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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching some of the replay of Kavanaugh's testimony on MSNBC, is anyone else getting the
the notion that his whole thing a play act?
His indignation is too refined and his deflection on the question of having the FBI do a background investigation is too well practiced.
He is a fake. His emotional demonstrations seem well coached. He is an angry, vile, vindictive and nasty human. Just watch a replay of Senator Durbin challenge to him and an FBI investigation.
No way does he belong in a job that effects or affects other peoples lives.
His whole testimony is an orchestrated sham just to get him far enough over the line that will allow certain republicans to hold their nose and vote for him when the vote reaches the senate floor. Have no doubt, the judiciary committee will vote him forward. To their eternal shame, they will forward his nomination.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Monday feels like two weeks ago.
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)the same entitled prep school jerk he was in high school.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Of course he sexually assaulted these women. Manchin et al. better hold the line!!!
CanonRay
(14,037 posts)like the GOP. Academy Awards level.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)meow2u3
(24,745 posts)He has been parroting Trumpian conspiracist talking points. He did get coaching from the White House.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... belongs no where near any court.
I've not seen any judges act like that.
dog whistle to republican base.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)and one person only - Donald Trump.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)But, there was quite a bit of it that was just the kind whining and crying we saw from Scut Farkus when Ralphie finally snapped and beat the shit out of him.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)RockRaven
(14,783 posts)He wasn't going to withdraw himself. But Trump could do so. He needed to convince Trump to stick with him. Trump loves belligerence. Trump loves "counter-punching." So Kavanaugh let his Mr Hyde out. But I think that is genuinely inside of him.
djsunyc
(169 posts)i like beer...i still like beer.
that's a coached line he kept repeating. of course his whole shtick was fake.
Ohio Barbarian
(43 posts)"I like beer. I still like beer. What do you like to drink, Senator?" I believe that was directed at Sen. Whitehouse. Quickly followed by "I worked my butt off. I was first in my class," with a lot of stuff thrown in about football practice and such. As if his academic and athletic achievements excuse any bad behavior he indulged in.
IOW, privileged.
TryLogic
(1,721 posts)He is an embarrassment to the profession. I wonder if the American Bar Association will be concerned about this.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Corker and Flake both saw something yesterday that escaped about 330 million Americans to convince themselves that this man belongs on the Supreme Court.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)I believe he was coached to show some emotion to get sympathy. Once he started it got away from him and he showed who he really is without intending to. He showed us he is a angry, vindictive, entitled, conspiracy-minded, ideological, partisan, lying, woman-hating, spoiled brat. That was not an act.
colorado_ufo
(5,717 posts)He was coached and rehearsed, but when a question got too close for comfort, he lost his sh_t for real. This is why he became ugly and defiant with Sen. Klobuchar.
He had no qualms about lying while under oath, because he knew all the GOP had his back and would cover for him. He had one job: To say and do whatever he had to do to get onto that SCOTUS position. He had to come up with any excuse - no matter how remotely plausible - to explain his cryptic yearbook entries, etc. He had to be outraged and clutch his pearls until the strand broke. He had to declare himself to have been The Oldest Living Male Virgin. My hubby said he thought at one point Kavanaugh was going to declare that both his children were found in a manger. On his 18th birthday, he demurely took his first sip of beer. If he swore on a Bible, he would probably say that it didn't count because, maybe, the Bible had been held upside down.
His entire testimony yesterday was, in the words of Bo Didley, "The biggest load of rubbish I ever heard in my life."
Nitram
(22,671 posts)particular lie would just no fly.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)with him. I think they helped him write the nasty, defiant opening statement, contrary to reports that he ripped up one written by others.
Their ploy was to make the offense towards K personal, not professional.
Jersey Devil
(9,863 posts)Imagine what he would have been like without all the preparation?