Democrats Are Better Than You in Every Way
At least that is what they believe - the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing provides an interesting insight into who the Democrats believe they are - divine beings with a right to rule.
No reasonable person can look at the hearing for Brett Kavanaugh and liken it in any way to the one we just witnessed for Ketanji Brown Jackson.
When they realized they couldn't stop the confirmation, the Democrats on the judiciary committee, including the sitting Vice President, turned into rabid dogs. They humiliated themselves on national TV - or they would have if they had any humility.
Spoiler alert - they don’t.
And yet, the left is freaking out over Jackson being asked relatively mild questions about her judicial philosophy and the definition of a woman.
Sheldon Whitehouse did NOT read passages from her high school yearbook and nobody asked her if she ever drank to the point she passed out at any time in her life.
It would be easy to see this as just more partisan politics over what Democrats see as a role in government that is equivalent to a kingship reserved for their royalty but this is something different.
This is some form of mental illness, a mass psychosis in which Democrats see themselves as pure an righteous and Republicans as unclean and heretics. That is the only explanation for their idea that any questioning, no matter how slight, directed at Democrats is totally equivalent to burning a Republican at the stake.
Respectfully asking Jackson to define a woman in a 15 second exchange is exactly the same as accusing Kavanaugh, for days on end (and to this day, actually), of running a rape crew in high school and college.
Friend Byron Rivers shared on of my posts - the one about the job interview analogy - and the comments were interesting. There were a couple of lefties who displayed exactly the fact free, crazy equivalence between the two hearings - to them, anything other than adoration was out of bounds for asking Jackson and they truly believe Kavanaugh is a rapist sitting on the Supreme Court.
They can't logically support either point, but that doesn't matter. They BELIEVE it and get angry when they are challenged with the fact there was no evidence to support any of the Kavanaugh accusations.
Basically, they don't believe any conservative should be seated. Like the idiot Sheldon Whitehouse, they think selecting any justice other than a leftist is "court packing" for no reason other than they believe they should always have a majority on the SCOTUS.
I do believe the Democrats honestly believe there are those who were born to rule and those who were born to be ruled - and it is they who have the divine right to the former, the rest of us, the latter.
In some way, that also explains why the GOP seems to fear being in the majority, almost always going weak at the knees when they win.
Losing emboldens the Democrats. They do not take rejection well and assume it is due to the electorate being stupid and weak. They get angry and motivated to win the next time, no matter the cost or what they must do - even if that means cheating or breaking a few laws here and there.
Winning demoralizes Republicans because, in some way, they are not confident in their agenda. It is possible because they have been conditioned to believe they are the usurpers, unworthy to lead. Fading leadership leads to losing and the GOP simply accepts the punishment, assuming they deserved to lose.
There have only been two times in my life when the GOP was unafraid to lead - Reagan and Trump - and both times made America better.
The GOP is feeling a wave coming, so they are talking big and bad about what they are going to do and who they are going to investigate, but I have seen nothing out of Yertle McConnell or Bambi McCarthy that leads me to believe it would be anything but more Kabuki theater and Potemkin villages - performance art for the rubes in cornfield country.
Winning the mid-terms won't do any good if they spend 2023 and 2024 screwing up the 2024 presidential elections.
We need Trump-like leaders in Congress. We need people with rhetorical tattoos up their arms and necks, people who DGAF, people who aren't afraid to get a bit nasty with the lying bullies on the left.
Those people get tamped down by a GOP Congressional leadership who are still stuck in the Bob Michel, go along to get along mode.
But change is going to be forced on the GOP.
For all their faults, Schumer and Pelosi are not nearly as radical as what is simmering just under the surface of the Democrat Party. A lot of their time is spent keeping the radicalism in check and when they leave, and both are virtual corpses (like Biden) now, the Democrat leadership will turn even more radically left.
Every bad idea the Democrats have had in the past thirty years will become their platform and they will pursue that platform with the a zeal not seen since the Spanish Inquisition.
Bet on it.
The GOP better start getting those tattoos.
It's not just a problem with Republican leadership, but rather, it is a problem with Republicans and conservatives in general. After some solid conservative candidates lost to spineless RINO incumbents in the primaries here in Texas, I attended my district Republican convention. During the meeting, in discussing my discontent with the losses, one person in my district said something to the effect, "we couldn't put those candidates up. If Huffines won the primary, we'd end up with Beto as governor. You have to put up the candidate who can win." Now, I don't believe Beto has a snowball's chance in hell of becoming governor of Texas; we haven't absorbed that many Californians yet. What bothers me is the mindset. People whine about RINOs always voting with, and showing fealty to, the Democrats, but then they vote for the very person about whom they complain. When I asked, "how then can we change things for the better," the person stared at me like a deer caught in headlights. Then I received a weak response, "We have to find candidates who can win."
It goes, perhaps, to something else you wrote in the past few days Michael. It's difficult to maintain your values in Washington. One of the candidates whom I supported knows that and had already stated he wouldn't go for more than two terms, because he knows congressional voting record deteriorate after that.
Regardless, if we are unwilling to be bold and put up solidly conservative candidates, as bold as the left who put up radically progressive candidates, we'll never get Washington back on track. Conservative voters need to get rhetorical tattoos up their arms and necks and stop being afraid to get nasty if ever we hope to have leadership that will do the same.
"We need Trump-like leaders in Congress. We need people with rhetorical tattoos up their arms and necks, people who DGAF, people who aren't afraid to get a bit nasty with the lying bullies on the left." Amen and Amen. This is what I saw coming down the escalator in 2015.