MICHAEL BARONE: Democrats’ Foul Tactics On Kavanaugh May Come Back To Bite Them.

“ I can’t think of a more embarrassing scandal for the United States Senate since the McCarthy hearings,” said Texas Republican John Cornyn as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testified before the Judiciary Committee on the afternoon of Sept. 27, “when the question was, ‘Have you no sense of decency?'”

Cornyn was quoting Joseph Welch, the Boston lawyer representing Joe McCarthy’s targets in the June 1954 hearing, responding to McCarthy’s charge that a young lawyer was a communist. Six months later, the Senate censured McCarthy by a vote of 67-22, and his name became a synonym for manipulating parliamentary procedure and making spectacular and unsubstantiated charges for political gain.

Which is what Senate Democrats, with the active and avid cooperation of many of their friends and fans in the press, have been doing throughout the confirmation process for the Supreme Court nomination of Kavanaugh. They have, in truth, been doing it for decades now. Character assassination has become their weapon of choice.

Yep. It’s enough to make you understand the appeal of the code duello.

YEP: “Dems bet it all on a bluff with a garbage hand. They got called and the GOP won a monster pot.”

OPEN THREAD: Anything happen today?

AFTER HEARING ABOUT THIS FROM MIKE WILLIAMSON, I TRIED THIS MYSELF. If you try to post “that depends on what the meaning of is, is” on Facebook, it gets blocked.

Related: Break up Facebook: Latest hack proves it’s a dangerous monopoly that a fine won’t fix.

UPDATE: And now it works again. That was fast.

WOW: Memphis schools superintendent backs Republican Bill Lee for governor. On Facebook, a friend comments: “Wow. But when you consider that Nashville’s schools didn’t really improve under Karl Dean, it becomes quite understandable.”

HEH:

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IT’S COME TO THIS: “Photos from a Mississippi high school band’s halftime performance are going viral, with thousands of people outraged over the content. The performance by Forest Hill High School depicted students dressed as doctors and nurses holding other students dressed as SWAT team members at gunpoint with replica guns.”

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Kavanaugh Foes Fill Senate Gallery With Sounds of the Insane.

I was in the Senate gallery this afternoon when Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed. You would have thought I was at an exorcism in an insane asylum.

Perhaps you were watching on television and heard the disruptions, though you certainly didn’t see them. The attenuated audio probably didn’t catch the frightening incoherent shrieking – including the lingering screaming and howling as they were being dragged down the hallways outside the gallery.

If there was any doubt that the opposition to Kavanaugh was unhinged, uncivil, disruptive, rude, and borderline nuts, my experience in the gallery made it clear.

It sounded bad enough on TV.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote is officially more bipartisan than Obamacare.”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Kavanaugh: What Have We Learned?

I’m not going to gloat over Kavanaugh’s confirmation*, but it’s a relief. It’s a major victory in the war for the truth. I’m glad that the Dems and their enablers didn’t get away with their repulsive, dishonest behavior this time, but I don’t look forward to seeing what they do next. They’ve all lost their minds, and the more their tactics backfire, the more reckless they become. I have no idea what’s next, but we all know it ain’t gonna be pretty.

It’s going to be amazing to watch the 180-degree turn when Amy Coney Barrett is nominated. Then we’ll see how much the Democrats really respect women.

*much…

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INEVITABLY: Hitler Finds Out Kavanaugh Was Confirmed. “Republicans used to give up so easily. Now even Lindsey Graham has a spine.”

MCCONNELL: KAVANAUGH VOTE ENDS ‘BRIEF, DARK CHAPTER IN THE SENATE’S HISTORY.’

Democrats now view Hollywood’s numerous anti-McCarthy movies as how-to guides.

I WISH WEBB WILDER HAD FINISHED THIS FILM:

THAT’S NOT A MAN, IT’S AN UNSTOPPABLE JUDGE-CONFIRMATION MACHINE!

They should name Randy Barnett to fill Kavanaugh’s seat, which is now open.

MENE MENE TEKEL: Ginsburg Forgets 14th Amendment, Audience Has To Give Her Constitution.

Well, to be fair, it’s one of those amendments that hardly ever comes up.

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh emails: “Glenn: Might Ginsburg have wanted the precise text of section 2 of the 14th Amendment? That’s a not very well-remembered part, I think.” Fair point. Can’t tell from the story.

PEOPLE WHO SAY “YOU CAN’T TEAR DOWN THE MASTER’S HOUSE WITH THE MASTER’S TOOLS” HAVE NEVER USED TOOLS: Title IX Complaint Filed Against Prof Who Called for ‘Miserable Deaths’ of White Senators.

WEIRD THAT MOBS OF SHRIEKING WHITE WOMEN DON’T APPEAL TO MINORITY MEN: “My Uber driver this morning is a black guy who backed Bernie in the primaries then Hillary in the general but is now warming to Trump because the Kavanaugh thing shows that ‘feminists are out of control.'”

THIS CALLS FOR A REALLY STUPID, FUTILE GESTURE, AND YOU’RE JUST THE GUYS WHO CAN DO IT! Impeaching Kavanaugh rouses progressive Democrats after confirmation: The movement could pick up steam if the party wins the House in November, but some legal scholars warn it’s a terrible idea.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? At Power Line, John Hinderaker writes:

The Democrats’ shameful treatment of Robert Bork in 1987 has distorted our politics–not just the politics of the Supreme Court–for the last 30 years. But the slanders the Democratic Party directed toward Kavanaugh were, if anything, even more disgraceful. We will feel their impact for many years to come.

So, looking to the future, what are the notable features of our political landscape?

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Related: Jonah Goldberg on The Price of Victory: “[W]e now live in a world where sub-optimal outcomes are the only choices available. It’s crap sandwiches all the way down the cafeteria menu, everybody — you just get to choose your condiments.”

ROGER KIMBALL: Kavanaugh confirmed, despite the Democratic ‘search and destroy mission’: The President’s support is why Kavanaugh prevailed where Robert Bork stumbled. “When the Senate voted 50 to 48 to confirm Kavanaugh, they drew a line under a battle that was not just bitter but insane.”

Related: Rejuvenated Republicans rediscover unity in litmus-test Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight.

TRUMP’S REMARKABLE WEEK: “Donald Trump is putting the finishing touches on one of the most remarkable weeks of his presidency. For Republicans, it doesn’t get much better than this.”

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