Tearfully, Sasse Insists That Kavanaugh Vote Is Not A Referendum On Women

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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) took to the Senate floor Wednesday night in an emotional speech, during which he insisted that the vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is not a broader referendum on caring about women.

“I’m here to talk about the false choice that is being repeated hour after hour after hour on television that this confirmation vote about one vacant seat on the Supreme Court, in that vote we are somehow going to be making a giant binary choice about the much broader issue of whether we do or do not care about women. That is simply not true,” he said.

He also took shots at President Donald Trump and his mockery of professor Christine Blasey Ford. “We all know that the President cannot lead us through this time,” Sasse said. “We know that he’s dispositionally unable to restrain his impulse to divide us.”

He bemoaned the fact that Trump did not nominate a woman for the seat, implying his own prescience about possible allegations that could surface.

“I urged the president to nominate a woman,” he said. “Part of my argument then was that the very important #MeToo movement was also very new and that this Senate is not at all well prepared to handle allegations of sexual harassment and assault that might have come forward.”

Watch part of the speech:

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  1. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    Of course not Ben… its a referendum on paying your dues to your master. Squeezing out a few tears doesn’t mean shit.

    The Kochs want Kavanaugh… they must get him

  2. How many CYA speeches must we tolerate over the next 24-36 hours? Spineless bastards.

  3. And if you withheld your vote note you could probably get him to nominate a woman…Amy Barrett was available last I heard. But it’s no longer about gender, or equity, or even the nearly sure vote to repeal Roe v Wade that Barrett would be…rather, it’s about having a partisan operative on the court as opposed to a mere judge.

  4. None and as a woman I don’t need to be mansplained as to what is going on.
    Come on women don’t believe your feeeeeelings and eyes Ben will tell us what is going on;;;;;

  5. We already knew you were a yes, you grandstanding fake-ass coward. You should play a president in movies–you’d be good at it. You’ll never be a real one.

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