there is nothing for them to feel bad about. there is no reason for the right to clean house because their people will still support them. and the other thing, i was thinking about this today as i was watching susan collins and talking to conservatives. brett kavanaugh is in the center of the conservative. they know him. they like him. i know people that know him and think very highly of him. i keep thinking about dennis hastert. dennis hastert is the longest serving republican speaker of the house in american history. it turned out he was pretty clearly a child molester. if you had gone in the 1990s and told republicans or democrats or anyone on capitol hill that, they would have been are you out of your mind? of course he is not. i know the guy. i like the guy. he is decent. he is good. he is kind. a million things about him. turned out actually that people that manifest and present that way can also do totally monstrous stuff that does not mean that brett kavanaugh is guilty of
spending yesterday meeting with sexual assault survivors. but democrat joe manchin, jeff flake and susan collins said they were voting yes. collins, it was clear from the first 30 seconds, she had been a yes all along. in her speech she misrepresented some facts, criticized protesters, and she said she wanted you to know she believed dr. blasey ford although, you know, not really. the question now is what republicans have unleashed. protesters swarmed the capitol again today, many of them trying to get senators to listen to harrowing stories of sexual assault. they chanted shame at joe manchin as he defended his decision and cried as they listened to susan collins announce her decision. a fund to whoever runs against collins in 2020 if she backed kavanaugh flew past the $2 million mark as collins spoke. the man we elected president says the women telling their stories of surviving sexual
i talked to susan collins. i talked to jeff flake over the course of the last few weeks. talked to all of them. these are people i work carefully with, traded texts or e-mails, handed them court opinions that i thought that they should read. everybody makes up their own mind. but no, we were we really were holding out hope today. and as you remember, even after somebody votes for cloture, they can still vote no on passes. john mccain did that a year plus ago on the affordable care act repeal. but it looks like today everybody s locked into their positions. again, i had reasons for coming out against judge kavanaugh a while back. but i think that the sexual assault allegations are so important. about 180 individuals, men and women from virginia, reached out to me in the last two weeks to say i ve never told anybody this story but i m telling you now. chris, some of these were people that i know, that i ve known for decades who had never shared their story of sexual assault. some were
temperament question, sherrilyn, the emotional, there are people innocent of the charges against them in courts. across the country every day. and they are expected, whether they re 17 years old, whether they re people in the grips of substance abuse, whether they re, you know, people that have been through lots of trauma, they re expected to compose themselves and not lash out in that courtroom no matter what. you don t get to do what brett kavanaugh did and that s expected of everyone from a juvenile that s right. perpetrator to anyone else. there s a wonderful study about this, about the presentational style of african-americans in rent court in baltimore and the way in which the presentational style is held against individuals who are at risk of being evicted from their apartments. there is a whole constraint that the system puts on you, no matter what pressure you re under, that you have to present yourself in a way that is calm and that shows respect for the court. that w
long as society only is interested in the stories of the people that they on the other side. on the other side. that they already wanted to get out. but this is not a bipartisan phenomenon. the left has been much better about cleaning house. although that instinct to me is pretty universal. right. the instinct but i think that there has been a kind of recognition of that instinct on the left and an understanding that you have to transcend this. things are changing. what you ve basically seen is kind of house cleaning in liberal institutions. the media kind of politics, but really none on the right except where it s utterly convenient. don t forget that it was bill shine who was coaching brett kavanaugh for this performance, right? so there is sort of no consequences on the right for multiple accusations unless they re so egregious like roy moore and then they ll stay behind you. they supported roy moore. they were there for him. donald trump afterwards went do