MORE KGB-STYLE ACCUSATIONS – AT 12:30 P.M. ET:  The Kavanaugh confirmation case is getting more and more bizarre, and is starting to resemble something out of Stalin-era Moscow.  I suspect that some on the leftist fringe of the Democratic Party kind of like that.  From Powerline: 

Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, writing in New Yorker, report that Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh. Few who have been around the block will be surprised that another such claim has emerged just as the clock is about to strike midnight. If anything, the surprise is how weak this one seems to be.

The claim comes from Deborah Ramirez who attended Yale with Kavanaugh. It dates from the 1983-84 academic school year, when Kavanaugh was a freshman. In other words, 34 or 35 years ago.
I won’t attempt to summarize the New Yorker’s report on Ramirez’s allegations. Instead, let me point to several obvious problems with them.

First, Ramirez says she was completely inebriated when the misconduct supposedly occurred.
Second, she told the New Yorker she wasn’t certain what happened until “after six days of talking with her attorney” a former elected Democrat. According to Farrow and Mayer, “in her initial conversations with The New Yorker, [Ramirez] was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty.” But one can do plenty of brain washing in six days.

We’ve all heard of the “MeToo” movement. Now we have the “MeToo, My Democrat Attorney Thinks” movement.

Third, Ramirez doesn’t even claim she saw Kavanaugh do anything; only that someone yelled out that Brett had done something.

COMMENT:   The New York Times says that it tried to verify the Ramirez report over several weeks, but could find no corroboration.  And yet, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are demanding that the hearings be stopped until the report can be investigated.

Nonsense.  It's a tactic to delay and then destroy the nomination.  Thus far Chairman Grassley has not yet responded to the demand.

September 24, 2018