[Schneed10]

Mooby your post is excellent. You highlighted all that is currently wrong in DC.

Here’s where I come down. We have a nominee whose record as a lawyer and judge is exemplary. Everyone he’s worked with as a judge has been complimentary of both his work and his character.

We have believable accusations from Ford that can’t be corroborated, and we have a lot of evidence that there was oodles of drunken behavior in college.

Ultimately, his record as a judge is more recent, more pertinent to the job he’s nominated to do, and a lot longer in years.

So not to dismiss Ford’s trauma, but Mooby given your brilliant assessment of the nasty political climate we’re in, is anybody shocked that Cavanaugh responded strongly, including some lying about the extent to which he got drunk in college? His stretching of the truth there is yet another symptom of the toxicicity on Capital Hill.

I won’t make excuses for him. But what I’m saying is that DC has lowered the bar such that defensive fibbing about drinking habits from 35 years ago is understandable. And in the grand scheme, I’ll set that aside and accept his nomination as supportable because ultimately his record as a judge matters to me more than how he responded to an obvious political hit.