Does Anyone Remember the Kavanaugh Hearings?

CORY BOOKER: The reality is Joe Biden did what Ronald Reagan did, uhh, by saying, “Hey, look, we’ve been excluding large percentages of our population, in fact the majority of our population. It’s about time we reached deep into the well of quality and genius and talent and credentials, uh, for a black woman to show America that she’s like Jackie Robinson was (snickers), somebody that was probably overqualified, uh, to be in the National Baseball League, but came forward and showed us what the full talent and array of American potential is.

BUCK: Cory Booker on Ketanji Brown Jackson, Judge Jackson, that is like Jackie Robinson. He says Democrats are very excited about this nomination. I do think it’s interesting that there are some who are still complaining about the treatment of KBJ. Which I’ve got to say, I still remember, it was visceral. I remember the Kavanaugh hearings. It was I think the ugliest political thing that I can remember seeing televised.

I can’t think of a time when Democrats were — and I said afterward, Democrats were being more disgraceful in terms of the Senate. And people will probably yell, “What about this thing?” I know they do a lot of bad things. But they had a guy, Clay, that was as squeaky clean a background as you are going to get. Right? A guy, there’s no oppo on him. There’s nothing. He was eminently qualified, brilliant and advanced women professionally all throughout his career.

CLAY: He had decades that you could review.

BUCK: They were willing — when I say “they” I want to remind you, it was Cory Booker. It was Kamala Harris. Go down the list of different Democrats on the judiciary committee, they were willing to pretend in front of, I think like 15 million people actually watched that.

CLAY: It was riveting television.

BUCK: Became riveting television. They were willing to pretend that they were a serial gang rapist on the absurd word of not one but three either crazy or very politically motivated individuals or a combination thereof. The second woman, people always forget this… The third was Julie Swetnick. The first was Christine Blasey Ford. The second was, I forget her name off the top of my head right now. But she had to spend a week speaking to her therapist and a lawyer about whether or not he exposed himself!

CLAY: That was the Yale story.

BUCK: He’s a man, and the man part. So this was absurd. And what they didn’t tell people were how many individuals who came forward, Clay, with wild accusations of rape against Kavanaugh.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They hid that from the public because it would have been too obvious he raped me on a boat in Rhode Island. He’s never been to Rhode Island. And they’re going to complain about this because they’re asking real questions about judicial philosophy? It just goes to show you, the Democrats… It’s shameless, utterly shameless against Kavanaugh and now in their, oh, why are you being so mean the our nominee.

CLAY: Buck, they were going line by line on high school yearbook superlatives and grilling him on them.

BUCK: They were asking what “bloofing” was, and he had to say flatulence in front of Senate judiciary Democrats because they’re lunatics.

CLAY: Whoever you are the idea that, a couple of things, one, your high school yearbook, that they’re going to go line by line grilling you on, it’s like, 25 years later from a high school yearbook. Two, that you would be being grilled about a high school party — which, by the way, it doesn’t sound like Ford and Kavanaugh, based on all the evidence… I would encourage you to read the great book by Mollie Hemingway. She dove into all the details.

BUCK: Justice on Trial.

CLAY: There it is. Justice on Trial is so good. If you were as fired up as Buck and I were about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. And honestly Democrats, I think, dealt with fallout so significant from those hearings that they’re just pretending they never happened. That’s the other way that you know that there is a major issue for Democrats.

They just pretend it doesn’t exist. Right? That’s the way they’re handling the Penn transgender swimmer issue. Most left-wingers just pretend it doesn’t exist, in the same way many of the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are bringing up the precedent that was set with the Kavanaugh hearings. And the Democrats, Dick Durbin, just keeps saying, “Well, that’s in the past. We don’t want to talk about that anymore.”

But it cost them likely a couple of Senate seats, and if things hadn’t fallen apart in Georgia, I really do wonder what the situation would be if Republicans had one more Senate seat right now. What would we be dealing with? Because we talked about, Buck, the mess that Georgia was losing both of those Senate seats in that election.

BUCK: In 2020.

CLAY: Yeah, 2020.

BUCK: It was a huge redo.

CLAY: Because Purdue won but didn’t have a high enough percentage. So they had to redo both of them and the runoffs, and so what would be happening, I think, is an easy and interesting question to ask. I don’t know that there’s an easy answer, if Republicans had control of the Senate right now.

BUCK: Who do you think…? What GOP votes does she get for confirmation? I think Romney. I think Sasse. Anyone else coming on? I’d have to look at the list.

CLAY: I don’t think Lindsey Graham is going to vote for her. And he voted for her before when she was going on to the debit card circuit. So I think he’s off the list. I think Romney will because I’m not sure Romney is a Republican anymore. I mean, he’s lost his mind, and I’m still fired up about the fact that he voted in favor of masks, and said he wants to rely on experts.

BUCK: I’ll never forgive that, by the way.

CLAY: How can he say that after two years of “experts” being wrong about everything relating to covid? It’s embarrassing.

BUCK: Appalling. Thank you for reminding me, by the way, why I think he’s among the worst in the GOP.

CLAY: So. I think it might just be Romney.