Confronted with Brett Kavanaugh’s sudden radioactivity, the GOP has decided on the only course it knows: Full speed ahead. Senators seemed to settle on a narrative by last night, to wit: This whole thing has been unfair to him. Never mind that this woman never wanted to come forward publicly, she had no right to bring this up to smear this fine man who lies and engaged in immoral acts to harm political opponents.
We’ll see how that plays between now and Monday, when the GOP has told Professor Christine Blasey Ford she’ll get her only chance to be heard. The professor, for her part, wants an investigation before any hearing. She has also gone into hiding because of the death threats she’s received.
For some unfathomable reason, the Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that dark money groups must disclose donors in most cases. It’s not permanent, but it’s an unexpected victory for transparency.
Hopeless twerp Marco Rubio managed to cut through the Kavanaugh crap with a bit of dickishness only he could engineer. Some celebrity chef I’ve never heard of cooked a meal for Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, so Rubio took to Twitter to attack him. Why? Probably he thought this would be a Trump-vs.-the NFL issue, an easy boost — who’s going to defend an incompetent dictator? But in his zeal to punish the chef, Rubio forgot that his trolling put the jobs of his constituents in danger. Lots of his constituents reminded him.
Another Republican asswipe in Florida, gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis, is also in trouble, not with the public but with his patron. Trump is pissed that DeSantis didn’t back him up when Trump whined about hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico being recalculated just to make Trump look bad.