He says he can't see what's real in front of your face

[sovay]

So I left the house for my appointment this afternoon right as Dr. Blasey was finishing her testimony and got back just in time for the mopping-up of Kavanaugh's tantrum.

Tell me again how we can't have women in positions of power because they're so emotionally volatile and irrational and unreliable and cry all the time.

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[sovay]

I know the #Resist Network on Meetup sent out a call this morning for people to demonstrate before their state houses at noon today, so I bet there will be protests all day.

They did! I am not at one of them because I am still waiting, like something out of Beckett, for the arrival of the repairman who was supposed to fix our oven yesterday.

The entitlement was there, the hostility, and the partisanship, but if a man couldn't maintain a veneer of gentility, it was an acknowledged liability.

I'm just hoping it's still considered a liability. Kavanaugh behaved as though it was a recommendation.

To clarify: I am currently reading Joanne B. Freeman's The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (2018), which is brilliantly researched and written, pertinent till it hurts, and only not upsetting because the material is so interesting to me; if early exposure to 1776 had not done its best to deprogram me of the illusion that government was ever a cool and dignified business, reading these accounts of congressmen bullying one another as viciously as any high school clique would have done it. It's not like I don't know that powerful men can have less emotional maturity than flatworms. (It's not like it hasn't been on parade in the last two years.) But I did not expect Kavanaugh to put all his pettiness, vindictiveness, and childish entitlement out there like a dominance display instead of making sure that he looked like the one person in that room taking the high road. It was either an incredibly miscalculated gambit to impress his president or an unacceptable loss of control in a public figure. Whichever one, it was about as subtle as Goofus and Gallant.

Even when--when--a Democrat takes the White House in 2020 and he loses that support for his tendency toward histrionics as well as his judicial suitability, I'm not sure he'll ever acknowledge that's on him any more than he's acknowledged that it's his behavior that prompted the hearing.

I agree. Why start now? But I don't care if he ever achieves self-awareness; I'd settle for disbarment and the gutter.