Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) took to the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday night to rail against the broken political process and a body that is woefully unable to handle accusations of sexual misconduct.
Like many on Capitol Hill, Sasse has received letters from constituents who survived sexual assaults. He read pieces of one aloud about a young girl who struggled against a boy and the aftermath.
"A whole lot of brave women have stepped forward, and they've exposed their abusers who have been some of the most powerful men in Hollywood, media, corporate America, and elsewhere," Sasse told his fellow members. "They did this at unthinkable professional and personal risk. They deserve our respect. They also deserve not to have their progress co-opted by the cynics that run this town. This is it not fodder for fund-raising e-mails. The #MeToo movement doesn't belong to the left or right. The #MeToo movement belongs to the women who found in it an inspiration to step forward and confront the people who hurt them."
He recalled his daughters and his fear of something horrific happening to them. He said that if something did, he wants them to be believed and not vilified.
That's when he turned to President Donald Trump.
"We all know that the President cannot lead us through this time," the Senator said. "We know that he's dispositionally unable to restrain his impulse to divide us. His mockery of Dr. Ford in Mississippi was wrong, but it doesn't really surprise anyone. It’s who he is."
Oddly enough, Sasse also said that Kavanaugh's candidacy for the court has nothing to do with loving women or respecting women. He attacked cable news for saying non-stop "the false choice that is being repeated hour after hour after hour on television that this confirmation vote about one vacant see on the Supreme Court, in that vote we are somehow going to be making a giant binary choice about whether we do or don't care about women."
He claimed it wasn't true.
"A Supreme Court confirmation vote isn't a grand choice about whether we love our daughters or trust our sons," Sasse said. "This is a consent decision about one person for one seat."
What Sasse neglected to understand is that the person in that seat will decide what the law will say about these women, including his daughters.
Despite his so-called "respect" for women and his slam on the president, Sasse is expected to support Kavanaugh to sit on the court, regardless of how credible he believes her testimony to be.
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