flockofseagulls104 wrote: If she wants an investigation, let her file charges in court. The Committee is bending over backwards to provide her with her opportunity to testify, but she has not yet, as far as I know, agreed to do so. She has absolutely no right to demand an investigation.
She has no right to demand an investigation, but the committee and the American people do. To reiterate, this man is going to be named to the highest court in the United States and is the most unpopular nominee with the American public of any candidate since they began keeping tabs on such things, but you feel it's unreasonable for the FBI to check on her allegations. In the meantime, you had no problem with some right wing stooge running his own "background check" and identifying some classmate of Kavanaugh's as the likely "real" attacker or with all the other baseless slurs that have sprung up around her.
As far as the FBI's six background checks, did they look that far back? Did they talk to Mike Judge (who the Republicans still don't want anywhere near the witness stand)? Did they talk to any of the people at this girl's high school (who were apparently aware at least that something went on)? A general check into a 50+ year old man's overall record isn't the same as a specific check on one event of which they might well not have been aware of.
And despite what you say, the Republicans have not bent over backwards to accommodate her. They have tried to bully her every step of the way, because their intent is for her not to testify. Grassley first relayed his last offer to her attorney for the first time at 2:30 pm and gave her until 5:00 to decide. That's a lot of time to review the so-called offer, discuss it with her and possibly whatever people she has close to her and make a decision on whether to put herself even more in the public grinder.
And now, after keeping his Twitter feed shut for several days, Donald Trump, the sexual abuser himself, is out there being as vicious towards her as anybody. What the American people are fed up with are tactics like this that the Republicans employ at every opportunity to bully her the same way they have done with everyone else who possibly stood in their way.