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Hekate

(90,673 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 01:32 PM Sep 2018

Profiles in Courage: Dems releasing the Kavanaugh docs: Cory Booker, Maizie Hirono...

I just heard Senator Hirono say, Count Me In. Who else so far?

Damn, I am proud of them. That ass Cornyn read out the Senate rules saying a Senator can actually be expelled from the Senate -- and Maizie stood by Booker.

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Profiles in Courage: Dems releasing the Kavanaugh docs: Cory Booker, Maizie Hirono... (Original Post) Hekate Sep 2018 OP
. irisblue Sep 2018 #1
Durbin n/t dweller Sep 2018 #2
Many Dems standing with Booker. Leahy, Blumenthal, Durbin, Harris etc. Booker lists them here: emulatorloo Sep 2018 #3
I saw Feinstein raise her hand mainstreetonce Sep 2018 #4
Leahy is posting docs on his Twitter feed. Lindsay Sep 2018 #5
"I am Spartacus." Hekate Sep 2018 #6
They better stick together or BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #7

emulatorloo

(44,120 posts)
3. Many Dems standing with Booker. Leahy, Blumenthal, Durbin, Harris etc. Booker lists them here:
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 01:34 PM
Sep 2018

Proud of our Senate Dems.

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
5. Leahy is posting docs on his Twitter feed.
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 01:42 PM
Sep 2018

For example:




Text for those unable to see tweets:

BREAKING: Kavanaugh testified he never received any docs that even “appeared to … have been drafted or prepared by Democratic staff.” Well, he got 8 pages of material taken VERBATIM from my files, obviously written by Dem staff, LABELED “not [for] distribution”.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
7. They better stick together or
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 01:49 PM
Sep 2018

their constituents will not be pleased. My two senators (CA) have a lot of support. I have called them and was told that all of the calls they are getting are supportive.

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