THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

And it matters not that the ages involved are long past and consigned to the shit heap of history. It suits the Dark Money Lords to have a Supreme Court set up to overthrow any attempt to let the proles eke out more than a barren existence so the DML may enjoy the fruits of the proles labor.

“As we all know, in the United States political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around,” Judge Kavanaugh declared Thursday in one of several biting references to the brute force politics he is quite familiar with from his own time in the White House and the partisan arena.

That knowing observation points to one reason Republicans are so intent on advancing Judge Kavanaugh that they will stay in session this weekend despite furious Democratic objections that Republicans are rushing, and brushing aside credible accusations of sexual assault against him.

Republicans know this may be their last, best opportunity to cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for a generation. They are determined to seize it despite evident political risk.

“Frankly we have a reached a point where it is time to end this circus,” Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, demanded Friday at a meeting of the divided Judiciary Committee. “It’s time to vote.”

Republicans are painfully aware that should Judge Kavanaugh stall and Democrats somehow take back the Senate in an election just six weeks away, Republicans could lose a historic opportunity to remake the high court because Democrats could block any nomination by President Trump. Democrats know they could block any Trump nominee for months or even years because Republicans did so to Judge Merrick B. Garland, Barack Obama’s nominee in 2016, and appeared to pay little political price for it. In fact, it worked to their benefit.

Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who rocked Thursday’s hearing and shifted the course of the Kavanaugh nomination with a scorching assault on Democrats, acknowledged Republican concern about the Democratic intentions.

“What you want to do is destroy this guy’s life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020,” Mr. Graham charged, referring to the next presidential election. “You want this seat? I hope you never get it.”

Aside from Ms. Lindsey being a pissy little bitch here, it is hard to destroy the life of a dudebro who is sitting on the Federal Appeals Court. That being said the likelyhood that the Senate will change hands could do a great deal to keep punch bowl turds like Boofin' Brett out of the federal judicial system and if Boofin' Brett doesn't make it, even the Supreme Court.