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Michael Shear and Robin Pogrebin in the Times:

“A number of people who overlapped with Judge Kavanaugh at Yale or at Georgetown Preparatory School, the Catholic high school he attended — and who contacted the F.B.I. this weekend to share information about him or his fraternity — expressed frustration with the limited scope of the background investigation.

“One of those people, Tad Low, who was a year behind Judge Kavanaugh at Yale, said that he spoke to a low-level agent on Saturday, but had heard nothing since, an experience repeated by a number of other Yale graduates.”

had the sheer, unmitigated gall to blame his present travails on “millions of dollars of outside money from left-wing opposition groups.”

For that alone, he deserved to be, not disqualified, but rather laughed off the lists.

are assisting Trump in obstruction of justice by condoning the fake, FBI, White House directed “investigation.”

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 point instead of continuing to blatantly lie in public testimony and putting his family through the blistering spotlight his own actions have brought upon them.”

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, because we don’t know all about his current social matrix. But most of his contact is strictly with people from his privileged circle.

But has he ever shown compassion for —

the Clintons?

women who want reproductive rights?

the millions impacted by his environmental regulatory rollbacks?

victims of gun violence?

workers injured on the job?

ET. AL.

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.