Daniel Henninger Wall St. Journal Editorial blames Democrats for ‘anything goes political resistance.’ But Democrats are merely doing what their Republican buddies have let them do for many years-Wall St. Journal, 9/19/18…(Don’t get into a fox hole with an Establishment Republican)

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A more accurate title would be: “This is what Republicans have invited Democrats to become.” Or, “Don’t get in a fox hole with a member of the Republican Establishment. At least Democrats are honest about what they are.” Following from Daniel Henninger Editorial, beginning at paragraph 11:

9/19/18, “What Democrats Have Become,“ Wall St. Journal, Daniel Henninger, opinion (print ed., 9/20)

“Brett Kavanaugh is a casualty of an anything-goes political resistance.”…

(paragraph 11): “Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley unsurprisingly agreed to a hearing in which Ms. Ford would tell her story and Judge Kavanaugh would speak. Then the senators would vote.

Consider the spectacle: Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, the embodiment of a modern rule of law, is being decided in the Senate by the medieval practice of trial by ordeal, such as surviving immersion in fire or ice. Trial by ordeal was outlawed by the Lateran Council in 1215.

Or worse, the standards of the mob in the Roman Colosseum, turning thumbs up or down on the combatants. Though unlike the Senate Democrats, the Roman mob at least had an open mind.

Incidentally, the standard trope that Donald Trump has degraded our politics? We don’t need to hear that anymore. Or about the moral certitudes of the religious right.

Is there a sadder figure in the modern Democratic Party than Sen. Dianne Feinstein? Elected to the Senate in 1992, Mrs. Feinstein has produced a creditable career. Her above-it-all reputation was never quite deserved, but she has at least performed with dignity.

Now, seeking re-election at 85, she is getting heat from the progressive-dominated Democratic Party in California, the world capital of identity-only politics. By withholding from the committee the accusatory Ford letter that came into her possession nearly two months ago, Sen. Feinstein ensured the nomination’s descent into such a hapless, cynical moment. This will be the most remembered event in Sen. Feinstein’s career.

The Kavanaugh nomination, “given what we know,” has come down to an undiscoverable accusation. The defeat of a Supreme Court nominee on this basis would be a victory for a level of conscious political nullification not seen in the U.S. for a long time. Republicans in the Senate shouldn’t allow it, and voters in November should not affirm it.”

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Comment: When Mr. Henninger says, “Voters in November should not affirm it,” I think he means don’t vote for Democrats, but to me it means don’t vote for Republicans. The Republican Establishment is 100% responsible for the treatment Mr. Kavanaugh has received. The GOP E isn’t an opposition party to the Democrats. The country is deliberately plunged into a Lord of the Flies 'free for all' because 'both' parties want it that way. The GOP E would be happy to the permanent minority, saying, sorry, I can’t do anything because Democrats are in control. Recall that until 1994, Democrats had controlled the House for 40 straight years. The two parties share one agenda: open borders, Endless Unwinnable US taxpayer funded wars, America Last trade deals, extreme globalism, massive central government.



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