Senate Kabuki
In Japan, they have a word which describes the laughable due diligence process we are witnessing today with regard to the vetting of a Supreme court nominee. It’s called Kabuki, which is defined as: “a form of traditional Japanese drama with highly stylized song, mime, and dance, now performed only by male actors, using exaggerated gestures and body movements to express emotions, and including historical plays, domestic dramas, and dance pieces…”
The American Senate confirmation process has modified nomination Kabuki by adding comedy and deleting dance, unless you count the mental gymnastics of the Democrats’ logic as a form of dance. A guy as squeaky clean a nominee as Kavanaugh appears to be, is probed for any hint of miscreant behavior in his entire life as evidence for disqualification for the job of Supreme Court justice. Kavanaugh is the kind of guy who, even if he actually picked up a Playboy magazine in his youth, likely did read it for the articles. I sure hope they don’t bring forth a witness who was called fatso, four eyes or stupidhead by him in 4th grade. To hint at some kind of unknown misbehavior from his distant past from an unnamed source doesn’t even qualify as grasping at straws. It more qualifies as moon battery.
Speaking of moon bats, the progenitor of this recent protest is none other than Dianne Feinstein, who has been a fixture in the august senate chambers since the Wright brothers first played with planes. You would think that someone who had just been outed for having an admitted Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years while she sat on the Senate Intelligence committee would be more circumspect at casting wild accusations.
The Kabuki performed by other august members of the Senate such as Presidential hopefuls Harris and Booker were no less comical as they pirouetted gracelessly for the public. Instead of coming off as Kabuki, they appeared to have committed harikari as their entreaties made them look ridiculous and caused people to search for exactly which mail order law school conferred them with their degrees.
Kavanaugh will be approved; that has been a given from the beginning of the process. But the public had to be subject to the histrionics of the Senate drama queens, male and female as they attempt to show Americans their efforts to resist the current administration. At the very least, take some acting lessons.