Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
09.12.2018
Destroying the Truth
Twenty
years ago the Republicans in the House, many of them, like South Carolina
Senator Lindsey Graham, still serving in congress, impeached President Bill
Clinton, for the crime of perjury.
They
impeached him for lying under oath. They failed to convict him in the Senate,
but all of the republicans in the Senate at the time voted to convict, many of
them are still there now, like the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Chuck
Grassley, the Senator from Iowa.
These
hypocrites pretended that fidelity to the truth was so important that they would
throw the duly elected President out of office, because he lied to federal
investigators, under oath, in the context of a hyper partisan investigation
that began by looking at some real estate deals and ended up focusing on a
consensual sexual relationship between him a white house intern
The
Republicans in the Senate do not care for the truth, not one jot, the truth is
a thing to be parsed for political advantage, they themselves are sworn to
uphold the law and to protect and preserve the Constitution of the United Sates
of America, now they are willing to turn a blind while Judge Brett Kavanaugh,
lies to their face, not once or twice, but repeatedly.
My
opinion is not the judgment of a court of law, I do not have hold back from
expressing it until I wait for evidence to be presented that convinces me
beyond a reasonable doubt.
I
am just a private citizen, and I have seen enough from this guy and his apologists
in the Republican Party, the President and the Senate, the members of the house
and all of their paid pundits, to know that this man lied in his testimony before
the senate.
He
lied in these hearings related to his candidacy to sit on the Supreme Court,
and he lied in his testimony when he was first made a federal judge.
He
lied.
He
lied about his activities in the Office of Legal Council for President George
W. Bush.
He
lied about his receipt and use of stolen e-mails from the Democratic members of
congress.
He
lied about his connections to the law firm of the current President of the
United States.
Now
he is lying about his sexual assault of a fifteen year old girl when he was in
high school.
Everyone
knows he has lied about these things and is lying. The President knows, the
Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky knows, every member of the
Judiciary Committee knows.
Everyone
in the world who has paid any attention to his nomination hearings knows that
he is willing to commit the crime of perjury, the crime they impeached Bill
Clinton for, he is willing to commit that crime over and over again, just so
that he can get a life time appointment to the Supreme Court.
He
knows he is a lying liar, and he just does not care. For him, and everyone who
is supporting him, the adherence to the truth is a matter of convenience.
They
are like the old man in Tom Wolf’s novel, Bonfire
of the Vanities, who tells his son, “If the truth won’t set you free…then lie.”
I
prefer the wisdom of Merlin, who tells King Arthur when he asked what the
greatest quality of knighthood is, Truth he
says, it is Truth, “because when you
lie, you murder a part of the world.”
Step
back for a moment and have some perspective. I know we are not going to stop
the lying liars from lying, and every politician lies, republicans have not
cornered the market on it, and the democrats in office, even the most virtuous
of them prevaricate.
This
is different, there are nine members of the Supreme Court, the sit there for
life, they have the power to interpret law in such as way as to make sweeping
changes in our culture. They are no elected, they are nominate and then
confirmed by the Senate.
This
conservative Republican Party can find someone else to take the seat on the
highest court. They can and they should find someone who does not have to lie
to get past his hearings, who isn’t guilty of the things he is guilty of, and
he is guilty of them.
He
is guilty of sexually assaulting that girl when he was in high school, and he
is guilty of lying about it now.
And
that is where we are.
