1993

It seems to me that our boy Ed, who is supposed to be some kind of Sith Lord, is really a bit of a fuck-up.

1994

Or the Senate Democrats got hacked (again) so the Republicans had a heads up. Just this week Google warned Senate staff that their accounts were targeted by a state actor.

1995

But Whelan also knew the name of another person at the party, someone not named in Ford’s letter. He got that from someone with knowledge of the incident. So probably he got Ford’s name that way too. Occam’s razor.

1996

something something pyramids something


1997

Grassley draws line in the sand. Schumer thinks he has the hole cards, and ignores it.

Grassley blinks. Gives Ford another extension.

If only the Democrats would do something.

1998

Why do we assume this is Schumer? Is it not possible that Dr. Ford is genuinely struggling with the decision?

1999

A flag of underwear: Photo from Kavanaugh’s time shows DKE hijinks (Yale Daily News)

In addition to DKE, Kavanaugh also belonged to Truth and Courage, one of Yale’s secret societies for seniors. Among some students, the all-male club, which was popular with athletes, was known by the nickname “Tit and Clit.”

Truth and Courage fizzled out of existence in the early 2010s. But since Kavanaugh’s graduation in 1987, DKE’s reputation for mistreating women at Yale has only grown. Yale banned DKE from campus for five years in 2011 after videos circulated of fraternity recruits chanting “no means yes, yes means anal” in front of the University’s Women’s Center.

And this spring, the University launched an investigation into the fraternity’s sexual climate after reports in the Yale Daily News and Business Insider documented sexual assault allegations against more than half a dozen members, including the fraternity’s former president.

Kavanaugh does not appear to have spoken publicly about his time in DKE. But in a speech to the Yale Law School Federalist Society in 2014, he recounted “falling out of [a] bus onto the front steps of the Yale Law School at about 4:45 a.m.” after a night of bar-hopping in Boston, according to a partial transcript of the speech published in Mother Jones.

2000

Hahahahhahahaha. Ugh.

2001

So I guess the next story will be Grassley impregnates female senate page?

2002

And Mitch McConnell is born!

2003

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2004

She is genuinely struggling with this decision.

But if someone wasn’t advocating for giving her an extension, it could be done without any political fallout. Someone was doing that, however, and vigorously enough that not granting her the extension was going to play very badly at a time when senate republicans would like to not have any bad news.

2005

Interesting. I had assumed that someone advocating for giving her more time was Susan Collins. It didn’t occur to me that it could be Schumer. I just figured Collins had leverage, while Schumer didn’t.

2006

Collins probably had the leverage and may have been the motive force. But Grassley can’t blame her and needs to blame a Democrat. And Schumer was also in there and on that, so…

2007
2008

I think Kavanaugh may be toast. He’s now more upside down than any nominee since polling began. The GOP might still want to approve him, but I think it now more likely than not that they won’t have the votes. Whelan did a lot of damage this week.

2009
2010

Personally, maybe. He’ll still be pushed through, no matter what.

2011

I obviously hope you’re right, but I don’t think the White House and the Senate GOP give a rat’s hindquarters what the American people think if they’ve got 50 votes + Pence, and what with the Red state Dems-- except McCaskill-- voting for, they don’t even need Murkowski and Collins.

2012

I’m not sure that “Everyone we know was pretty rapey in high school…” is the robust defense of Kavanaugh and against Dr. Ford that Ben Carson, North Dakota senate candidate Kevin Cramer, and many other prominent Republicans seem to think it is.