Relativity of Collegiality
Why
doesn’t the Senate reject Kavanaugh on grounds of perjury? That, unlike the
rape charges, is easily proven from recent public records. Quick, sure, simple,
and wouldn’t that be the collegial, face-saving way out?
No,
not from a Washington point of view. For perjury, precisely because it is provable and recent, has serious professional consequences. Loss of SC seat, and
also loss of appellate court seat, possibly disbarment, maybe even criminal
charges. Whereas rape, credibly alleged but unproven, won’t disbar him.
So
from the DC point of view, what we’re seeing is the face-saving, collegial way out! But the people and DC have
differing points of view; distinct systems of value; so this is not only a
gender conflict; it is also a class conflict.
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