Can any objective observer come away from yesterday’s Kavanaugh hearings with anything but disgust? Democrats on the committee, with a straight face, petulantly disrupted the chairman from even making his opening remarks. Then, a few spectators jumped up shouting spiteful epithets at Kavanaugh, so much so that his wife and daughters had to be escorted from the room under police protection. Has today’s hard progressivism become a synonym for mob rule?
That debacle yesterday wasn’t an accident. There was coordinated agency by the Dem caucus to make it happen. Everything from conference calls to distributing tickets to fevered activists created an unsafe atmosphere for Kavanaugh’s family while making a mockery of the “august” Senate. The decent thing for the Dems to do would be to publicly apologize. Don’t hold your breath.
As a point of comparison, look at the friendly and light-hearted treatment of Elena Kagan by Sen. Graham (R, S.C.) in 2010 alongside the fracas yesterday in the comment section below.
Sen. Lindsay Graham from 2010.
Sen. Kamala Harris and the other Dems at the recent Kavanaugh hearings.
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