I Know I’m Supposed To Get Agitated About This…

Cruz now doing Critical Race Theory

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 22, 2022

End of discussion? Course not. Cruz is now onto Marxists.
Jackson, again "I've never studied critical race theory."

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 22, 2022

None of which is spontaneous:

Cruz's attack on a small DC private school is being coordinated with @LeaderMcConnell's office, which just sent out this press release pic.twitter.com/Tiyh68Rx0U

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) March 22, 2022

I mean, I understand:

It bothers me that this brilliant, accomplished woman a) has to measure her words so conspicuously carefully, and b) has to endlessly cite her lawn-order bona fides.#Senatejudiciarycommittee

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 22, 2022

But let’s face it:

Sasse up: "You are likely to go onto the Supreme Court"

Is he going to vote for her? No. You're going to let other people do that work.

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 22, 2022

And, too, also:

All righty, Confirmation Hearing question day. Durbin says it's "Trial by Ordeal" #ConfirmationHearing

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 22, 2022

Basically it’s the worst jib interview in the world, for a job you will have for the rest of your life. A job you can’t be fired from (no one has been so far). And an interview process no one will remember (unless your name is Bork or Thomas), and no one but a few Twitter obsessives and Sean Hannity will remember tomorrow.

Me, I’d be as belligerent and argumentative as Robert Bork. Everybody understands why Bork never got on the court. He smirked and argued with the Senators. You don’t do that in the job interview.

I don’t know quite how the British do it, but I know they do it better than this. Somewhere around the Rehnquist court the court was broken, and Bork smashed the nomination hearings into rubble. From that rubble we have the modern process, where one side is angry, the other side is satisfied, and the nominee is anodyne. Or not, in the case of Kavanaugh. But you can be Bork again, because all that matters is who has the votes.

The whole GOP might as well be Gym Jordan and MTG. McConnell just makes noises about the party’s “fringe.” There isn’t anything but fring there anymore.

Except humor; there’s always humor:

Congressional Republicans, many of whom have served alongside pedophiles like former Speaker Dennis Hastert for years, worry about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s lack of experience with working with sex offenders.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) March 22, 2022