Etaoin
01-13-2006, 09:55 AM
AND HIGH DAMNED TIME!!!!!!
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The Battle of Princeton
Borking has lost its bite.
BY DANIEL HENNINGER
Friday, January 13, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
The grand hulk of Ted Kennedy ranted that he wanted to subpoena the papers of former National Review publisher William Rusher to get to the bottom of Samuel Alito's membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton. At this moment, one sensed that perhaps at last the ghost of Robert Bork had finally been laid to rest. Borking was once a Democratic smear tactic. This week--amid intellectually exhausted and politically befuddled Democrats--it became a laugh track.
It is widely believed that all this started in 1987 when Sen. Kennedy raced to the Senate floor to bellow that "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, children could not be taught about evolution." But Borking began the year before, when President Reagan nominated William Rehnquist to be chief justice.
THE REST (http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110007810)
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The Battle of Princeton
Borking has lost its bite.
BY DANIEL HENNINGER
Friday, January 13, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
The grand hulk of Ted Kennedy ranted that he wanted to subpoena the papers of former National Review publisher William Rusher to get to the bottom of Samuel Alito's membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton. At this moment, one sensed that perhaps at last the ghost of Robert Bork had finally been laid to rest. Borking was once a Democratic smear tactic. This week--amid intellectually exhausted and politically befuddled Democrats--it became a laugh track.
It is widely believed that all this started in 1987 when Sen. Kennedy raced to the Senate floor to bellow that "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, children could not be taught about evolution." But Borking began the year before, when President Reagan nominated William Rehnquist to be chief justice.
THE REST (http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110007810)