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To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: nothing in this life is certain, except death and taxes and the cowardice of Republicans.

Indeed, this whole Kavanaugh circus could have been avoided from the start, if not for GOP cowardice. President Trump was advised to nominate Brett Kavanaugh rather than Amy Barrett because Republicans were concerned that Barrett's social conservatism might upset Democrats. Of course, Democrats have no power, so it doesn't matter what upsets them. Yet Republicans still decided to go with a milder figure in hopes of avoiding any nasty altercations with the powerless opposition party.

What they don't understand, somehow, is that Democrats will be nasty no matter what. They will treat every Republican measure, legislation, or appointment, as the end of human civilization. They are permanently stuck on the DEFCON 1 setting. So, if they're going to panic regardless, you might as well give them something to panic about. And, as I said, it doesn't matter if they panic. Republicans have the power to shove whatever they want down the Democrats' throats. But they are too scared to use that power. They compromise even when there is no reason to compromise, and even though the other side will not accept anything but complete surrender.

That's what brought us to the current Brett Kavanaugh debacle. Republican cowardice made it all possible, and Republican cowardice has sustained it. Leftists complain that GOP leadership has been "bullying" Kavanaugh accuser Christine Ford, but the truth, as usual, is the opposite. Republicans spent the past week groveling at her feet, making concession after concession, begging her to come to DC and tell her unsubstantiated, uncorroborated story on national television. But the back and forth was in bad faith. Democrats were simply stalling as they rooted through Kavanaugh's closet for any skeleton, real or imagined, they could find. Republicans generously gave them the space and time to conduct the search. Now, predictably, they have come out with a second skeleton, with rumors of a third on the horizon.

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https://www.dailywire.com/news/36247/wal...-and-matt-walsh

Another excellent piece by Walsh, this one excoriating the Repubs for their lack of spine.

"Spine"? They don't even have cartilage. I want Feinstein's head on a plate -say the same censure they rolled on on Joe McCarthy. I want the lady Senators from New York and Hawaii publicly humiliated on every occasion for either their ignorance of, contempt for the Constitutional rights of a defendant they are willing to jettison when the defendant is a white male, as long as his accuser, delusional as she may be, has the correct plumbing for those harpies...