All Bretts Are Off…

Well, Certainly This One Is

October 4, 2018

“One of my proudest moments is when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said, “Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.”
                            Mitch McConnell, August 6, 2016

Mitch McConnell has had his boot on America’s throat for quite some time now.  When Obama was elected, McConnell told everyone that his primary mission was to keep Obama (i.e., America) from achieving anything, and to make sure Obama served only one term.  Mitch fairly well achieved the former, obviously not the latter.  The only thing McConnell did not do, was hire someone, or personally assassinate our 44^th president.  Other than that, McConnell consistently stopped Obama from appointing federal judges, worked tirelessly to obstructed every attempt at passing legislation, and finally, would not allow even interviews with Obama’s nominee to replace the partisan hack, Cheney hunting buddy, and delusional, so-called “Constitutional originalist” Antonin Scalia, who at least had the good taste to die early, thereby leaving a seat on the Supreme Court open on Obama’s watch. 

McConnell decided it would be better to leave the seat empty for over a full year, than to let Barack Obama execute his Constitutional duty to fill that seat in a timely fashion.  McConnell then promised to keep the seat open in perpetuity, or maybe lower the number of Supreme Court justices to eight (seriously) should Hillary Clinton win the 2016 election – which she did sort of win.  Her victory was obscured by two extremely un-American institutions: 1) the Electoral College, which was originally an appeasement to the slave-owning states, and 2) the Russian government, who worked diligently to get Donald Chrump into the White House. 

Merrick Garland, who was unanimously respected across party lines and practically unanimously appointed to the federal bench, was as bi-partisan a choice for the Supreme Court as one could hope for.  As Orrin Hatch (R-Ufuckingkiddingme) said in 1997, “To my knowledge no one, absolutely no one disputes the following: Merrick Garland is highly qualified to sit on the DC Circuit.  His intelligence and his scholarship cannot be questioned.” 

Contrast Hatch’s assessment of Garland with over 650 American law school professors who signed an open letter published in the New York Times urging the Senate to reject Kavanaugh’s nomination.  The letter says in part, “[W]e are united as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions in believing that he did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court or our land.”
On top of that, The National Council of Churches, a huge multi-denominational coalition of Christian churches, has released a statement calling for Kavanaugh’s nomination to be withdrawn. “Judge Kavanaugh exhibited extreme partisan bias and disrespect towards certain members of the committee and thereby demonstrated that he possesses neither the temperament nor the character essential for a member of the highest court in our nation.”  Churches, bitches!

Suddenly, in early 2016, Garland was persona non grata, and Mitch Fucking McConnell decided that a twice-duly-elected (and not just this Electoral College bullshit), sitting president should not get even the courtesy of putting forth a nominee to fill the empty seat.  Instead, we got hyper-partisan Neil Gorsuch, whose colleagues generally see as an incompetent lightweight.   

Side Note:  Mitch Fucking McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.  He refused to sign on to a bipartisan statement condemning Russia and threatened to blame Democrats for tampering with the 2016 election if the FBI and Obama alerted the American public to the fact that the Russians were credibly suspected of election interference.

Now we are looking at the intemperate, unhinged, brutally dishonest and inarguably partisan Brett Kavanaugh.  Oh, and he is credibly accused of repeated instances of, at the very least, sexual assault.  Kavanaugh put his utter lack of fitness to be any kind of judge on full display with his Jekyll and Godzilla performance, as he fought the allegations against him last week.  We have not seen this kind of disturbing behavior during a Supreme Court confirmation hearing since the last sexual harasser, Clarence Thomas scolded the Senate Judiciary Committee as he lied about his abuse of Anita Hill.

Brett Kavanaugh blows his top and his chunks

 

With any luck, he will be found to have perjured himself under oath, and not only fail to become a Supreme Court justice, but be stripped of his current position.  That would be justice.  Brett (Or should we call him Bart?) Kavanaugh should not be one.  At least he did not black out during the hearing.  At least he can still drink beer.  He really likes beer.  A lot.  Seems like he had quite a few before he testily testified.

I. Mangrey retaliating.  Still trying to black out.

UPDATE:

Apparently, the FBI has “finished” their “investigation”.  Looks like Kavanaugh will be confirmed tomorrow after the full Senate “votes”.