AND SO WE WAIT ONCE MORE – AT 12:51 P.M. ET:  The new deadline awarded by Chairman Grassley to Professor Ford and her professional Democratic handlers to inform the world if Ford will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee is 2:30 p.m. today.  The last deadline was 10 p.m. last night, but extended at Ford's request.

So we wait.  My guess, only a guess, is that the Ford people will make further demands.  If they do, I hope Chairman Grassley will shut the whole thing down and proceed with a vote on Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation.  This is enough of a farce already.

There is an undercurrent of feeling that one gets on the internet that Republicans are becoming impatient with Chairman Grassley, who has been endlessly gracious toward Professor Ford.  Republicans understandably are concerned that Grassley will make the classic GOP mistake – being too nice, in the hope that the other side will then reciprocate.  Don't go there, Chuck.  The other side is run by the hard left, which doesn't play by our rules.  On the hard left there is no graciousness, no compromise, no reason, no decency, no sense of honor.  The personal is political, and winning is the only acceptable objective, no matter who gets hurt.

After his 2008 presidential defeat, John McCain expressed dismay at the way he was treated by the press.  He had always been friendly to journalists, assuming they would be fair to him.  He never calculated that, in the end, the leftist press would do what leftists always do...attack and crush.

On the left there are no friends, only interests.

September 22,  2018