For those of you who do not recall Ted Kennedy’s words -
Within 45 minutes of Bork’s nomination to the Court, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) took to the Senate floor with a strong condemnation of Bork in a nationally televised speech, declaring:
“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, and 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.”
Not one of these charges was ever substantiated in any way. The Democrats have not changed the playbook one bit since, still relying on bombastic attack, and a false high moral “authority” (two assassinated brothers?).
The perfidy and chicanery are stupefying by its sheer audacity.
Bkmrk Ted Kennedy >>> Bork