McConnell just stated that the Dems gave the FBI a list with 24 names on it...

[Baitball Blogger]

...for the Kavanaugh investigation.

I assume he forsees that the Dems will delay the vote.

Hmmm...

[NorCen_CT]

1. Remember the "good ol' days" when the GOP was seen as the party of law and order?

[Raster]

3. Unfortunately, now they're the tRump* crime syndicate.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. We need to make that point clear.

The only high ground they have is the summit in their minds that is created by their entitled privilege.

[mikeysnot]

7. I guess if you go back to Eisenhower

Nixon, Reagan, W and now trump....

[NorCen_CT]

10. They at least had the facade of caring (a couple of them, at least).

[DBoon]

13. That was when J. Edgar Hoover was blackmailing politicians

You let the FBI do what it wanted or your career as a politician was over.

[Merlot]

15. Only the gop ever saw them selves as "law and order"

[NorCen_CT]

16. I agree!

My language was rather ambiguous (I should have put "seen" in quotation marks) - I definitely could have worded it better.

[Hortensis]

18. Yes, but they never were. Conservatives by nature

don't believe in equality and find stratified society a natural result of good behaviors being rewarded and bad punished. Kissing up and kicking down may be deplored but seen as normal. Conservatives generally also have a darker view of human nature than liberals and believe that people will behave badly if not dissuaded by punishment.

These are all defining characteristics of conservative personality, generally the more conservative the stronger. And vice versa.

When applied to the legal system, they result, at their worst but inevitably, in such things as wealthy people getting away with decades of large crimes that hurt many others, people from elite backgrounds being advanced over better people from modest backgrounds, and minorities being executed on the streets by police.

Conservative law and order, 2015 style. The officers operating this military weaponry obviously did not tell their superiors they would refuse orders to massacre the protesting and rioting citizens in Ferguson.

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[Maven]

19. "Law and order" was always their code for "whatever the rich straight white man says goes"

It was never about justice and certainly not about equality.

[Turbineguy]

2. They'll have to change the law.

As long as you are below 25 assaults, you are golden. This would help trump too.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. McConnell belittled the fact that Kavanaugh threw ice at someone in a bar

during the eighties. Like, hasn't everyone?

[Turbineguy]

6. Sure!

I throw ice at people all the time cuz I like getting the shit kicked out of me!

[bdamomma]

12. I would like to know

if McConnell thinks it is fine to assault a woman. Stupid ass.

[Iggo]

14. I don't think McConnell's ever been in a bar fight.

Otherwise he'd know, throwing a drink in someone's face is actually a pretty huge fucking deal.

[ProudLib72]

8. Is he trying to construe this as some Dem trickery?

Seriously? 25 credible witnesses! There is no end to Dem machinations! He's an evil, truth twisting little yertle.

[marble falls]

9. cheetolini did say the FBI should follow the investigation where ever it goes on Sunday.

[ooky]

11. Schumer gave a very nice rebuttal to McConnell's partisan remarks

that covered all the points I wanted to hear, including Kavanaugh's hyper-partisan remark about the Clintons, and the lie to Orrin Hatch's question about when he first learned of Rameriz' allegations.

[gratuitous]

17. Keep this in mind

When McConnell or Grassley or someone else starts yapping about a quick conclusion to this little detour on Judge Kavanaugh's triumphal march to the Supreme Court, they may not know what they're talking about. They're going to make bold pronouncements to discourage and enrage you. But those pronouncements may not be factual.