(CNN) When Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor on Monday, he was, quite clearly irate. (Which, if you know anything about the taciturn and even-keeled Kentucky Republican, is saying something.) The reason for his anger? The tactics he believes Senate Democrats are using to slow down -- or even derail -- the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

Here's the key bit from McConnell: "Democrats have signaled for months they'd put on whatever performance the far left special interests demanded and throw all the mud, all the mud they could manufacture. It's not like they didn't warn us. But even by the far left's standards, this shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low."

McConnell's anger comes out of the news, which has seeped out over the past 10 days, of two women going on the record with allegations against Kavanaugh -- one allegation of sexual assault in high school and another allegation of inappropriate sexual behavior in college. The women, Christine Blasey Ford and Debra Ramirez, have said they chose to speak out now because they believed their experiences with Kavanaugh were of import with the Senate preparing to vote on his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Senate Democrats have been involved in both cases. The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein, was the recipient of a then-anonymous letter from Ford detailing the allegation that Kavanaugh pressed his body on her and tried to remove her swimsuit when they were both in college. And, four Senate Democrats' offices received information about Ramirez's allegation that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her while they were both freshmen at Yale University.

Stormed McConnell: "Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a man's personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations that are unsubstantiated and uncorroborated. That, Mr. President, is where we are. This is what the so-called resistance has become. A smear campaign, pure and simple. Aided and abetted by members of the United States Senate."

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