Why would Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ask Kavanaugh about farting when Kavanaugh was 16 in Ford's hearing?

Isn't this a little stupid even for a democrats?

Whitehouse is something of a disgusting pig.

We needed to know about armpit noises. Why did Sheldon (great name for the doofus character in your next novel) not ask about armpit noises?

When I run for President I sure hope they don't find out about me recording my own farts in grade school and then playing them back in slo-mo so I could hear every flap.

Democrats are sick hypocrites.

Blumenthal called Kavanaugh a liar when Blumenthal lied for years about going to Vietnam when he never left Connecticut.
That bum went to Yale.

Kavanaugh lied about "boofing" (anally ingesting alcohol). Just another of many examples of perjury.

Whitehouse has a thing for farts.

They love the action

He didn't. He asked him about a reference to boofing in his yearbook. You seem to be one of a number of references to binge drinking, and which would have contradicted Cavanaugh's account of himself as a moderate drinker.