Spoken by utter childishness.
A person seeking such a powerful position as Uppermost Cort judge should not, and should never, behave as AD has done. I voted in committee to advance his nomination, because I believed at that time that a second chance was earned, much like another nominee had earned months prior. That second chance was slowly, surely, and definitively eroded by his own actions over the months after that committee report was made.
It is total folly to conflate the Government's collective decision with personality politics. What is truly arrogant and astonishing is not the Government's withdrawal of its support, but the guffawing and offense about that withdrawal.
Let me lay this down clearly: Unless you're Brett Kavanaugh, you don't get to be considered for a judicial appointment and then insult, berate, humiliate, or attack good-working and well-meaning colleagues. That's not how the world works, or should ever work. AD's response to the Government's decision was exactly the sort of behavior which caused the Government to change its mind: a man who wants the office, deserves the office, and would serve the office well does not retort to ad hominem rhetoric, least of all when there is an opportunity for a mea culpa.
No one has to be perfect; they just have to treat people with respect and want to improve themself.
If you don't get that, then it must be because you've never had to provide for a family-- or, for that matter, hold a position of actual leadership.
A person seeking such a powerful position as Uppermost Cort judge should not, and should never, behave as AD has done. I voted in committee to advance his nomination, because I believed at that time that a second chance was earned, much like another nominee had earned months prior. That second chance was slowly, surely, and definitively eroded by his own actions over the months after that committee report was made.
It is total folly to conflate the Government's collective decision with personality politics. What is truly arrogant and astonishing is not the Government's withdrawal of its support, but the guffawing and offense about that withdrawal.
Let me lay this down clearly: Unless you're Brett Kavanaugh, you don't get to be considered for a judicial appointment and then insult, berate, humiliate, or attack good-working and well-meaning colleagues. That's not how the world works, or should ever work. AD's response to the Government's decision was exactly the sort of behavior which caused the Government to change its mind: a man who wants the office, deserves the office, and would serve the office well does not retort to ad hominem rhetoric, least of all when there is an opportunity for a mea culpa.
No one has to be perfect; they just have to treat people with respect and want to improve themself.
If you don't get that, then it must be because you've never had to provide for a family-- or, for that matter, hold a position of actual leadership.