For the sake of argument, Iâm going to assume that he is innocent of the accusations raised. Does that justify some anger, sadness or bitterness? Sure. But he was over the top. To paraphrase the Bard, âThe gentleman doth protest too much.â
âThe time for endless delay and obstruction has come to a close,â
sez the guy who held a set on the court open for 400+ days.
Irony: mark time of deathâŚ
No, he didnât have the right to be upset during the hearing. Before? Sure. Later? Sure. But not during. Brettsky isnât fit to manage a McDonaldâs.
Yes, the goalposts have moved. In 1991, I lived through the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing in a state of shock and horror. Now, it seems almost quaint in hindsight. I mean, Clarence Thomas wasnât accused of physical assault, getting blind drunk, exposing himself to people, or even throwing ice at people. If Kavanaugh is elevated to the Supreme Court, he will sully it far more than Thomas did. And thatâs saying a lot. The cloud over Thomasâ head has never lifted, and that will be true exponentially for Kavanaugh.
Shorter story âŚ
Dems: âKavanaugh is a lying dickhead.â
McConnell: âWe will always use our power to keep power.â
Trump continues to lie.
By definition, itâs never time to bring to a close âendless delayâ.
That must be where Shakespeare got it.
I believe Dr. Fordâs allegations 100%. But even if you donât, Kavanaughâs testimony following Fordâs conclusively demonstrated he is so blatantly partisan and lacking judicial temperament, he shouldnât be sitting on any bench, let alone the Supreme Court. Pick another conservative Justice to overturn Roe v. Wade (which will be a tragedy), and let this human monstrosity go.
âThe harsh fact of the matter is that we have mounting evidence that Judge Kavanaugh is just not credible,â
Is there a way to borrow the righteous indignation of a Republican, while letting him keep for himself his wrongness about everything that matters?
Judge Kavanaugh lied to our faces and he thinks we owe him a promotion? End this, Mr. President. Withdraw this unfit nominee.
FIFY
âThe time for raping and murdering nurses returning home from overnight shifts has come to a close.â Richard Speck
âThe time for endless indulgence in erotic pursuits has come to a close.â Marquis de Sade, Don Juan Tenorio, Caligula.
âThe time for fake moral outrage must come to a close.â Orrin Hatch, Lindsay Graham.
Though itâs too late, I believe this should have been the strategy all along. He is clearly not qualified as an impartial judge, nor does he display the proper temprament, based only on his temper tantrums last Friday. Nonetheless, âwhatever it takesâ to keep this monster off the Supreme Court works for me. He should also be removed from his present seat, but thatâs a matter for another day.
You know, of course, that weâre just living through another Trump production, another season of The Apprentice, and aside from trying to protect his own ass from future prosecution, heâs screwing with us for the pure enjoyment of it. He has a criminal mind and making us rubes suffer for the sheer enjoyment of watching us suffer is meat and horseradish to him. This would have been a depressing but routine nomination and appointment if Trump had cut bait at the first sign of trouble, the way any normal President might have done. But no, this is now the hill that the Republican majority has chosen to die on, and as far as I can tell, from Trumpâs POV the more tsuris the better.
At least it looks like heâs losing his Harvard job.
âNow they are criticizing him for getting mad. I think thatâs the height of hypocrisy.â
The height of hypocrisy is holding out Merrick Garland âs seat for a year, then rushing through Kavanaugh. Refusing a great candidate, to bully through their partisan, rapey, drunken, angry candidate. No surprise there, itâs the rethuglican M.O.
I canât help but think a man could be forgiven if he personally apologized and publicly showed some hint of recognizing the wake of dysfunctional relationships, depression, anxiety and PTSD that women have quietly endured forever.
He doesnât necessarily have to flush away his career or cash out his 401k to pay a big settlement, but he should definitely show a higher responsibility to use his position to do better. To teach his own kids, better. To see to it that women in the judicial system, whether plaintiff, defendant, attorney, witness, officer, judge or juror, are treated better.
Kavanaugh is none of the above, choosing instead to double down, lashing out in anger at the thought of his own wake of PTSD, no longer being endured so quietly. Instead, he mirrors what I think I hate about The Rump more than any identifiable thing. Heâs a dislikable, entitled shit, whose possession of power basically trolls half the nation into questioning whether maybe the ends do justify the means after all.
"Not so, argued Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of KentuckyâŚHe pledged that the full Senate would begin voting on Kavanaughâs nomination this week.
âThe time for endless delay and obstruction has come to a close,â he said."
Then a leather-winged daemon broke through from the 6th dimension into the press room and settled on his shoulder, digging his talons into his chest and back. It cried "At last the contract has been fullfilled "and it proceeded to remove the top of McConnellâs head and feast upon his brains.
Why does your scenario appeal to me so much better than mine? All I asked of Zeus was a few lightening bolts.
I bow down to your well thought out and crafted scene.