Does anyone really think this Brett Kavanaugh kerfuffle is really about Brett Kavanaugh being a Bill Cosby esque sexual predator?
Here is what really happened:
Mitch McConnell broke the agreement about Supreme Court nominations when Obama tried to put Merrick Garland on the bench. Everyone had played by the rule that a President can appoint pretty much who he wants if a vacancy occurs during his term in office, within the realities of who is centrist enough to get past the Senate when it is ruled by the opposing party. But McConnell saw he had the power to break the rules and he did it.
Now the Democrats are playing the one card left to them: They try to assassinate the character of a really radical reactionary Trump has put forward. They cannot deny him the spot for the real reason: He is to the right of Genghis Kahn and he will reverse Roe v Wade and will lead the court beyond Roger B. Taney ville, likely reversing equal voting rights, and possibly finding slavery permissible when the slavers claim they need to have slaves as a matter of personal religious belief.
So, they try to get Kavanaugh by any means available.
Their case is pretty pathetic: as the women in my office have said--what teen age male is not a sexual predator? They are too stupid to know any better. It's just a matter of degree. If they rape somebody, they should go to jail, but otherwise, girls ought to think about walking around a party in a bathing suit when boys are drinking.
Kavanaugh will be confirmed.
The # Metoo movement will smart and seethe.
But the #Metoo movement deserves a punch in the nose--they tried to make accusation into a sacrament.
Pack the Court, soon as the Dems get the White House and the Senate.
That's the only way to undo the prospect of 30 more years of despotic rule from the United States Supreme Court, that Court which is the ceaseless tide carrying the ship of state relentlessly into the past.
MAGA!
Here is what really happened:
Mitch McConnell broke the agreement about Supreme Court nominations when Obama tried to put Merrick Garland on the bench. Everyone had played by the rule that a President can appoint pretty much who he wants if a vacancy occurs during his term in office, within the realities of who is centrist enough to get past the Senate when it is ruled by the opposing party. But McConnell saw he had the power to break the rules and he did it.
Now the Democrats are playing the one card left to them: They try to assassinate the character of a really radical reactionary Trump has put forward. They cannot deny him the spot for the real reason: He is to the right of Genghis Kahn and he will reverse Roe v Wade and will lead the court beyond Roger B. Taney ville, likely reversing equal voting rights, and possibly finding slavery permissible when the slavers claim they need to have slaves as a matter of personal religious belief.
So, they try to get Kavanaugh by any means available.
Their case is pretty pathetic: as the women in my office have said--what teen age male is not a sexual predator? They are too stupid to know any better. It's just a matter of degree. If they rape somebody, they should go to jail, but otherwise, girls ought to think about walking around a party in a bathing suit when boys are drinking.
Kavanaugh will be confirmed.
The # Metoo movement will smart and seethe.
But the #Metoo movement deserves a punch in the nose--they tried to make accusation into a sacrament.
Pack the Court, soon as the Dems get the White House and the Senate.
That's the only way to undo the prospect of 30 more years of despotic rule from the United States Supreme Court, that Court which is the ceaseless tide carrying the ship of state relentlessly into the past.
MAGA!
Kavanaugh showed himself to be an arrogant, belligerent, entitled ass-hole during his testimony today. For this reason alone he should not/must not be on the Supreme Court. One has to think he was playing to Trump (who loved it, of course) in his testimony. Our Democracy is at great risk!!
ReplyDeleteAnon,
ReplyDeleteYou're not wrong.
But this is all beside the point. The Federalist Society has another Kavanaugh int he wings and another after that.
We need to pack the Court.
Mad Dog and Anon,
ReplyDeleteI agree wholeheartedly Anon-Kavanaugh proved to be a snotty, surly, sanctimonious SOB and not SCOTUS material by a long shot. He didn't have the presence of mind to not call out and blame the left, the Clintons and the media. Decidedly not cool under fire, thank God he didn't choose medicine or surgery as a career. We knew he wasn't going to be impartial from the moment Trump announced him, however now we may be stuck with a SCOTUS justice hell bent on revenge. Marvelous. Once again a new low for America in the time of Trump.
Although we usually see eye to eye Mad Dog, we don't on this. Nothing in Blasey-Ford's account indicated this was a case of boys being boys. This was sexual assault. Nor do I believe most teenage boys are sexual predators. Sexually obsessed perhaps-predators, uh no. Even though Blasey-Ford's bathing suit was underneath her clothes, that's really irrelevant. No matter what a female is wearing-it is never an invitation to be sexually assaulted.
Although you and I are on the same page as far as there being the potential for some serious excesses in the #MeToo movement, overall it's emergence is a good thing. So you may want to punch it in the nose, but first it deserves your applause.
As for packing the court, I need to do additional reading on this. I've become more open to the idea since the first time we discussed it-at that point I believed it would make a very political body even more so. However the Kavanaugh debacle has, if nothing else, demonstrated how much something needs to be done. Decades with a court with Kavanaugh, or the like, in the majority is a travesty that needs to be addressed.
Maud
PS-you both need to catch the SNL opening from last night with Matt Damon as Kavanaugh...priceless...
M,
ReplyDeleteWe agree about SNL and Matt Damon.
I am persuaded that most teen aged boys are not predator; at least they do not act on their libidinous urges by trying to strip clothes off girls.
We'll have to agree to disagree about #MeToo. You believe, on balance, this has done more good than harm because the nasties out there have never been called to account.
You may be correct, but I'm still convinced the verdict has to be arrived at by as fair a process as we can manage and it is that process, not the verdict, in which justice is contained.
Clearly, we all bring our own experiences to this discussion and those of female experience must have a very different experience than my own.
Mad Dog