.@LindseyGrahamSC: “Let me put it this way to my Republican colleagues: If this becomes the new standard where you have an accusation for weeks, you drop it right before the hearing you withhold from the committee a chance to do this in a professional timely fashion,...
2/ “... when they say they’re going to do this is, to delay the vote, get the Senate back in 2018 so they can fill the seat, I don’t want to publicly reward that kind of behavior. I think we’ve been very fair....
3/“... And to my Republican colleagues: if you can ignore everything in this record, an allegation that’s 35 years old, that’s uncertain in time place date and no corroboration, If that’s enough for you, God help us all as Republicans...
4/“... because this happens to us, but this never happens to them. Let me tell my Democratic friends: if this is the new norm, you better watch out for your nominees.”
