LawTalkers - We are all Slave now.

Advice and Consent is a very good movie based upon a very good (Pulitzer Prize-winning) book. See the movie. Read the book, if you can get a copy - pretty sure it’s out of print.

Apropos of nothing (hi sock!), I think Drury’s later books were a little too reactionary for my taste, but YMMV, as the kids say.

I loved the scene at the original part of National Airport. So beautiful. For a long time i walked through there just to see it even when I was not going to a gate near it.

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:05 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 517741)

That "it was someone else" defense is lunacy. I'd ignore it.

Ed Whalen would not be trotting out the "in was someone else" defense if they believed he didn't do it and were comfortable about how this is going to play out. They are panicking.

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:06 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 517748)

The general public hates Kavanaugh. They think he's smarmy. This matters.

The general public does not care. Most people can't name him. Partisans care, and Rs more than Ds.

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:09 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 517752)

If I'm a publisher, I'm locking down Ronan Farrow to do the book on what actually happened.

The Amy Chua stuff is, uh, what's the opposite of shocking?

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:10 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 517762)

"[R]ough horseplay" was Carrie Severino, a lawyer for the Judicial Crisis network, a group backing Kavanaugh.

Incidentally, a former Clarence Thomas clerk.

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 517771)

If this is true it's actually the scariest part of this.

I think many in the GOP think he did it but don't think it's disqualifying, and know they can't say that aloud.

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:13 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 517773)

Go with Tom Drury's The End of Vandalism instead.

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:14 PM

serial posting

One more would make an Octopus. Sorry, everyone.

Hank Chinaski

09-21-2018 01:16 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 517780)

I think many in the GOP think he did it but don't think it's disqualifying, and know they can't say that aloud.

egg-zactly.

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 01:53 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

OK Noel Francisco, your turn! C'mon down!

Tyrone Slothrop

09-21-2018 02:30 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 517747)

If the GOP majority wanted to look like they weren't just being partisan, they could delegate the questioning at the hearing to staff or independent counsel. But of course they don't want to.

This is dead on. Not sure I could say it better.

Replaced_Texan

09-21-2018 02:33 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 517752)

If I'm a publisher, I'm locking down Ronan Farrow to do the book on what actually happened. If Kavanaugh gets in, it will be a monster best seller. If not, it'll still be a best seller for many months.

ETA: This could be a 6-8 episode Netflix or HBO documentary. It's got so many salacious angles -- sex, #metoo, privilege, political corruption.

I have heard that Farrow has two other potential victims.

LessinSF

09-21-2018 03:27 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 517755)

There's also a real question as to whether Kavanaugh himself was part of coming up with it. Whelan apparently claims to know where the unnamed female friend lived. How?

Dr. Blasey and her husband bought the house I grew up in from my mother in 2006. I shit you not.

sebastian_dangerfield

09-21-2018 04:21 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 517776)

Ed Whalen would not be trotting out the "in was someone else" defense if they believed he didn't do it and were comfortable about how this is going to play out. They are panicking.

Maybe. Or maybe it's just a throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks/throw out red herrings and make a mess of the media cycle approach.

sebastian_dangerfield

09-21-2018 04:23 PM

Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 517786)

I have heard that Farrow has two other potential victims.

Guys who do what's accused don't do it once. This would not surprise me in the least.

Farrow's got a dilemma, then, however. Hold them and he risks having Kavanaugh approved.

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