Some perspectives on the testimony of Judge Brett Kavanaugh Thursday afternoon:
Too emotional. Make that way too overly emotional. The crying. The anger. The unrestrained attacks on those nearby.
Hormonal imbalance? Hard to say, but a clear and distinct lack of self-control. An apology was offered, after one bizarre outburst to Sen. Klobuchar, but only after there’d been a break, and possibly some mature advice was given.
An unwillingness to provide candid and forthright answers to direct questions. Obfuscations and misdirections. A conspiracy theory – “the left,” “the media,” “the revenge of the Clintons.” “What goes around comes around.”*
Oh my.
Can you imagine if a woman had been nominated for the Supreme Court, and conducted herself with same lack of self-restraint as that exhibited by Judge Kavanaugh? I can. We’d be hearing a lot about temperamental unfitness for the job.
How can we, we’d hear, put someone that driven by emotions, into a lifetime appointment for such an important job? We need someone not so governed by feelings.
The strained relationship with the truth in evidence during the Q & A may well reflect the standards of the man that made the nomination. And President Donald Trump is a multiply accused sex-abuser and self-admitted sex abuser.*
Such accusations may not trouble The Donald. But why all this pretense by Brett? “Going to church was as automatic as brushing my teeth,” he said. As if that was somehow pertinent. Maybe he should have said something like, “I was sometimes a jerk in high school. I was 17, still legally a child, and I behaved badly at times. I’ve gotten my life on a much better path now as an adult.
I don’t remember doing that to Dr. Ford, but perhaps there are some gaps in my memory when I got very drunk. I regret causing her pain, if I did. I regret the yearbook reference to Renate, implying that she was a sexual “alumnus” of my friends and me. I bragged about a conquest I never achieved. I betrayed someone that was my friend.
I am a father of daughters. If someone did that to a daughter of mine, I’d want to kill him. I’ve been nominated for the highest judgeship in the land. If confirmed, I’d do my best to do a good job.”
*Is this comment, “what goes around comes around,” unintentionally ironic, after what happened to the nomination of Merrick Garland following the death of Antonin Scalia?
**17 accusers of DJT, and his own statement of “I grab ‘em by the pussy.”
Too emotional? A person who is falsely accused to attempted rape and he’s suppose to be calm? Who are you kidding.
Your viewpoints are a joke. Holding onto the information 6 plus weeks from receiving it and Sen. Feinstein says she was honoring the accuser’s wishes. They could have conducted it in private so this circus could be avoided. But the Dumbocrats would have none of that.
Your assertion of PRESIDENT Trump and accusers and his private comment to Billy Bush were before the election. He is the president now. Your real adulterer and molesting of women as governor and president was Bill Clinton, but you and other mind numbed robots called them sluts. So much for honoring women, and Ms. Ford was also a victim by the Dumbocrats, the party of womens’s right as long as they are Democrats and liberals, otherwise they are ignored.
Brett Kavanaugh will be a fine Supreme Court judge.
A person, man or woman, who has been sexually assaulted, has an excuse to be emotional, even overly emotional. A man who seeks to sit on the highest court of the land, handing down fair and just opinions of law, does not have an excuse to be emotional. That man needs to be calm and even-tempered in the face of conflict, loud public opinion, and false accusations. That man, who touts his strong work ethic, his excellent education, and his devout Catholicism, must be able to weather the storm, to turn the other cheek, especially when faced with adversity.
References to other philanderers (Bill Clinton), or finger pointing at Democrats involved in this circus, are all irrelevant to the character of the man seeking an appointment as one of the Supremes.
Ms. Mandeville, thank you for your opinion. Let’s stop the charade. What this isn’t about is an attempted rape allegation by a woman with no facts or collaboration. She can’t remember anything about that night clearly.
Regardless, what this is about is destroying anyone selected by Trump. A fine judge and his beautiful family are subjected to hate and consternation, all to save abortion (killing the most innocent, defenseless, and pure among us – babies) misnamed as women’s right to “choose”. So the judge and his family must be destroyed by the likes of miscreants like Feinstein, Dickie Durbin, and rest of the Democrat cabal.
Judge Kavanaugh will be a fine Supreme Court Justice. God bless Judge Kavanaugh and his family.
The Trump Derangement Syndrome continues by those that care more about about power than the country.
Shame on the Democrats.
Tread Boy-
I don’t use the term “sluts”, as you falsely accuse me. I am due an apology.
Mr. Basura
You are due an apology, as I have no reason to believe you agreed with so many of the Clinton apologists and Fake News media at the time.
I apologize Mr. Basura.
DTOM
Thank you. I accept, of course. I appreciate this.
Congress needs to stop the proceedings and throw everything out including the Judicial committee.
Change the whole selection process.
Judge Kavanaugh needs to be interviewed by a group of his peers. A panel of judges from all levels of the court system- including members of the Supreme Court -need to be gathered. The panel would be picked by the Supreme Court Judges.
This panel would have the complete understanding of what the job entails and be able to determine if Judge Kavanaugh has the proper skill set to become a justice.
The judicial committee does not have the knowledge or insight as to the qualities and skills that a judge needs to write an opinion or make a judgement. This process is unfair to them and unfair to Judge Kavanaugh.
The actions of this Judicial Committee is completely juvenile. Leaving a session, calling each other names, lack of manners is inexcusable behavior for adults let alone a group of US Senators.
Behave and act in a manner fitting of your office. Shame on all of you.
Mrs. Otto,
Peggy,
Well said, this is a travesty of justice.