Kavanaugh perjury.

Karma is a bitch. Also a boomerang.

Twenty years ago Brett Kavanaugh was part of the Kenneth Starr team that put Bill Clinton into the perjury trap. 

He laid another perjury trap this month. This time he laid it for himself.

Let me remind my young readers. Bill Clinton was president. Republicans said there was--maybe--something wrong with a real estate deal that Bill and Hillary Clinton were involved with back before he was elected, the Whitewater development. Kenneth Starr was appointed special counsel. He investigated for years and the investigation migrated from the real estate deal to allegations that Bill Clinton had sex with people prior to his election, which led to information from Linda Tripp, a false-friend of Monica Lewinsky, that Lewinsky had secret oral sex with Bill Clinton in an anteroom of the Oval Office. The Starr investigation focused on that.

Brett Kavanaugh was part of the Starr team, and his job was to lay the perjury trap by creating some of the most embarrassing possible questions for Bill Clinton to answer in front of a video camera in a deposition. Kavanaugh drafted several, including this one: "If Monica Lewinsky says that you ejaculated in her mouth on two occasions in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?"

Bill Clinton didn't want to say "yes" to questions like that on camera, so he dissembled, doing some mental gymnastics about the verb tense to justify himself, and answered falsely. Perjury.

Now it is Kavanaugh's turn.

We got conflicting and uncorroborated stories about whether there was a sexual assault back when Kavanaugh was 17 and Dr. Ford was 15. But Kavanaugh required the foundation that he was in full control of his faculties to say he remembered clearly that he did not assault anyone, he was sure of it.

So Kavanaugh denied drinking to excess, adamantly, under oath.

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His problem is that there are eye-witnesses to his college drinking, college classmates, Republicans, credible people. They said he frequently drank to excess and was a "sloppy drunk" who stumbled, had slurred speech, and confusion. Whatever his guilt might be regarding a sexual assault, there is good evidence that he drank to incoherence. He lied under oath about this.

Back in 1998 a great many Democrats thought Bill Clinton's crime was hardly grounds for impeachment. The sex activities with Lewinsky were an issue between Bill and Hillary Clinton, not a matter of state. It was a "low crime" and a moral failing to minimize his sexual behavior. 

Republicans said that the sex isn't the issue. The high crime was the perjury, and absolutely grounds for impeachment.

Kavanaugh is a very high functioning person, so brilliant and capable that he can operate at the highest levels, notwithstanding possible heavy drinking. He wants the job of Supreme Court Justice, not airline pilot. So what if he drinks too much. 

The issue isn't the vice of drinking to excess, or even the unprovable assault. It is the perjury.

To have been honest he needed to have said that back in college he used to get wasted on weekends and God knows what he did in an alcohol haze. Having confessed the provable truth, he could add he is sorry if he misbehaved with women or anyone else. 

Click: Some say drunk. Other say incoherent drunk.

With TV cameras on him, he didn't want to say something that embarrassing and risky to the credibility of his denial of any sexual assault done while drunk. Maybe, like Bill Clinton, he thought maybe he had wiggle room, that he drank beer, sure, but not too much, so he minimized.

Perjury.

Who now cares about this perjury about a private vice? Democrats: the people who didn't care 20 years ago about Bill Clinton's perjury about sex. Perjury is perjury, a crime against the justice system.  

Who now defends Kavanaugh and ignores the perjury? The very people who pursued the impeachment of Bill Clinton over perjury.  So much hypocrisy, everywhere.

But now it's Kavanaugh's turn to sweat.