Harriet Miers Was Borked

[nashuaadvocate]

As progressive Democrats, we owe a duty to the venerable (and a wee bit racist) Mr. Bork to point this out.

I talked about it on my blog, but here's the upshot:

Supreme Court Nominees "Borked" By Democrats: 1
Supreme Court Nominees "Borked" By Republicans: 1

What this means is that we never have to hear the phrase "ideological litmus test" from Republicans again. They've just employed one, so now they can't decry the concept.

And we should never have to hear Bork's name again, either. They just Borked their own nominee, so now the term has lost all meaning, and the man himself, all relevance.

Bottom line: You eat your young, you lose the right to decry cannibalism.

Sound about right? I think so.

[edbermac]

1. And it was Bush who Borked her!

I'm shocked; I thought he was a good Christian...:sarcasm:

[zbdent]

18. Didn't a sitting president get impeached for that?

Oh, wait, wrong term . . . :evilgrin:

[Geoff R. Casavant]

21. I believe that's known as "autoborking"

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Where have you been???!!!!! Lost you for a while.

[bryant69]

3. That's a good response

Yeah they took her down; they Borked her.

Of course Ironically one of the judges calling the loudes for her Borking was former Judicial Nominee Bork.

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[Skidmore]

4. Bork helped bork her. I saw him on the teevee a few days ago

borking away.

[Greeby]

5. When you get Borked by Bork

You're Borked! ;)

[Dmitri Willguard]

10. No, you're Bork-Borked.

...sounds a bit like a chicken when said out loud, actually... :eyes:

[JHB]

17. Stop it! You're making me hungry!

"Yorn desh born,
der ritt de gitt der gue,
Orn desh, dee born desh,
de umn Børk! Børk! Børk!"

[Dmitri Willguard]

22. Swedish Chef + Political Commentary = ...

...the most incredibly improbable Muppets/News crossover EVAR.

You -rock- :D

[nashuaadvocate]

6. Exactly! This is an irony too delicious to miss.

S.

[goodhue]

16. Indeed!

Bork borked Miers

[Cactus44]

7. I'm not so convinced.

Yes, there was alot of discussion about her personal ideology, BUT- she was also shockingly unqualified and her nomination came soley because of her relationship w/ the Prez. There was alot not to like about the Miers nomination, so saying she was Borked doesn't begin to cover it.

[Neocondriac]

8. Please.....

not while I'm eating lunch!

[gratuitous]

9. Yep, and they can round file that "up or down vote" nonsense

Miss Miers didn't even get to a hearing before the zealots decided she wasn't zealous enough. So that "up or down vote" crapola can go the way of the dodo and the passenger pigeon.

[Skidmore]

11. Next time Fristy decides to do his "up or down vote" whine,

some enterprising Dem should come back with a rejoinder about votes being "Miered".

[sam sarrha]

12. whenever has law, tradition, president or common sense effected what they

have decided to do..

they are obsessive compulsive megalomaniac Fascists.. on a rampage to destroy the Constitution of the United States.. an replace it with a NeoCon Fascist Utopia from the ashes.

[MADem]

13. And Bork's borking had as much to do with his subversion of the

Constitution as it did his neanderthal view of that document.

The big elephant in the room, the thing everyone forgets in the mists of time, that made the GOP as well as the Democrats VERY uneasy about Bork, was the fact that he was the COX SACKER.

Bork was the guy who, at the behest of RICHARD NIXON, FIRED Archibald Cox after Elliot Richardson refused and resigned, and his deputy refused and quit as well.

A guy who is a tool of a criminal President who resigned to avoid impeachment is not the sort of guy you want on the Supremes. Harriet's problem was that she had insufficient history, was unprepared in her informal interviews, did not answer questions with sufficient knowledge and rigor, and had all the hallmarks of a toady. What Bork did, cheerfully carrying out that illegal order, was in and of itself criminal.

For this reason I can't see the two as equivalent, but the point of argument is useful when dealing with a rightwing ideologue.

[bobbieinok]

19. IMO, Bork lost many repubs b/c he said there is NO right to privacy

in the constitution

at the time, many repubs believed in privacy

(this is the way I remember it; when Bork said that, the game was over.......RW revisions of history never mention that; they claim it was b/c he had a record......that's why repub nominees do NOT want a record, do NOT discuss their record)

[MADem]

20. Oh, certainly, the STATED reasons for rejecting him had to do with his

'judicial philosophy'--no argument from me, there. But in the back of everyone's mind in the Senate (which is chockerblock FULL of lawyers) is that this clown went and fired an appointed Special Prosecutor just because the guy was getting too close to the truth. They saw their fellow lawyers, the AG, Richardson, and his Deputy, Ruckleshaus, resign because the rule of law was being flouted.

I just got the sense that Bork playing good Nazi to Nixon, and circumventing the justice system, did not set too well with those guys at all.

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Had she been Borked by Björk?

Now, that would really pop my cork!

Bork's a dork, but not Björk.

--p!
Stick done in her, she's a fork.

[TahitiNut]

15. Nonsense. She was the "anti-Borked" ... the total opposite.

Bork had a paper-trail as broad as a superhighway. Miers had almost none - less than a snake-path. Bork was torpedoed because of extensive evidence of extreme ideological views - paramount to a psychosis. Mier's was torpedoed because of the almost complete absence of evidence - along with ambiguity. Bork was intellectually gifted. Miers is intellectually-challenged. She's the "anti-Bork" ... the Pong to the Bork Ping. Bookends.

What her withdrawal does is almost assure another Bork nomination ... which might narrowly pass this time.

I agree with Steve Roberts' assessment. This betrays the hypocrisy of the far right. Rather than eschewing court activism, they're insisting on it. Lacking the votes in the Congress to overturn Roe v. Wade, they demand "legislation from the bench" to overturn it. The far-fundie-reich is overtly imposing not only a litmus test, but a litmus test coupled with a promise of judicial activism. This is the heart of fascism - any hypocritical means to impose the will of an intolerant, jack-booted minority/plurality on all others.