[Enchante]

the “borking” of Robert Bork and then Clarence Thomas helped me to realize just how many preening liberals are devoid of character and decency

before that I naively thought that most people in our public life were committed on some level to honest, respectful disagreements on issues

but those episodes showed that Teddy Kennedy and his ilk had zero scruples about dishonestly trashing distinguished jurists for political ends

[PaleoBob]

the “borking” of Robert Bork and then Clarence Thomas helped me to realize just how many preening liberals are devoid of character and decency

before that I naively thought that most people in our public life were committed on some level to honest, respectful disagreements on issues

but those episodes showed that Teddy Kennedy and his ilk had zero scruples about dishonestly trashing distinguished jurists for political ends

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Before the Bork nomination you probably could have found one or two half decent Dems. But that seemed to be the event where they went fully rabid and never looked back.