{"id":32513,"date":"2018-09-28T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32513"},"modified":"2018-09-28T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T00:15:02","slug":"the-accuser-is-believable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32513","title":{"rendered":"The accuser is believable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Christine Blasey Ford was a believable accuser today.<\/p>\n

The question now, in my mind, is whether the man she accused of assaulting her when they were both teenagers should take a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

I don’t believe he should.<\/p>\n

Judge Brett Kavanaugh defended himself vigorously today in testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He was angry at what he called a hit job by left-wing supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

He cried a bit, too.<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh has called his confirmation process “a national disgrace.”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t pretty, this hearing today. Indeed, it was damn ugly. It was hideous.<\/p>\n

But at the end of it, I came away believing the woman who has accused the Supreme Court nominee of a sexual assault.<\/p>\n

This means the Senate panel that will recommend whether to confirm or reject Kavanaugh should vote “no” on this nomination.<\/p>\n

I realize fully that my feelings on this matter won’t surprise regular readers of this blog. I wanted to watch the two principals face the Senate panel. I wanted to read their body language. I wanted to keep an open mind, and I believe I did.<\/p>\n

My mind is now made up. Christine Ford made the case to my satisfaction. This American, yours truly, does not want Brett Kavanaugh to be granted a lifetime job in which he would interpret the constitutionality of federal laws.<\/p>\n

I believe the president should look elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n

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Christine Blasey Ford was a believable accuser today. The question now, in my mind, is whether the man she accused of assaulting her when they were both teenagers should take a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. I don’t believe he should. Judge Brett Kavanaugh defended himself vigorously today in testimony before the U.S. Senate … Continue reading The accuser is believable<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7874,8018,5051,5053],"class_list":["post-32513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-christine-blasey-ford","tag-us-senate","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32515,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32513\/revisions\/32515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}