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At last, circus has passed

At long last, the circus that passed for Supreme Court justice confirmation hearings is over. Our own local armchair political pundits on both sides have expressed their opinions. One recent letter writer expressed her concern over Kavanaugh’s admission of excessive beer drinking as a high school senior, citing that excessive alcohol abuse by such a young person can cause permanent brain damage, and thereby render him not fit for the highest court in the land. Good point.

However, I wonder if she had been equally as concerned when our country elected a man who, in his own autobiography, told of his own excessive drinking and drug abuse at that same point in his life (“Dreams From My Father,” page 93). After all, he was the guy with his finger on the button, right? Another writer spoke of Kavanaugh having lost his temper over the unsubstantiated allegations directed at him, implying that it is no way for a potential SCOTUS to act. I guess that disqualifies Jesus from being a righteous judge after the way he behaved with the merchants and money changers at the Temple, eh?

It is called righteous indignation, and that is what Brett Kavanaugh displayed, just as anyone of us would do under like circumstances. Meanwhile, sideshow performances will continue to pop up wherever a conservative can be cornered by a band of looney tunes. It’s behavior like this that brings to mind a line from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Now we are engaged in a great civil war.”

Ken Robertson

Canton

Submitted by E-mail

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