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I agree with you there. One of the reasons I didn’t give a high priority to watching the hearings in the first place is that I knew from the beginning that none of it was going to make any difference. Whatever happened, the Senate was going to vote straight down party lines anyway. They could have had film of Kavannah actually doing it and it wouldn’t have mattered. I listened to a couple of the speeches as they cast their confirmation votes, and the partisanship was terrible. What made me sick is the way Republicans act as if it’s perfectly normal when THEY do it (using their majority to scuttle Obama’s nominee without even giving him a hearing), but when Democrats do it (filibustering to stall Trump’s nominee), it’s evil and un-American. Mitch McConnell was positively gloating when he talked about how Republicans were going to use the whole confirmation hearing against Democrats in the upcoming elections.