SHELDON WHITEHOUSE’S BRILLIANT QUESTION SERIES

I did not hear Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) question Judge Brett Kavanaugh yesterday.  But now that I have read a partial transcript, I am reasonably certain that, if they ever write a book about buffon-centric idiocy, this will be in the first chapter.

Let me show you:

WHITEHOUSE: I’m good. One of the reasons, Mr. Kavanaugh, that we are looking at the yearbook is that it is relatively consistent in time with the events at issue here and because it appears to be your words. Is it, in fact, your words on your yearbook page?

KAVANAUGH: We — we submitted things to the editors and I believe they took them. I don’t know if they changed things or not, but. …

WHITEHOUSE: Let’s look at, “Beach Week Ralph Club — Biggest Contributor,” what does the word Ralph mean in that?

KAVANAUGH: That probably refers to throwing up. I’m known to have a weak stomach and I always have. In fact, the last time I was here, you asked me about having ketchup on spaghetti. I always have had a weak stomach. …

WHITEHOUSE: So the vomiting that you reference in the Ralph Club reference, related to the consumption of alcohol?

WHITEHOUSE: … Judge, have you — I don’t know if it’s “boufed” or “boofed” — how do you pronounce that?

KAVANAUGH: That refers to flatulence. We were 16.

(LAUGHTER)

WHITEHOUSE: OK. And so when your friend Mark Judge said the same — put the same thing in his yearbook page back to you, he had the same meaning? It was flatulence?

KAVANAUGH: I don’t know what he did, but that’s my recollection. We want to talk about flatulence at age 16 on a yearbook page, I’m — I’m game.

This is a Q&A worthy of a supreme court nominee hearing?  Whether, as a 16 year old boy, Brett Kavanaugh and his friends talked about barfing and farting?

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse.  Very illuminating, I’m sure.  Not about Brett Kavanaugh, but about you.

Let me assure you I don’t mind your last name at all.  I’m just greatful you’ll never be a resident there…and I pity the Rhode Island voters who put you in the senate.