Well, wasn’t
yesterday fun? Many Americans, like me, watched the long, long day of hearings,
and Facebook is full of comments, mostly disbelief at the anger displayed. Lots
of us seem to feel Kavanaugh disqualified himself, and it had precious little
to do with Christine Blasey-Ford. It had to do with his anger management
issues, his belligerent partisanship, his total absorption in himself.
I have nothing to
add except one point I haven’t seen belabored much: Lindsey Graham, who also
disgraced himself, kept shouting, “You’re ruining this man’s life.” And
Kavanaugh himself whined a lot about how hard all this has been on his family.
They miss the
point: his future, his career, his happy family life is not what’s at stake
here. It’s the future of our country, the future of women, of working people,
minorities, even wildlife species. I don’t care a fig about his career or his
family, and now I find it even harder to dredge up any sympathy.
By contrast, Dr.
Ford did not mention her family. When asked, she admitted to claustrophobia
which she traced to the high-school attack on her. And when a senator—Cory Booker,
but I don’t think he was the first—asked how her family was doing, she simply
said they are fine and, “Thank you for asking.” The contrast in styles is
remarkable.
And, frankly, I
would give two cents for the future of the Kavanaugh marriage. Mrs. K. looked
neither proud nor happy while her husband spoke.
The committee will
vote him out today, angry old white men predominating. There’s still a chance
he will not be confirmed next week, but it’s strange to think that our fate is
in the hands of so few. This is not democracy at its best. Nor have the cream
of the crop of our population risen to the top.
Hear that shouting?
It’s the Founding Fathers protesting from the grave what’s happened to their
experiment in democracy.
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