Posted on 05/10/2010 6:43:56 AM PDT by kristinn
Live from the East Room at the White House! Barack Obama announces his nomination of Solictor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court.
10 a.m. EDT.
Note to Republicans who want to be re-elected....Vote NO!!!!!!
Kagan was a paid member of an advisory panel for the embattled investment firm Goldman Sachs, federal financial disclosures show. Kagan was a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, according to the financial disclosures she filed when President Obama appointed her last year to her current post. Kagan served on the Goldman panel from 2005 through 2008, when she was dean of Harvard Law School, and received a $10,000 stipend for her service in 2008, her disclosure forms show.
The advisory panel met once a year to discuss public policy issues and was not involved in any investment decisions, Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said. Still, if Kagan is nominated to replace Stevens, senators will scrutinize those ties to Goldman Sachs, said Northwestern University law professor Lee Epstein.
Many liberal critics are unhappy with Kagan's arguments as solicitor general supporting the "state secrets" doctrine, detentions without trial, and other broad Obama claims of executive power to fight terrorism -- some of them similar to the Bush policies that liberals oppose.
Yes and why I listened every Wednesday at Noon to the air raid sirens blasting from Boeing’s in my youth. Or being forced to hurry in to a Civil Defense Shelter with my head down in a dark room wondering “if this was the end this time.” Send all the gay people to Siberia please.
Do you think she is holding his thesis hostage? Just a thought.
“She chose a life of service....”
Throwing out the old grandaughter of immigrants meme...mother a poor downtrodden school teacher, father a housing lawyer who represented the poor...
gack!
Her face is so ugly you can smash it into some dough and make gorilla cookies.
“gorilla cookies”
Hahaha!
OMG - she had to step up on a step stool to speak at the mike. How embarrassing!
I had to leave the room.
What? No “this is a big f*ckin’ deal” from Biden?!!!!!
Thats no lady, thats Patton Oswalt in drag
http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com/2010/05/patton-oswalt-nominated-for-scotus.html
Is she a midget?
Smart move.
She sounds totally full of it and herself...
She felt blessed to appear before the Supreme Court but wait - didn’t she get slapped down when she did????
She will help Obama with the gay little people vote!
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Don’t ask, don’t tell.
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So fugly, I’d say “don’t even look”!!!
At least Medusa was modestly attractive by comparison.
LOL this country sucks.
I’m gonna be sick.
OH my God. She was a total red diaper baby.
Get the HOOK!
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled
“To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933.”
In the “Acknowledgments” section of her work, she specifically thanked her brother Marc, “whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.” In the body of the thesis, Kagan wrote:
“In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?...
“Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.”
Obama already has 80% of the Jewish vote and 55% of the soccer mom vote kabar. He’s not doing it for that reason ... more likely he is doing it to appease the far left wingnut crowd that want more emphasis on gay rights addressed during his first term. THEY are the ones feeling most neglected right now, and THEY were a major player in his fund raising efforts this last time around. He also needs their support badly in the midterms.
The only thing that matters to BO is that she adores HIM. I am really sickened by this administration. God help us.
Aiii! My eyes!
I saw that too, LOL. I wwonder who she’s standing on? She just said she’s going to fill Steven’s seat - suspicions confirmed, it’s a tranny.
Even Ruthie voted against her. Now she wants to kiss Ruthie’s rear end I suppose.
The administration wrote a nice ‘Oprah’ type speech for Kagan to read to introduce her to the American people.
This womyn must be defeated!
Purple is the favorite color of homosexuals and lesbians.
She will be confirmed without hardly a fight because she is largely an unknown on her views of constitutional law even though it’s obvious she is liberal.
She looks like a butch Mama Cass.
She looks like Rip Taylor’s butch sister.
I'd say Biden, but he was standing on the podium next to her. It must have been Gibbsy.
So did Hitler.
I had to switch all TV’s to sports news. I will not let these “children” ruin my day....today.
Please forward it in the form I presented it in, including the link to its source (David Horowitz’s website).
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled
"To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933."
In the "Acknowledgments" section of her work, she specifically thanked her brother Marc, “whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.” In the body of the thesis, Kagan wrote:
"In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?...
"Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2398
Hoping that the people will eat up that "granddaughter of immigrants" meme with a spoon.
She and Sonia will probably have some kind of fun together...eewww!
Picture at 74 looks like there’s a five o’clock shadow. Are some kind of steriods being used? Will there be a sex change while in office?
Yes, when push comes to shove, the Jewish vote will go overwhelmingly to the Dems. But the issue in November is not percentages but turnout.
I always get spooked when the talking heads on the tube say someone is “extremely intelligent”.
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It’s just their talking point, and it’s usually far from the truth.
the left , well the far left and their messiah bozo doesn't look at what their qualifications are for this appointment, no they see a lesbian, Jewish liberal woman who worships bozo and that's enough for this position for them
this is frigging unbelievable
she’;s a homosexual activist and cannot be partial or fair in any homosexual cases.
add to the fact she has never even been on the bench
this is sickening and FOR YOU THE GOP, YOU HAD BETTER NOT VOTE FOR HER AT ALL
This is not even a pretense of academic objectivity and dispassion, she is clearly writing these words AS a yearning socialist. Granted, it will be waved aside as merely the words of callow youth, but for someone who has so little track record of publication it is highly relevant to ask how close her current views track to her *radical* views in her Princeton thesis. My guess is that her whole life shows this thesis to be her statement of belief. However, like Obozo she has been careful for the most part to avoid creation of documentary evidence which could affect her prospects on a day like today.
How did she advance so far in academe with so little publication, anyway?? She seems to be more of a leftist academic politician than any legal scholar.
Eh, no problem. Socialism’s proud history speaks for itself. (God what a vacant dingbat)
ping
Those were exactly my thoughts this morning.
Meanwhile, it was never really 'dead' as she feared then. And look where they are today, in total control of the demonRat party and White House! They have never been stronger than they are right now.
BTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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