Hyperbole Leftist Style

Since President Trump's election, the Left has been in a tizzy.  Everything he says or does is wrong, somehow, no matter how good it is for the country.  Certainly, there is room for honest disagreement, but the Left thinks that everything the POTUS does is wrong, hence their disagreements are borne in honesty.  Accordingly, because they claim the moral imperative, and because they're the only people, in their minds, who not only bear the responsibility but also the burden of defending the honor, integrity and existence of the country, whatever means necessary to oppose the President and his policies is fair, whether it be violence, distraction, delay...or rhetoric.

A couple of weeks ago, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.  This would be the second Justice to be replaced by the President.  In the run-up to the 2016 election, the SCOTUS was one of a number of hot-button issues, what with the ages of the present Justices well-known.  Karen was excited more than anything at the prospect that Donald Trump would be choosing future SCOTUS justices.  She had good reason to be excited.

Neil Gorsuch is a judge of exceptional ability.  He's not partisan by any means.  He's low-keyed and well educated.  His nomination should not have been the fight that it was.  Still, the Democrats mounted such a delaying action that Republicsns chose the nuclear option and changed the rules requiring a two-thirds majority, or sixty votes, to a simple majority, or fifty-one votes, to approve a nominee.  Justice Gorsuch was approved via this method.

Now nominee Brett Kavanaugh is making his rounds in Congress, meeting the senators and submitting his materials for their review.  It's an arduous process; why anyone would want to go through this is beyond me.  To have that level of public scrutiny over all aspects of my professional and personal life just isn't worth it to me.  Yet Judge Kavanaugh as agreed to be the nominee, and now he's paying the price.

Last week Senator Corey Booker said this about Judge Kavanaugh:

There is so much at stake here; this has nothing to do with politics. This is to do about who we are as moral beings. And so I wanna call on everybody. I’m not here to tell folk just what they should know, I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, there is no bystanders. You are either complicit in evil, you are either contributing to wrong, or you are fighting against it.

There’s a saying from Abraham, the face in one of the Psalms, “yay though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death…” We are walking through the valley of the shadow of death. But that doesn’t say, though I sit in the valley of the shadow of death. It doesn’t say that I’m watching on the sidelines of the valley of the shadow of death. I’m walking through the valley of the shadow of death, I’m taking agency. I’m going to make it through this crisis.

And so I’m calling on everyone right now who understands what’s at stake, who understands who Kavanaugh is, Maya Angelou says it, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

He has shown us who he is when he rules on a woman’s right to control her own body. He has shown us who he is in his perceptions that corporations are more powerful and more important than people. He has shown us who he is on the abilty for workers to organize. He has shown us who he is on civil rights and voting rights. So the question isn’t who he is, the question is who we are. In a moral moment, will we do nothing?

To put it mildly, this is crazy.

In the first place, when he's confirmed as a Justice, Judge Kavanaugh will be one of nine votes.  He will be the most junior Justice on the Court.  He may have a vote, but the way the Court works means that he will vote first every time a vote is taken, until another Justice is appointed.  So he's not even a swing vote; he starts the voting.

Second, his record belies everything Booker alleged.  If the senator had taken the time to read through the 900,000 pages of materials that had been submitted -- which he obviously didn't, even if he's related to Evelyn Wood -- he'd see that the judge is nowhere near the evil being Booker alleges.

But that would detract from the message:  Conservatives evil, liberals good.  To use phrases such as complicit in evil ranks right up there with Michael Moore's likening of Trump supporters as enablers of rape.  It's highly irresponsible and dangerous.

The Leftists are beating a drum about Roe v. Wade being overturned, even though there is no case on the docket for the next term involving abortion.  They seem to be confusing the legislative with the judicial branches which is understandable given the fact the Left favors activist judges who interpret the Constitution to fit their whims.

But it's the rhetoric at issue here.  Complicit with evil?  Seriously?  That's tantamount to likening the man to Hitler, and nothing in his record suggests such behavior.

This rhetoric, when combined with the violence of the antifa that the leading Leftist politicians refuse to condemn publicly, will lose the election for them.  It's absurd, it's wrong and people with functioning grey matter will turn away the longer these statements are made.

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