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Balrog0 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

You say that, but they tried to nail him as someone who regularly ruled against minorities. Schumer tried to filibuster it. They tried to claim he was a plagiarist. At least one dem said they would do anything in their power to stop him. He passed committee with a 11-9 party-line vote. They tried all the same tactics as here, only without being able to justify a delay due to the nature of the accusations. And this doesn't even touch the whole "stolen seat" angle that everyone took leading up to the actual vote. I think people just have short term memories about this stuff.

Yes, what Antifar said. All of this confirms to me that the two situations are very different. Unless you think between then and now the Democrats decided "well, everything in my power before didn't mean ginning up rape accusations, but now that is in my power" which, while not implausible, seems to be a very different thing

I was responding to the claim that he "sailed through easily" which I don't remember being the case. Obviously the situations are very different, but the last seat didn't threaten to completely tilt the ideological balance of the supreme court, so we shouldn't also pretend like the stakes were the same as they were back then. It also wasn't right before a midterm when exciting the base means the difference between a power swing or status quo. I also don't think the accusation is fabricated in the sense that I believe Ford really was sexually assaulted. I just don't think the evidence points to Kavanaugh and her inability to remember any details (combined with the fact that at the hearing she had trouble remembering even recent details like the date of her polygraph test) makes it difficult to believe she can be 100% certain it was him when she's not even remotely certain about anything else.
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