I think I can be OK with it if they’re not focusing on the allegations, even if it’s beyond idiotic to not even speak to her. But from what I’ve read, Swetnik hasn’t said that she actually saw Kavanaugh doing anything, only that he was present at parties where getting girls too drunk to say no was “a thing.” Pushing…

It’s not in the scope of the background investigation (or maybe it is, depending on which side of his mouth the mango menace is speaking from at any given moment). That said, criminal charges of lying to the Senate would be an entirely separate matter than the background investigation, and they don’t need Cheetolini’s…

“It could explain both his statement about “not having sexual intercourse or anything close to [it]” in high-school and for many years thereafter...”

They’ve said that they would be willing to investigate, not that they would be willing to file charges. As far as I know, criminal charges would not be an option - there’s no statute of limitations on sexual assault in Maryland now, but there was at the time of the incident, and that would be the controlling law.

“You say that allegations without any substantiated evidence or cooberation should be enough to stop the nomination now.”

The Italians do it better.

Not only get fucked, but get fucked sideways. With a cactus. And don’t forget the horse you rode in on. 

I find myself oddly happy that my dad has either CNN or the business news channel running pretty much all the time. 

Because look how well third party candidates have done historically, right?

“Senators are less likely to defect when their party has a majority.”

Yes, Perez needs to go. No, you don’t have that fucking fight in public six weeks away from the damned election.

Because that is NOT something you decide to chat about in public just six weeks from the damn election.

“You tell them: “listen, you either vote with the team or I remember this in two years.””

To repeat - we are six weeks away from the general election.

That’s not how the budget works. Not even remotely. 

There is more to being the “new blood everyone craved” than just being a new face in the position. Like, ya know, actually doing something different than the last however many faces that have been sucking up oxygen in the spot.

“Are you saying that because I took umbrage at being the innocent victim of a person’s cruel and malicious attempt to slander me I wouldn’t deserve to sit on the Supreme Court?”

Except this isn’t really a nice juicy role. It’s a character with a short shelf life that might not be of interest to any of the series regulars, even if there was someone who looks like a reasonable option for the part.

Don’t forget to tip your servers.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was once amazed by a co-worker who informed us that there was absolutely nothing she could get from a man that couldn’t be replaced by a good adult bookstore.