What will Grassley do today?

JJ Sefton writes in the Ace of Spades blog,

The long march towards what was seen as the inevitable overthrow of America as founded and fundamentally transforming it into some sort of socialist “utopia” has been stopped cold by the election of Donald Trump. Thus the insane lie that he with the help of the Russians stole the election, along with the usual anti-American, anti-free market, anti-Judeo Christian bromides has so infected the Left that those who manufactured the propaganda believe it.

Their will-to-power is such that we are seeing the putative political leaders vomit up mind-bogglingly insane, hate-filled rhetoric as they rage against we the people who have rejected them, and as the President’s policies are succeeding beyond what anyone had hoped for and in stark contrast to the previous 8 years and to the conventional wisdom of the Acela Corridor/Ivy League/Coastal Elite weltanschauung. But I digress…

What it all boils down to is the Democrat-Left-Media Complex is now naked in its ambition to recapture the reins of power at whatever the cost – even if it means fomenting violent confrontation, destroying the rule of law, common decency and the norms and customs that hold the threads of our society together. And those threads are gossamer thin to begin with.

Despite all of this, the mindset of the GOP Establishment is such that it either a) does not recognize the mortal danger that this nation is in because its members, especially the older ones, live in a time warp and view the rhetoric as mere politics b) don’t care about what the Dems are doing because they’re bought and paid for by big corporate interests and just go along to line their pockets, or some combination of both.

If I want to be optimistic, I can say that Grassley’s letter to the Accuser/Liar and her lawyers, amounted to an ultimatum and this Feinstein-engineered stunt was the last straw. And when even loud and proud anti-Trumpers like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker say enough’s enough, then that gives you an idea that they are not amused by this. But on the downside, I have to recognize that whether for the reasons above or whatever, it’s just not in the nature of the GOP to be confrontational. Will some stunt pulled either late today, in time for the weekend panel shows, or even on Monday be enough to make the GOP cry uncle?

This nomination, right here and right now, especially 2 weeks before the Supreme Court begins its new session and 7 weeks out from the midterms is beyond crucial; it’s for all the marbles. Chuck Grassley must stand firm and draw a sharp line in the sand. If the Democrat-Left is allowed to prevent Brett Kavanaugh from taking his rightly deserved place as an associate justice on the SCOTUS, it will be perhaps a blow to the civil society and the American system that we can really never recover from.

Senator Grassley, come 10:00 o’clock this morning, if the Accuser/Liar and/or her representatives have not met the conditions laid out in your letter in order to hold Monday’s hearing, and/or make further demands outside what is laid out in your letter, you must immediately dismiss the accusations and call for a vote within the Senate Judiciary Committee as to the nomination, yea or nay, of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and if the yeas have it, then advance to the full Senate for a vote to consider the matter.

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