CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT – AT 1:58 P.M. ET:   Are we serious here?  Democrats are talking about attacking Judge Kavanaugh further, even if he is confirmed for the Supreme Court.  How low can you get?  From Fox:   

The midterm elections loom over the debate over the timetable of Kavanaugh’s confirmation process.

Should Democrats succeed in delaying the confirmation vote past November and pick up seats in the Senate in the midterms, then they will likely have enough votes to block Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

However, if Republicans confirm Kavanaugh before November, Democrats have indicated that the fight would not be over are raising the prospect of further investigations and even impeachment.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said that “as soon as Democrats get gavels”, the party will investigate the Kavanaugh allegations even if he is confirmed and sitting on the Supreme Court.

“This is such bad practice that even if they were to ram this guy through, as soon as Democrats get gavels we’re going to want to get to the bottom of this,” he said on CNN.

When pressed as to whether he was saying Democrats would investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice, Whitehouse said he was “confident of that.”

“And I think we’ll also be investigating why the FBI stood down its background investigation when this came up in this particular background,” he said.

His stance was backed up by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, who said in an interview with Fox News that there could not only be an investigation, but a push for impeachment.

“If the Republicans rush through a nominee where you have unanswered sexual assault allegations, I can promise you that Democratic senators will be interested in going and looking at those allegations, and if Judge Kavanaugh lied under oath, you could see a judicial impeachment, and that’s not good for anybody, so we should try and avoid that,” he said on “America’s Newsroom.”

COMMENT:  It is hard to exaggerate the full extent of the madness that has overcome the Democratic Party.  Can you imagine the impeachment of a sitting Supreme Court justice based on the Ford case, 36 years old, with no corroborating information? 

I suspect that saner heads will prevail, if there are any sane heads left among the Dems.

September 22, 2018