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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. If only I trusted NPR...
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:19 PM
Sep 2018


The KGOP slantings and stylings of David Green and others have put me off. When I listen to NPR, I listen in critical mode, always sorting to try and understand what actually lies behind whatever they are reporting...

2naSalit

(86,673 posts)
4. It was spoken by
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:26 PM
Sep 2018

Maura Liasson, so consider the source. I caught it but it was at the end of a piece that I mostly missed.

mysteryowl

(7,390 posts)
7. I find them to be a good news source
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:31 PM
Sep 2018

I don't like all the RW crap they have been doing since the 2016, however.

StarryNite

(9,454 posts)
2. Some many had reported that tRump
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:21 PM
Sep 2018

didn't have the votes either. They are a bunch of sneaky snakes and will find a way, if at all possible, to push their rapist through.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
3. Technically speaking, they don't
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:26 PM
Sep 2018

There are two uncommitted Repubs-Collins and Murkowski- and a buggy 3rd - Flake. As long as they remain uncommitted, they don't have the votes.

CharleyDog

(758 posts)
14. Imagine having Lindsey Graham yelling at you to vote yes. Scary.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:46 PM
Sep 2018

Repubs are under great pressure to tow the line. Hatred of McCain was because of his no vote on repealing the ACA. Criticizing the party line brings the death threats and other threats ("we have ways of making you cooperate&quot

RockRaven

(14,978 posts)
5. I trust NPR to report what they've been told, but why should I trust they were told the truth?
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:28 PM
Sep 2018

People have agendas. Unnamed sources have agendas in spades.

CharleyDog

(758 posts)
13. there is millions of dollars behind KavaNO. Dark money, big money to prop up this guy
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:41 PM
Sep 2018

Coup de grace - the final killing blow to democracy? VOTE!!! Our only hope.

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)
16. yes, there's dark money behind Kav
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 04:18 PM
Sep 2018

Who paid off his credit card debts, which I read were over$200,000. Read he lives 1.5 mil home, how does he afford this. Does his wife have money? These are things that I am curious about, plus the rumors of gambling.

I feel like this guy as more secrets. That may be why the Repubs are in such a hurry to get him confirmed.

CharleyDog

(758 posts)
12. saying GOPs don't have the votes is a way to calm Dems down
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:38 PM
Sep 2018

and keep them in a quiescent state. Not one of those GOP senators will vote no. Not one. Especially now with the cover of a FIBBY investigation.

On Friday night, I really thought KavaNO would back out. He looked done for.
Now, it seems there's no way stopping him. Yet, he will be forever a tarnished man, many will look on him with revulsion for his disrespect of senators and his florid tantrum. Sort of like pushing your drunk junk in someone's face.

getagrip_already

(14,786 posts)
15. what it really does is keep additional accusers and witnesses in the shadows
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:50 PM
Sep 2018

There are surely those who are struggling with the decision to step forward. If they believe the rapist won't make it, they will stay quiet.

Especially after the way the gop and riech wing media engine have treated people speaking out.

This is why they continually leak this nonsense. Mcconnel will have the votes he needs when he finally schedules a vote. He is going scorched earth on his members.

The fbi checks are probably complete. The white house likely has the reports in hand. What the turtle does next will tell the strategy they will use to close. flake will fold, followed by either murkowski or collins. Only one will get a you can vote no card.

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