The Democrats nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the vacant Supreme Court seat. She is undoubtedly the most qualified person to ever be nominated to sit on the Supreme Court. Did Senate Republicans welcome her with open arms, complimenting her on her experience and affirming that she would make an excellent addition to the bench?
After all this time, do you still not understand how the Basket of Deplorables works?
And This Is Relevant To Ketanji Brown Sitting On The Highest Court Of The Land Because...
Ketanji Brown Jackson sits on the board of a private school. The private school recommends that students embroider blankets with the phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people were created equal." According to Senator Ted Cruz, this clearly makes Brown Jackson an enemy of white people.
Call it quilt by association.
Let's forget for the moment that Senator Ted Cruz has two daughters who go to a private school that practices integration just as Georgetown Day School does. Hypocrisy is the pomade Cruz uses to keep his hair slick and shiny.
On the other hand, let's not forget for any length of time that Critical Race Theory is a third year college course subject that is not taught to grade schoolers! While we're at it, let's not allow Cruz to forget that remembering America's brutal past is a way of reminding ourselves that the country has to work hard to live up to its ideals of equality for all.
Is it just me, or is Cruz pandering to the extremist Republican base because there is a presidential election coming?
One Man You Don't Mind Acting Hawleyier Than Thou
Ketanji Brown Jackson's judicial record of sentencing child porn offenders is in line with that of other judges, including many appointed by Republicans. Given that there's no there there (because there is never any comfort in a Senate confirmation hearing), what are the odds that the Republicans won't try to cudgelize her record anyway?
Republicans believe that flogging a dead horse is good exercise, and that if the dead horse is only in their imagination, that just makes it the Peloton of political exercising. So, of course they will.
Senator Josh "Insurrections Are Good For You" Hawley, was typical of the Republicans pushing the distortion at the Senate confirmation hearings. "Soft on crime" is a drug the Republicans just can't seem to quit (not that they've ever gone to rhetorical rehab to try); mixed with "endangering our children," you've got a potent speedball of unfounded allegations.
And Skid Row in the Basket of Deplorables is filled with politicians hooked on speedballs.
Hawley, who is pushing up his nose in what he imagines is deep thought but actually just makes him look like a bargain basement orc, is definitely pandering to the extremist Republican base. It really does feel like there's a presidential election coming up.
Boys Are Boys, Girls Are Girls And Parents Are Scared
It is stunning that a United States Senator could talk about girls voices not mattering in one breath and parental autonomy in the next. It makes me think of an exchange like:
PARENT: Honey, you know you can talk to me about anything, right?
CHILD: I'd like to know what you have against transgendered children.
PARENT: When you're older, you'll understand.
CHILD: But I'm asking now.
PARENT: Zip it! I told you we're not going to talk about that!
Small consistency is clearly the hobgoblin of foolish minds.
Senator Marsha Blackburn is not, to my knowledge, interested in snagging the Republican nomination for president. That didn't stop her from using the party's current dog whistle (or, in their case, dog foghorn) as a hammer against Ketanji Brown Jackson: transgendered folks are coming for your children. After all, there's always 2028...
Republicans Are A Great Boon To The Pasta Industry -
At the beginning of the Senate confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senator Lindsey Graham said it "won't be a circus." Then, he put on his red nose and big, big shoes and went to work.
What does Brown Jackson's confirmation have to do with the confirmation of Republican Brett Kavanaugh to his Supreme Court seat? About as much as increased gas prices has to do with pomegranate juice being a good laxative. (Don't even try to find a connection unless you enjoy intellectual constipation.) Republicans are still hurt by the fact that their grossly under-qualified Supreme Court nomination was given a rough ride, and somebody has to pay, dammit!
You might wonder why Graham voted for Brown Jackson when she was nominated for a spot on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit all of last year ago; all of the objections (defined so loosely that if they were a blouse, an elephant would swim in them) to her in the current hearings were known then.
In the Basket of Deplorables, Republicans spell consistency H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y. Especially those with ambitions to higher office when an election is going to be held. And in the United States, sooner or later another election is always held.
