Ted Kennedy’s America. The Borking of American politics.

NRO ^ | October 26, 2007 12:00 AM | By Jonah Goldberg

[.cnI redruM]

America's worst. Senator. Ever. Ted Kennedy!

[tips up]

I don’t recall Reagan really going to the mat to save his nomination (though that was a long time ago and I may have forgotten).

Reagan ran rings around the media and Congress on other issues like his tax cuts.

[Diogenesis]

“If Mary Jo Kopechne had lived, she would be 64 years old.
Through his tireless work as a legislator,
Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”
Charles Pierce, January 5, 2003 Boston Globe Magazine

[popdonnelly]

Decent people should ostracize Ted Kennedy.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Borking may have been the first shot across the bow...probably an extension of Nixon hate.

Now the dems have escalated it exponentially due to the BJ Clintoon impeachment. Someday we have to drop a nuc on this crap.

[P8riot]

[The Great RJ]

Ted Kennedy's America is a land in which abortions including partial birth abortions would be government sponsored even for school children, whites and Asians would be denied college admission and jobs because of racial quotas, the politically correctness thought police would stifle free speech, schoolchildren would be taught global warming propaganda instead of real science and 11 year olds would be furnished with birth control by their schools, radio talk shows and bloggers would be censored at the whim of the government by the "fairness" doctrine.

[massgopguy]

The runt of a demented brood. All Kennedys are pus.

[ErnBatavia]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Robert Bork’s America would be a place where no one was allowed to own a gun.

[pbear8]

I wonder if he was compromised by the KGB sometime in the 60’s.

[caseinpoint]

“Decent people should ostracize Ted

It would be great but it probably won’t happen in his lifetime with Democrats protecting him. But I have a feeling there a really Decent Guy who will eventually ostracize him.

[BenLurkin]

"In a world where the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill standard was held consistently, Clinton would not have been qualified to be a tollbooth attendant on the New Jersey Turnpike."

[Jack Hammer]

“This month marks the 20th anniversary of the borking of Judge Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan’s failed Supreme Court nominee.”

There was nothing “failed” about Robert Bork. The failure was that of Congress - to approve the nomination of one of the most highly qualified nominees of the Twentieth Century.

[preacher]

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The already have. There just aren’t enough of them out there anymore.

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If only that legislation requiring air bags in cars had passed a few decades ago....

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There was a Caning Incident in the US Senate, but it occurred in 1837. Back before Ted was even old enough for his first Sloe Gin Fizz.

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With apologies to the Great Robert Dinero.

Ted: “You know how they got to me...They gave me a Grasshopper.”

Eager Liberal Groupie: “What’s grasshopper, Senator?”

Ted:”Well, you take two parts Vermouth....”

[Yardstick]

Stroke of genius.