Posted on 05/10/2010 1:16:47 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
Top White House officials bristled Monday when asked whether they think Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s sexuality will become an issue in her confirmation hearings.
“It’s not anything I’m going to get into,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking to reporters in his West Wing office.
Gibbs was asked a handful of times about rumors that Kagan is gay, and gave terse responses each time.
Asked why the White House pushed back so aggressively when CBS News published a piece on its website (CBS appears to have pulled the piece) that said Kagan, if confirmed, would be the country’s “first openly gay justice,” Gibbs said it was not an issue to the president.
“We are going to defend the nominee that the president has chosen,” Gibbs said when asked if he thinks the rumors will be brought up during the confirmation process.
When asked what the White House was defending Kagan from, Gibbs said: “That’s just a broad answer.”
“I’m just not going to get into somebody who is doing what that person was doing on CBS’s website. This is about who she is going to be as a justice,” Gibbs said.
Ron Klain, chief counsel to the vice president and a key figure in the White House legal team, said: “Elena went through the same vet that everyone else goes through for the Supreme Court is all I’ll say.”
On a separate issue, Klain said that the administration will not immediately release memos written by Kagan when she worked at the White House under President Bill Clinton.
“I’m sure the committee will request those papers and we’ll reach an accommodation with the Clinton Library on that,” Klain said. “We’ve got to see what the committee wants to see and we’ll go from there.”
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Translation: Yeah, she's a Diesel-Dyke.
“That’s just a (she's just a regular") broad answer.”
Feh ... Let's first determine if she's actually a human.
I'm still not convinced that Barry Hussein is even native to this planet, much less these United States.
Kagan is as butch as Bwany Fwank sucks..
Question for the nominee? What is she going to do about this?
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=66235B7DDFED538C
If she’s not gay,
somewhere in America there’s a guy that lost the worst bar bet in the history of the world!
She is an unqualified carpet munching communist.
LLS
But...I thought they were supposed to be “proud”.....
president poofter in purple.
LLS
Just what we need, a gay activist on the USSC.
How much damage is the fool in the WH going to do to this country before he gets tossed out on his butt in 2012?
It would be very humorous were a Republican Senator to take this opportunity to ask whether Kagan believes the current president is a NBC, and if so, on what basis she drew that conclusion.
But I’m not holding my breath.
Let’s just say that this whole Kagan nomination has sent a tingle up Rachel Maddow’s leg.
As usual, facts not welcome participants in this Whitey House.
““It’s not anything I’m going to get into,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs”
Michael Scott replied “That’s what she said.”
It has started already. Now that CBS has put the question out there, Katie Couric and her ilk can now say “some people are questioning whether Kagan should be BANNED from the nomination due to her sexual orientation” while insinuating it’s repubs or conservatives doing the questioning.
The libs are going to hammer the right if they make it about sex. And CBS is going to make sure The People think conservatives are obssessed with that aspect and the following the Constitution thing is only a secondary issue.
I’ve seen some of her dissertation and other policy decisions which are at least troubling.
The prevailing accusations throughout the conservative blogosphere are that she is a “communist lesbian.”
Is there a rock-solid source of information that confirms these accusations?
Reputable links without heresay, please...
“Elena went through the same vet that everyone else goes to”
Thats because she is a dog.”
That is a good one!!!!!
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