Hey folks, the Republicans don’t have the votes. You can thank George W. Bush for that.
If one knew some startling fact that would come out and lead to a GOP filibuster, what one would say at this stage of the game is we have no intent to filibuster her nomination. Then when the information came out in questioning, you organize a filibuster after due consideration of the nominee.
I am not saying the current Senate GOP members are being this strategic, but if you want to seem fair to the public,ie the squishy moderates, you don’t announce a filibuster until the public starts seeing the radical views of the nominee.
what ever Great Leader wants, spineless people will give
The other day when I watched Orrin hatch say what a great choice she wasm, I knew the RINO’s had thrown in the towel before the fight even started.
I’d as soon have a Democrat in the seat as a RINO.
GOP could not hold a filibuster together...Snowe would fold
Failure to be in the forefront is fighting this nomination is grounds to remove them in November. Not a cent to the RNC until we see a willingness to fight every single issue.
Someone who believes government has a duty to censor political speech isn’t going to face a fight at all??
Am I still suppose to vote for the GOP if they don’t stand up for free speech?
Filibuster her fat, Commie ass.
The current worn-out crop of guppies will always resort to form...Just wactch how they reflexively bend over and spread'em.
what is wrong with the repub party!!!!!
Here are a few selected FReeper comments to date:
Chief Justice Roberts:
Kagan Asked Court to ‘Embrace Theory of First Amendment That Would Allow Censorship Not Only of Radio and Television Broadcasts, But Pamphlets and Posters’
In another article, titled “Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V,” she writes, “I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the un-coerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation.”
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, helped craft President Bill Clinton’s political strategy for sustaining his veto of the partial-birth abortion ban in 1997. As a result of Clinton’s successful veto that year, the ban was not enacted until 2003, when it was signed by President George Bush.
I can settle the question for everyone on the site.(Harvard Connections, you know.) Kagan is gayer than Christmas in Port-au-Prince.
She’s in the back of the closet, just like Barney Frank was until he was outed and heroically made a virtue out of being a god-curséd sodomite SOB, as well as a crook.
Now, about her hard-core, real-orders-from-the-Kremlin-belong-to-a-cell, commie family. Dad was a big time commie union infiltrator.
Mommie was a commie.
Bro still is a big-time commie.
These Kagans are NYC commies from the 1930’s, 1940’s, type of people. Elena? Red Diaper baby type. Can sing the “Internationale,” but not the SSB.
Pull the old Kagan FBI Files.
Look’em up in the VENONA files. I hope every Republican Senator does.
You don’t have to have very many brain cells to know that Elena Kagan is a Pluto-bound abortion-loving socialist. The thought of that grinning overfed New York dyke on our Supreme Court for the next 30-40 years makes me weep for my country.
Her heroes: Abner Mikva, Thurgood Marshall, Cass Sunstein (who believes the Constitution requires taxpayers to fund abortion and has proposed abolishing marriage - the pure Communist line since 1917) and Aharon Barak Israeli Supreme Court justice Aharon Barak (who has been called Israel’s “Big Brother”)