card(s) to play. For a mostly "helpless" minority (courteous of stupid and feckless voters!) they've done a very good job of delaying and throwing this nomination into chaos so far, even though America basically ignored all the important evidence they were able to present at hearing -- even at risk of being banned from the senate -- and their demands that it be investigated.
It still remains to be seen if Americans will be outraged enough to do our job -- to refuse Kavanaugh.
Our founders worried a great deal that we the people would degenerate morally to the point of destroying our own rights. Thank goodness at least allegations of rape can grab interest in a lazy and corrupted populace, something our senators would know, and no surprise this card was held and played only after the failure of far better ones to create proper outrage.
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. Richard Henry Lee
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ... The only foundation of
a free constitution is pure virtue. John Adams
The primary objects of government are the peace, order, and prosperity of society. . . . To the promotion of these objects, particularly in a republican government, good morals are essential. Justice Oliver Ellsworth
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Benjamin Franklin
[T]he [federal] government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, and oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people. George Washington
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