Respect to Klubochar for opening up with basically saying Trump is crazy and we don't want his nominee anyway. That's honesty and I always prefer honesty in pols over everything else. And I thought the rest of her speech was easily the best from the left as she made her own points and only briefly touched on the party line points.
I have always thought one thing Cruz said was true. Blumenthal opened proceedings today with a motion for Judge to be called to testify. Judge can only say two things, "I don't remember" or plead the fifth. While the first may impeach the bit of his statement about him stating he's never seen Kavanaugh act badly toward women, (he can't say what he doesn't remember) it doesn't actually change anything. The most likely thing is he just refuses to testify and takes the fifth because he's an alcoholic and very likely doesn't remember many, many things he may have done or not done. That would mean almost nothing to the facts as it pertains to Kavanaugh or Ford either, but it is political dynamite in the hands of Democrats and they can, and certainly would, exploit it politically to the utmost. So R's don't want Judge to testify for purely political reasons, and Dems do want Judge to testify for purely political reasons, IMO. I don't think anyone there really believes Judge would shed light on anything relevant to the questions about Kavanaugh and Ford.
