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  • Some Get 'Borked,' Others Get 'Miered'

    10/27/2005 1:05:48 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 97 replies · 1,344+ views
    Associated Press ^ | October 27, 2005 | NAHAL TOOSI
    Is "miered" the new "borked"? Robert Bork's failed nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987 spawned the verb "borked," defined loosely as getting rejected in an unseemly, even unfair, manner. Now there is talk online about whether Harriet Miers' withdrawal of her nomination to the high court will give rise to the term "miered." While liberals led to the opposition to Bork, it was conservatives who brought down Miers' nomination. A contributor to The Reform Club, a right-leaning blog, wrote that to get "borked" was "to be unscrupulously torpedoed by an opponent," while to get "miered" was to be "unscrupulously...