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Friday, October 05, 2018
WE'VE BEEN KAVANAUGHED
By R J Shulman
Once again, the American people have been had. A truly despicable man is about to become one
of the most powerful and important forces in American and perhaps planetary
life for his life and like those horrified and bewildered by Trump's triumph in
November 2016, they will ask questions as to how this crime against nature
happened. It happened because the
Democrats and those not quite convinced that rich white male privilege is a good
thing, took their eyes off the ball.
When credible allegations of past sexual misconduct and
drunken behavior became public about Kavanaugh, a decent person, regardless of whether
all the alleged behavior was true, would remove themselves from consideration
for a lifetime appointment to the bench of the highest Court in the land, because
that position requires the holder to be above reproach. But Kavanaugh is clearly not a decent person
and clearly lacking any shame, so he doubled down to achieve a position of
power by denying and lying. And when
directly questioned about possible past discretions, became hysterical,
belligerent and his favorite, failing to answer but directing everyone’s
attention to four shiny affidavits that he claimed, claimed he was not a serial
rapist. This tactic was successful, we
never got the answers.
And we’ve gotten distracted again. First, the Republicans and billionaires who
are just dying to get a reliable fifth vote to solidify their oligarchic hold
on America turned a job interview into a criminal trial. The burden of proof to win in a court case is
different than the burden of proof needed to get the job. In the former, you have to be proven guilty beyond
all reasonable doubt and the latter, you have to be the best candidate who
doesn’t even have a hint of anything at all wrong with you. That's right, you can be turned down for the
job you seek because of an unfortunate tweet you made at 2am or that ill-advised
selfie you posted on Facebook, or just an answer to one interview question that
could have been a bit better.
Second, there are many reasons that Kavanaugh is not fit for
the US Supreme Court, but the Republicans have once again distracted us with a shiny
and juicy reason more easily questioned and more easily dismissed. They have gotten the poor naïve opposition to
concentrate on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s claims that when they were both
young many years ago, Kavanaugh sexually attacked her. While if true this behavior was inexcusable
and is a reason to not get the judge job, this reason can easily and has been
easily turned into a “he said she said” and dismissed. They even trotted out a shiny, but kept
private FBI investigation, that by its very nature will be inconclusive to say
“see he is not the rapist she claims he was so let’s give him the job!” This ignores
at least five other reasons that instantly disqualify him for the job.
Those reasons are: 1) he evaded his job interview questions,
2) he lied when asked his job interview questions, 3) he got belligerent when
asked his job interview questions, 4) he cried when asked his job interview
questions (and we all know there is no crying in the Supreme Court, and 5) he
showed he was a political operative hack who could not be partial when he
blamed all his troubles on Clinton and the Dems during his job interview. Last I looked a Supreme Court Justice is
supposed to be impartial. Just try doing
those things on your next job interview and see how well that works out for
you.
But once again, instead of attacking this privileged unrepentant
brat of a political dirty tricks operative as being unfit to hold the job that
requires the most public trust and the utmost ability to be compassionate and
just, the American people will get to say, “at least there is no definitive
proof that our newest Supreme Court Justice was a serial rapist.”. We've been Kavanaughed.