We used to hear about getting “Borked”, but I think it’s about time to retire that one. Robert Bork’s
abortive Supreme Court nomination hearing was so long ago that you’d be lucky
if 5% of your audience has even the slightest idea what you’re talking about
when you trot that one out.
We should probably refer
to getting “Kavanaughed” instead. The process is exactly the same, after all.
The more things change, the more they don’t.
As the late Teddy Kennedy put it in 1987: “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 …”
Sound familiar? Thought so.