I haven't considered for a second that Kavanaugh wasn't going to be confirmed.
I thought for a hot moment that he wouldn’t make it. So much questionable stuff coming out about his character and his history (plus his terrible performance at the hearing) that I figured that it was going to give the usual Republican (suspects) senators a decent chance to be the hero for a change instead of Republican sheeple, but now I don’t think it’s going to happen. Probably not even with Flake, whose got nothing to lose (if he votes ‘yes’ and has any notions of running for president he needs to get his head in the real world—ain’t gonna happen. No one would support such a wishy-washy coward). And Collins has done this little dance so many times that she’s just looking for any opportunity to say ‘Yes’. Murkowsky? Who knows….comes off as being pretty weak a lot of the time—just looking to keep her job.
I guess in the end it doesn’t make too much difference. Pick anyone of the first ten off that list they gave Trump and they would all be just about as good as Kavanaugh. Hard-core, right wing partisans, with no qualms about doing the most rotten things as long as it helps the Republican-right agenda to proceed.