Amy missed the opportunity to shut Kavanaugh down as soon as he asked his snarky question.
She should have stopped him and said something to the effect of:
Mr. Kavenaugh you donāt ask questions here, I do. Now kindly refrain from grandstanding and answer the question you have bee n asked or step down from the witness table.
Exactly, Amy got steamrolled by the douchebagā¦
As a woman and a dem, Klobuchar is an object of contempt for Kavanaugh, and, for that matter, for Trump, the man Kavanaugh was channeling yesterday. There was no pretense. That was the real man.
The Supreme Court has been a joke since it stopped the recount and appointed George W president. With BK on board, any remaining pretense will be dropped there as well. The Supreme Court will become a hard-right super legislature, making retrograde policy for decades, and lead by angry ideologues.
I think she was too shocked in the moment to respond in kind.
She is a senator. not some ditzy teenage valley girlā¦
If you donāt fight, you loseā¦
Klobucher deserves the Noble Prize for her cool, calm, professional manner after the slobbering baby taunted her. She is right. No judge would allow Kavanaughās histrionics in their courtroom.
If you need a laugh after all this (I sure do), this satirical article might help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/09/27/how-dare-you-do-this-to-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.b5b72c58ae96
You can be calm and cool and still put the belligerant asshole in his placeā¦
The problem is we smugly laugh at that empty bullshit in the WP and fool ourselves into thinking that having the moral ascendancy actually means we are winningā¦
We are getting our asses kickedā¦
She had to consider the risk that if she admonished kavanaugh, grassley would have not just gaveled her down but taken the remainder of her time away. You know, because she persisted.
Better to die on oneās feet that live on oneās kneesā¦
Actually, Alexandra Petri posted that almost immediately after or simultaneously still with his Opening Statement. She is not smug laughter. She is probably preaching to the converted, since the un-converted who read the WP read Mark Thiessen, Hugh Hewitt and George Will. But her pieces will one day be published as Literary Journalism. And Dickensian truth telling about this whole nomination and the āprocessā engineered by Grassley, Hatch, McConnell and Bette Davis Graham.
The laughter is on our part, she is merely playing the jester to assuage our angerā¦
Not that it is her intended goalā¦
I fear that the WP will be as relevant to the history that will be written by the victors as my high school year bookā¦
I had these same thoughts.
Apparently she had just revealed the fact that her father was a drunk. So, I guess she lowered her guard a bit, which is probably something no woman should do with Bart OāKavanaugh in the room.
I was a little disappointed that she didnāt shut his impertinence down.
Disapppointed? I was aghast!
Klobuchar should have said this to Kavanaugh yesterday. Today is too late. She also should not have accepted his lame apology for insinuating that she was a drunk. He was clearly advised, during the break, to apologize. Klobuchar should have said she was deeply offended, that he was out of line, and that she would not accept his apologize. Democrats are just too damm nice.
True. She was gobsmacked by this response pulled from his deep reserve of hatred and fueled by alcoholism . The Senate is where comity normally lives and respect is the norm. Kav destroyed those two so quickly and completely to her surprise. But when commentators feel free to call her Amy, as fat puppet would ignoring her title, we can see a bigger problem.
She had precious few minutes to question him and she was, one, stunned at his rudeness and two, probably trying to get back to better use of her few minutes. Itās how drunks operate. No matter how he was handled in those moments thereās no changing his basic vile personality.
This is what stood out to me and I thought it wouldāve been obvious to anyone watching: Here was a man claiming to never have been blackout drunk, or even have mood swings while drinking, publicly raging at US Senators while sober! It was staggering and surprising that no one called him out on it right there.
Iāll repeat what others have said: if he was a woman, sheād have been found in contempt and hauled out of the room.
Watching Kavanaugh, and his response to Dem questioning made my skin crawl. We now will have a Trump clone on the Supreme Court in terms of temperament and ideology.
Remember when Sotomayor was criticized by Republicans for having talked about a āstrong Latinaā on the court? Imagine if the tables were turned here and K was a Democratā¦
Republicans are shameless, duplicitous, lying, misogynistic, vile weasels. At a minimum.
I think that she played this scene with elegance. She did not snap back at him, and somebody must have talked to him because he made a half-hearted apology to her after one of the breaks.
I wish I could remember which female Senator made an oblique comment about judicial temperament that went right over his head.