Well, it most definitely will distract because it is a huge story and so the media can't and obviously have not ignored it. Will it help the Kavanaugh nomination? Probably not, as the thing that article and Bob Woodward's book both confirm is we have a presidency without an actual president. All this does is make it more illegitimate that the Trump administration has nominated anybody for the supreme court as this administration, with all that is going on and Trump himself in a court of law being named in two felony counts by his personal attorney has no business nominating anybody for anything.

Really, there should be no Kavanaugh hearings at all taking place. I think it is completely likely though that, unless whatever Kamala Harris was chasing about Kavanaugh speaking to somebody at Kasowitz Benson Torres leads somewhere, the Democrats will probably participate in allowing Kavanaugh onto the supreme court. Look, while we are all watching the Kavanaugh hearings Chuck Schumer cut a deal to fast track 15 other federal judges the Trump administration wants to put in place. So, keep in mind the only option the Democrats see as viable is make some sort of deal where they get any little crumb they can. In this case, Schumer gave up the 15 judges to allow Democratic candidates running in Red States an additional 3 days to campaign before they had to return to DC. Talk about getting crumbs!

Anyway, whatever Harris was on to it terrified Kavanaugh and it was not supposed to come out. The way the guy began babbling and white knuckling his notebook was stunning. The excuse for him not answering was "there are too many lawyers in the world and so there is no way to know who I talked to" which was plainly idiotic. The conversation would have been recent and talking to a law firm that represents Trump about the Russia investigation would have been a giant deal ANYBODY WOULD REMEMBER. The key was he did not want to talk about that and that is likely due to the topic of the conversation he had with Kasowitz Benson Torres...which would disqualify him and go against all he said about "protecting the sanctity of the court."

However, at present it just stands as the moment Harris made Kavanaugh poop in his pants. Unless the other shoe drops it will just stand as a very strange and suspicious moment where we saw Kavanaugh squirm.

So, here are things I think we should consider about the Anonymous op- ed...

1. It is obviously 100% true. In today's media climate the New York Times would NO WAY print that editorial without having full confirmation of the source and what they were saying. To print it without full verification would be the equivalent of setting their building on fire and absolutely destroying themselves and taking a whole shitload of people down with them. So, we and even the Trump administration and Trump himself know the story is the truth. Which is why the Trump administration went on a frantic mole hunt to find the person. Neither Woodward nor the Times would have invented this stuff...particularly not at this point in our history.

2. Knowing it is true now consider the consequences. OK, so the article just confirms what is in Bob Woodward's book and leaks that have been pouring out of the White House since Trump was elected. First off, Trump never hired the "best people" for anything and these people are not even loyal to him. He hired a lot of fellow criminals that, like him, were all out to enrich themselves. Those chickens have come home to roost. In other words...if Trump is paranoid as hell he now fully knows he has good reason to be. HIS OWN PEOPLE ARE THE ONES OUT TO GET HIM. While Trump spreads dumb rumors about a Deep State...the actual Deep State is not our CIA, FBI, or Justice System...it is Trump's hand chosen people in his own administration. This is now confirmed. They are lying to him, hiding things from him, ignoring him, and leaking about him to the media like the Titanic. While we are all sitting around worrying about how dangerous Trump is...his own people feel he is so dangerous to the country and the world they are protecting us from him. And guess what? Now Trump will be even more dangerous to us and the world because he knows his own staff believes he is. So, this is now a situation where he will be trying to get around his own staff with his dangerous stupidity. Look out!

3. This explains quite a bit about Trump's behavior. So, it is now confirmed that Trump has been so unhinged that his own staff does not tell him things, ignores things he says to do (like kill people and assassinate foreign leaders), hides paperwork hoping he'll forget about it (and he does), and walks out of meetings with the president mumbling about what a dangerous moron he is. So, this is why Trump will suddenly blurt something out in front of the media, like his trade war tariffs, because his staff have spent days trying to talk him off of whatever ledge he has got himself on and he finally decides "Well, I'll just tell the media I'm doing it!"

4. Trump should send a thank you note to the NY Times and Bob Woodward. Basically, turns out the media is Trump's friend. It took the Times and Woodward to alert him to how his staff truly feels about him. Problem is he now knows how his staff really feels about him. Trump really does believe that everybody loves him...I think he needs to believe that to get up every day, hence all those twisted rallies he loves...but it is starting to dawn on him, they really don't. Plus if Trump wants to actually do something he needs to involve the media otherwise his staff will dance around working to prevent him from doing it. He can't get it done unless he tells the media and then they keep asking about it.

5. So, we really don't have a president. Rather we have a guy that sits up in the middle of the night tweeting that imagines he is president. He does not run the country, his staff just makes him think he does. Problem is again...now he knows. So, expect him to go rouge. Which won't be pretty.