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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, September 15, 2019

Exactly Who They Thought They Were

Yesterday's report in the Times that the second person to allege that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted/harassed her - Deborah Ramirez - was not only credible by had corroborating witnesses that weren't interviewed by the FBI because the White House stopped it is among the least surprising reporting that is nevertheless a bombshell that I can recall.

Of course Brett Kavanaugh was a drunken, spoiled, abusive coil of shit.  Weren't we all watching?  His seething contempt for the women he assaulted was pretty much on display for the world to see.  By the way, his finances also don't add up, but I doubt we will know why any time soon.

Mitch McConnell's refusal to allow for Merrick Garland's hearings, combined with pushing through Kavanaugh might be exactly what the Democrats need in order to pack the Court.  There is no way that Gorsuch or Kavanaugh can be seen as legitimate neutral arbiters of the law. 

Oh, and Twitter? Impeaching Kavanaugh is well and good, but you aren't going to remove him from the Senate, so what good will it do?

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