there have been some forgive me, i think there's been quite a lot of facile commentary. i don't mean that to be snarky but i think there's been a ton of facile commentary and some headlines suggesting that they're trying to make a spectacle because the democrats are in the minority and there's no way they can stop this nomination so they're setting off fireworks pointlessly to make a scene. you've seen that's what the democrats have been doing. with the stunts, releasing documents from kavanaugh's history, are documents that the republicans say should be confidential. if democrats were just trying to make a spectacle out of it, if they knew it was a futile effort, he was definitely going to be confirmed anyway no matter what, if they just wanted to