Reuters is reporting that Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley has set a deadline for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, giving her less than two days to complete it by 10 AM ET on Friday. That's the latest move in an elaborate set-up of Dr. Ford, a strategy kicked off by Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, who on Monday demanded a delay in proceedings until the committee could hear from Ford.
What immediately followed was an arbitrary and capricious deadline set by Grassley, trumpeted by the likes of the new worst senator in the world: South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, who says "It is imperative the Judiciary committee move forward on the Kavanaugh nomination and a committee vote be taken ASAP." For no real reason other than the longer it drags out, the more damage is done to both Kavanaugh and the Republicans trying to force him through—oh, and for the reason that they then can paint Dr. Ford as unwilling to testify on the terms that they've forced on her.
And here's asshole Jeff Flake, the guy who got plaudits for requesting the delay, piling on.
Don't be fooled—that's Flake playing "good cop" to Grassley's "bad cop."
He is not acting in any better faith here than Grassley is. He's been a tool of a senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as well as Grassley through this whole process, and is as guilty—if not more so—as the two of them in these efforts to destroy Dr. Ford.
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