Democrats are free to conduct themselves however they want in the upcoming hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. But let’s not pretend whatever they decide to go with is a reaction to the last confirmation being an ugly “partisan” battle in the misfortunes of history.
No, the obscenity of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the court was driven by one side and one side only.
And yet the Hill reported Tuesday, “Several Democratic senators say they want to avoid getting drawn into a partisan food fight” in the next confirmation.
They want to “avoid getting drawn into a partisan food fight?” They’re the ones who not only played in the last one, but they started and hosted it.
It was Senate Democrats who demanded endless hearings and investigations into Kavanaugh after he was accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexually assaulting her three decades ago, without any evidence that it happened, nor was she able to put forth corroborating testimony from a single witness.
Republicans nearly snapped their spines into pieces accommodating Democrats’ every wish for not one, not two, but three delays in the schedule to confirm Kavanaugh.
There was no “partisan food fight.” There was only Democrats dumping on a guy’s reputation and threatening to derail his nomination, all because they were upset that President Trump was about to tilt the ideological balance of the court in Republicans’ favor.
If Democrats are hoping to “avoid getting drawn into a partisan food fight,” perhaps this time they shouldn’t start a partisan food fight.
