He out and out threatened them. He also auditioned to replace Sessions as Att'y General.
Personally, I thought both Ford and Kavanaugh performed well in their opening remarks. Kavanaugh almost had me thinking he deserved to be confirmed -- even though I believe it will politicize SCOTUS' and possibly undermine Mueller's hard and successful work. But it looked like he was a genuinely decent guy who, for whatever reason, found himself trapped in a terrible situation. He even granted that Ms. Ford may have been sexually assaulted in her teen years, but not by him. And he cried -- some of it may have been acting, but some of it was real. I felt a little sorry for the mess he got caught in.
But then he started shouting and yelling and, well, being disrespectful of the Democrats on the committee, interrupting them, refusing to answer their questions and, yes, acting pretty much like a self-pitying jerk. Or a mean drunk.
He dodged simple yes-or-no questions ("Did you ever get so drunk you couldn't remember what happened the night before?" "Senator, I worked hard as a student, I was accepted to Yale on merit, to Yale Law School, studying every . . . " ME: answer the question for pete's sake!) and verbally assaulted everyone but Amy Klobuchar and Kamila Harris, who would have eaten his lunch, had he tried.
But I must sadly agree with you, Lonestarblue: he's getting confirmed. It was a done deal before the hearing. All we can do is hope the white women of America are watching and listening and that their votes will make the blue wave a goddam tsunami in November.
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