[MD] Protestant Capitalism

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"During Judge Alito's hearings, Senator Ted Kennedy accidentally 
referred to Sam Alito as Ali-oto. Kennedy said 'Forgive me, I'm sober.'"
 --Conan O'Brien

On 19 May 2009 at 17:23, Krimel wrote:

> [Krimel]
> Ah, Bork. We dodged a bullet on that dude. Thanks to Ted Kennedy for
> stopping that one. Here is a Wiki-snag from his 1987 Robert Bork's America
> speech. Even the shameless Raygun was stunned into silence. Unfortunately
> Borg's vision lives in other reactionary Republican court appointees. But
> Bork would have been the worst of a bad lot.
> 
> "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, writers and artists could be censored
> at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be
> shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is -- and
> is often the only -- protector of the individual rights that are the heart
> of our democracy... President Reagan is still our president. But he should
> not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of
> Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the
> Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be
> better than this injustice."
> -Ted Kennedy, 1987
> 
> This is the America Platt longs for but so far can't have.
> Thanks, Ted!