A week ago, four senators made a dramatic move to delay Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by forcing a new FBI report on the sexual assault allegations against him and opening the door to voting him down depending on the outcome of the report.

But by Friday, those allegations only resulted in one “no” vote against him, and the delay only seemed to give Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, time to write a dramatic, career-defining speech that tore into Democrats for ever raising any of the allegations in the first place.