Serious Stuff for Sunday Part Three: Kavanaugh Lied. And He's a Sexually Abusive Drunk. Thanks, Mitch

The New York Times, after flubbing the Tweet rollout for the article, and even burying the lede by opening their investigative report with anecdote, did at least provide an in-depth examination of accusations against Brett Kavanaugh that the FBI refused to check during the Senate Supreme Court hearings. To wit:

Ms. Ramirez’s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau — in its supplemental background investigation — interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own.

In short: Both trump and the Republican Senate squashed any attempt to bring to light more credible allegations that Kavanaugh was a mean drunken sexist bully.

Republicans knew they had a snake for a nominee to sit on the highest court in the land, and they pushed him in anyway. Rather than take the honorable route of asking him to step aside like previous troubled nominees, they WANTED Kavanaugh to pass the Senate approval both to spite the Democrats pointing out his flaws and to spite women in general. When you look at how defensive the GOP leadership was and still is over Kavanaugh's nomination, a lot of it had to do with downplaying if not outright scorning women's concerns over sexual assault in college and sexual harassment in the workplace.

I wrote about this earlier:

But what Kavanaugh did to them DOES matter today.

He assaulted young women out of anger and lust and arrogance, driven by a sense of privilege that protected him from ANY accountability. He's lying about all that today, trying to protect himself from ANY accountability.

This is a man who is fighting to gain a seat on a judicial bench that will pass not just legal judgment but also moral and social judgment on others. A man who will do ANYTHING to avoid legal and moral and social judgment on himself.

This is not a man we should trust with that power.

And yet, the Republican Party as a whole is poised to grant him that power and privilege.
Because THEY want that power and privilege for themselves.

There is everything nightmarish about having a monster on the Supreme Court bench. And the Republicans are still defending the indefensible.