[Mick]

This is really simple: the "both sides do it" thing does not apply here.  Bork got a vote and lost, and his replacement got a vote and was easily nominated.  Obama's votes against Bush's nominees were meaningless theater, as the outcomes were never in doubt.

If Obama's nominees get a fair and prompt vote and can't get 50 votes, I won't complain.  But that option, in an unprecedented step, has already been taken off the table by McConnell.

Don't tell me it's just politics. This is something new under the sun.

I'd forgotten that there was a Justice Bork, I was only familiar with the term as a verb.


English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]
(US) IPA(key): /bɔɹk/

Etymology 1[edit]

From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork.[1]

Verb[edit]

bork ‎(third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)
1.(US, politics, often pejorative) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.  [quotations ▼]

[Mick]

This is really simple: the "both sides do it" thing does not apply here.  Bork got a vote and lost, and his replacement got a vote and was easily nominated.  Obama's votes against Bush's nominees were meaningless theater, as the outcomes were never in doubt.

If Obama's nominees get a fair and prompt vote and can't get 50 votes, I won't complain.  But that option, in an unprecedented step, has already been taken off the table by McConnell.

Don't tell me it's just politics. This is something new under the sun.

I'd forgotten that there was a Justice Bork, I was only familiar with the term as a verb.


English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]
(US) IPA(key): /bɔɹk/

Etymology 1[edit]

From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork.[1]

Verb[edit]

bork ‎(third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)
1.(US, politics, often pejorative) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.  [quotations ▼]