But in 2018, heaven forbid that the 140-m.p.h. Kavanaugh confirmation could have been slowed down for just two or three weeks to allow the FBI to do what used to be its job and interview witnesses who could corroborate or in some cases maybe not corroborate the very serious allegations raised by Ramirez and Stier. Indeed, the authors Pogrebin and Kelly also found the woman in Stier's allegation didn't want to testify and told friends she didn't recall Stier's claim, so maybe a little more devotion to the truth would have helped Kavanaugh on some aspects of the probe. The real problem here is that McConnell, Team Trump, and probably Kavanaugh didn't want the truth. They wanted a fifth vote on the Supreme Court.
The whole Kavanaugh caper is emblematic of a Republican Party that cares everything about winning and nothing about this nation's democratic principles. As the Times' Paul Krugman pointed out in a slam-dunk column, the GOP abuses are taking place every day on Capitol Hill where whistle-blowers said to have serious evidence of government misconduct have been mysteriously silenced and in far-flung places like North Carolina, where Republican lawmakers rammed through a controversial budget-veto override by waiting until Democrats were attending a 9/11 commemoration. The only things nearly as bad at the GOP are the top Democrats and newsroom editors pretending that America's slide into authoritarianism is business as usual
But the new allegations about Kavanaugh seem to have touched an especially raw nerve. They have angered just about everybody on the left and on the right. For pro-Trumpers the people supposedly suffering from "economic anxiety" who instead packed rallies largely to scream "Lock her up!" about a woman who dared to run for president the fear of a world where men can't mistreat women without it eventually coming back to them is a fear that passes all understanding, with their anxiety over shrinking misogyny much greater than any supposed terror of rising socialism.
Donald J. Trumpà Å-- @realDonaldTrump
I call for the Resignation of everybody at The New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh SMEAR story, and while you're at it, the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, which is just as phony! They've taken the Old Grey Lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation...
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