This morning, I opened Yahoo News to see a big headline proclaiming the "Likely Downfall" of the Kavanaugh nomination for the Supreme Court. There was no new information in the article. All it said was that there would be a hearing on Monday where the senators could hear from and question both Kavanaugh and his accuser. According to the article, however, it was unlikely Kavanaugh could disprove the charges against him, so his nomination was going to fail.
About the same time, I heard that despite attempts by the Senate committee to reach the accuser, neither she nor her attorney was responding. That seemed strange; after coming forward to make the charges, one would think she would want to tell her story to the nation.
Not long after that, I read that the accuser's lawyer wanted to have the hearing held behind closed doors. That was bizarre; she wanted to make the charges to the public but avoid giving any details to the public. Why?
Then I read that the committee had said that the hearings would be public only and that the accuser's lawyer wanted to limit the questions that she would have to answer. Again the committee said no, and now there are reports that the accuser will not show up on Monday to testify.
If there was ever a course of conduct by an accuser that would make her look untruthful, this was it. Imagine causing all this uproar and then refusing to testify. No amount of proclamations of the victim status of the accuser would be able to overcome this conduct.
It seems that even Yahoo News has gotten the message. The same article that used to talk of the likely failure of the Kavanaugh nomination now only talks about the "possible" failure of that nomination.
About the same time, I heard that despite attempts by the Senate committee to reach the accuser, neither she nor her attorney was responding. That seemed strange; after coming forward to make the charges, one would think she would want to tell her story to the nation.
Not long after that, I read that the accuser's lawyer wanted to have the hearing held behind closed doors. That was bizarre; she wanted to make the charges to the public but avoid giving any details to the public. Why?
Then I read that the committee had said that the hearings would be public only and that the accuser's lawyer wanted to limit the questions that she would have to answer. Again the committee said no, and now there are reports that the accuser will not show up on Monday to testify.
If there was ever a course of conduct by an accuser that would make her look untruthful, this was it. Imagine causing all this uproar and then refusing to testify. No amount of proclamations of the victim status of the accuser would be able to overcome this conduct.
It seems that even Yahoo News has gotten the message. The same article that used to talk of the likely failure of the Kavanaugh nomination now only talks about the "possible" failure of that nomination.
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