{"id":178640,"date":"2018-10-05T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/05\/collins-and-manchin-will-vote-for-kavanaugh-all-but-ensuring-his-confirmation-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:53:00","slug":"collins-and-manchin-will-vote-for-kavanaugh-all-but-ensuring-his-confirmation-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/05\/collins-and-manchin-will-vote-for-kavanaugh-all-but-ensuring-his-confirmation-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins and Manchin Will Vote for Kavanaugh, All but Ensuring His Confirmation – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are Not Amused<\/i><\/div>\n

I expected that Susan Collins would vote for Canvanaugh, making sane noises and then voting the party line when it matters is her thing, but Manchin will not get a single vote from Kavanaugh supporters, because they would never vote for someone with a (D) after their name<\/a>, so his gesture is stupid self-destructive futility:<\/p>\n

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh is heading to confirmation to the Supreme Court this weekend after two key undecided senators \u2014 Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia \u2014 announced Friday that they would support his elevation to the high court, ending the most divisive confirmation fight in decades.<\/span>

<\/span> Ms. Collins\u2019 lengthy speech on the Senate floor dwelled as much on Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s judicial record as on the sexual misconduct charges that have consumed his nomination. She did conclude, \u201cWe will be ill-served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cThe Me Too movement is real. It matters. It is needed, and it is long overdue,\u201d she said, arguing that her support for Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation does not negate the claims of sexual assault that have flooded forward in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s testimony against the nominee. But she said she was not convinced of Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s guilt.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cI found her testimony to be sincere, painful and compelling. I believe that she is a survivor of a sexual assault and that this trauma has upended her life. Nevertheless, the four witnesses she named could not corroborate any of the events,\u201d Ms. Collins said.<\/span>

<\/span> Mr. Manchin, a Democrat, immediately followed with a statement proclaiming his support.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cI have reservations about this vote given the serious accusations against Judge Kavanaugh and the temperament he displayed in the hearing,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd my heart goes out to anyone who has experienced any type of sexual assault in their life. However, based on all of the information I have available to me, including the recently completed F.B.I. report, I have found Judge Kavanaugh to be a qualified jurist.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously:  The only reason for a Democrat to pull the lever for you is the Supreme Court, and you just pissed all over that.<\/p>\n

Seriously:  Go Cheney yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are Not Amused I expected that Susan Collins would vote for Canvanaugh, making sane noises and then voting the party line when it matters is her thing, but Manchin will not get a single vote from Kavanaugh supporters, because they would never vote for someone with a (D) after their name, so his gesture …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,364,407,374],"class_list":["post-178640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}