Pierce: If I Didn't Know This Was All Rigged, I'd Think Brett Kavanaugh Is in Serious Trouble
Disheartening but I am proud of our Dems!
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23008325/brett-kavanaugh-kamala-harris-corey-booker/
If I Didn't Know This Was All Rigged, I'd Think Brett Kavanaugh Is in Serious Trouble
New documents and lines of questioning from Democratic senators have the nominee stumbling. It won't matter.
By Charles P. Pierce
Sep 6, 2018
And Senator Kamala Harris said, "Be sure about your answer, sir."
You know, if I didn't know that this whole thing is a rigged wheel, if I didn't know that all the wheels had been greased years ago, I'd think Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was making a brief stop in Harriet Miersville on its way to G. Harold Carswelltown. Now into his second day of testimony, he was flummoxed and floundering. He was nowhere near as slick as was Neil Gorsuch, whose thickly armored arrogance carried him past his obvious partisan bona fides. However, Kavanaugh is under a great deal more pressure than was Gorsuch.
Gorsuch was merely the penultimate step in the long march toward what would be an all-but-permanent conservative majority on there Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, as everybody knows, but pretends not to know, is the whole ballgame. He's probably the only reason that many Republicans have put up with the maniac in the White House. He's probably the reason that the now-famous Anonymous op-ed writer in The New York Times decided to be Anonymous instead of being a mensch and going over the side under his/her own name.
That's a lot of pressure on a guy with what seems to be a terribly erratic memory, and who looked very much as though he thought Senator Harris might melt him with a glare right there in the chair. She was after him on how much of a bag job his nomination was, and she was basing her questions on "committee/confidential" documents that he knows she has, but that she is forbidden from using in her interrogation. (More on this fictitious bit of Senate hocus-pocus in a minute.) She knew and he knew she knew and there was flopsweat on every syllable.
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This confrontation escalated when Senators Cory Booker and Maizie Hirono told the committee that they intended to release other "committee/confidential" documents, including one allegedly dealing with racial profiling. Booker's announcement prompted an extended hooley in which John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, threatened Booker with disciplinary action up to and including expulsion from the Senate.
"Bring it," Booker replied, and his Democratic colleagues took his back. Richard Durbin of Illinois pronounced himself fed up with the farce of having Bill Burck, a former Bush administration lawyer who numbers among his clients Reince Priebus, Don McGahn, and Steve Bannon (!), decide which documents can be released publicly. He told Booker:
As I said, if I didn't know this whole thing wasn't a monumental bag job, I'd think Brett Kavanaugh was in a lot of trouble.
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once he's confirmed. I hope this can be stopped. Hey, how about going after the scumbucket who nominated him in the first place? 
Especially after Sen Horono’s document release on Roe v Wade.
