Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says the full Senate will vote on the Kavanaugh nomination "this week." (Photo: Screen capture/C-SPAN)

(CNSNews.com) - “If you listen carefully, you can practically hear the sounds of the Democrats moving the goalposts," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a floor speech Monday.

But try as they might to delay or block Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, "We'll be voting this week," McConnell promised.

First, McConnell criticized the way Democrats handled Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's confidential allegation:

“So we have learned that, if you confide in Senate Democrats on a highly sensitive personal matter, no request for confidentiality will keep you from becoming a household name. And if you’re a nominee whose judicial philosophy Senate Democrats deem to be objectionable, no centuries-old standard of presumed innocence will protect your name, your family, or your reputation from irreparable damage."

McConnell also warned that the current FBI investigation demanded by Democrats will not be enough:

“The Democratic Leader and the ranking Democrat on the Committee both said recently that an FBI investigation can be completed in less than a week. But I’d bet almost anything that -- after it runs its course in the next few days -- we will then be treated to a lecture that anything short of a totally unbounded fishing expedition of indefinite duration is too limited, or too arbitrary, or somehow insufficient. We all know that’s coming."

And then he detailed the Democrat foot-dragging ever since President Trump nominated Kavanaugh on July 9:

"Remember back in the summer? Democrats said there weren’t enough documents to get a good sense of Judge Kavanaugh’s career. Then we heard there were too many documents. Then, once Dr. Ford’s private allegation was mysteriously made public, we couldn’t possibly move forward until we heard from them both.

“Then, after neither the hearing nor the statements of supposed witnesses yielded any corroborating evidence -- and, in fact, produced evidence that supported Judge Kavanaugh -- we were told only an FBI investigation would resolve this, and that it could be done promptly.

"Well, let me go way out on a limb," McConnell said. "Let me make a small prediction. Soon enough, the goalposts will be on the move once again. I would respectfully say to my colleagues: Do these actions suggest this has ever been about finding the truth? Does anybody believe that? Do these actions suggest this has ever been about giving Judge Kavanaugh a fair hearing?"

McConnell said although the goalposts keep shifting, the Democrat's goal --to keep Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court -- has not changed: "And so the time for endless delay and obstruction has come to a close. Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination is out of Committee. We are considering it here on the floor. And we’ll be voting this week.”

A transcript of McConnell's full speech can be found here.