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  4. From: bobh@troy.cc.bellcore.com (hettmansperger,robert)
  5. Subject: Re: Bork is a good judge? (NOT!) (was Re: Anita Hill to Head EEOC
  6. Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
  7. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:07:33 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.140733.29126@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
  9. References: <1992Nov13.201048.23212@novell.com> <BxupxB.By2@eis.calstate.edu>
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  13. In article <BxupxB.By2@eis.calstate.edu> kmitche@eis.calstate.edu (Kenneth Mitchell) writes:
  14. >bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
  15. >> 
  16. >Actually, Brendan, you couldn'tbe more wrong if you tried. Judge Bork
  17. >would most likely have ruled that the Federal government had NO powers
  18. >other than those specifically listed in the Constitution; that's what
  19. >scared the liberals so badly, because 95% of the liberal agenda would be
  20. >thrown out on that basis. 
  21.  
  22. No, I don't think that was the real reason.  If it were, the conservatives
  23. wouldn't have picked him eather (the Libertarians might have), since about
  24. 95% (okay, maybe only 94%) of the conservative agenda was not part of the
  25. original intent of the Federal Government (Big Defense, Government 
  26. intervention in the economy via tax manipulations, "social engineering"
  27. through enforced morality, etc.).
  28.  
  29. The real reason that the right liked him and the left didn't goes back
  30. to his Nixon-friendly activities after Watergate.
  31.  
  32. -Bob
  33.