Week's events should draw epiphanies from those insisting the sky would fall if Dr. Ford missed Mon

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...committee hearing.

So it appears Dr. Ford will be given the opportunity to appear on Thursday, instead of allowing herself to be jammed into a Monday hearing, one that would involve great difficulty in attending for the non-flying professor who was, just hours before the ultimatum, engaged in an interview with the FBI over death threats she had received as a result of her name being publicly revealed without her knowledge or consent.

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I don't know what got into some folks, but there were far too many posters willing to believe the bottom would fall out of the resistance to Kavanaugh if Dr. Ford refused to fold in the face of Grassley's arbitrary demand that, she not only appear before the committee Monday, but that she also hand over her testimony by Friday.

All of that bullying was met by firm rejections by Dr. Ford's lawyer, explaining in detail the unfairness and arbitrary nature of the committee chairman's demands:

That damning letter was met with a curious response from Grassley, utterly blase in its detachment from the devastating charges Dr. Ford made in her response. It seemed Grassley was having a private conversation with his close friend, Kavanaugh, not the sexual assault survivor he tried to intimidate and sabotage.

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Look at how far the opposition to Kavanaugh has come since that anticlimactic end to the committee hearing. He's dropping in the polls and republicans, Grassley included, are now running scared over their inability to pass their misogyny off as altruism.

They have at least one republican senate nominee insisting that the sexual assault described in detail by Dr. Ford couldn't possibly be rape because the assault didn't include actual intercourse; echoing the improbable statement of a prominent ordained minister that, “no completed rape means no crime.” That Kavanaugh "respected" his victim by not finishing the abominable act. Franklin here:

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...and North Dakota’s republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, challenging Democratic Senator Heidi Heitcamp in November:

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We have FOUR more days to press for Kavanaugh's withdrawal. After this impressive assertion of rights and reason by Dr. Ford to prevail and appear before the committee on her own schedule (and some of her own terms), none of us should be chagrined or resigned about any assertion from republican senators that we can't have our demands heard and responded to, even though we hold slightly less votes in that body.

We should continue to press for a real investigation of the charges; press for other witnesses, press for senators to question of Dr. Ford in the hearing, instead of an outside counsel...

We should be inspired by Dr. Ford's persistence and steadfastness to her cause to continue to press for what we believe is fair and right, even in the face of seemingly intractable odds.

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1. Unfortunately the bullying of Dr. Ford is a necessity.

By even considering scrutiny Dr. Ford is a profile in courage. It would be great if she provided incisive testimony, if she breaks down in trying to describe what happened that would be equally awesome. If Dr. Ford decided to not testify in front of these creatures that too would be a winning strategy. Dr. Ford is clearly not the predator.

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4. she has the power

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8. +1

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2. The Gang of Predators

really are vile cretin.

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3. Yes and it just goes on and on.

The nature of the beast without any better angels. They expose themselves every day. At least Cretinism is a dietary problem these actors have no excuse.

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6. it's been revealing

...just how organized they are behind their moral facades to maintain their hegemony over women.

The curtain has been lifted.

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7. Think about it

As we type ReTHUGs have a 'values' voters conference taking place. That is laughable in and of itself.

The new meme is a Democratic Party coup. : rofl:

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5. K&R

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9. Did they expect Democrats to simply roll over and play along?

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