Our present hyper-partisan and toxic political environment might well have been born on the 1st of July, 1987, when Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to replace Lewis Powell on the Supreme Court. Having convinced themselves – or at least, having convinced their donors - that the Gipper was out to seize personal control of women’s reproductive organs and re-institute Jim Crow, the Senate’s liberal wing had already vowed to stop whomever Reagan nominated, regardless how otherwise uncontroversial he might be. Thus, it only took the Ted Kennedy’s slime machine research team 45 minutes to prep America’s Conscience for this jeremiad:
Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy… President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.
Kennedy’s attack was, as Bork believed contemporaneously and a more personally disinterested Economist magazine editorial board later admitted, fabricated out of whole cloth. The ferocity of the attack stunned the Reagan White House into immobility for almost three months. Its only redeeming virtue, from a political perspective anyway, was that it worked.
But President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee approved of the process.
Sauce for the gander would be sauce for the goose, if there was any justice in the world of justice.
I would very much like to hear her explanation for why she denied the US Military access to students on Campus, while accepting a $20 million dollar “gift” from the Saudi Royal Family.
You need an explanation? AW1, of all people asking for this….Actions, they speak for themselves….
Well, yeah. I’d just like to see her state it for the record with the cameras rolling. It’s not like WE don’t get it. Sigh.
I knew that…but it really doesn’t really matter, some people don’t realize youtube is forever.
Rhetorical question I presume AW1.
As with BHO in his quest for the Presidency, Kagan would tell any story (I’m not supposed to use the word “LIE”) to get on the bench.
“Bork to publicly oppose Kagan for Supreme Court” -via Ms. Althouse
http://bit.ly/djBAQQ
Goose-gander-sauce; let’s hope it works.
“Just ask her: ‘Do you now or have you ever played softball?’ ”
“Pogo” @ Ann Althouse LOL!!
Guffaw! ROFL.
This b!tch does not belong on ANY court! She is a hack leftist politician, no more, no less.
But, she will probably be confirmed, part of the Obama legacy of destruction of our country to afflict our nation for decades in the future.
Maybe she will bring the rich life experiences of a wise honkey to the bench?
Tim – funnyazzhell! !!!
Thank you… I couldn’t resist.
Thing is, this current administration is so tone deaf that they just write the material for you.
She reminds me of Woody Allen.
Wierd. Leftist. Likely a perverse strek within her/him.
Political hack.
There will be justice one day. God will provide it and people like Kagan will definitely not like it.
Re scene setter: One minor consulation is that where Ted Kennedy is now, getting “Borked” would be tantamount to a vacation!
Actually, I’m kinda glad Bork got borked. He’s really bad on the second, ninth, and tenth amendments. The boy has creepy statist tendencies.