Feinstein is a senior Senator. She knows the rules. She did what she did intentionally. She could have created the space to include Ford and give her plenty of time to work out agreeable conditions, but she kept her silence ALL THE WAY through the hearings, then pulled this out last minute. It’s not appropriate. It’s not fair to the Senate, to her colleagues and to the American people.
She had her chance. She blew it.
And I will add, again, that you cannot simply allow left wing lunatics to insult you because they are wrong. You cannot allow them to speak lies simply because they are lies. There has to be a counter-attack. There have to be competing stories, because when you have one story only, no matter how ridiculous it is to sane people, it will win for lack of competition.
I think Grassley should specifically attack Feinstein. And as far as that goes, why not? She DESERVES it. She knew full fucking well what she was doing. She is telling the Senate to fuck itself, and telling the American people to go fuck themselves. This was not a mistake: it was a calculation, an opportunity to insult and denigrate her colleagues for partisan purposes. Demeaning and insulting them with no true provocation IS the game she wants to play.
Trump has shown how to counter-punch. All Republicans would do well to listen and learn. They fear the fallout, but the truth is that many people are unreachable, and if you are speaking your truth clearly, blatantly, and even crassly, it will be heard, understood, and believed by more people than I think most of them would have thought possible.