Bedlam was a hospital for the mentally disturbed in London – officially named the Royal Bethlem Hospital. Right? Wrong. It’s been moved to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room. The overwhelmed director of “bedlam”, Sen. Charles Grassley, seems bewildered by the antics of the hostile and equally unstable medical staff, the Dems, as they make a mockery of the profession with the assistance of the inmates, the voluble hair-trigger left. Welcome to the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body”. Ha!
The hostile “bedlam” staff – Dems – have unleashed at the last minute, after sitting on it for 2 1/2 months, a vague charge of teenage sexual misconduct from 36(?) years ago. 36(?) years ago! The accuser can’t substantiate nor provide important details because she is about as hazy about the alleged incident as the allegedly drunken teens were the alleged morning after. Something that wouldn’t get past the Dean of Students smell test is now grist for the inmates running the Senate’s asylum.
The Dems sprung it at the last moment so it couldn’t be properly vetted by the sober-minded. For it to be vetted now, the inciters of bedlam would accomplish their goal: delay, delay, delay. They had their chance in those 2 1/2 months and a week of witness interrogation and took a pass. They knew about it and knowingly waived their right by sitting on it.
Blasey-Ford demanded anonymity and she also waived her right by doing so. Instead, an outrageously hazy charge benefits from outrageous demands like the insistence on the accused going first, the FBI swallowed in a months-long probe, and the insistence on giving a “voice” to a mouth with not much to say. Nothing like turning the 5th Amendment, Blackstone, and common decency upside-down.
Blasey-Ford and the Dems had a 3-month window to smear reputations while retaining at least some semblance of due process. It’s disgraceful for them to profit from political hooliganism.
Take a few depositions under oath and the next day, Tuesday, have the vote.
RogerG