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Bob Johnson at Daily Kos writes that Kavanaugh’s “actions have made a complete mockery of his phony ‘concern for his family.’ A better person, someone with a modicum of integrity, humility and decency, would have pulled his or her nomination by this … Continue reading →

as I have, studying theatrical gesture and impersonation, the gamut of performance strategies, of physical and rhetorical posturing generated by the GOP, by Brett Kavanaugh and his apologists, could easily furnish material for an entire book.

the Russian saying: “That was a long time ago, and anyway it never happened.”

Yup, I think so. And, yes, I have compassion for his family. And for Dr. Blasey Ford’ s–not to mention herself. Compassion, however, is something Judge Kavanaugh can muster only for those he’s immediately in contact with–and there, I’m speculating, … Continue reading →

Sen. Whitehoue:  “The court is flying all the warning flags of a captured agency. Dancing to special interest tunes, and rampaging through precedent and principle to get there.”

When Sen. Sasse is what passes for “moderation” and “independence” in the GOP, we know where that party and that “independence” is heading. Prostrate before Trump, pro-perjury Ben Sasse shows that he’s nothing more than a party-line hack.

Trump and the GOP have turned this country into a sideshow.

Lindsay Graham tells us that it’s the victim’s problem, not the perpetrator’s, Jeff Flake ends his government career betraying whatever tinge of patriotism or conscience he may have briefly experienced. And on and on. It has become a party of … Continue reading →

His blatant disregard for the truth explained by his upbringing and education. Shamus Kahn writes in the Washington Post: “This narrative of the exceptional student rests on a fiction with pathological consequences: Economist Raj Chetty has shown that children whose parents are … Continue reading →

Quoted by Raw Story, Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate told Chris Cuomo: “I watched the whole hearing. A number of my Yale colleagues and I were extremely disappointed in Brett Kavanaugh’s characterization of himself and the way that he evaded his excessive … Continue reading →