Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
09.29.2018
Is it Too Much to Ask?
I
think the entire country was tuned into the Senate judiciary hearings last
Thursday?
Dr.
Ford came to tell her story, she was hectored by a career prosecutors over
trivial details like who paid for the polygraph she submitted to, the answer
was that her lawyers paid for it, and she in turn will pay her lawyers, making
it so that she will pay for it in the end, though some of the monies may come
from a fundraising website the GoFundME.
The
republicans on the judiciary committee were afraid to appear on camera asking
her any questions at all, that is why they used a woman, a Republican District
Attorney, from the most conservative county in Arizona to do their work for
her.
When
Dr. Ford was finished testifying they all expressed their belief that they
found her credible and honest, while insisting that the whole endeavor was an orchestrated
smear campaign, engineered to discredit Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
It
strains credulity to imagine how both things can be true. Dr. Ford began
talking about the assault she endured at Brett Kavanaugh’s hands five – six years
ago in therapy, she told her husband at that time as well, and she tried to get
the information out, while remaining anonymous, to Trump’s selection committee even
before he emerged as the nominee.
None
of that mattered to Republicans, it is too much to ask them to handle the
coordination of some very simple facts.
When
it was Kavanaugh’s turn to sit in the hot seat, he opened his time with a
blistering partisan attack on the process, claiming he was being railroaded for
the sake of revenge, because the Democrats were outraged over having lost the
2016 presidential election, and on behalf of the Clinton’s.
He
yelled at the committee, he frothed at the mouth, he cried.
He
was mistreated he said, his name had been ruined, and his reputation and his
life. It was too much to ask of him, to stand up to the scrutiny of a simple
hearing. To answer questions about his past.
The
prosecutor from Arizona opened with a simple question about some dates on his
personal calendar he had presented as evidence, but rather than exculpate him,
his entries seemed to implicate him in his crimes against Dr. Ford thirty-five
years ago, crimes he is intent on denying, perjuring himself before the Senate,
committing a felony while applying for a chair on the highest court in the
land.
It
is too much to ask him to be honest.
The
Republicans ask the professional they had brought in to leave, after her first
question.
They
yelled and condemned the process, they vilified the democrats, who while being
in the majority are practically powerless.
Kavanaugh
yelled, and berated the democrats, and evaded their questions, and told more
lies.
It
was disgusting,
When
it was all said in and done, the Republicans, most of them (not all) were
patting themselves on the back. They were proud of their aggression, the fierce
denial of the facts.
That
guy, judge Kavanaugh revealed himself to be nothing more than a toady, a
political hack, with no regard for the law, or for justice.
Thank
God for that.
