President Biden’s betrayal of Israel reminds me of Clarence Thomas’s account of his confirmation hearings, which I wrote about in more detail a few years back.

This nugget, from Thomas’s memoir, jumped out at me in particular today:

Throughout my life I’ve often found truth embedded in the lyrics of my favorite records. At Yale, for example, I’d listened often to ‘Smiling Faces Sometimes,’ a song by the Undisputed Truth that warns of the dangers of trusting the hypocrites who ‘pretend to be your friend’ while secretly planning to do you wrong. Now I knew I’d met one of them: Senator Biden’s smooth, insincere promises that he would treat me fairly were nothing but talk.