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http://prospect.org/article/every-woman-america-watchingEvery Woman in America Is Watching
Nan Aron
September 18, 2018
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In other words, will the Senate carry out its constitutional duty? No one is entitled to a Supreme Court seat. Will the Senate actually investigate an allegation of sexual assault against someone who might be given enormous power over womens freedoms and over all of our lives? These senators and the American people are facing a critical test. This is the moment when we must demonstrate that #MeToo is more than just a Twitter hashtag: Its a serious pledge, long overdue, that women who have endured decades of harassment and assault will finally be taken seriously.
So call off this confirmation madness. Even without these fresh allegations, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents about Kavanaugh have been withheld or ignored, and this process was inappropriately begun with huge gaps in his known record.
At some point, partisan politics has to take a back seat to the Constitutionand if thats not enough to persuade the politicians, maybe a dose of realism will do the trick. Senators tempted to treat Ford unfairly ought to remember how their treatment of Hill helped lead to 1992 becoming the Year of the Woman. Democratic senators like Alan Dixon of Illinois and Wyche Fowler of Georgia who stuck with Clarence Thomas lost their seats. Record numbers of women were swept into office. As the next chapter in this chaotic drama unfolds, every woman in America will be watching.
Nevilledog
(51,122 posts)It's hundreds of thousands of documents that haven't been turned over.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)and I've broken out my knitting needles and pink yarn.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)I will add that I am also watching the Dems from Red States who seemed to think they had no choice but to vote for this monster of a scotus nominee...who thought they should vote for this nominee because he was going to be confirmed regardless. Any Dem that votes for Kavanaugh is not a true Democrat IMO. Im not talking about purity tests here. Kavananagh is a clear and present danger to every woman and girl in America.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)gordianot
(15,240 posts)It is not just because we have wives and daughters.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)It seems to be acknowledged as FACT, but just shrugged off.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)That alone.... Trump wants this guy for all the wrong reasons.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)The gambling debt is a very big deal. We need to know more. Thanks for the reminder.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)female neighbor and Faux watcher on my FB wall:
"This is ridiculous. Typical teenage behavior. So what? Boys and girls have necked in cars forever. This is just Democrats playing politics to destroy a good man."
Trump has plenty of women supporters who don't care that he's an admitted pussy grabber. They also don't care what Kavanaugh did. Women can be their own worst enemies.
elmac
(4,642 posts)can be their own worst enemy, self destruct.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Get used to it.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)We have 4 women in that Committee that has already put those old men to shame.
Booker standing up to Cornyn was praise worthy. He backed that loud mouth righ down.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)Who is still a Republican after the last few years is not worth my time.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)that our country is set up so that the only option we have to stop the destruction of our country is to vote. This upcoming election is the most important election of our lives. Young women better realize how serious this is and will finally WAKE UP and vote!
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)in the history of our Republic. If the Dems can't manage to at least take back the House there will never be another free and fair election. We'll end up like the old Soviet Russia where the had elections to elect the only person on the ballot.
I think it was Hillary last night who said if we can't take back at least the House she wouldn't be surprised if Trump loses in 2020 he'll claim the election was rigged and he and the (R) Congress will agree with him.
The GOP doesn't give a damn about what the voters want, the just want to be Oligarchs.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)He is only leaving the W House kicking and screaming. They might have to use an elephant tranquilizer to load him up and roll him out in a padded truck.
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)and what many fear... Is that trump has layed the groundwork to simply not recognize the results of the election in contests where dems win in districts he took, or really any district anywhere.
Count on the republican state houses, ag's, and governors to back him up and with hold certification of the vote.
Expect claims that the russians or chinese (most recently as monday) interfered on behalf of the dems.
He will seize power through electoral invalidation.
Now that my friends, is the death of our democracy and a very real threat.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)And the American way!
That's the criteria!
Every Kgop'r is attempting to subvert these.
Fug 'em all!
Elect women!
live2011
(101 posts)I want to give a shout-out and hearty thank-you to the Republican lead Judiciary Committee for revealing once again how tone-deaf and out-of-touch Republicans are when it comes to the daily life and concerns of the majority of women in America. Lets hope they remember to vote in November.
Hassler
(3,379 posts)To get Kava-nut into the Supremes.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)Senator Hirono said straight out, Shut up and step up to her repig cowardice colleagues.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)Not every woman in the country is watching.... Every woman who cares about their health, freedom, livelihood, sexual and personal safety is watching. The Stepford wifes of the right wing idiots are not watching, they don't care, they only follow along behind the old right wing dicks...... so please do not lump ALL women into this category.
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)They will have their majority. They will have the means to turn back 100 years of progress.
Give them time, and they will find a way to eat away at the voting rights of women and minorities. Don't think they can?
You haven't been paying attention. All the court has to do is uphold one state law that says any woman who has had an abortion or used birth control can't vote. There are a thousand laws they can pass to start to disenfranchise voters, and they can all end up at the supreme court.
There is a very real danger trump will move to invalidate elections where we win this fall and keep newly elected house and senate members from being certiffied.
He will claim the chinese interfered to help dems. gop state houses, governors, and ag's will back him up.
Again, if you don't think they will, then you haven't been paying attention.
2016 could well be the last semblence of a national election this country sees.