These are the two main arguments, aren't they?
1.) The FBI investigation, which delays the full Senate floor vote by a week, dispenses with the optics of a GOP that is oblivious to the profound impact that sexual-assault experiences have on women, and puts the GOP on record as having truly gone not only the extra mile, but the extra-extra mile, to accommodate every possible objection to going ahead with a vote. It may pick up votes that would otherwise have gone the other way.
2.) Flake is a coward who caved in response to the elevator incident. He has made it possible for the Left to cook up who knows what kind of outrageous attempts at irreversible character assassination and reasons for further vote delay.
You know what? Your absolutist blogmeister has not yet called this one. There are valid arguments that bolster each position.
Such is the razor's-edge nature of what the Left - and the tribalist segment of the Right that has not taken the time to ground its ire in a set of principles - has done to the country once known as the United States of America.
Our cultural environment is now characterized by an ethos of, "What happens after we push it further, as we are going to do?"
What, indeed, does happen?
Even I wish the Republican Senator had not lent license to 2 screaming females in an elevator who are now popping off that their tactic worked.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Where the hell do they get the idea that they could petition their Government for a redress of their grievances, anyway! Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteSure, let's all just petition our government by invading others' privacy and shouting them down in an uncivil society of children, not laws. We can get this process moving through our public schools, beginning with all day kindergarten. Dont like something, just tell and scream till you get things going your way. That'll work.
ReplyDeleteActually, "how" we petition our government is not mentioned. What an oversight!
DeleteReal change is seldom the result of being polite. Even Gandhi was considered rude and his methods improper -- by the British.
Someone tells you a crime has been committed, but you resist calling the cops because doing so is going that "extra-extra mile"? Incredible.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine where women would get the idea that coming forward after a sexual assault would actually make things worse. (Insert "sarcasm" emoji here)
Re: the "how" business a couple of comments up: There's a thing c called basic respect and manner. Regard for the mores by which our civilization continues to exist.
ReplyDeleteRe: the extra-extra mile: Kavanuagh has been through six FBI background checks.
Pretty much every significant actor in history -- from Jesus through MLK -- has been condemned by the oppressors as ill-mannered.
DeleteAnd as you gallop farther and farther away from rationality, your "we don't need to answer that burglar alarm because we sent a patrol through there last week" defense is absolutely mind-boggling.
So if everything you ever learn you learn in kindergarten, let's just corral our future all in a pen and let them go at each other for training in social decorum.
ReplyDeleteThis is all about trying to delay the vote until after the midterms. I too will do my part to hobble Trump but lying is prominent on both sides in all this. K is already ruined so if he is not confirmed it looks like it's on to Amy Comy Barrett and more theater of disgust but I know my former political party will be trying to capitalize on the antics of more screaming neo ovulators. That'll work, huh?
ReplyDeleteMy view is entirely different. This man has to be confirmed. He's a good man and an excellent jurist. Plus, it's the very last chance Capitol Hill Pubs have to show the they're not utterly worthless.
ReplyDeleteHe lost me when he brought revenge on behalf of the Clintons into it and his cocky attitude. As MN Sen Klobuchar remarked, "he would have thrown me out of his court room for acting that way." He is now seriously damaged goods, regardless of how he came by that, which is his own mouth.
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