Polly Want a Graham Cracker?

 

Okay, I get it. Maybe Dems shouldn't have asked ACB about her religion. Although, in that case, her religion was why she was nominated. It was the red elephant in the room.

But for some not-so-mysterious reason LG decided the way to make a point about it was to inflict suffering on KBJ. Give her a taste of someone else's medicine. A hapless target who, under the circumstances, could not defend herself. How handy. Kind of like the cat some people kick when they're mad. But unlike that cat (who can get away with screeching at least) Judge Jackson could not display a scintilla of anger.

Kind of like my laptop or television when I'm screaming at them. I can vent my anger without worrying about their feelings because they are inanimate OBJECTS! Their only recourse if I inflict violence is to break. 

Senator Graham poured a little syrup on his verbal pill, but unfortunately it came in a bottle of Southern DisComfort and did as much to soften the blows as a grain of sugar on the tip of a jackhammer. The term jackhammer is apt because, like Shingles, it doesn't care. LG didn't care what KBJ had to say. He drowned her out.

Interrupting is dominance behavior. For me, with Sensory Processing Disorder, it's almost physically painful. It feels like a train derailment inside my head. It's why I'd rather write than talk. And why I could never survive an interview with Chris Matthews. But irrespective of how it affects the recipient, the message is clear: I'm in charge.

The Republicans expressed a lot of outrage over how BK & ACB were treated in their hearings. I'd take that more seriously if they were outraged by how Obama was disrespected by TFG with the birther crap. Nobody asked Kavanaugh to show his birth certificate. Although it would have been understandable to card him to make sure he was mature enough to imbibe alcohol.

They tried to paint KBJ as "soft on crime." Their faux outrage would have been less hypocritical if they had expressed similar outrage over the pardons of Manafort and Stone. Or the pussy sentencing of some of the guys who tried to execute a coup against our duly elected leader, and who inflicted bodily and mental harm on law enforcement officers doing their job.

Their self-righteousness would be funny if they didn't leave such human devastation in their wake.