Amaryllis
Amaryllis's JournalHere is Dr. Ford's attorney's full response to Grassley demands that Rachel just read:
She got herself some very fine lawyers. Really calling out the GOP bullying and hypocrisy.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/09/21/tick-tock-cont-fords-attorneys-ask-sen-grassley-for-a-24-hour-delay/
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1043312209982578688/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1043312209982578688&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2018%2F09%2F21%2Ftick-tock-cont-fords-attorneys-ask-sen-grassley-for-a-24-hour-delay%2F
Rachel reading response from Dr. Ford's attys RE testifying. OMG. Accusing GOP of bullying...
Really calling them on their hypocrisy. Her attorneys are brilliant.
SHe read it for the first time on air, before she had even read it herself, right when it was handed to her.
The GOP plan was to have Kavenaugh and Ford TOGETHER in the same hearing at the same time.
I have not heard anyone talking about this, but have read it a number of times, that the GOP plan was to have them together in the same hearing, at the same time????
A sex crime victim with the attacker in the room with her?
And even Susan Colllins said she didn't understand why Ford would not want to testify Monday.
Has anyone heard any media picking up on this? I can't believe it's being overlooked. Maybe I've just missed it?
Edited to add: Just read this regarding negotiations between her attorneys and GOP:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211158995
3. She will not be in the same room as Judge Kavanaugh.
Michael Moore is right about many things, but he always leaves out one CRUCIAL issue.
i've seen him do this since the 2004 election theft and he is still doing it. When he talks about why we "lost", he does not factor in the extreme vulnerability of our election infrastructure and all the cheating:
Gerrymandering
Voter suppression in its many forms: voter ID laws, purging registration data bases, etc.
Vulnerablity of voting systems themselves, paperless unauditable higly hackable voting machines and central tabulators.
And now we have Russian attacks, including infiltrating over half the states' voter reg databases, and we know very little has been done to remedy this since 2016 because the GOP finds it favorable to them.
Of course we must do everything we can with GOTV, etc. and Moore makes some excellent points, but why does he not address this one critical HUGE issue? He can't possibly still be ignorant.
Sen. Merkley on Rachel talking about FEMA money being used by ICE to build detentions centers.
Just as hurricane season is upon us, FEMA money is being used for family detention centers.
10,000,000 shifted to ICE.
Merkley is on appropriations committee and is all over this. So much happening daily that the family detention centers have been on the back burner, but Merkley is a bulldog on this.
I wonder when McCain talked to Obama about the eulogy, if they discussed what he wanted?
This article linked below has a little info which I have posted but not much detail. I kept wondering today as I listened to Obama how much, or even if, they discussed content and flavor and what McCain may have said about why he wanted Obama to speak, or what he wished for him so say, or if they even talked about that. Or if just Obama and Bush speaking was itself the message, because obviously that in itself was a powerful message. I just found this whole thing fascinating and hope that someone was there listening to that phone call and it comes out at some point. But either way, it was extraordinary.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/politics/john-mccain-barack-obama-george-bush-memorial-service/index.html
Inside McCain's surprise eulogy invitation to Obama
It was a day in early April when Barack Obama received an unexpected call from McCain, who was battling brain cancer and said he had a blunt question to ask: Would you deliver one of the eulogies at my funeral?
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So, I've been wondering whether McCain and Obama had somehow developed an intimate relationship after Obama left office, if they had been having quiet conversations over the last year or two that haven't been publicly discussed as McCain neared the end of his journey.
It turns out, after talking to several friends of both men this week, their relationship isn't intimate at all, but rather one rooted in mutual respect and a shared sense of alarm at today's caustic political climate. Their telephone call on that April day was first arranged by advisers, not McCain simply dialing up Obama as he would do with his legion of friends, a sign they were hardly tight.
In fact, the two have spoken by phone only a couple of times since Obama left the White House, aides to both men say, most notably last summer when Obama reached out after McCain cast the deciding vote to salvage the Affordable Care Act. He thanked him. The call was brief.
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"I think it is John McCain imparting a lesson in civility by asking the two men who defeated him to speak, as an example to America that differences in political views and contests shouldn't be so important that we lose our common bonds and the civility that is, or used to be, a hallmark of American democracy," Duprey said.
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Obama in his campaigns and in the White House, said the clear message McCain is sending is "about our shared heritage, our shared trust of this democracy that transcends party and transcends tribe."
Best. Sign. Ever.
Well, maybe not the best EVER, because there have been some great ones, but this is really good!
Dear Canadians: I sincerely hope you know that most Americans love and respect you,
our dear neighbor and ally. Please do not judge us by the actions of the one who speaks words of scorn, who shall remain unnamed.
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