So, a DUmmy asks a relatively simple question:
Gidney N Cloyd (18,322 posts)
So what's the strategy behind grilling a SCOTUS candidate for 12 hours?
The DUmmy is concerned that working for 12 hours in a single day is excessive. They probably never worked even an 8 hour day, so more than that is apparently unfathomable. But the responses show off the Dummies' hypocrisy with amazing clarity.
dchill (30,295 posts)
1. Maximum attention for glory-hound senators.
Ocelot II (99,041 posts)
2. Maybe to wear them out so much that they misspeak in some way
that the assholes can use in a campaign ad.
OAITW r.2.0 (13,753 posts)
5. Like Hillary's Benghazi investigation, it's not about finding the truth.
It's about kneecapping the opposition/ Shooting nothing but blanks.
A Party looking for a reason to demonize those that they disagree with on law, policy, and social norms. And they look more and more like the extremists that align with them.
RockRaven (10,206 posts)
8. Get on TV saying sound bites your base likes to hear.
That's the whole point of these televised hearings. They stopped being substantive long ago.
WhiskeyGrinder (15,879 posts)
12. They get their message out to the base.
tavernier (10,180 posts)
16. Kind of silly...
Mostly only people interested in party politics are watching anyway, and they have already chosen their team.
Patton French (375 posts)
21. Easy answer
None. Pure theater.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216513302The DUmmies have perfectly defined the Kavanaugh hearings. Pure, unadulterated theater trying to smear a nominee with nothing more than unsubstantiated claims that didn't even sound remotely plausible. All to try to play to their base and attempt to discredit Kavanaugh, and by default Trump. And, after every claim was disproved, they still repeat the same rumors and innuendo as facts. So, maybe before they criticize the process and attack the Republican Senators, maybe, just maybe, they will examine their own behavior over the past few years. I won't be holding my breath.
