Why vote Dem when their leaders take abolishing the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court off the table? Every other agenda item fails when a minority Senate and a supermajority SCOTUS can nix it all. Do you think if the situation were reversed, the GOP wouldn’t hesitate to pack the Court from 6–3 liberal to 7–6 conservative?
“Look in the safe, officer, that’s where illegal drugs would be stored. I guarantee there are no drugs in the safe. I encourage you to look in the safe.” What about the cookie jar? “Drugs would never be stored in the cookie jar. That’s only for cookies. But I can’t let you look at the cookies. Have you checked the safe?”
How can anybody believe Christine Blasey Ford’s story but not Tara Reade’s, when the evidence for the latter’s story and the subject of it seem to me far more credible than the former’s?