Lying Bullyboy Kavanaugh Goes Full Trump, Reverses Disaster

Brett Kavanaugh gave his endangered Supreme Court nomination new life on Sept. 27 with apparently perjured testimony and by playing the victim during a hearing on sexual assault charges that was rigged by his Republican backers.

Kavanaugh’s emotional mixture of self-pitying tears, obvious lies and belligerence towards Democratic senators followed President Trump’s model of “deny, deny, deny” and vicious political partisanship.

The nominee’s temper tantrum also appears to be salvaging a strong chance, if not likelihood, for his confirmation. That was even Fox News commentators such as Mike Wallace and Brit Hume had described his accuser Christine Brasey Ford as highly credible in her earlier sworn testimony in a tightly packed hearing room smaller than the one shown at left for an earlier confirmation hearing showing at left.

Dr. Brasey, right, the name she uses professionally as a research university professor in California, told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that she was “100 percent” certain that he was the drunken teenager who stifled her while trying to rape her at a party when she was 15, inflicting lifelong emotional trauma.

Several former prosecutors now serving as cable television commentators, including Cynthia Aksne and Daniel Goldman on MSNBC, described the witness’s mixture of first-person experience and expertise as a psychologist as the most effective witness that they had ever seen.

The witness described her reluctance to step forward until reporters began storming her home and workplace earlier this month and at times choked up as she described that she was “terrified” at the concept of reliving the trauma of what she called an attempted rape and fear of being accidentally choked to death when, she says, Kavanaugh attempted to silence her with a hand over her mouth to silence her.

Kavanaugh, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge in the District of Columbia, began his afternoon testimony by weeping repeatedly as he denounced Democrats for what he called smearing him and ruining his family and career.

SnowFlake Kavanaugh Ducks FBI Probe

Democrats repeatedly pressed Kavanaugh on whether he would join them in requesting an FBI investigation of missing witnesses and other evidence to clear up questions on whether he or his accuser was more credible.

Kavanaugh ducked the question every time, saying he would defer to “the committee.”

The Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, angrily intervened by insisting there was no need for an FBI investigation because the committee staff had already undertaken all necessary investigation. Not surprisingly, Grassley failed to note that the committee staff was controlled by the majority and had been caught in several mini-scandals congruent with a hearing procedures rigged to heavily favor the Republican nominee and without normal input from the Democratic minority.

Those scandals include the vow of committee chief of staff Mike Davis that Kavanaugh would be confirmed no matter what the evidence and such as the firing of staffer Garrick Ventry for sexual harassment on a previous job. Ventry had also been compromised because he had been loaned to the committee for communications efforts from two heavily biased clients: CRC Public Relations, a right wing firm also handling the main national advertising from the Judicial Crisis Network advocating Kavanaugh’s confirmation, and for Edward Whelan, a think tank president caught trying to blame an innocent man for the attempted rape of Blasey. So, reference to a committee investigation as fair was preposterous on its face.

Among the Grassley ordered unprecedented procedures for a nomination hearing was for the committee was for Republicans to use a sex crimes prosecutor, Rachel Mitchell of Arizona, to ask questions on behalf of the all-male GOP majority.

But the chairman granted GOP Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina extra time to replace Mitchell with Graham’s angry and insulting partisan tirade against Democrats.

This was shortly Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois had challenged Kavanaugh on why he did not want an FBI investigation and after Mitchell appeared to have established a damaging admission from Kavanaugh that his much-touted calendars from 1982 may have shown an evening on July 1 when he met with his friend Mark Judge.

Judge, is alleged to have been present in the bedroom with him during the attack on Brasey. Slate described that moment in There’s an Entry on Kavanaugh’s 1982 Calendar That Supports Ford’s Story Better Than His Own. Judge has denied via a statement from his lawyer to the committee that he was present.

But he has been in hiding at a beach house, despite repeated demands and requests from Democrats to have him interviewed by trained FBI investigators and brought before the committee and cross-examined.