Commentary: Kavanaugh's confirmation process is not supposed to work this way

CBS News ^ | October 1, 2018 | Michael Graham, The Boston Herald

[2ndDivisionVet]

To quote the lady in the TV insurance ad: "That's not how any of this works."

We don't send the FBI to "investigate" alleged sexual assaults from 36 years ago. We don't do CSI: Senate Judiciary Committee. And we don't stand in the way of Supreme Court justice nominees based on activists ambushing senators in elevators.

There were many powerful and moving moments this past week in the Kavanaugh confirmation story. It was impossible to watch Dr. Christine Ford recount her memories of a sexual assault and not feel for her. The same for the righteous anger of Judge Kavanaugh, a man who believes he's the victim of a great injustice.

But there was another moment that scared some on the Right even more: The scene of a U.S. senator trapped in an elevator by anti-Kavanaugh activists, bullied by the power of their passion into changing the policy for picking a judge.

"Don't look away from me," activist Maria Gallagher screamed at Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona. "That's what you're telling all women in America, that they don't matter. They should just keep it to themselves because if they have told the truth you're just going to help that man to power anyway."

No.

Voting to confirm Judge Kavanaugh isn't "telling women they don't matter," any more than voting against him is telling men that if they're ever accused without evidence of a sexual assault, they deserve to have their lives destroyed. Feelings aren't evidence.

If Flake really wanted an FBI investigation, he was always free to push for one....

[Buckeye McFrog]

NO confirmation process is supposed to work this way.

But thanks to Democrats digging to the very bottom of the Alinsky playbook, it’s the process we’re stuck with now.

[camle]

am I the only one who remembers that one week BEFORE ford’s accusations became public, there were several editorial cartoon predicting this charade?