The GOP have agreed to allow a one week background check, which may or may not help clear things up.
IMO, they should give it a month, maybe more, in order to do it deeply, but since it took them 3 or 4 days to do Anita Hill, a week seems reasonable in that respect.
Also sounds like Trump wants to stay out of it, or at least let the Senate do what they need to do.
That sounds entirely reasonable and thus highly suspect coming from Trump of all people. Maybe the "Keep him sane-ish" conspiracy is to blame? Sanegate!
More like he realizes Kavanaugh's odds are dicey, and he doesn't like to be publicly linked to losers. Look at cases where people he endorsed in primaries lost, and he went back and deleted all tweets where he backed them.
He's kinda torn. On the one hand, lots of people were saying nice things about him when he was being nice and collected. Lots of people. The best people.
On the other hand, ARGLBARGL WITCH HUNT RIGGED NO COLLUSION CROOKED HILLARY SAD! is his default communication strategy, and Kavanaugh pandered like fuck to that in his testimony. So he probably feels flattered and thinks "He wants to be like me, so he must be a good guy."
Inb4 he pulls the nomination, and then turns around and fires Jeff Sessions and replaces him with Kavanaugh. And then nominates some equally vile fratboy with less Drunky McGroperstein issues.
I mean, I've not quite understood why the Republicans are choosing to die on this hill. It's not like there's a scarcity of conservative legal minds out there that will happily rule however they're told to by a Republican President.
They have less than 6 weeks 'til an election. They don't want to appear weak by rolling over to the Dems on this, and there is the potential they won't be able to find another nominee before the midterms.
It's understandable, but entirely stupid.
Anyway, given his ranting and raving during the hearing on Thursday, one wonders how he can be viewed as impartial to anything with a hint of appealing to the liberals he was railing so hard against.
As sluissa intimated, this entire thing has been mishandled by everyone that's touched it after Blasey Ford sent her letter. The Dems had the allegations a month and a half ago, could've brought it to the committee's attention then and had a confidential investigation which could've advised Trump against nominating Kavanaugh. Instead it was leaked to the press at a time it could cause maximum damage and hold things up. One thinks that leak would not have come from Blasey Ford nor her lawyers, and she said the only other people with access to the letter were the Dems.
The Republicans on the committee decided the best way to deal with it would be to perform their own investigation, which the Dems refused to participate in, because apparently that's better than having the FBI perform an independent and, most importantly, impartial investigation. Then they were all "we have Kavanaugh in front of us, ask him questions" when what, 3 or 4 of the alleged witnesses weren't there to participate? Given what's a stake for Kavanaugh, his entire life's work going down the drain, even if there was incontrovertible proof he did it I don't think he's going to come out and say that he sexually assaulted anyone.
I said it before, I'll say it again, this entire thing has been a farce from the moment Kavanaugh was nominated, even before the accusations surfaced.
Fakedit: came across
this which gave me a chuckle.
But yeah, Flake isn't really going to come out badly from this because he isn't seeking re-election.
