I only pick the best people.”
— Donald J. Trump
Judge Kavanaugh’s Attitude: How dare you question me: I’ve been an elitist all my life. I’m entitled to a position on the Supreme Court. I drank beer. Sometimes too much beer. Who hasn’t? Kiss my privileged preppie-Yale Law School ass.”
Judges have sent criminal wrongdoers to Anger Management classes for far less than Brett Kavanaugh’s historic nervous breakdown.
Considering that knuckle-dragger Mark Judge, jittery Kavanaugh’s good buddy back in prep school, wrote a book about how out of control he and all the boys were with alcohol and drugs and girls in their teen years, I have no doubt in my mind that Kavanaugh got drunk out of his bucket with Mark Judge and dragged Christine Blasey Ford from a bathroom to the bedroom.
The title of Judge’s book at the school where he and Kavanaugh were close: Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk.
Interesting that Judge hid out for a week hoping nobody would find him to question him about that allegation by Professor Ford that Judge joined Kavanaugh in assaulting her back in the boys’ raucous days at the Catholic Animal House.
That said, let’s lay aside the issues with Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual and alcohol abuse.
Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination is now opposed by:
1. 1,200 law professors and legal scholars
2. the American Bar Association
3. former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
4. the Catholic Journal
5. the National Council of Churches
The opposition is not so much on grounds involving sexual abuse or an alcohol problem he clearly once had and may have to this day considering his sadly comical emphasis on his romance with beer.
Trump this week made some weird comments about his warm-and-fuzzy “love” of the pudgy, cuddly leader of North Korea.
Kavanaugh talked about beer in his Senate testimony as if beer was the love and soulmate of his life.
He’s opposed by the aforementioned parties because of the complete lack of judicial temperament he demonstrated toward U.S. Senators when questioned about his problem of drinking to the point of blacking out.
He has since conceded in a Wall Street Journal commentary that he let his emotions get away from him, but attributed his meltdown to frustration.
Well of course he was frustrated.
The problem is that he was so frustrated that he was verily frothing at the mouth.
His total lack of grace under pressure in the Senate pressure chamber was something to behold.
But I fully expect him to make it to the Supreme Court. Sadly, the Republicans have been doggedly determined to get him railroaded to confirmation, by hook or by crook, from Day 1.
Kavanaugh, who proved himself to be a seriel liar and dodge-ball artist in his testimony before sexual impropriety or alcohol abuse ever came up, will probably be approved for the Supreme Court, under Republican leadership, for two reasons:
1. He wasn’t nominated by Obama or any other Democrat.
2. His name’s not a Clinton.
He could have shot somebody on Park Avenue, drunk out of his bucket on beer–which he really, really, really likes a lot–and Trump and Trump supporters would give him a pass.
If there is any justice, Kavanaugh will get rejected by the Senate.
Not only that, the legal community will bring him up on code-of-conduct charges to answer for his combative behavior under questioning by senators.
Call it what you will: judicial temperament, grace under pressure, sober inner strength.
It’s what we expect from any judge.
To settle for less would be a settlement that only a desperate, ambulance-chasing lawyer would feel good about.
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