I honestly would have been shocked had Brett Kavanaugh NOT been confirmed. Seriously, it would have blown my mind. The GOP was just too gung ho about getting this done. Having a conservative majority directing the course of legal discourse for the foreseeable future was just too important. That said, there was hope of some Republican holdouts. Unfortunately, that amounted to one of them (Lisa Murkowski from my state, Alaska) basically just no voting, which helped no one, and another, Susan Collins, giving a long diatribe that betrayed decades of principles on her part. Susan Collins fancies herself something a champion for women, yet the day before the confirmation vote, she went on a rant that was tantamount to victim blaming. She attacked Christine Blasey Ford’s recollection, and suggested that she was less reliable than Brett Kavanaugh, a man who lied right to her face. And let’s not mince words: He lied. Provably so. He lied and handed the Senate proof of his lies while doing it. And the fact that he did and the Republicans didn’t seem to care, showed me that no FBI investigation, no matter how impressive the scale allowed, would have stopped this confirmation from moving forward. So, Justice Brett Kavanaugh is moving forward as the most disliked Supreme Court Justice at confirmation, and Susan Collins moves forward as a hypocrite that no one with any sense will ever take seriously again.
I would be quite surprised if Brett Kavanaugh isn’t confirmed for the Supreme Court. This whole situation smells an awful lot like the Anita Hill incident which didn’t stop Clarence Thomas from getting confirmed, and the fact is that the Republicans really want their agenda represented in the highest court in the land. I just don’t see how it won’t happen. THAT said, he certainly doesn’t have a lot of great people helping his case. Roy Moore, ex-Senate candidate and accused sex offender and pedophile, is trying to make his voice heard on what he is declaring a liberal smear job. The fact is, NO ONE would want Roy Moore defending them against sexual assault allegations. He is in the unfortunate position of having basically no one believe he’s innocent of what he’s being accused of. Only adding to Kavanaugh’s problematic defenders were a panel of Conservative women out of Florida. They were interviewed by CNN, and their argument wasn’t “Kavanaugh is innocent”, but it was more of a “What guy hasn’t done this kind of thing when they were that age?” And to that I would say…most? No one I hang around with has, to my knowledge, ever attempted to sexually assault anyone. And if they did, it wouldn’t be an “aw shucks, boys will be boys” moment. It would be a friendship ender. So yeah…Kavanaugh will get confirmed despite there being no good reason he should be. Politics in America.
So, Roy Moore asking we, the people, to foot his legal fees, because as it turns out, the people coming after him for sexual assault have a pretty freaking good case against him. So he’s out on the warpath blaming gays, trans, sodomists, abortionists and liberals for his current legal predicament. He’s out to raise a whopping $250,000 so he can mount his defense. Sadly, I think it’s entirely possible he’ll bilk people out of that money, but I sure hope a lot of them only contribute their thoughts and prayers…
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