Witchcraft

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After two days of Amy Coney Barrett gracefully and stoically answering questions with perfect recall and no notes, suspicions grew on Capitol Hill that she might be a practitioner of the dark arts.

“Oh, she’s a witch alright, just look at her!” said Senator Hirono. “Just look at the way she’s dressed and how she’s so much prettier and smarter than us! She’s in league with Beelzebub himself, I just know it! We must burn her!”

Senator Hirono then pulled a live duck out of a massive burlap sack next to her and announced: “In addition to being a Senator, I am also quite wise in the ways of science. Everyone knows witches burn because they are made of wood. I think I read that somewhere. Wood floats, and so do ducks– so logically, if Amy Coney Barrett weighs as much as this duck I found in the reflection pool outside, she is a witch and must be burned.”

The Democrat senators nodded in solemn approval while the Republicans yelled and pounded on their desks a bunch before pouncing and booking interviews with Tucker Carlson.

Go here to read the rest.  I could almost understand the Democrats suspecting witchcraft.  All the signs are that the hearings have made Judge Barrett a hit with the American people.  Yesterday at Rotary a jeweler of my acquaintance, a fairly non-political older gentleman, opined to me, and he brought the subject up, that he was watching the hearings and that “Amy is smart!”  His comment is replicated by anecdotal evidence on the net and in the polls.  I can understand why.  The American people tend to be sentimental, and the picture of this brilliant woman, mother of seven, effortlessly, and gracefully, dealing with all questions, while the Democrat senators are reduced to sullen impotence, is a latter day Mrs. Smith goes to Washington.  Trump’s appointments have been hit or miss throughout his term, but in Judge Barrett he made one of his best appointments at a time when it mattered most.  I think Trump will win, contra almost all of the polls, and I think Amy Coney Barrett has done him a lot of good, particularly among women, in his trek to election day.  We shall see soon enough.