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[sebastian_dangerfield]

Initially, I thought it was insane to attack Jackson as being soft on pedophiles. The only character indictment this could support is the suggestion she has a secret affinity for child molesters. Could any sane person really believe she (or for that matter almost anyone other person who could reach her level) is sympathetic to NAMBLA sorts?

Everybody blames Biden for starting this mess with Borking. But Bork really did suck, all the dicks, from here to the Rockies. He was a bought and paid for advocate playing judge who paved the way for our current monopoly-addled economy. Biden was right, even if he didn't know why, to Bork Bork. And smart people can look at that and say, decades on, thank god that happened.

But nothing is gained, and everything is lost, to allow Lindsey Graham to discuss his lack of faith with a SCOTUS nominee, to have Hawley and Cruz soil the chamber insinuating she's soft on kiddie porn aficionados. If these SCOTUS confirmation hearings are going to be what they apparently have become - spectacles where firebrands can score points with the primary voters back home by lobbing preposterous charges - they ought to remove the cameras from the room.

The behavior of the GOP in that chamber this week - the same people who bristled at Schumer's hit-job on Kavanaugh - was comical. And it'd be funny. Calling an eminently qualified person a pedophile coddler is excellent dark humor. Absurdist. Except that, I fear, it's effective, and received without hint of irony by the only audiences the Hawleys and Cruzes care about.

Get the cameras out of these hearings. This shit debases us on the global stage, to the extent that remains possible.