Ben Sasse Is Sad. Ben Sasse Is a Hypocrite.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

[link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23596392/ben-sasse-kavanaugh-speech/
|Esquire]

As an ambitious young senator with plans for the future, Young Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, has a brand to protect. In brief, Young Ben Sasse's brand is that we all should love each other more, send our kids to dairy-farm boot camp, and, by all means, don't take the politics that are inextricably bound up in our politics as seriously as we take our bowling leagues and our parent-teacher conferences. This, to Young Ben Sasse, is especially true of those politics inextricably bound up in the governing of the nation. If this sounds ridiculous to you, congratulations on passing ninth grade civics.

So, in the interest of protecting not only his brand, but also his plans for the future, Young Ben Sasse got up on the Senate floor Wednesday night and apparently delivered a lachrymose address on the terrible time it is these days in Washington, in which good people like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and her accused attempted rapist are being ground up in the politics of our politics. From Talking Points Memo:

"I'm here to talk about the false choice that is being repeated hour after hour after hour on television that this confirmation vote about one vacant seat on the Supreme Court, in that vote we are somehow going to be making a giant binary choice about the much broader issue of whether we do or do not care about women. That is simply not true."

If you don't believe him, ask any one of the 11 other Republican men on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which never has had a Republican woman on it. Ever.

[CincyDem]

1. If he votes yes on Kav, he will never see the inside of the Oval.

He might make it though the neanderthal primaries where women are considered chattel, but come the general...he'll wear this around his neck like an anchor.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I hope he is dragged down by that anchor with his YES vote.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

5. I think he wants to succeed Ricketts as Governor

I think Ricketts wants to run for President in 2024.

[Freethinker65]

2. Loyalty to the constitution or to the GOP? Which is it, Ben?

Kavanaugh lied under oath and vowed to seek revenge on everything he saw as Clinton or the "left". Kavanaugh did not even attempt to sound impartial during his hearing.

Your move.

[Lithos]

3. Sasse is trying to create a fiction in his mind

Reconcile the truth with the fiction (Kavanaugh)