I’m a little worried about the Senate Republicans. I’m afraid if too many of them come down with the vapors at once they’ll overwhelm the hospital system again, and the rest of us with spiking blood pressure are going to be left high and dry. Lawsa mercy.
They think the whole process of confirming Supreme Court candidates is horribly unfair. (Merrick Garland was unavailable for comment.) How awful it was that those Democrats raked poor Brett Kavanaugh over the coals just because he’d been accused of rape! How mean they were to poor Clarence Thomas when he was accused of sexual harassment! Republicans aren’t accusing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of any of those things, because they are principled. Although I believe she is still on the hook for 62,000,000 dead babies.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) used his half-hour of self-advertisement to accuse liberals of being soft on crime, if we exclude the crime of sedition for the moment, and went into vivid detail about all the child pornography liberals are actively encouraging, to the point where half the Republicans listening were no longer soft on anything, and had to go home and let fifty million or so preborn babies die in an old sock.
That child pornography thing seems to be something these gentlemen are intimately acquainted with. Details of a particular pornographer’s efforts got ever more egregious by the minute until at some point we had veered into episodes of sexual exploitation in the third trimester, unless I got confused.
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) wanted to know where in the Constitution it mentioned abortion, which did indeed give the good judge some pause, because it’s in the same part that mentions women and Black people.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Closet) about lost his mind over the fact that Biden did not pick his personal favorite Black woman but instead picked a whole different one, which is generally the president’s prerogative, although if it is a Democratic president he might not get anywhere with it if he’s within four years of an election. Mr. Graham was so upset he threatened to hold his breath until he turned pale blue, but there was no evidence he held his breath at all. Indeed, the entire Republican line of attack was to ask a question of the candidate and complain she was not answering the question without so much as a pause for a comma.
Religiosity being mandatory for the position, Judge, what is your faith?
Thank you, Senator, I…
Is it Southern Baptist? Voodoo? Dinka Dinka?
Thank you, Senator, I…
On a scale of one to ten, how much have you disappointed Jesus?
Thank you, Senator, I…
How long do you think you’ll burn in hell for encouraging pedophilia?
Thank you, Senator, I…
A day? A week? An eternity?
Thank you, Senator, I…
Do you know what a woman is?
Thank you, Senator, I…
Can you point to your lady parts?
Senator, I…
Are you unsure about your lady parts?
Throughout the hearings the judge conducted herself with superhuman restraint and dignity bespeaking her judicial temperament, which was smart, because only a guilty-as-hell white man with a face like a baboon’s butt can get away with pulling a Kavanaugh and still get confirmed.
But there were moments of grace on the Republican side. In fact, Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) charitably said more than once that the nominee appeared to be intelligent and articulate, further pointing out that she has not been observed to swing from the branches and fling poo as one might have expected. Bravo, Senator. Bravo.
I just about lost it over “ Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Closet) ”!
Well played, my friend, well played.
Thankee Ma’am.
If the timing works out, as it should if I have anything to do with it, I beg you will write an obituary for Graham. It will be glorious.
That used to be a job in several newspapers–official obit writer. Usually featuring one special one a week. I’d love that job.
When I first read this (very early in the morning, I thought you had said “I’m afraid there’s too many of them.” And, yes. There are.
KBJ showed the utmost restraint against these assholes. I could barely read/listen to some of the shit they asked her. It was so intended to be demeaning. But they only demeaned themselves. She was wonderful.
As for their harping on child pornography: There is a saying that goes “You don’t look behind the door unless you have been there yourself.”
I absolutely believe that. The louder you get about things like this, the guiltier you are.
It was vicious. I normally avoid listening to Ted Cruz, but I made the mistake of listening to him. What rude, utterly horrid man he is, and I guess he’s no exception in the current R party.
Weird thing is, NOBODY likes him, and yet he keeps getting elected.
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness.” — Robert A. Heinlein (I think)
Yup. I conferred with my good friend, Google, and he not only knew it was Heinlein, but there is even more to the quote: “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” YES! I once read in an advice column long ago that you know how someone will treat you once the bloom is off the rose by how they treat the servers when you go out to dinner.
I know! I harass my daughter who lives in Texas about Cruz’s success and she shrugs and says that Texas is pretty red, except in the Austin area, which is where she lives.
To be fair, the lunatic Texas elected contingent does not stop at Cruz.
So, you enjoyed the hearings?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
It was nice to be able to smile at your description of something so truly horrific.
I’m here for y’all.
And thank Goodness for that, Murr! You make such things so much more bareable, I can hardly wait for the obituaries for Graham,…and Cruz… and….
I have to say (since I have no plans to go to Hell) that the events that occasion obituaries for those people excite me more than the obituaries themselves.
I know! When they don’t state the cause of death, I always look to the “in lieu of flowers, please send donations to….” Generally, that tells you the why: drug overdose… suicide… cancer. Although I do my share of inferring. Yes. I AM macabre.
How dare you attack the Senate Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee!
Just because they are cravenly pandering
Have benched their players who have a trace of reason and critical thinking
Are devoted to the tenets of Christianity (with minor exceptions for loving others, taking care of the poor, or eating shrimp – operating philosophy…”The meek shall inherit nothing” Zappa 4:12)
Believe in severe punishment for those involved in crime or imagined crime (there is an exception for those patriots who were invited into the Capitol on January 6 to express their opinions, election coercion, manipulation, hocus-pocus)
Believe in a something or other named Q
Are strong adherents of freedom for all except if that freedom is a red-meat issue that is existing law
Go Russia
At least there is no racism involved
(your writing is witty, fun, and generally right-on…keep on keeping on Murr…thank you!)
You’re welcome! Wait. GENERALLY right-on? 😉
And once again I am astonished at the antics and reactions, not to mention the weird questions, following the appointment of this wonderful woman to her position.
I was not astonished but it still floors me how openly racist it all is.
Your writing is never better than when those Repubs get you riled up! Judge Jackson dealt with it all in such a dignified manner.
Graham (R, Closet) made me spit out my coffee……always a sign that you have hit a homerun!
I live for a good spit take, so thank you.
A perfect summary! You are so intelligent and articulate…
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
“I have never killed a man, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” ~ Clarence Darrow. Sadly, as I am a heap older than the likes of the toadly Graham (apologies to the noble toad) and the odious Cruz, I will probably never have the pleasure of reading their obituaries. This was almost as good Murr. In this case both Graham and Cruz brought a knife to a gunfight. I’d say they found a worthy opponent.
They TRIED to have a battle of wits… but were woefully unarmed.
I have already seen some right-wing memes that demonstrate the base ate it up.
Well, I’m just grateful you answered my question about what Kavanaugh’s face reminded me of.
I can still see it, imprinted on my retinas.