Borked

Over at the Washington Post, Carter Eskew finds parallels between the whole Blunt amendment debacle and Edward Kennedy's speech regarding the nomination of Robert Bork or the Supreme Court.

From Kennedy's speech.-

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 would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.

I actually remember that nomination process and speech.
Yes, I was in high school...
Anybody with rosey glasses, for looking back at the Reagan presidency, should be reminded that he put Bork up for that job.  Bork may best be described as a conservative, far fringe dwelling, fuck stick, for those of you who weren't around or paying attention back then.

Oddly, in spite of averting the catastrophe of the old Borker on the Supreme Court and a lot of talk about how the country is turning into a crazy, commie, homo land - we actually seem to have creeped closer to the reality that Kennedy was talking about there, in 1987, huh?