What Is Unspoken. A Man under a Cloud of Suspicion

[MineralMan]

will take his lifetime seat on the nation's highest court today. That is what the US Senate is doing. They are giving a man accused of sexual assault a lifetime appointment to a position where we will rule on cases that will affect the lives and rights of everyone. Only a cursory examination of those accusations was made. It was deliberately limited in its scope and time.

You'd think that would give every Senator pause. Given the availability of a wide range of qualified people who are not under such a cloud, why will this one be sworn in this afternoon?

Something is wrong with this. What is left unspoken is unspeakably wrong.

[dchill]

1. "Something is wrong with this." To quote Jethro Gibbs...

"Ya think?"

[dalton99a]

2. And a vengeful, hyperpartisan operative doing the GOP's bidding for decades to come

[MineralMan]

3. Yes. Exactly. The principles of separation of powers

and checks and balances have been violated. And quite obviously intentionally, at that.

[JHB]

4. Not just a "cloud of suspicion", but a verifiable track record...

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...of lying under oath. Of treating sworn testimony to congress as an exercise in saying what ever he needed to say to clear a hurdle, not presenting accurate information to elected representatives.

Nothing "he said, multiple shes said" about that part.

[MineralMan]

5. I wrote "cloud of suspicion" deliberately and ironically.

For me, it seems unthinkable to put a person in such a position if there is any moral or ethical cloud hanging over him.

If the position were a high executive position in a private firm, the selection committee would simply say, "Sorry" and drop any questionable person from consideration. Too much risk. Any such cloud would send the committee on to the next candidate.

Not in Congress, though, where politics override ethics and morality.

That is not what the Founders had in mind. Truly it is not.