"During Judge Alito's hearings, Senator Ted Kennedy accidentally referred to Sam Alito as Ali-oto. Kennedy said 'Forgive me, I'm sober.'" --Conan O'Brien
On 19 May 2009 at 17:23, Krimel wrote: > [Krimel] > Ah, Bork. We dodged a bullet on that dude. Thanks to Ted Kennedy for > stopping that one. Here is a Wiki-snag from his 1987 Robert Bork's America > speech. Even the shameless Raygun was stunned into silence. Unfortunately > Borg's vision lives in other reactionary Republican court appointees. But > Bork would have been the worst of a bad lot. > > "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 could be censored > at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be > shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is -- and > is often the only -- protector of the individual rights that are the heart > of our democracy... President Reagan is still our president. But he should > not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of > Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the > Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be > better than this injustice." > -Ted Kennedy, 1987 > > This is the America Platt longs for but so far can't have. > Thanks, Ted! Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
