In the recent weeks the Nation has been exposed to a political farse associated with the serious accusations of the sexual misconduct, against the Supreme Court appointee, and the Republicans trying to dismiss, and/or belittle the charges, and their meaning.
Yesterday, on September 27, 2018, people could witness a public hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, of the two 'protagonists' of the alleged event: the accuser (Dr. Christine Blasey Ford), and the accused (Judge Brett Kavanaugh).
The Republicans have made sure that the FBI background check of the appointee hasn't been opened, nor any of the indicated witnesses, or additional accusers could be subpoenaed and heard.
As of this early afternoon, thanks to the motion of the Senator Flake, there will be a week postponement of the Senate vote to conduct the FBI background check - conditional on the President's decision to reopen it. Is it a real concern about the truthfulness of the Judge Kavanaugh, or just an empty gesture. We will know soon (I hope).
I believe that a great number of people all across the USA, were 'glued' to the TV, or pod-cast transmissions of the Hearings.
Dr. Ford testimony was very powerful and convincing. It seemed very coherent, careful and to the point not hiding, or covering any parts which she couldn't remember clearly after all 36 years passed.
Her face and the whole body language fit and enhanced everything what she was trying to recall and testified.
I do not want to dwell on her testimony.
What I have found strikingly damaging to the Judge Kavanaugh, was not her account, but his own.
A person, hand picked by the President to get a life-long seat on a bench of the highest court in the Republic - The Supreme Court should have, not only unblemished past, a history independent judgement on his current post (DC Court of Appeals), but also a balanced, controlled personality.
However, what Judge Kavanaugh showed was that he, himself is a belligerent, political hack, with so much contempt to the institution of the Senate Judiciary Commission, that he couldn't contain himself.
His face expressions were straight from Dr. Ekman behavioral psychology textbooks.
What Kavanaugh presented, was a uncontrollable rage and contempt to all who dared asking him any question. He challenged Sen. Amy Klobuchar when she asked him about his drinking, or 'blocking out', aggressively reversing the question to her(!). In some instances, he reacted like a person with a 'substance abuse' problem - which manifested in sweating, short fuse, aggressive denials of everything related to drinking, and attacking the person asking about it.
I have seen it when guilty teenagers try to get out of the 'tight spot' being confronted on their transgressions. Every drug user, and drunk, does react that way. It's not only common, it's symptomatic.
Do we want to have a belligerent drunk in the Supreme Court (putting aside his misguided opinions about the presidential powers, women's right to the decision if and when to bear children and so on)? It's an easy answer: NO.
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