{"id":67992,"date":"2018-09-17T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67992"},"modified":"2018-09-17T06:21:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:21:22","slug":"hardball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67992","title":{"rendered":"Hardball"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate GOP reportedly plans to “play hardball” in getting Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, possibly this week:<\/p>\n

Strategists advising Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh plan to use aggressive tactics this week in response to the public accusation of a “stumbling drunk” sexual assault in high school that instantly imperiled his confirmation, top sources tell Jonathan Swan:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2022\tSome involved in the process are going to urge Senate leaders to call on the accuser \u2014 Christine Blasey Ford, who went on the record with The Washington Post’s Emma Brown<\/a> \u2014 to testify publicly this week, ahead of Thursday’s scheduled Judiciary Committee vote. This gambit basically bets that she will decline, and Republicans can then say that they tried<\/em> to investigate further.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2022\tA source close to the process said that if Democrats sink Kavanaugh “we\u2019ll just bring in someone more<\/em> conservative.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I hope they do. Not only has Kavanaugh denied the charges, but apparently the other student home Ford said was present, and who supposedly broke up the attack, claimed the episode never happened.<\/p>\n

The other hand \u2013 isn’t it refreshing, seeing Democrats actually taking “sexual harassment” seriously?<\/p>\n

I’m sure Keith Ellison is sweating bullets at the prospect (or would, if the American Left ever behaved in a morally consistent manner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate GOP reportedly plans to “play hardball” in getting Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, possibly this week: Strategists advising Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh plan to use aggressive tactics this week in response to the public accusation of a “stumbling drunk” sexual assault in high school that instantly imperiled his confirmation, top sources tell Jonathan Swan: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67993,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67992\/revisions\/67993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}