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     I once heard a state senator say, "Well, I don't think we should just bull our way through," when making a plan to get legislation passed.  I thought when I heard him say that, Does he mean "bull" like "a bull in a china shop"?  Or "bull" as in B.S.?


     Maybe both.  I was thinking of that statement last week when U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) pitched his fit at the committee, and also when Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had his tantrum, yelling at committee members.


     Are Lindsey Graham and Brett Kavanaugh trying to "bull their way through"?

     Some commentators said Senator Graham may have been "playing to an audience of one" -- Pres. Trump -- because he hopes Trump will fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and place him -- Graham -- in that job next.

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     Kavanaugh's behavior in front of that committee last week was dismaying to me.

     He tried to make himself the victim.

     He tried to use his wife and children as a "human shield."

     He tried to invoke God and use Him.

     He exaggerated his problems, his claimed "victimhood," saying his "life has been destroyed."  (Your life clearly has not  been "destroyed" -- you're right there.)

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     When you learn about narcissism, they tell you how that type of personality -- does stuff to other people, & then says it was done to themselves.  They try to "flip the script."

     It's like one commentator said, "The accuser cried; the nominee cried more"...

     It seems like there were four basic points of "Huh?!" on Kavanaugh's suitability to serve on the high court (that I could see, anyway) --

|    Mark Judge, the other guy in the room, doesn't want to testify and the Republicans also don't want him to testify.  ...While saying there's no corroboration of her story.  (Well that's because you won't ask him to come in and testify...  Is that Corroboration-Prevention?  What sense does that make?  ...If we're being honest?)

|    Christine Blasey Ford took a lie detector test; Mr. Kavanaugh has not taken one (though I'm not caught up this week -- maybe that's changed.)

|    FBI investigation -- they weren't going to have one, but then Pres. Trump said they should because that's what is always done, with Supreme Court nominees.

|    Many pages of notes and communications by Kavanaugh were held back and kept secret from the public.

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     And then those protests going on last Friday were somewhat surprising, as well.  Senator Jeff Flake was approached in an elevator by several women, one of whom said to him, "Look me in the eye and tell me I don't matter."


     After that he went back to the committee and said they needed more investigation into the nominee.

     Protesting is a form of lobbying.

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