Democrats practice SELECTIVE OUTRAGE!

Weekly Opinion Editorial

D’s HAVE A MAJORITY IN THE SENATE!

by Steve Fair

     The SCOTUS confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh has now surpassed Judge Robert Bork and Justice Clarence Thomas’ hearings in absurdity.  With an estimated 20 million Americans watching or listening, Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford tearfully testifying he had sexually assaulted her in high school and Kavanaugh tearfully denying it.  Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee demanded the FBI investigate Ford’s accusation before the committee vote, but that was denied and they voted along Party lines to send Kavanaugh’s nomination to the full Senate, but not without drama.  Senate Jeff Flake, (R-AZ) said he would only vote to move the nomination along if the Republican leadership would agree to a one week delay to allow the FBI to investigate and report back.  That was agreed to and at this point, the earliest the Kavanaugh nomination vote on the Senate floor will happen is mid-October. 

     First, Republicans don’t stick together like the Democrats and don’t lead the same way when they are in the majority.  They are too accommodating to the minority.  It’s fine to allow for a minority voice, but the Senate GOP leadership bends over backwards for the minority.  That was not the case when the Democrats were in charge.  They largely ignored the Republicans.  The GOP is more accommodating because they need the more moderate members of the GOP caucus to stick with them in order to get anything done. When GOP Senator’s Flake, Collins, and Murkowski waffle on supporting a Republican POTUS’s Supreme Court nominee, Democrats have a practical working majority in the Senate without winning elections.    

      Second, this isn’t about Kavanaugh’s fitness to serve on the SCOTUS.  It’s about judicial interpretation. Democrats know if the Constitution is interpreted literally, it presents a challenge to many liberal rulings past courts have made.  That’s why they are fighting with every ounce of strength to keep Kavanaugh off the court.  Kavanaugh is an ‘originalist’  in his interpretation of the Constitution(in the vein of Thomas and Scalia).  That means the good judge approaches the law literally and strictly, with little or no allowance for connotation. The Democrats prefer judges that are ‘structuralist,’ meaning they approach interpretation of the law with an abstract view, expanding the meaning beyond its original meaning to encompass situations not anticipated by the law’s authors or enactors at the time it was originally written.

     Third, the FBI has issues?  This agency has an agenda, but Senate Republicans are going to have them conduct a fair and impartial investigation into a 37 year old incident?  Expect the agency to find something, even if they have to make it up.    

     Groucho Marx said: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them….well I have others.”  That describes the Senate Democrats; selective outrage when it benefits their cause, while ignoring creditable evidence against their own.   These hearings have been a joke and hopefully the American people will see through the Democrat tactics and keep the GOP in the majority November 6^th.