UPDATED: McConnell: Senate will hold Kavanaugh vote 'this week'
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 10/01/18 04:20 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the Senate will hold a vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination this week.
"The time for endless delay and obstruction has come to a close. Judge Kavanaugh's nomination is out of committee. We're considering it here on the floor and ... we'll be voting this week," McConnell said.
McConnell's comments, made during a Senate floor speech, comes as the FBI has to wrap up its investigation into multiple sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh by Friday.
GOP senators and aides have been careful not to pin down a specific timeline on Kavanaugh's nomination, arguing that the FBI could wrap up its work before the Friday deadline.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409340-mcconnell-senate-will-hold-kavanaugh-vote-this-week
UPDATE:
McConnell Accuses Dems of McCarthy Era Tactics in Senate Floor Speech: Character Assassination of Kavanaugh
by Joe DePaolo | Oct 1st, 2018, 4:25 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats Monday accusing them of McCarthy-esque tactics in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process.
In a screed delivered from the Senate floor, McConnell invoked the infamous name of Joseph McCarthy, and accused Democrats of using tactics similar to those employed by the former Wisconsin Senator in order to defeat the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
This institution has seen before episodes somewhat like what were now seeing from some of our colleagues across the aisle, McConnell said. Factor in the McCarthy era. Back in 1950, character assassination and uncorroborated allegations were being utilized in a very different debate in that era.
The Kentucky Senator added, In my judgment, the pattern of behavior we have seen confirms what Democrats own public statements have told us. They are committed to delaying, obstructing and resisting this nomination with everything theyve got. They just want to delay this matter past the election.
McConnell accused Democrats of moving the goal posts as it relates to the FBI investigation into the Supreme Court nominee.
Do these actions suggest that this has ever been about giving Judge Kavanaugh a fair hearing? McConnell said.
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https://www.mediaite.com/online/mcconnell-accuses-dems-of-mccarthy-era-tactics-in-senate-floor-speech-character-assassination-of-kavanaugh/
Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)cstanleytech
(26,342 posts)for him.
Stupid as shit for them to do though because its not like Trump will be denied the ability to make a new nomination if Kavanaughs fails.
still_one
(92,482 posts)because he won't have the votes until that report is released
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)DFW
(54,465 posts)I think they either cut their losses and blame the Clintons (why not, everyone else seems to want to), or else they have something on Flake and the one or two other "renegades" powerful enough to immunize them against whatever storm they know will come if they vote to confirm.
Either way, I think the closer the mid-terms loom, the more the Republicans desperately want Kavanawful out of the headlines. Personally, I don't think he disappears nearly as quickly if he is confirmed, so I think that there's a good chance that if McTurtle really holds the vote this week, it is an indication he is willing to let their boy go down "for the greater good."
Repupblicans in tight races next months will certainly be breathing a sigh of relief if Kavanawful shrivels up and goes away ASAP.
still_one
(92,482 posts)rzemanfl
(29,577 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)mahannah
(893 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)ffr
(22,675 posts)Who is he kidding!
iluvtennis
(19,891 posts)Chickensoup
(650 posts)where he belong.
Freethinker65
(10,083 posts)He is just trying to look like he has complete control and is unconcerned. All about the image and message control. The GOP needs to control the narrative.
BumRushDaShow
(129,795 posts)From his past practices, if the votes aren't there, then he won't hold the vote (yet)- especially if it is for something that he wants.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The next candidate I believe will be Judge Amy Bennett. She is so extreme she will make Kavanaugh look like a extreme liberal in comparison. Check her out. She is the member of a Catholic group called People of Praise. They are right at home with the snake handers with speaking in tongues and faith healing. They are Catholic fringe group that operates their own junior-senior high schools. She was raised in this charismatic-evangelical society of about 2,000 members in which her father was a leader.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)Not doubting that she holds extreme religious beliefs...but usually Evangelicals in my experience are Protestants of one flavor or another and Catholics are...well, Catholic.
For disclosure, I was raised in the Catholic Church, attended a Catholic grade school and a Catholic Lay-person run High School / Prep School...I eventually attained the age of reason and independence from my parents and thus am an ex-Catholic...
olegramps
(8,200 posts)They hold many of the same beliefs as those defined as those held by evangelicals and Pentecostals. I had a bother-in-law and his wife who became involved for a brief time with the group. They went to a national rally held at Notre Dame where thousands attended. This movement came into being shortly after Vatican II when there was a rash of experimentation. It had a rather short surge of popularity and the movement has dissipated for the most part.
Some regard the People of Praise group to be cult based on the testimony of some who have left the movement. It seems to share some aspects with Opus Dei with Pentecostal influences. Its members are strict traditionalists and obedient to the dictates of the Catholic Church dogma without question. If she follows her adherence to Catholic dogma without reservation then she would, in my opinion, be a greater threat than Kavanaugh. I find little difference in their attempts to dictate and impose their moral dogmas on the entirety of society as an attempt to establish a theocracy.
sinkingfeeling
(51,484 posts)EarthFirst
(2,905 posts)That kind of endless delay?
NOMOGOP
(87 posts)decades and criminal Mitch McConnell doesn't have a couple days to flesh out rape allegations.
Beaverhausen
(24,473 posts)Wondering if the holdout Republicans have told him they are a "yes"
Blue Owl
(50,536 posts)n/t
truthisfreedom
(23,160 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,307 posts)dchill
(38,578 posts)He's right, so why doesn't he stop?
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)does not happen, and the GOP senators like Flake or Collins do not insist, then kavanaugh will be confirmed...