In September, we experienced one of the most disgusting displays of incivility in the “hallowed halls of Congress” in my lifetime.  Certainly there have been others, but for sheer volume and intensity of ill will and verbosity, this one seems to take the cake. Of course, the subject of this monstrosity of indignity and lawlessness are the tactics being used by the Democrat minority in the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate during the process of deciding whether to seat Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Supreme Court.

After some time of the normal vetting of him before being considered by the committee, there has been nothing but false and vicious accusations – supposedly 35 years after the supposed incident – by a woman known to be a Democrat activist and substantially on the left side of the political fence. The fact that she is a professor in a California university immediately aroused my suspicions of the whole scenario from the beginning when Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the senior member on the committee, came forth with a letter she had received months earlier. The letter accused Judge Kavanaugh of an “attempted rape” of the letter writer when in high school.

The accuser seemingly could not even remember the date although she could remember(?) her age at the supposed time. She can’t she even subtract since she seemed to know her age at the supposed time. The friends named by her as witnesses have stated that such an event did not happen.

And yet the weak-spined leaders of the committee have literally leaned over backwards to accommodate her, even offering to go to California to hear her statement. Actually, this mantra that “women do not lie” being put forth as “proof” the incident happened and that men cannot be believed but women no matter what their background and reputation, should be now relegated to the ash heap of history. Individuals of both sexes are known to lie easily, but not all do. Frankly, the whole scenario played out in the committee hearing, as well as those of other congressional hearings, seems to me to be childish and disgusting.

It appears that the Democrat minority are playing a delaying game in order to have an opportunity after the election in November to sidetrack the nomination and instead have a candidate more to their liking in their unconstitutional way of wanting the court to be structured, and thus enhance their aggressive seeking of more and more power over all of us for their benefit, and the benefit of those businesses which support there programs.

In the meantime, up in Minnesota there is a Democrat candidate for state attorney general who has been accused, reportedly with evidence to back up the claim, similarly and their supporters in the national media seem to completely overlook the situation. That is somewhat of a double standard in my opinion. It should be remembered that one of the main claims to fame of those in the non-freedom side of politics is that of claiming their opponents are doing exactly what they are doing.

The committee vote to send the nomination to the whole Senate passed on a strictly party-line vote, so maybe the first week of October will bring a satisfactory close to this mess. At least satisfactory to those of us who believe and revere the Constitution. We have had, and still have, too many justices in the Supreme Court, as well as the lesser federal courts, and need change, for our and the nation’s well being.

That situation developed during the administration of President James Earl Carter, D-Georgia (1977-81), who was given the privilege of doubling the number of district judges by a solid Democrat Congress on the excuse of “overloaded dockets” and packed them with those types, as well as replacing the seats open by attrition. That seemed to be the time frame when decisions began to come down that, to common sense thinking citizens, caused multiple problems in society that we now see coming to fruition to our detriment.

We would do well to replace those in Congress up for re-election who support such ludicrous conduct in the November election. Some have been there way too long.