The REAL Reason they want Kavanaugh so badly.

       First let me say, "Dear Senator Collins, fuck you."  Thanks, I needed to get that out of the way.  This long-time Republican has announced that she is going toe the party line and be the final vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court....and thereby she is betraying not just the members of her constituency here in Maine, but women (and all of us) across the country.  Groups are already marshaling funds and energy to VOTE HER OUT OF OFFICE on the next go around. Honestly, I have a sense that she's not going to even run, that she knows somewhere down deep that she just committed political suicide. Time will tell. Mainers tend to be a mostly calm and introspective lot, but once they get a burr under their saddles.......look out. There is still some of that same iron-clad determination that carried the day at Little Roundtop.

     But, lest you think this has all been about how this man, Kavanaugh, behaved as a teenager, it is not.  The Big Cheeto, His Great Orangeness, has recognized all along that Kavanaugh would be the single added vote that would cause the SCOTUS to vote against indicting a sitting president.  It is Trump's best insurance that he will not either get impeached or criminally indicted....at least, not while he is in the White House. We will be waiting, however, for the day when he leaves office.

    By insuring that this 'safety net' is intact, the demonstrably insane and malevolent actor in the Oval office will be able to continue his depredation on all fronts. People of color and immigrants, the environment, the most vulnerable segments of society who will otherwise be left twisting in the wind, unions, the elder population, the ability to get decent medical care, to not be hosed for prescription drugs, and the list goes on and on.  He is the Wrecker in Chief of all that working class Americans have gained over the last fifty plus years.

   It beggars belief that so many working people still cannot see through his ever deeper pile of bullshit, and still think he's on THEIR side.  The hell he is.  Donald J. Trump works for the oligarchs and plutocrats.....period.  He's a proven liar on a daily basis, a devious con-man and his con on the American people is working like a charm.  And, now, with a 'get out of jail free' card on the table, his looting and his destruction of any kind of protections for consumers, not to mention our environment itself,  is going to proceed at a furious pace.  Wait and see.