Senator Charles Grassley has this op-ed in the WSJ with the above title.  The subtitle is "He admits his mind is made up on Kavanaugh. That means his document demands are in bad faith."

Karl Marx's variation on a theme by Georg Hegel, slightly rephrased, goes, "History repeats itself -- the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

The attack on SCOTUS nominee Robert Bork in 1987 was a tragedy.  The savage and dishonest attack on Judge Bork by Senators Ted Kennedy et al. demeaned the process and polluted the waters.  The waters cleared somewhat when Republicans treated President Clinton's nominees far better but then turned foul again in later years.

The farce appeared this year, when protest signs were printed in advance of the nomination announcement, with a blank to be filled in with the nominee's name.

Now we have Senator Schumer, who announces that he will fight all-out war against this nomination the day after it is announced and yet demands an astonishing volume of documents, detailed in the op-ed.  The reason one would need documents is to evaluate a nominee to reach a decision, but Senator Schumer has already irrevocably made his decision.

The documents demanded include records from Judge Kavanaugh's time as White House staff secretary, an unprecedented intrusion into the heart of a coordinate branch of government.  If a future Democratic President nominates an aide to Senator Schumer to the bench, will Republicans be entitled to every private document from Senator Schumer's office?  Don't bet the farm on it.

When all is said and done, I suspect, Senator Schumer will not have the votes to turn his farce into tragedy.  That will be a good result for the country, its people, and its Constitution.