Thanks, Ted

I got a bit of a history lesson this morning, listening, as usual, to NPR as I prepared for work.

Naturally, the media is still abuzz about all things Ted Kennedy. They were telling of the Senator's famous speech on "Robert Bork's America" and they broadcast this quote:

"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 would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy."

And then I realized--with George W. Bush and the push of the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan was President, that's exactly what they've been working for.

And they got a some of this.

And they haven't given up on some of the rest of this, either.

Link to the original speech:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Robert_Bork's_America