We use the term "Borking" now almost as a verb.
|
|
For Democrats, that ended in 1987 with the Borking of Bork.
|
|
But Bork's legacy, and the idea of "Borking," has been misconstrued.
|
|
But at least it was just a good old fashioned attempt at borking.
|
|
Instead, it likely reflects a mathematical calculation that Borking Kavanaugh would be fruitless.
|
|
But at least it was just a good old-fashioned attempt at Borking.
|
|
Consequently, there will be fewer instances in which Borking will be worth the money and effort.
|
|
With a Republican president and a Republican-led Senate, there would be no borking this time.
|
|
According to Goldstein, her nomination could get transparently obstructed—a bad look for Republicans—or she might be subjected to a savage borking.
|
|
The report lays out in detail how the company's top brass botched crises involving mounting losses and unsustainable consumer demand—including, apparently, borking its own service.
|
|
How about the train that has thoroughly conked out at Rector Street, and which is borking the commutes of people all up and down the line?
|
|
Conservatives are still bitter about the treatment of Robert Bork in 1987, such that "borking" remains in common usage, and the allegations Clarence Thomas faced from Anita Hill in 1991.
|
|
The political party that invented the term "Borking" is using uncorroborated and unverified sexual misconduct charges made by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez as a battering ram against Kavanaugh.
|
|
For Republicans, it usually dates to John F. Kennedy stealing the 1960 election from Nixon in Chicago, followed by the "soft coup" of Watergate, the crucifixion of Robert Bork, and the subsequent "borking" of Clarence Thomas.
|
|
Photo: Ludovic Marin (AP)An inventor buzzing around on a flyboard clutching a rifle and subsequently borking an attempt to cross the English Channel isn't the only mildly science fiction-y development concerning the French military lately.
|
|
"Borking" is now viewed as a widely used practice for both Republicans and Democrats, though now it generally means attempting to bring down a high-level candidate with "personal attacks" on something seemingly irrelevant to their jobs.
|
|
SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS: Democrats, their corrupt media friends, they will do and say anything to malign the president&aposs nomination, block them from fulfilling his constitutional duty, get ready for the lies, the propaganda, the misinformation, the fear-mongering, the character assassination, and yes, the Borking of whoever it ends up being.
|
|
In one of his many political comments on Thursday, Judge Kavanaugh said he had been subjected to a "good, old-fashioned attempt at Borking" — referring to the failed 1987 Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert Bork that is seared in the minds of conservatives who believe their champion was unfairly attacked by Democrats.
|
|
If history tells us anything and everybody in the media is trying to scare you already, Democrats, their corrupt media friends, they will do and say anything to malign the president&aposs nomination, block them from fulfilling his constitutional duty, get ready for the lies, the propaganda, the misinformation, the fear-mongering, the character assassination, and yes, the Borking of whoever it ends up being.
|
|
Commentators at The American ConservativeDaniel Larison (December 19, 2012), The Attempted Borking of Chuck Hagel The American ConservativeW. James Antle III (December 24, 2012), Somehow a Republican The American ConservativeScott McConnell (January 7, 2013), Hagel in History's Cockpit The American Conservative and Pat BuchananPat Buchanan (December 28, 2012), Why the War Party Fears Hagel buchanan.org endorsed Hagel. Hagel's nomination received support from Antiwar.
|
|
Referring to the failure of Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork, she said of Thomas, "We're going to 'bork' him.""The Borking Begins; Linda Chavez's mistake was she took a less fortunate person into her home" (Editorial), The Wall Street Journal (January 8, 2001). The liberal campaign to defeat the Bork nomination served as a model for liberal interest groups opposing Thomas.Tushnet, Mark.
|
|
Privacy by design originated from privacy- enhancing technologies (PETs) in a joint 1995 report by Ann Cavoukian and John Borking. In 2007 the European Commission provided a memo on PETs. In 2008 the British Information Commissioner's Office commissioned a report titled Privacy by Design – An Overview of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. There are many facets to privacy by design, including software and systems engineering as well as administrative elements (e.g.
|
|
He also works as a political consultant for Quantum Communications, a Harrisburg-based political strategy firm. He is the author of The Borking Rebellion, about the confirmation of Federal Judge D. Brooks Smith. It received a generally positive review in The Wall Street Journal. His more recent book, published in January 2016 (from which he gained the name, "The Trump Defender"), is What America Needs: The Case for Trump.
|
|