Why do no one seem to care that Brett Kavanaugh
- Lied to the Senate under oath;
- Was by his own admission a blackout binge drinker in high school and college;
- Appears to have incurred significant gambling debts multiple times;
- Claims as a clerk under Alex Kozinski to have been completely unaware of Kozinski’s decades-long sexual harassment of female clerks;
- Believes a woman’s employer should decide whether she gets contraceptives; and
- Is creditably accused of sexually assaulting a high school classmate, including covering her mouth so she could not scream?
Not to mention that thousands of pages of his salient legal opinions are being withheld from scrutiny.
It’s not that no one cares, exactly, but the main stream media has dropped most of these points. The sexual assault claim seems to have some attention at the moment, though it may soon fade, as have the other revelations. The overall situation feels like a mounting preponderance of red flags to me, evidence that should at least be carefully considered before confirmation.
Just restating the obvious. The political situation here is so toxic it’s hard to describe. Rational response has become unthinkable. As a commentator said tonight, The mindset is to brazen it out. This is also the message of Fear, of which I have read about half. This administration wants to win, and is happy to win by upping the crazy stakes, even if it ends democracy and bankrupts the country. Not just Trump, either–a lot of the “adults” around him are in on it, as are all the Republican Congressmen and, disappointingly, Congresswomen.
I think that I think that the frenzy will end, that analyses written fifty to one hundred years from now will identify the pariahs who led what all will agree was a dark period in US history. But I’m not sure. Sometimes I think all reason will have disappeared from Earth by then.
Culminating Triad 
Well, the Rs think they are going to lose the house and at best not lose any ground in the senate. So this seems to be their last chance to get a supreme court justice. I don’t think they have any other good choices. I assume the Rs will lose the house. (1) If they delay and they lose the senate they have to do a lame duck appointment, which would be politically disastrous, or else they lose the chance. (2) If they delay, keep the senate but barely, and wait until the new congress they have another confirmation fight with the president fighting investigation and perhaps impeachment. That’s going to be a circus. (3) If they force the confirmation now they get a justice, but they may lose the senate as well as the house. I suspect that (3) is the best case for them. It’s certainly the bird-in-the-hand approach.
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