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Originally Posted by Schneed10
Mooby your post is excellent. You highlighted all that is currently wrong in DC.
Here’s where I come down. We have a nominee whose record as a lawyer and judge is exemplary. Everyone he’s worked with as a judge has been complimentary of both his work and his character.
We have believable accusations from Ford that can’t be corroborated, and we have a lot of evidence that there was oodles of drunken behavior in college.
Ultimately, his record as a judge is more recent, more pertinent to the job he’s nominated to do, and a lot longer in years.
So not to dismiss Ford’s trauma, but Mooby given your brilliant assessment of the nasty political climate we’re in, is anybody shocked that Cavanaugh responded strongly, including some lying about the extent to which he got drunk in college? His stretching of the truth there is yet another symptom of the toxicicity on Capital Hill.
I won’t make excuses for him. But what I’m saying is that DC has lowered the bar such that defensive fibbing about drinking habits from 35 years ago is understandable. And in the grand scheme, I’ll set that aside and accept his nomination as supportable because ultimately his record as a judge matters to me more than how he responded to an obvious political hit.
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This is the most disgusting aspect to me. Lying about inside high school dumb jock jokes and drinking and yet somehow we are okay giving him a lifetime appointment. I do not agree with him politically but I would have had so much more respect if he said "Yeah Renate Alumni is exactly what it sounds like. I was a teenager with undeveloped executive functioning and know it was not appropriate to make those statements nor indicative of who I am now." Based on the testimony alone that cannot be corroborated he should get the nomination and in my opinion would have with out lying.
I know as you pointed out the toxicity of Capitol Hill this approach would've been polarizing there, but I have to believe that he would've been appointed and that it had the opportunity to have a galvanizing effect and not have the dividing effect that it will.