As usual, the following is a spot-on cultural commentary by Speaker Newt Gingrich . . .
"Tuesday’s
spectacle in the Senate would have made no sense seen from the world we lived
in just a few decades ago.
On the first
day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh, 70 people were arrested for disrupting the
proceedings. There were more than 40 interruptions by Democratic Senators during the
first hour of the hearing. . . .
This opening
day hostility is a remarkable contrast to the world of 27 years ago, when
now-Justice Clarence Thomas was being considered. The Thomas hearings were
among the most personal and painful of modern Senate hearings. His personal
integrity was challenged in a series of very emotional sessions. Thomas
ultimately rose to the occasion, and in a brilliant, powerful, compelling
speech compared what was happening to him to a “high-tech lynching.” As an
African American, he said he understood the viciousness being used against him.
His personal testimony turned the tide and convinced the Senate to approve him.
He went on to become one of the two conservative pillars of the Court, along
with late Justice Antonin Scalia."
Read the entire article here at Gingrich Productions.
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