Pierce: You Can Expect to Hear the Phrase 'There's No Definitive Proof' a Lot Over the Next Few Day

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You Can Expect to Hear the Phrase 'There's No Definitive Proof' a Lot Over the Next Few Days
Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is taking on water fast, but Republicans won't easily abandon ship.
By Charles P. Pierce
Sep 26, 2018


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So far, the best moment of physical comedy in the ongoing drama surrounding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court came on Monday. All week, both Senator Susan Collins and Senator Lisa Murkowski have been stalked by massive numbers of reporters. (I came around a corner outside the Senate chamber on Tuesday and nearly took the entire Collins gaggle in the chops.) On Monday, Murkowski was jumped as she got off the subway that connects the Capitol to the various Senate office buildings. The unwieldy knot of people then proceeded onto an escalator, which promptly broke from the stress. Screams, I tell you. Comedy gold.

On Wednesday, before noon, Senator Dianne Feinstein accused Kavanaugh of having misled the Senate Judiciary Committee with regards to what a sieve he'd been during his days with Ken Starr's office, particularly on the matter of Starr's indecent investigation into the suicide of Vince Foster. Senator Jeff Merkley announced that he would be going to court to stop the confirmation process, citing unconstitutional interference into the process by the president*.

There was a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill supporting Kavanaugh's nomination, as well as Congressman Jim Jordan's campaign to be the next Speaker of an increasingly unlikely Republican House of Representatives. In short, the rally was held on behalf of one guy being accused of a pattern of sexual assault, and another guy who has been accused of a pattern of covering up sexual assault. One speaker at the rally made a Chappaquiddick joke, and people wonder whatever happened to the classics.

And Michael Avenatti dropped his latest bunker-buster right into the middle of the proceedings. From CNBC:

[Julie] Swetnick, in an affidavit posted online by Avenatti, claims that Kavanaugh, as a high school student in Maryland in the early 1980s, with others spiked the drinks of girls at house parties with grain alcohol and/or drugs to "cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say 'No.' " Swetnick, 55, said these efforts by Kavanaugh and his buddy Mark Judge were done so the girls "could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys."

"I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their 'turn' with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh," Swetnick said. She also said in her affidavit sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee that in approximately 1982 "I became the victim of one of these 'gang' or 'train' rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present."

Now, Swetnick doesn't have definitive proof that Kavanaugh participated in these activities, which is a line you're going to be hearing a lot over the next two days. But, remember when the president* wanted to execute the Central Park Five? Remember the fable the police told about "wilding"? It sounds to me like there was actual "wilding" going on among the privileged white dudes of Georgetown Prep. "That isn't a Catholic school like you and I went to," said a savvy Massachusetts pol of my acquaintance. "We went to blue-collar Catholic schools. This was a school designed to produce Republicans."

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23476573/brett-kavanaugh-sexaul-assault-allegation-lawsuit-jeff-merkley/

[mcar]

1. K&R

[Raster]

2. "This was a school designed to produce Republicans."

[House of Roberts]

3. Which is the only kind of school

Republicans want government to fund.

[Hekate]

4. Love that last line from Pierce's friend