You gotta love these guys

   It's getting so that our Senate Ju-

   diciary Committee Republicans have

   begun resorting to hand signals to

   profess their courtesy to that oth-

   er gender, in which they don't par-

   ticipate. Bending, one doesn't want

   to say, over-backwards, they frame

   this chivalry in points of an ill-

   clad ultimatum, to a claimant of 

   assault by their Supreme Court nom-

   nee, to show up or shut up without

   any neutral investigation of the

   events she has documented in writ-

   ing. Aren't they pretty, in their

   ostentatious solicitude for facts,

   if only she would just play along?

   They have a timetable to uphold,

   freighted with their right to rule.

   What's the more desperate condition:

   self-entitled aggression under the

   influence, or drunkenness on power?

   You gotta love these guys. They take

   the choice entirely out of our hands.