White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday told ABC News that “certainly we would be open” to allowing the second woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct — Debbie Ramirez — to testify about her allegations on Thursday.
“Certainly we would be open to that and that process could take place on Thursday,” she said. “Again, the President has been clear, ‘let them speak,’ but let’s also let Brett Kavanaugh speak and let’s let him tell his side of the story before we allow allegations to determine his entire future.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says we're open to letting second Kavanaugh accuser testify Thursday pic.twitter.com/X3Q76yT6MD
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 25, 2018
I heard Debbie Ramirez used to work for Fidel Castro. Just sayin’…
If they’re “open” to Ramirez testifying along with Blasey Ford, they should “welcome” an FBI investigation to get the truth.
Oh yeah, Deep State FBI out to get Trump and all connected with him …
with the truth.
It’s a little worrisome. There’s no judge to control the questioning, and Grassley as chair won’t do a thing. There well may be an orchestrated attack during the session. I hope Diane and co. are willing to jump in as needed. This looks like a show trial, not an investigation.
Only because they know it will not happen.
Bring it on! The more the merrier.
Of course, Ms. Ramirez won’t testify because she’s on record doubting her own story, admitting that she has no personal knowledge of the assault she claims to have suffered and conceding that she was in a drunken stupor at the time. If she were to appear before the Judiciary Committee her testimony would only serve to undermine Dr. Ford, making Ford’s story look even more like a despicable, baseless, politically motivated smear than it already does. Far better one bad witness than two witnesses, one bad and the the other an epic embarrassment. You can’t bolster a totally uncorroborated slander with another slander obviously fabricated for political purposes.
The left has no clue the damage it’s doing as it tramples every standard of fairness and decency in pursuit of a political win. It is shredding the social fabric. To sustain a political community and maintain government by the consent of the governed we need to have consensus about some basic moral principles. One of those is the principle that it is terribly wrong to seek political advantage by trafficking in defamatory allegations for which there is no substantial proof. That is precisely what the left is doing with Judge Kavanaugh. When you decide that you have no obligation to deal with your political opponents with the same decency and respect you demand from them, it becomes impossible to settle our differences through reasoned, orderly political processes. At that point we are on a glide path toward political violence and authoritarian government.
Just as the Republicans have covered themselves with shame in defense of Donald Trump, the Democrats are covering themselves with shame in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh. It is far from clear how the American idea can survive when organized politics at every point of the ideological spectrum has descended into morally and intellectually chaotic barbarism.