“Elect
a Clown; expect a circus”
----from “The Quotations of Chairman Joe”
Mika Brzezinski is right. While hosting “Morning
Joe'” on MSNBC she lamented that this is pure tRUMP. This is
what he does. He loves pitting people against each other. It is how
he operates. It is the swamp in which he swims.
“He'll
piss in your fireplace
he'll
drag you through turbulent indigo” ----Joni Mitchell
Thursday witnessed an ugliness not seen since the
Clarence Thomas hearings, an event so ugly it is cited as one of the
United States Senate's worst moments. Both Kavanaugh's accuser, Dr.
Ford and the nominee for a position on the Supreme Court stood before
the Senate Judiciary committee and testified to accusations brought
by Ms. Ford about a sexual assault that had occurred nearly three
decades ago.
The Senate panel, with stench of the way Strom Thurmond,
Lindsay Graham, Chuck Grassley and Orin Hatch had treated Anita Hill
still lingering in the room, decided that it would be best to hire a
“female assistant” (note the tone-deafness here), that is a
female legal counsel, to question Dr. Ford and Kavanaugh.
Dr. Ford, appearing apprehensive, fearful and indeed
terrified spoke first. She was riveting and compelling recalling
what she can remember, openly confessing to what she could not.
Then Kavanaugh took the stand. Squirming like a frog on
a hot plate and in a tone of outright contempt he spoke of revenge,
of vast conspiracy, of a hit-job by the Clinton's. Here, on display,
is what happens when authority has the temerity to question
privilege.
Then, just as the Republican legal counsel was honing on
the details of a party held in the summer of 1982, when it might be
revealed that Dr. Ford, who was not a close friend of Kavanaugh,
could accurately name those present at the party as well as several
other details listed on a calendar that Kavanaugh had produced from
that year, Senator Lindsay Graham stepped out from behind the ladies
skirts loudly protesting the man's innocence, casting aspersions upon
the legitimacy of the woman's claims as well as those who demand a
fair hearing. Of course, Graham was speaking to an audience of one.
It is said that he wants to be the next attorney general.
The Senate Republicans legal counsel had no more to say
and was not heard from again.
On September 21, Mitch McConnell while addressing a
group of conservatives, pledged to 'plow through' the nomination.
Like with Clarence Thomas, they are going to put Kavanaugh on the
Supreme Court come hell or high water.
But yesterday, McConnell and Grassley hit a snag.
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake had moments before announced he would vote
to report the nomination favorably out of the committee to the Senate
Floor. On his way to the committee chamber he was confronted by two
woman who held the elevator door open and demanded to be heard. The
Senator, shaken, stood and listened and when he joined the others he
sat, pensively, as Senator Coon spoke from the Democratic side.
Flake and Coon know and respect each other. They are said to be
friends. Flake got up and walked across the room and asked Coon to
step out into an adjoining conference room where, after a long
meeting, a compromise emerged in which Flake voted to refer the
nomination to the Senate floor but said he would vote against
Kavanaugh if an F.B.I. Investigation was not done on these latest
charges.
The nomination of Kavanaugh now hangs in the balance,
pending a review by Federal Authorities.
But several things emerge from this wretched experience.
First, it is clear from the proceedings that Kavanaugh has no
business being on the federal bench, much less the Supreme Court of
the United States. Like Disgustus, he doesn't have the necessary
temperament for the job. Secondly, it is clear that he holds one of
the major political parties as well as the legislative institutions
of this country in complete contempt. Third, it is clear from the
record and from these proceedings that he is nothing but a political
hack prone to cherry-picking evidence in support of an ideological
agenda (see previous post).
It remains to be seen, as of this writing, if this
nomination will survive. Disgustus knows only to disgust. What is
clear is that like everything else touched by Disgustus, this process
has only served to further de-legitimize our institutions. By
putting forward a deeply flawed nomination and by violating all the
norms and procedures—including FBI inquiry into serious allegations
of assault—and by rushing headlong to judgment evidence be damned,
Disgustus and his Rescumlickan enablers have not only made a pig's
breakfast of the process but have brought further disrepute to the
Congress of the United States.
We are now faced with two possible scenarios. The first
is that the FBI will issue a withering report of drunkenness,
debauchery and cruelty that transcends Kavanaugh's life as a jock and
a frat-rat, making it unmistakably clear that he has no business
conducting any court of law. In this case our Caesar will lash out
once again at the FBI for presumed bias. The second, and more
likely, is that the ensuing FBI report will declare that the events
cannot be definitively proved but that Kavanaugh has so
misrepresented the details as well as his behaviors as to cast
serious doubt as to his veracity. This will give both sides cover
with the Rescumlickans declaring that he had been exonerated; the
Democrats contending that his obvious character flaws disqualify him.
The question will be left to those who have the courage to step out
of the party line and act for decency.
Disgustus assures us that like Flynn, Cohen, Manafort
et.al., Kavanaugh is a decent man. Disgustus doesn't attract
decency. Disgustus defiles and besmirches everything he touches
Disgustus and his enablers have reliably brought further
disrepute to the presidency and the halls of Congress. The question
remains will they be able now to bring their vandalism to the Supreme
Court?
Only time will tell. Win, lose or draw, we have already
lost. This is what Disgustus' does.
“An
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison.
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