Timid little mice ...

It’s no wonder Democrats always get their way.

Republicans are afraid of them. 

All it takes is for Democrats to say Republicans are racist, sexist, hate gays, hate immigrants or whatever and Republicans fold.  Doesn’t make any difference what the issue is, Republicans will always cave. Democrats can count on that.  

Republicans are so, so afraid people won’t like them. They’re afraid they won’t be able to get Democrats to help them pass a budget or anything else, even when Republicans have the majority.  Most of all they’re afraid women, Hispanics and blacks won’t vote for them.

Honestly, it’s pathetic.

If Trump’s election proved anything, there’s no reason to be afraid. More women, Hispanics, and blacks voted for him than anyone expected, despite the nonstop drumbeat from Democrats and the media that he was prejudiced against all those groups.  Even now, after more than two years of unrelenting attacks on Trump, his approval ratings have increased.  Do people like Trump?  Not really, but do they like what he’s accomplished?  Yes.

In short, being liked is highly overrated; doing your job is more important. 

The latest cave is over Dr. Ford’s unsubstantiated accusations that Brett Kavanaugh groped her at a party some 36 years ago. Ford can’t remember where it was, when it was, how she got there, or how she got home.  She only remembers how traumatic it was.  But she didn’t tell anybody at the time, even her closest friends, nor anyone else over all the intervening years, and only “remembered” it in couples’ therapy in 2012. And of course six years later when Kavanaugh was about to be confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court, and after extensive questioning by Democrats who knew about the accusation but said nothing, asked nothing of Kavanaugh about it, until the hearing officially ended. 

No prosecutor would ever bring something like this to court, given how vague the accuser is on the details.  Ford and her growing army of Democrat strategists advising her know this. That’s not to say she doesn’t believe something happened to her 36 or so years ago – she’s not sure about what year or time of year either – but there’s absolutely nothing to substantiate her claims.

Everybody she claimed was there or participated in the event has denied being there, or even that there was such a party.  They’ve done that under oath, something Ford hasn’t done.

Scared as ever, Republicans have tried to make a deal to have Ford testify. Her side has bargained from a position of strength, which baffles me since she doesn’t have a case.  Ford’s side has blown off every attempt at getting this done quickly and impartially. Ford’s side is controlling everything – the date she’ll maybe testify, and that’s a weak maybe – and have demanded a host of ridiculous conditions for the privilege of giving her a platform to trot out her alleged assault. Which, BTW, has gone from being portrayed initially as attempted rape to now simply groping, in her side’s own words.

The gutlessness of the Republicans has allowed this to happen.  So afraid. So worried about how they’ll be perceived. So unwilling to do their job. If they had closed the hearings as scheduled and had the vote, despite the last-minute parlor trick of the Democrats, we might have been spared all this insanity. Instead, they quaked in fear at being seen as insensitive to women who’ve been sexually assaulted. 

They should have, for once, called the Democrats’ bluff. They would have won. At worst they would have forced the Democrats to put up or shut up immediately. But they didn’t.     

Whether Ford testifies or not – and I honestly believe she’ll play Lucy to Charlie Brown at the last minute and not show up – the damage has been done. Just as Democrats wanted and the media wanted all along.  They knew Republicans wouldn’t have the guts to stand up to them. 

Worst of all, Democrats have been saying all along that if by some miracle Kavanaugh gets confirmed, they plan to impeach him if they take the House. So if he doesn’t get confirmed, Democrats win.  And if he does get confirmed, Democrats win.

Nice work Republicans. You spineless weasels

Re-elect no Republicans. Let the Democrats take the House in 2018. Hell, let them take the Senate, too.  Let them start the impeachment proceedings against Trump, and if he’s lucky, Kavanaugh.  Democrats will never get enough votes in the Senate – it takes 67 out of 100 – to make impeachment stick, so those are bullshit threats and should be dealt with as such.   

Then when all those lost Republican House and Senate seats come up again, elect people with the fortitude to withstand the Democrats’ bullying tactics. 

Sooner or later, you have to stand up to a bully, or it never ends.