Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made clear Monday that, regardless of the new allegations of sexual impropriety against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Sunday night, the Senate would proceed with a vote on his nomination “in the near future.”
In a speech on the Senate floor, McConnell echoed Kavanaugh’s own line, repeatedly calling the allegations a “smear campaign.”
“Even by the far left’s standards, this shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low,” McConnell said, adding: “Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a man’s personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations that are unsubstantiated and uncorroborated.”
“I want to make it perfectly clear, Mr. President,” McConnell concluded. “Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor. Up or down. On the Senate floor, this fine nominee to the Supreme Court will receive a vote in this Senate in the near future.”
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The Ctte vote was supposed to happen today. But it didn’t. And “in the near future” may never arrive. . .
The “New Low” was your refusal to consider Merrick Garland. Or maybe it is that you are shoving a terribly flawed and partisan candidate down our throats. Regardless, Mr. McConnell, you can go f**k yourself.
Funny watching a turtle play chicken, and losing badly…
If evangelicals think “something that allegedly happened 35 years ago is completely irrelevant today”…
Then they really just need to SHUT THE HELL UP about anything that allegedly happened 2,000 years ago.
He added, “We will not allow them to corroborate or substantiate their accusations by calling other witnesses. We’re just going through the motions right now because…democracy? I forget, really.”