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Posted on 05/15/2010 7:10:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
Newt Gingrich: Elena Kagan ‘Should Be Disqualified From the Very Beginning.’ May 15, 2010
By Jim Geraghty Newt Gingrich instantly became one of the most prominent opponents to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice when he tweeted, “Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman’ new racism is no better than old racism.”
Tonight at the NRA Convention, he offered a similarly bold and uncompromising criticism of Elena Kagan: “For a potential Supreme Court nominee to attempt to bar military recruiters from campus during a time of war, she should be disqualified from the very beginning… Mr. President, you’re entitled to nominate a liberal. But can’t you nominate a liberal who respects and works for our military, not someone who has contempt for them and opposes them?”
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Silly Newt: there’s no such thing as a pro-military liberal. Unless you’re talking about the military of Iraq, of course.
I think Lieberman would probably qualify.
I fully expect senators from all sides to do their jobs of 'advise and consent' and to tell Pres. Obama do come back when he has a qualified candidate. A "law degree" from Haaavaaard doesn't cut it!
in for the obligatory post of:
“go away, Newt”
I hope someone asks her how she would have rules on that case (since it is done, she can comment.) She would have either rules against herself, or ruled against EVERY sitting justice (even the most leftie ones.)
She should have to explain why she thinks she is smarter that ALL of the current justices.
If Newt were a current Senator he would spout the standard RINO talking points, then make a deal and if he had to vote for her. He and his like are as responsible for what is wrong with this country as any group of liberal or progressive Democrats. He repulses me.
What was it that candidate Obama said about putting lipstick on a pig?
I’ll have to agree with Newt here, 100%. No communists for the SC.
The chief problem...which she will have to come to admit...is that any Goldman Sachs case that arrives at the Supreme Court...she has to step aside for each of cases that come up. Then there’s the cases she worked on for the administration...which she’d have to step aside for those as well. So in two years...figure at least twenty cases which she might have to step aside on, and just let the eight judges render judgement. You can see the issues involved here.
If they had picked a plain old judge, then there’s no connection to companies or the build-up of cases...but then this isn’t the smartest crowd in the world...or they simply won’t accept the idea of her stepping to the side for any case whatsoever.
Looks like he's been reading this website. WTG Newt. Maybe you'll come around once again.
Hold off Newt. This administration has good reasons to belittle the need for “qualifications” for office.
Hmm.. Your search for “a liberal who respects and works for our military” does not match any documents.
I wish the Republicans had brass ones; but they seem to be in cahoots with the libs. I guess they all have invested in the scam.
Something is strange in Denmark when I find myself agreeing with Newton Gingrich.
It’s careerism, instead of constitutionalism. It will destroy the American people, and they will never know what hit them.
Absolutely, you are right. It’s all about their careerism. And the American people don’t have the intelligence to understand. They have been “dumbed down” for decades.
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