Nancy Pelosi calls Brett Kavanaugh "hysterical," says he is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh "hysterical" and said that he was temperamentally unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. Pelosi made the comments in an interview Saturday at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas.

"I couldn't help but think that if a woman had ever performed that way, they would say 'hysterical,'" Pelosi said about her reaction to Kavanaugh's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Kavanaugh emotionally denied allegations that he had sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when they were both teenagers.

During his opening statement, Kavanaugh was very emotional, at times nearly shouting and choking up while discussing his family and his high school years. He also explicitly condemned Democrats on the committee, calling the allegations against him a "grotesque and coordinated character assassination" organized by liberals angry that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election.

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"I think that he disqualifies himself with those statements and the manner in which he went after the Clintons and the Democrats," she said.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-pelosi-calls-brett-kavanaugh-hysterical-says-he-is-unfit-to-serve-on-the-supreme-court/

[Me.]

1. THANK YOU Nancy

[olegramps]

24. He looked like a sniveling drunk with a hangover.

Did anyone also notice his sniffing? It was like a nervous tick. He did it virtually after every statement.

[Me.]

26. He Also Does That Tongue In Cheek Thing

Rudi does

[NurseJackie]

37. Yeah... what's that all about? Is that a cocaine-induced nervous tic? Or...

... some sort of alcohol withdrawal symptom... or some sort of self-comforting action?

[iluvtennis]

39. Love your nervous tick meme

[Me.]

42. Just A Guess

but I think he needed a drink in the worst way

[pazzyanne]

29. Maybe he has graduated to higher octane stuff?

[Cha]

57. Definitely Hungover! I've said that. Later tonight Matt Damon

got the sniffing thing down as you know by now.

trump and kavanaugh.. two vultures of a feather.

[appalachiablue]

2. The raw truth

[dalton99a]

3. His express hatred of Democrats should be an automatic disqualifier for any judicial position

[MyOwnPeace]

7. ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!

The Dems are being accused of holding "political" grudges against the nominee - and he comes out with THAT bullshit!?!?!

AUTOMATIC "YOU'RE GONE!"

(will we ever survive all of this seemingly never-ending nightmare?)

[Cha]

58. That was a Stupid Shite move.. glad Damon covered that!

[ffr]

4. I'm with her. n/t

[Blue Owl]

5. Without a doubt

n.t

[greymattermom]

6. That's the perfect word for him.

The word that means "uterus". Hysterical=girly

[Snake Plissken]

8. And the best part about this is ...

Kavanaugh will blow a gasket over this because not only is a woman saying this, but it's cool, calm, and collected Nancy Pelosi.

He's probably throwing things around the room after seeing this.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Not to mention he has provably committed perjury

a handful of times on national TV.

[Achilleaze]

10. #HystericalRepublicans

are no laughing matter

[BootinUp]

11. Now the pukes r really going to b mad at Nancy, lol nt

[calimary]

49. Fuck 'em.

Let 'em get all hysterical about it.

[treestar]

12. How very spineless!

She never fights!

Remember how they laughed when Hillary said there was a right wing conspiracy? Now they support someone saying the equivalent.

[olegramps]

25. Only thing about it was that it was true. The Whitewater investigation was a total sham.

[reACTIONary]

54. A VAST right eing conspiracy . ...

.... and it was.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy

[sheshe2]

13. Thank you Nancy.

He was a widdle boy throwing a temper tantrum.

[Paladin]

14. I hope the right wing stays stupid and keeps backing Kavanaugh.

Talk about doing the left a favor. We can dine out on Kavanaugh for the rest of his blighted life.

[OMGWTF]

33. Me too! If Kavanaguh had a brain he'd withdraw before the FBI gets further involved than they are.

[DesertRat]

52. From where did you hear about this other person being next in line?

There's no way to know yet if Kavanaugh is going down. And DT said that they don't have a Plan B.

[NJCher]

61. Yes, just heard that on the radio

And burst out laughing. Said he didn’t need a Plan B.

Cher

[Cha]

59. With his own pissy pinched mouth.

[NCjack]

15. I think Kav disgraced himself in the eyes of all of his misogynist

Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) frat brothers. He screeched, pouted and cried like a little 5-yr old kindergarten girl. DKEs aren't supposed to look like that -- that's how their female victims are supposed to look. That is, Dr. Ford in her own way, put a thumping on Kav's nose and mouth that made him look like a DKE victim. Had his TV make-up running all over his face.

Maybe testifying AFTER Dr. Ford was a bad idea. She got into his head and twisted his mind.

The event was so traumatic for Kav that he may start stuttering or developing an eye tick. Thankfully for Kav, those two conditions can be suppressed by always holding and sipping a cold bottle of beer. (That's how GW Bush was able to perform his job in the White House.) Let's all watch Kav for that.

[Control-Z]

20. I had forgotten about that.

"Maybe testifying AFTER Dr. Ford was a bad idea. She got into his head and twisted his mind."

They didn't want to give her what they thought would be the advantage of going last. Hehehe.

[unitedwethrive]

16. She is so right!

[SunSeeker]

17. K & R

[George II]

18. I love that she used the word "hysterical", a word right wingers have been using for years....

....to describe her, Hillary Clinton, and other female Democrats. Very well calculated!

[Rebl2]

43. So right!

So why didn’t the R’s say the same thing about Kavanaugh? Guess if a man acts that way it’s just fine-he has a right to. For a woman to do the same, well there must be something wrong with her or she’s out of control. They are such hypocrites, but we already know that.

[True_Blue]

56. My thoughts exactly!

[riversedge]

19. Love her using the term 'hysterical' for a man.

[zentrum]

21. But, but , but.....

.....one of the privileges of privileged men is they get to act all PMS-y and all rapey if and when either is needed. Come'on Nancy.

[Scurrilous]

22. K&R

[lillypaddle]

23. K&R nt

[marylandblue]

27. I am glad she used that word, but

She shouldn't have said, "if he were a woman." She should have just called him hysterical directly. Just like they do to women.

[mr_lebowski]

31. yeaaaah ... maybe ... not sure either way was 'better' than the other ...

She took the route that assumes the American Public are on the 'less bright side' when it comes to picking up on sarcasm. And that's probably not an unreasonable assumption.

[yardwork]

64. Pelosi made a point about the double standard.

[marylandblue]

65. I understand that, but I'd rather it was just about him.

I am not even sure this is a gender based double standard. I don't think a Democratic man could have gotten away with that either.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Agreed

[CCExile]

30. He also shrill...

And he should smile more!

[spooky3]

36. Good one--or two! nt

[jalan48]

32. LOL @ Hysterical. Nice jab Nancy.

[meadowlander]

34. She didn't call him "hysterical" she pointed out the double standard

that a woman who behaved the same way would be called hysterical.

[spooky3]

35. Agree, not in the quoted part. But in the article there was also this

sentence--again, she was careful simply to imply her meaning rather than call Kavanaugh "hysterical" outright:

"It's not time for a hysterical, biased person to go to the court and expect us to say, 'isn't that wonderful,'" Pelosi said.

And I would have loved for someone to say, "there was blood coming out of his eyes..." or some male equivalent to it, but of course Dems cannot say something like that. Only Trump gets away with it.

[ehrnst]

38. Kick and Reced!

[RussBLib]

40. absolutely agree

that anger, coupled with hyper-partisanship, has no place on the SCOTUS. Hopefully some Republicans now see that clearly.

[Pinkflamingo]

41. Everybody write your Congressmen and women. He's unfit.

I wrote to Rubio with the Resist Bot.

For the resist bot for your cell, just text Resist to 50409

[pdsimdars]

44. Ah, Nancy, you had me at "hysterical", all the rest was just gravey!

[bucolic_frolic]

45. K-man would not get along with Roberts

Roberts may be right wing 90% of the time, but he abhors politicization of the court.

[grumpyduck]

46. Sorry if this pisses off some of you, but

after a performance like that, I wouldn't vote for him for SCOTUS even if he were a Democrat. That was an embarrassment.

[NJCher]

62. He is not very smart

One can’t be smart and behave like he did. He made a total fool of himself.

Cher

[DFW]

70. Indeed. I wondered about him getting into Yale and Yale Law under his own steam

Sure enough. It was just Kavanaugh blowing steam. He was a legacy, His dad and grandfather were alumni.

But I know that legacy alumni are often as not a complete hit-or-miss proposition, often depending on the size of their family donations more than whether the next generation is completely qualified. E.g. my family had 3 generations of Harvard students, several distinguished ones among them. But my family used up all available cash paying today's high tuition, so they didn't have huge sums to make in alumni donations. Whaddya know, none of our kids got in. It didn't matter, they all did fine in the colleges they did go to, and got cool jobs. And anyway, I'd rather have kids that turned out like my brother's or mine than kids who turned out like W or Kavanawful.

[Politicub]

47. I love her

[scarytomcat]

48. he is unfit to be a judge of a kind

he should be impeached from the DC court

[Power 2 the People]

55. Well played Nancy,well played.

[DFW]

60. Kavanawful blew it in his opening statement

Trump doesn't vote in the Senate, Senators do. In your opening statement, you don't blast the party with 49 Senators and, by name, a former President and the candidate that won 63 million votes in the last election if you are trying to sell yourself as an impartial jurist who will spend the rest of his life interpreting the Constitution fairly for all 350 million citizens. Whining about the Clintons (for trolls who only understand Republicanese: "the Clinton's" ) is only going to please the one person who told you to say it, and even Melania doesn't listen to him any more.

[NJCher]

63. Exactly

See my post 62.

Cher

[calimary]

66. Well? What else would you call it?

Seems pretty doggone accurate as a description of the behavior I myself saw the other day when I watched him in the afternoon hearing.

What else could you possibly call it?

[pdsimdars]

67. And Lindsey with his vapors . . . and the GOP is supposed to be the party of manly men?????

[Nitram]

68. Yup.

[Joe Bacon]

69. He's not just "HIS"terical!

He's "HER"sterical too!