leary. (Of course, Liddy also once fired a revolver at the ceiling of a courtroom during his summation, so there's that.) Kavanaugh's only experience as a prosecutor was as a drooling operative in Ken Starr's little shop of sanctified presidential porn—which was, in many ways, one of the great ratfcking operations of all time, and certainly the most expensive.

In short, there is a fine living to be made as a partisan lawyer specializing in high-end political ratfcking. It's an industry now. But a partisan ratfcking lawyer should not be able to hedge, and fudge, and prevaricate his way onto the Supreme Court. I'm also worried that he might chuck some water at counsel during oral arguments, but I'm putting that concern on, well, ice for a while.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23570618/brett-kavanaugh-republican-ratfcker-supreme-court/

Tom Perez (whom I like) providing tools and funds for a "50 State Strategy" such as that pioneered by Howard Dean, applauded by the Netroots and abandoned by the DNC post-Dean. It's back!

The plucky little New York Times pulls back the curtain on the Trump Organization.....

The Wizard: Oh, no, my dear, I... My father was the very bad man - I'm just a very bad Financial Wizard.

Other blatant lies to the Senate Judiciary Committee were the multiple times Kavanaugh took it upon himself to falsely testify for others. As you said, he is a judge who knows what it means to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." He nevertheless proffered false testimony under oath on others' behalf:

Dr. Ford's allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there, including by a longtime friend of hers. ~ Brett Kavanaugh, September 27, 2018

Not only has a longtime friend of Ford's not refuted her allegation, Ford's friend Leland Ingham Keyser stated that she believed Dr. Ford. Stating through your attorney that you have no memory of an event is not remotely in the same ballpark as refuting an allegation, and Kavanaugh knows this yet regardless chose to lie about it multiple times during his sworn testimony. After the hearing, Keyser released another statement through her lawyer reiterating that she "does not refute Dr. Ford's account, and she has already told the press that she believes Dr. Ford's account."

The Grand Old Prevaricators do not care. Their game plan now is the same as it ever is:

Speaking from personal experience, for daring to open her mouth and say anything, she will be referred to as a liar and every gender-specific foul name they can hurl in her general direction. She will receive both death threats and requests for her suicide, while her attacker will assume the role of victim. The only real difference in 2018 is likely to be an uptick in the number of male politicians feigning concern.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/09/17/anita-hill-2-0-in-the-age-of-metoo/#comment-127274

The only concern they're showing now is that for their sons. What if your son was wrongly accused? You poor white males should be afraid, and they play right into the identity politics of "white male grievance." Not content now to simply blame the victim, they are taking the additional step to demonize and attack Democrats as they cast Brett Kavanaugh in the role of the aggrieved. If this could happen to him, your son is next.

Make no mistake about it, though, if Brett Kavanaugh was innocent of these charges, there'd be no reason to downplay his drinking, to tell multiple lies under oath, and he'd be the first one calling for a full-throated investigation to clear his name, but that's not what's happening.

Today, they are demonizing the victim along with their political opponents. They are lying, mischaracterizing, and gaslighting, and this is why they "love the uneducated" (Trump's words)… because they're infinitely more easy to con, and the longer they buy into the scam, the harder it is for them to admit that they fell for it.

Good point, as is the implication that Trump's playing both sides for suckers. But it must have occurred to someone in the GOP that a Kavanaugh loss could be the best thing to happen to them in the midterms, but they'd also have to pin the tail on the donkey, so to speak, and so far the only politician with his ass hanging out on this is Flake, and if Kav goes down, they'd also have those GOP wimmen to blame, which again, aren't Democrats.

Of course Tucker Carlson could spin out a tale of Left Wing conspiracy - but he probably will anyway, that being his regular shtick, and he being pretty much a one-trick-pony in that regard.

But overall, I'd have to agree with your assessment, JT. A win for Kavanaugh will energize the Dem base, a loss for Kav would have the opposite effect. Of course.

I suspect the FBI report will not drop any new shoes on K. It will confirm some aspects of what what has already been reported by The Press. What Senators have to fear is breaking news after Kavanaugh takes his seat. For 30 years or more. How much taint can the Republican Party take? Not many drunks stop drinking...especially on the first try.

I don't buy the dotard-notion, Trump might be thicker than a Whale Sandwich, but that was an epic clanger that the people behind him didn't even waste an eyeroll on. WHY?

Today we get (in print-therefore subject to a massive libel suit, that won't happen, as-per) the NYT massive-missive detailing the Trump family decades long ultra-tax con. The timing of which is suspect on its face, throw in a conveniently handy instant denial that is nothing more than a shrug-off and a hurriedly finished 'deal', and maybe the fog around Trump's on/off again statements about Mr. K.

Maybe I've missed my guess here, but it would energize the GOP base were Mr. K to fall at the last hurdle? Also, would it not take to much to hang the whole episode on the Democrats in the eyes of the demoralised?

This reeks of another Trumpian con-job to me...the polls are showing how the overall effect of this circus has had on the people...If Mr. K is voted down, the blue wave might not even amount to a hightide.

The only Dem-positive outcome, imho, is Mr. K withdrawing, sneering at the process and the Dem conspiracy, and doing a hasty Oozlum bird impersonation.

C W, again, you hit the mark...I just hope the 'sane resolution' doesn't come to pass. I'm guessing that Trump has a list of judges, that happen to be right-wing religious zealots, from which to choose Mr. K's replacement? Maybe a rush to vote and not protest too much is the best outcome for midterms.

LL&P