Republicans blink: Sources say GOP is open to moving Friday deadline for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford

[DonViejo]

DAVID EDWARDS
20 SEP 2018 AT 14:23 ET

Republicans are reportedly ready to allow Dr. Christine Blasey Ford more time to decide whether or not she wants to testify about an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh while both were in high school.

Sources close to the Senate Judiciary Committee told CNN that Republicans are considering moving a Friday deadline they they had set to force Blasey Ford into making a decision.

CNN noted in a report on Thursday:

Two sources familiar with the nomination process said, however, that it may not be a hard deadline after all. When asked whether Ford could respond after the Friday 10 a.m. deadline, both sources said — in an apparent gesture to show flexibility by Grassley’s committee — that may be possible, noting she could conceivably respond to the committee later in the day and still have the ability to appear at Monday’s scheduled hearing.

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CNN also reported that Blasey Ford has not “closed the door” on appearing before the committee. It was not immediately clear if Republican leaders would also be open to postponing Monday’s scheduled hearing.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/republicans-blink-sources-say-gop-open-moving-friday-deadline-dr-christine-blasey-ford/

[dchill]

1. "Republicans blink..."

Must be something in their eye.

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2. Kinda disagree with the caption.

Repugs didn't blink, they are pretending to be flexible, giving her a whole few hours to deliver her written testimony and bio. I have never heard of this being required before, it's a total ploy to make it really hard for her to comply. A few hours flexibility, no other witnesses, them destroying her piece by piece - it doesn't matter. They are all voting for Kavanaugh anyway, this is just a show for the other guys of them beating up on this upstart woman who dares to let out the truth of the lack of character or honesty of their trojan SCOTUS who will protect them from their russian treason.

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3. Agreed. They are complete idiots. To seem flexible they should've pushed it back to Monday...

instead of just a few more hours on Friday. The arbitrary deadline is still on Friday and they'll still come across as the party of old, anti-women white men.

They have no clue of how bad they look.