Yes It’s True: Once again a pox on GOP, Dem houses

I really don’t know if Tara Reade’s sexual assault accusations against former Vice President Joe Biden are true. I also don’t know if Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s charges two years ago of sexual assault against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were true.

What I do know is that Republicans and Democrats have been behaving very badly in both instances. A pox on both of their houses. I pronounce the Dems and the GOP guilty of hypocrisy and being more interested in power than in getting at the truth.

Though I agree it is impossible to prove Dr. Ford’s accusations from 38 years ago, it is very easy to prove Justice Kavanaugh committed the serious crime of lying under oath in responses to questions during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.

His lies, while attempting to explain potentially embarrassing boasts in his yearbook profile:

• The Devil’s Triangle — He told the inquiring senator it was a drinking game, with two glasses. No, it’s commonly known as a reference to three-way sex, particularly two men and one woman.
• Minor in Possession — The judge said he drank beer in Maryland while the drinking age was 18. He was 17 in the summer of 1982 and the minimum age was increased to 21 the following February before he turned 18.
• The Renate Alumnus — Kavanaugh said this was a show of appreciation and friendship to a girl from the football team. When she learned of it she called it hurtful because it was an example of slut shaming.
• “Boofing” — The judge said it’s a term that refers to flatulence. People in the know maintain it’s ingesting beer or wine through the anal cavity.
• “FFFF,” according to Kavanaugh, was a some kind of farting sound, but it actually means, “Find ‘em, finger ‘em, f*ck ‘em and forget ‘em.” Even a naïve Wayland High student like me knew that one.

Now fast forward to Tara Reade, once a staffer to Biden, who said he was sexually assaulted by the presumed Dem presidential nominee back in 1993. Once again, I don’t know if it’s true, but the current rush to judgment in his favor is spearheaded by Democrats and by key players in the “Me Too” movement that backed Ford’s charges against Kavanaugh.

Biden hasn’t helped himself in this mess. Though he didn’t explode in a hearing, there are many photos and videos of him making unwanted advances of young women and girls. And I still can’t forget his anti-feminist role in the Anita Hill hearings vs. another Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas.

I’m perhaps one of the few to admit I don’t know. I do know it’s really difficult to learn the truth because the two warring sides are interested only in advancing their cause. This is a political power struggle once again. And we the people are the losers.

As the late comedian George Carlin said, “The game is rigged… But nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.”