Biden and Bork: Together again!

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In the late 1980s, Joe Biden and Robert Bork were once thought of in the same breath. Much like Crockett and Tubbs, Cagney and Lacey, and Cosby and sweaters.

Biden was the Senate Judiciary Committee chair who helped mobilize the fight against Bork, then President Reagan’s choice to add a conservative voice to the Supreme Court. Twenty years later, it remains probably Biden’s best-known achievement. And Bork has never forgotten.

Biden is running for president. No surprise that Bork isn’t backing him. This weekend, Bork announced he is supporting the presidential bid of Mitt Romney, saying in a statement:

"'No other candidate will do more to advance the conservative judicial movement than Gov. Mitt Romney,” the former federal appeals judge said in a statement released Saturday. “He knows firsthand how the judicial branch can profoundly affect the future course of a state and a nation.” And Bork specifically addressed Romney’s opposition to same-sex marriage, saying, “His leadership on the issue has served as a model to the nation on how to respect all of our citizens while respecting the rule of law at the same time.”

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But Biden being Biden, he couldn’t let Bork’s endorsement pass without comment. “In my view, endorsement of Gov. Romney is not something to tout; it’s a damning portent of the judicial philosophy Romney would promote as president,” Biden said today. “The last thing we need after eight years of the Bush administration’s policies of eavesdropping on Americans, extra-legal renditions, and refusal to define waterboarding as torture, is another eight years of recklessness with our constitutional rights.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/biden_and_bork_together_again_1.html

[gateley]

1. As usual, Biden is spot-on.

An important reminder what's at stake this election.

Recommend!

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2. Thank god Bork never made it

to the Supreme Court! Or thank Joe Biden.

[TwilightZone]

3. No kidding.

If we thought that Scalia was bad (and we do), can you imagine Bork on the Court?

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4. Only in my darkest nightmares

The country owes a debt of gratitude to Senator Biden.

[1corona4u]

8. k

[Steely_Dan]

5. Biden...

He was right then and he is right now.

-P

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6. I wonder if Bork knew he was doing Biden a favor

by putting his name out there right now. It is a great reminder of what Biden did 20 years ago.

[NoPasaran]

7. I preferred Biden and Bjork

That was an awesome tour!

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9. Kick!!!

[Think82]

10. kickin'

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11. It's funny, I thought the name "Bork"

would have attracted more attention.

[1corona4u]

12. How quickly they forget...

or maybe they weren't born yet. ;-)

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13. Well some people seem to remember other things very clearly

from long ago. Maybe this will conjure up memories! This man would be on the Supreme Court today if it wasn't for Joe Biden.

[WheelWalker]

14. You know, the more I hear from this Joe Biden, the more I like him. Really.

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15. And he'd be a front-runner

if more people actually got to "hear from him". Thanks MSM for doing your job???

[rucky]

16. Bork: The gift that keeps on giving.

and makes a great stocking stuffer for this X-Mas!

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17. The kind of gift that tends to be easily forgotten

We often remember the things that DID happen and not the things that DIDN'T.

[murbley40]

18. Kick