"Let's see if McConnell has a coming out party like Graham."

Here are some comments from readers of Ann Althouse's blog on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee vote.


Blogger Temujin said...
The Dems are once again posing as Lucy, holding the football in place for the Republican Charlie Browns to run up to kick it. They'll push this back a week. The Dems will bring in another 4-5 women who say Kavanaugh drugged and touched them, then scream and shout that it needs more time.

Charlie Brown will run up and miss.

This is a farce.


Blogger Ann Althouse said about Flake...
It's literally ineffectual in that it has no effect. It seemed as though he were imposing a condition and that his vote along with the Democratic Senators on the committee would produce a majority committee vote that would result in an FBI investigation. That wasn't what happened. He could have allied with the Dems and made a different majority. He had been talking with them for a while and it was an anxious interlude. But in the end he was talk without effectual action.


Blogger Diogenes of Sinope said...
Somehow selling out his Republican peers for his Democrat "friends" is noble?
What a rotten turd Flake is.


Blogger Rob said...
Flake lived up to his name. But if he, Collins and Murkowski condition a yes vote on there being an FBI investigation, what choice would McConnell have?


Blogger Ann Althouse said...
"I took it to mean that Flake will vote against it on the floor vote unless it's delayed for an FBI investigation now. Yep, so I fully expect an investigation."

Flake will have another opportunity to do something that gets what he purports to want, but this is a matter of intense party discipline and the midterm elections are at stake. We'll see what he does later. I'm sure the Republicans all want this to go away and the Democrats are hoping to make a creditable stand that will look good and not bad in the midterms.


Blogger Diogenes of Sinope said...
The FBI investigation will last no longer and range no further than the Mueller Russian collusion investigation.


Bay Area Guy said...
Flake is a Beta Male par excellence. Can I trade him for a real woman of either party?


Michael K. said...
It’s highly uncertain that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will agree to delay the vote, which is on pace for Tuesday of next week.

Let's see if McConnell has a coming out party like Graham.