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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 criminality and treason.

The GOP has completely capitulated to Trump, assisting him in establishing a dictatorship in the U.S.

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 in the top 1 percent of earners are 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy League school than are the children of poorer parents — meaning that, in cases like this, admission is less about talent and more about coming from the right family. In that way, privilege casts inherited advantages as ‘exceptional’ qualities that justify special treatment. “

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 drinking questions.

“There is no doubt in my mind that while at Yale, he was a big partier, often drank to excess. There had to be a number of nights where he does not remember.”

This is yet one more occasion on which Kavanaugh lied repeatedly under oath.

Since Trump selected Kavanaugh to ensure that he is able to shut down Mueller’s probe, a vote for Kvanaugh is a vote for obstruction of justice in the service of sedition.

Trump will use Kavanaugh’s appointment to raise himself above the laws of this land.

Kavanaugh’s opening remarks were not only a self-serving jeremiad; they were an additional attempt to ingratiate himself with Trump, by echoing the President’s talking points.

Kavanugh’s performance yesterday was grotesque.

Listening again to his testimony, replayed on the Maddow podcast:

A pathological liar, a political operative who has never exhibited the slightest compunction about the most dishonest, illegal behavior, his temperamental bellicosity and instability was on full view today.

A man who assaulted women in his youth and now, in maturity, has dedicated himself to denying their reproductive rights.

His meltdown today was obviously a command performance, but still contained enough verite to demonstrate that his temperament is frighteningly injudicious.

An outrage committed on the U.S. by Trump and the GOP.

believes that personal responsibility is only for the less fortunate:

Like Trump, Kavanaugh has lived in a bubble of entitled privilege for so long he could not conceive of ever being held responsible for his actions.

what Trump is to presidential gravitas:

no wonder Trump got off on the Kavanaughian histrionics!

Was it a half tone lower or higher than when he laughed at the litany of rape accusations on Fox & Friends?

Seth Abramson tweets:

“Grassley just lied. ‘We’ve had no cooperation’ from attorneys Clune and Avenatti is a *lie*. These men have published online or on TV their *many* attempts to work with Congress, which have been rebuffed.”

The GOP Judiciary Committee is headed for its Waterloo today.

Sen. Graham laughs as rape allegations against Kavanaugh are recited.

David Edwards at Raw Story details Lindsey Graham & Fox & Friends’ repellent behavior.