Well, I see that Senators are going to call both Supreme
Court nominee Kavanaugh and his accuser, Professor Christine Ford, to testify
under oath on Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Considering the travesty that was the four
days of Kavanaugh examination before this same committee last week, with
endless public outbursts in the gallery and grandstanding by Senators on both
sides of the aisle, this looks to me like nothing more than a highly partisan
kangaroo court.
What, exactly, can come out of such a hearing? Ford makes
the accusation, but claims she can’t remember the year it took place, the house
it took place in, how she got to the party, how she got home from the party, or
apparently how many people were in the room with her (she now claims two, but
when she told her therapist about this some years ago, she said there were four.)
How is Kavanaugh to refute such vague
claims? Predictably partisan groups have begun lining up on both sides. 63 women
who knew Kavanaugh over the years, including when he was in high school, claim
he has never been more than a gentlemen. Now a group of Holten Arms alumni have
sided publically with Ford, who was a student there. All very emotional, but
none of it is proof one way or the other. Nor is any such proof likely to
emerge from the hearing. She will claim it happened. He will claim it didn’t,
and none of us will know anything more than we know now. But liberals will be absolutely sure (without
proof) that she is telling the truth, and conservatives will be absolutely sure
(without proof) that she is not.
But of course Democrats will have accomplished what they set
out to accomplish – to stain the reputation, and perhaps prevent the seating on
the Supreme Court, of a distinguished jurist with whom in fact they only have a
few policy differences. It’s disgusting,
completely at variance with the principles of American law (presumed innocent
until proven guilty), and worthy of some third-world despotism or police
state. Liberals think Trump is
destroying democracy. From my point of view democracy has already been pretty
well destroyed in Washington, and liberals are as much to blame as conservatives.
As I say, it is disgusting and everyone involved, on both
sides of the aisle, ought to be ashamed of themselves. The drive for power in Washington
politics has become so all-consuming that common decency has been completely
lost and mob rule and trial by social media has taken its place.
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