{"id":3182,"date":"2018-09-20T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2018-09-20T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:15:02","slug":"supreme-court-nominee-poem-ostensible-merit-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/20\/supreme-court-nominee-poem-ostensible-merit-garland\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Nominee POEM: Ostensible Merit, Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ostensible Merit, Garland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senate Republicans bemoan
\nWe can’t Ford
\nNo delay
\nWe just
\nLong to confirm
\nAs weave past attest
\nMerit
\nGarland<\/p>\n

This poem is my owed to Senate Republicans’ stellar hypocrisy, in this case regarding confirming Supreme Court nominees. They entirely delayed and fully denied the Merrick Garland nomination of the previous administration. Yet, they are hellbent on ramrodding their Brett Kavanaugh nomination through, all while a credible allegation of sexual assault goes without nonpartisan investigation. Mean wile, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser, is vilified and must cope with multiple death threats. Less that sympathetic, more like pathetic, Senate Republicans claim ostensible merit and they are craven that garland across that abridge too far.<\/p>\n

For the record, I took poetic license with the slant rhyme and pun of Merrick\/merit. Also, I will from now on refer to Brett Kavanaugh as Bart O’Kavanaugh, the character that portrayed him in his character witness’ memoir:\u00a0Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk<\/em>, by Mark Judge.<\/a> Judge Kavanaugh’s profoundly poor judgment of his fellow Judge and alleged fellow sexual assaulter as a character witness may very well be disqualifying in itself.\u00a0 Brett’s prep school buddy unabashedly portrayed his view of women by this quote on his high school yearbook page: “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.”<\/a>\u00a0 The past matters. The present madders too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ostensible Merit, Garland Senate Republicans bemoan We can’t Ford No delay We just Long to confirm As weave past attest Merit Garland This poem is my owed to Senate Republicans’ stellar hypocrisy, in this case regarding confirming Supreme Court nominees. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,9,15],"tags":[435,385,271,658,94,107,491,636,716,53,244,287],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-character","tag-death","tag-hypocrisy","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-poor","tag-present","tag-rhyme","tag-sexual-assault","tag-short-poems","tag-supreme-court","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"\nSupreme Court Nominee POEM: Ostensible Merit, Garland | News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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