Democrat bad behavior in Supreme Court justice confirmation hearings has become as predictable as the sun rising in the east every morning. In 1987, President Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the supreme court. Bork was a constitutional originalist. He believed that the constitution actually means what it says – not what some robed overlord found emanating from a penumbra somewhere. Such radical views could not be allowed on the high court. Ted Kennedy, the Senate Judiciary Chairman at the time, led the attack against Bork. On the Senate floor Kennedy said:
“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, and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution.”
None of that was true, but Bork was never confirmed. The Kennedy-led inquisition even spawned a new verb in American politics – borking. According to the Oxford Languages dictionary, to bork is to: Obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them.
Joe “return to normalcy” Biden continued the practice of borking during the Clarence Thomas confirmation. He introduced unsubstantiated claims of sexual harassment in an attempt to keep Thomas off of the bench. Luckily Biden failed – as he usually does.
The pinnacle of Democrat borking had to be the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. It marked the completion of their transition from donkeys to jackasses. They accused Kavanaugh of being a sexual predator, on the basis of the word of a proven perjurer, and the claims of Michael Avenatti. That would be the same Avenatti, who was once touted as a potential Democrat candidate (continued)
This post originally appeared on The Blue State Conservative.
