The Folding Stuff

Steyn On-line ^ | September 17, 2018 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

Happy Constitution Day to all our American readers. Brett Kavanaugh's high school years continue to roil Washington. Charles C W Cooke concludes:

"Unfair as it may be, the core calculation now will not be whether the charges are true (we don't know) or whether the timings and assumptions are fair (they are not), but what the various players consider the least dangerous course politically."

Oh, my. To modify my old gag from the Obama years, Republicans are so good at folding they should be Chuck Schumer's valet. If you were Judge Kavanaugh, would you want to bet your future on the spines of GOP senators?

~The midterms? I hate having to write about the horse-race stuff, so let me slide by with a general point:

Presidential elections are (in American terms) high turnout, so what matters is the sliver of "moderates", "centrists", "independents" who can be persuaded to vote as they did not do last time.

Midterm elections are low turnout, so what matters is motivating the base.

How's that going? According to Reuters, the Number One issue for Republican voters is immigration: 21.1 per cent consider that the most important in determining their vote as opposed to, say, 3.8 per cent for taxes. So what's Congress doing?

[Lurkinanloomin]

If you were Judge Kavanaugh, would you want to bet your future on the spines of GOP senators?
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Look no further than the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
The GOP would not stand for the Constitution.

[KarlInOhio]

Although Mark Steyn is witty, I think one of his commenters won the thread.

Brian W. • Sep 17, 2018 at 11:48

I've just come to realize many years after teaching To Kill a Mockingbird to high school English students that I had gotten it all wrong. Women must be believed, so it's now obvious that Mayella Ewell was indeed raped by Tom Robinson, despite the disgraceful attempts to defame Mayella made by the sleazy white lawyer, Atticus Finch.

I'm hoping for revised versions of the novel and the movie that reflect my own feelings of wokiness.