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Melissa Richmond was an intern on Capitol Hill when a congressman invited her over to his house one evening to talk about her internship.

She never went.  The internship?  Disappeared.

For Ms. Richmond, her hopes of working on Capitol Hill disappeared with the job… that is, until she talked to Barbara Comstock and shared her story with someone who cared.  From the advertisement:

She believed me – and she stood with me. Barbara is a fighter for women – and she is working across the aisle to stop this kind of abuse of power.

She’s passed landmark legislation to combat sexual harassment in Congress.

With zero tolerance… no more secret settlements… and no taxpayer bailouts for predators.

For those unaware of the previous practice, congressmen in Washington would actually have their settlements paid out at taxpayer expense.  That is, until Barbara Comstock put a big bright spotlight on the issue and demanded some answers.

What is more, Comstock was leading on this issue long before “Me Too” arrived on the scene, which means that Comstock herself has a personal interest in making Washington a safer and more respectful place for women to contribute to the public square.

The interview had to be difficult for Ms. Richmond to agree to do.  To have such a painful moment transformed into an advertisement?  Even harder… but sometimes, it is courage like this that changes hearts and minds.  When the evidence is clear, the testimony is powerful.

I know I’d want my daughters working for Comstock.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the floor this morning in an excoriating reprimand on part of the Democrat’s handling of the Judge Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, which included an FBI investigation into accusations of sexual assault from 36 years ago.

“For a few weeks their tactics played out…gross distortions about Kavanaugh’s record,” McConnell said, charging that the left has used “apocalyptic announcements,” falsely accusing that the Supreme Court nominee is “hostile to women, hostile to vulnerable people, and hostile to workers.” T

he Kentucky Republican, however, alluded to the formation of a pattern on part of the Democratic agenda, determining the vicious attacks were from the “same ol’ play book.”

“Distortions drowned out the facts,” McConnell said, who was recently on the receiving end of a left-wing intimidation attack at an airport.

Judge Kavanaugh has been asked, both verbal and in writing, more questions than have ever been asked of a Supreme Court nominee in history, combined. As an author of 300 legal opinions during his decade on the D.C. Federal Court, Judge Kavanaugh had enough to substantiate his position in terms of ruling on high court cases.

But, McConnell said the “resistance demanded more.”

He said the Democrats then formulated “uncorroborated allegations of the most obscene, sensitive sort,” having Judge Kavanaugh and his family living through “hell” for the last three weeks, according to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Graham also called the way in which the process has been handled by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee a “sham.”

The Senate majority leader said he found there was “no corroborating evidence from the FBI, or anywhere else.”

“The facts were not the point after all, we get that now,” McConnell said.

“The Democrats moved the whole goalpost yet again,” he added.

For the senator, “[Democrats] harmed a good man and his family, tarnished the dignity of this institutions,” and “the Senate stands on the threshold of a golden opportunity…to a post that demands such excellence.”

“But, we have to opportunity to do more,” he added.

McConnell wants Republicans, and any Democrats who are willing to after this debacle of a bitterly divided confirmation hearing process to, “send a message to the American people…facts matter, fairness matters, the presumption of innocence is sacrosanct.”

“The Senate should look back on these things with “shame,” he said.

Afterwards, Senate Republicans had enough votes to advance the Kavanaugh confirmation, setting up a vote for Saturday.

Reportedly, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has confirmed that she will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court just 24 hours before the critical vote, still making Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) a wild card.  Republicans can rely on Vice President Mike Pence to break a potential tie vote, with move being unprecedented.

During a recent SiriusXM interview, Chelsea Clinton said, “as a deeply religious person,” taking America back to the days before Roe v. Wade would be “unchristian.” As anyone may be confused by this, she attempts to explain what she means.

Clinton has been working to keep abortion legal through her advocacy work for Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights group. She explained to the interviewer that “when I think about all of the statistics — that are painful — of what women are confronting…today in our country, and what even more women confronted pre-Roe and how many women died and how many more women were maimed because of unsafe abortion practices, we just can’t go back to that.”

“That’s unconscionable to me, and also, I’m sure that this will unleash another wave of hate in my direction, but as a deeply religious person, it’s also unchristian to me,” Clinton concluded.

Well, at least she tried to explain it…unfortunately.

The former first daughter has also faced extensive backlash for a comment she made linking the “legalization of abortion” in the 1970s to economic improvement via more women being able to join the workforce because of the existence of those services.

“American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added $3.5 trillion dollars to our economy,” she said. “Right? The net, new entrance of women—that is not disconnected from the fact that Roe became the law of the land in January of 1973.”

Clinton seems to believe that the best argument for abortion services is that it spurs economic growth is great proportions. Although she did not go as far to say that all $3.5 trillion worth in growth can be attributed to the create of abortion services, but still constitutes a big enough fraction, it is silly to even make the economic justification for ending the life of a potential human being.