All Our Yesterdays

Who said the following:

It is offensive to suggest that a potential justice of the Supreme Court must pass some presumed test of judicial philosophy. It is even more offensive to suggest that a potential justice must pass the litmus test of any single-issue interest group.

I'll give you a few extra minutes to think about it....

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Give up?

Would you believe Ted Kennedy back in 1981 regarding the nomination of...Sandra Day O'Connor to the SCOTUS? Would you also believe that Uncle Ted was a year and change away from beginning his fourth senate term at the time?

Let's do one more.

Who said the following:

"Say the Administration sends up Bork and, after our investigation, he looks a lot like another Scalia. I'd have to vote for him, and if the groups tear me apart, that's the medicine I'll have to take. I'm not Teddy Kennedy." [emphasis added]

That was only six years later (when the Massachusetts Manatee was approaching his fifth term).

Answer: Joe Biden. Who, as it happened, chaired the Judiciary Committee that helped "bork" Judge Bork, against whose nomination Senator Hairplugs joined Teddy Kennedy in voting.

It was a different era, alright, as Senator Lindsey "Drooling Idiot Moron" Graham was gushing to Sean Hannity this afternoon. It was also the era of Democrat dominance of Congress, when they ran the show and their running of the show was the "natural order of things." The decline of "civility" and rise of hyperpartisanship - all on the Democrat side of the aisle, I might add - follows the downward curve of their electoral fortunes since the days Darth Queeg's Mini-Me pines for. And since the Democrats have not, and will never, accept the supine, prostrated role Republicans did as the minority, none of us should be surprised to see Dems like Kennedy and Biden go "to hypocrisy and beyond!"

Or "to war"....

[HT: GOP Bloggers]