Oxblog's David Adesnik says that Supreme
nominee John Roberts is "unborkable," which is probably why the partisan
war machines of both sides tic down in the driveway, unused.
Adesnik poses a rhetorical question: Why are
the media treating Roberts with kid gloves? And offers this in
reply:
"It's not
because he went to Harvard College and Harvard Law. After all, Bush has degrees
from Harvard and Yale. What matters a lot more is that Roberts graduated summa
cum laude and was the managing editor of law review. He's not just an Ivy
Leaguer -- he's the kind of Ivy Leaguer that journalists and pundits wish their
children could be."
He also gently
slips the shiv to NYT columnist Elisabeth Bumiller, who, lacking a credible
reason to complain about the candidate himself, still finds a way to snark about the president's selection
criteria.
But you should know, gentle
reader, that the primary purpose of this post is not merely to inform, nor to
praise (the eminently praiseworthy) team over at
Oxblog.
No.
It's
an opportunity to get in on the ground floor at Google for the word
"unborkable." As of this writing, their are only nine references to what is
bound to be (as Adesnik himself points out) a word that we're probably going to
hear a lot in the coming weeks.
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