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Originally Posted by 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.
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His drinking was a gotcha question. The worst sneaky fucking kind. If he answered yes, he got black out drunk before, the next question is so you have no way of knowing you assaulted Ford or whoever else they want to throw forwards, because you've been blacked out before? We all know blackout drunk, doesn't equal sexual assault, otherwise many of us, myself included, should be in prison. But that's not how that would have went down. We're in a sad place, on both sides (probably been like this before my time too), where party matters over truth. The ends justify the means.
In regards to whoever is on the supreme court, if you don't make your rulings based on the constitution, you should not be there. Don't care what side you're on. The SC was never supposed to be politicized like it is now. Says a lot about the "leaders" we have voted into office.