I just can't do it. Being an informed citizen requires that I listen, but I cannot force myself to pay attention.
Judge Kavanaugh is naming the girls he coached on his daughter's 6th Grade CYO Championship team, and I wonder how he'd feel if he lost a few to a school shooter.
I hear him praise his mother and his wife, calling them strong and courageous. Have they ever faced a back-alley abortion?
I'm sure he's a fun-loving guy who adores his family and gives back to his community. It's not his fault that Sen. Grassley is a pompous ass. But the Republicans dropped 40,000 pages of documents on a holiday weekend night and began deliberations the next day. Weeks ago, he ought to have stood up and said I have nothing to be ashamed of. Release it all. I'm proud of every word.
Condi Rice's smiling face over his shoulder sent me to the NFL and the flag and the Boycott Nike campaign because an ad featured Colin Kaepernick and we all know that he is ..... what? An advocate of free speech? A man of conscience? A voice for the voiceless?
As you can tell, I was getting nowhere. I wanted to tell him that he wasn't running for Student Council President even though he managed to name every high school and college he and everyone he ever met attended. He patted himself on the back (As I said when I gave the graduation address at Catholic University....) and looked smug.
It's not fair to the man and it's not fair to me. I cannot bear it a moment longer. I'm casting aspersions based on fury that my daughter will have to fight the fights that I fought for her all those decades ago. I'm abdicating my civic responsibilities and going to swim laps.
I most purposefully did not watch. I had enough the last time when a smarmy "I'm so deserving of this honor" white guy went through this process, avoiding revealing anything important, and now sitting of the bench for the next 40 years.
ReplyDeleteSmarmy. That's it. Exactly.
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What Kavanaugh did to Fred Guttenberg was revolting! https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-fred-guttenberg-parkland-snub_us_5b8ecc9ee4b0162f4727a279
ReplyDeleteSomeone on Twitter put it more succinctly. "I don't care if you're a gun-toting anti-choice maga-hat wearing bible thumper who thinks the press should be illegal -- if your child were murdered, I'd shake your extended hand and offer my deepest condolences."
AND that is why I cannot stand Kavanaugh or his ilk. No sense of decency. I will not watch these sham hearings.
Sending hugs!
Stacy
Despicable. Those Twitter words are just how I feel.
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I too am not watching. It's more than my sensitivities can handle. Instead, I am driving off to school this morning to read Bootsie Barker Bites to first graders. It's about a bully and how to stand up to such people. We have to start teaching this at a very young age.
ReplyDeleteI read On Market Street and soothed my soul with kindergarten laughter. The world is too much for me these days.
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I've decided that being an informed citizen can mean reading proceeding summaries in tomorrow's newspaper.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't even turn on the news.
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I just can not stand it. I didn't follow it very closely, but apparently there is evidence of perjury in his last confirmation hearings, which would be found in the documents that have been embargoed by executive privilege. The whole thing is foretold. If Jeff Flake is such a principled republican, why doesn't he vote NO?
ReplyDeleteI just left Senator Flake's office where I left a blistering not saying the same thing. Rude. Disrespectful. Shameful. Heartless. Not the kind of person I want on the Court.
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