Robert Bork says choosing Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court was 'a bad mistake'

[joeybee12]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/202874

You gotta read this...Bork says the SCOTUS is very liberal and Clarence Thomas is his favorite jurist! You can't make this s**t up!

[Lithos]

1. If Bork says it is so

Then I believe 180 degrees opposite.

L-

[baldguy]

2. There's a reason this jackass was Borked.

A basic requirement for a Supreme Court Justice is that he believe in the Constitution. This guy doesn't.

[joeybee12]

3. Problem is, he never read it! n/t

[choie]

5. jeebus, I thought he was dead!

[tsuki]

34. Does brain-dead count? nt

[lisa58]

4. and..........?

[marmar]

6. Who left the manhole cover off the sewer and let him out?

n/t

[Skittles]

7. he is a repuke whore

"intellectual elite" - gawd :rofl:

[Atticus]

25. A bit redundant, isn't it?

"repuke whore"?

Will Newsweek soon be treating us to Rev. Fred Phelps thoughts on tolerance?

How about KKKarl Rove's insights on transparency and integrity in government?

[DebbieCDC]

8. Somebody needs their meds adjusted

[Warpy]

9. Aren't we all glad Bork got turned down!

He was an ultra right screwball then and the years have not improved him.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Yes, but on the other hand,

he's gotten worse.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Robert Bork? The segregationist?

Why, I never would have imagined.

[BlooInBloo]

11. Just waiting patiently for them to die of old age.

[devilgrrl]

13. Which means that choosing Sotomayor is good for the American public!!!!!!

F*** Robert Bork!

[SoxFan]

14. Thank you, Joe Biden, for keeping this guy off of the court

[bigwillq]

15. She'll wave to you from the bench, Bjork.

:hi: <That is Sonia waving from the bench of the SCOTUS.

[BlooInBloo]

16. Now that I think about it, I hope Bork lives another 20 years...

And gets to see Sotomayor on the bench every day of those 20 years.

[bigwillq]

17. That would be nice.

:)

[Canuckistanian]

35. 30 years would be better

I hope his grandchildren get see him become a bitter old man screaming at kids to get off his lawn.

[BlooInBloo]

37. Sold.

[WeDidIt]

18. Damn we're lucky this idiot fuckwad who bowed to the whims of Nixon

never made it to the court.

Motherfucking Satruday Night Massacre wimpy assed bastard who fired Cox.

[me b zola]

19. Bork him

[Stuart G]

20. Why would Newsweek give one second to this idiot?

Newsweek's choice of Bork to write anything reflects more on Newsweek than words can express.

[izquierdista]

23. Running out of idiots

The "liberal" media is running out of shills to parrot the corporate line. They are caught in a backwater, trolling for gems of reactionary wit while the river has changed course and left them to get stuck on a sand bar. Soon they are going to drop the silly requirement for their talking heads that both of their eyes maintain focus on the same point.

[joeybee12]

24. Take a look at relaclearpolitics...they link to opinion pieces...

...note how many are conservative, aka, brain-dead...the MSM is dominated by Repukes and caters to Repukes.

[madinmaryland]

21. I guess that means she is a very good choice!

[joeybee12]

26. Bonds Hater!

Whoops...this spilled over from sports...never mind.

[madinmaryland]

28. Huh???

[joeybee12]

29. Who is that?

You?

[madinmaryland]

30. ..

Maybe you need to keep your comments in the proper forum!

:hi:

[joeybee12]

31. Maybe...

...good night...no baseball games of any note to keep me awake.

[madinmaryland]

33. You're not going to stay up for the battle of Bay tonight?

[Ikonoklast]

22. You can almost hear the bile rising in his throat.

I hope he chokes on it.

Yeah, asshole, a female with Puerto Rican roots is going to sit on the Supreme Court.




You....ain't.

[CANDO]

27. Bork was Nixon's acting AG and fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.

As Solicitor General, Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", the October 20, 1973 firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's request for tapes of Oval Office conversations. U.S. President Richard Nixon initially ordered his Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, who considered the order "fundamentally wrong"<8>, followed this example. After these resignations, Bork became acting Attorney General. Though Bork believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being "perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job". Richardson and Ruckelshaus told Bork he should not resign to avoid the damage a chain of resignations would do to the Department of Justice.<8> When Nixon reiterated his order, Bork complied and fired Cox. He remained acting Attorney General until the appointment of William B. Saxbe on December 17 1973.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork

[joeybee12]

42. Now THAT's judicial activism, Borkie...giving Nixon powers the

constitution doesn't give him...what an idiot.

[HughMoran]

32. HAHAHA!! That's why you were Borked - cause you're a fucking piece of living filth

Somebody shit on his face.

[UTUSN]

36. BORK-ie, this is SO funny on SO many levels!1 n/t

[Wizard777]

38. I agree Sotomayor will be a mistake. She appears to robe herself in biases.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

40. Really? Which biases?

[Wizard777]

44. Race and gender. I want a wise judge. If that Judge also happens to be Latina. That's fine.

But she can't lead with that and claim to be unbiased. She has recently resigned from a womans club. If that is a problem for her as a SCOTUS Justice. That is also a problem for her on the current Bench she occupies. She seems to be very politically minded and active. That's a no no for a judge. She seems more inclined to use the bench for social engineering, more appropriately done by Congress, than Justice. As Senator Sotomayor. I would support her whole heartedly. But Justice Sotomayor. Oh heeeeeell no! She's far too political for that.

Let me ask you a question. If she were nominated by George Bush instead. Would you still support the nomination? Could you still overlook her poor choice of words or would they be the albatross around her neck? Keeping in mind that as a Justice her "poor choice of words" will bear the force of Supreme Law.

[Octafish]

39. A mistake? Like firing Archibald Cox?

Bork, you are a sad, sad man.
It's still not too late to repent.
What was it JFK asked? Ah...
"Don't you believe in redemption?"

[symbolman]

41. Bork's Mother

Agreeing to go Through with it the night of his conception, was a Bad Mistake..

[WI_DEM]

43. Well now I feel somewhat better about Sotomayor.