Posted on 06/29/2010 6:57:42 AM PDT by kristinn
The confirmation hearing for Gen. David Petraeus to be ISAF commander began a few minutes ago. The second day of the Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination hearings began around 9 a.m. They're on the cable networks for the most part. FOX, CNN and MSNBC are dipping in and out of the hearings depending on who's speaking.
The Kagan hearing is being shown live on C-SPAN 3 and online at C-SPAN here.
The Petraeus hearing can be viewed online at the Senate Armed Services Committee Web site here.
I agree. The problem is Obama gave everyone the impression we’d be pulling out come 2011. That has encouraged the enemy and has convinced potential Afghan allies we’ll abandon them so they don’t want to help us.
I’m sorry, but I’m not at in the least bit impressed with Petraeus. His philosophy on Afghanistan, IMO, is complex and ambiguous.
I found one of his comments about the ROIs to be absurd. He said (paraphrasing) that if troop are taking fire from a house, that they shouldn’t necessarily take the house out, because there might be “civilians” inside. That possibly disengaging or regrouping may be the best idea.
Huh?
He’s wrong. “Civilians” need to learn that the insurgents they’re dealing with are radioactive and that hanging around them or allowing them to hang around you can be dangerous or fatal.
He’s going to “take a look” at the rules of engagement. WTF is that supposed to mean? If he hasn’t realized by now that they’re not working and they’re getting our soldiers killed, he is, quite simply, a dumbass.
This entire concept of trying to get everyone to us is ill-conceived and dangerous. It wouldn’t be so bad if it actually worked on a practical level, but it doesn’t work on any level. The Ishmaelites don’t like us regardless.
Now we learn that language purporting to be the judgment of an independent body of medical experts devoted to the care and treatment of pregnant women and their children was, in the end, nothing more than the political scrawling of a White House appointee.
Miss Kagan’s decision to override a scientific finding with her own calculated distortion in order to protect access to the most despicable of abortion procedures seriously twisted the judicial process. One must question whether her nomination to the Court would have the same effect.
Nothing like a real bastard of a big brother breathing down the back of your neck.
I can’t stand this “woman”. She is not only UNQUALIFIED, but she is an Ideologue.
I hope Dems remember THAT the next time we get a SCOTUS nominee, and we nominate an evangelical Christian who is a life long opponent of abortion and more than willing to uphold anything supporting religion and God.
Remember Kagan then you liberal slimes.
I found one of his comments about the ROIs to be absurd. He said (paraphrasing) that if troop are taking fire from a house, that they shouldn’t necessarily take the house out, because there might be “civilians” inside. That possibly disengaging or regrouping may be the best idea.
WHY is General Petraeus even undergoing hearings??? Didn’t he do that already, just a year ago??
Then it really is time to stop supporting them and fund viable alternatives
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What's an ROI? Do you mean, "ROE"?
Kinda chilling .. especially with that ruthless barracuda.
No bigger bullies, thugs, and hypocrites.
Thanks - I also found a recording on C-Span - but don’t know how long it will be available.
Yes, I did mean ROE. My apologies.
Kagan: the court changes the Constitution as time goes on as changes in society happens...then she agrees with Sen. Sessions that you can only apply the intent and meaning of the Framers of the Constitution.
Kagan is talking out both sides. She is BS’ing.
Kagan: I don’t know how to characterize my politics ... I apply how the law applies to the case.
Sessions: Are you a legal progressive?
Kagan: I honestly don’t know what that means.
Sessions is trying to get Kagan to admit that she broke or evaded the law in complying with the Solomon Amendment.
Kagan says that Harvard complied with the law the Solomon Amendment. Kagan denies that she denied the Military access to Harvard.
Senator Sessions is hitting her hard on this.
“the President should get his judges”
Wrong! Witness Borking and the shameful Clarence Thomas hearings. SCOTUS hearings are important, and bad justices should be screened out. That’s the way the system is designed.
Bush nominated Harriet Meyers, and conservatives loudly said “not good enough”. Proving that even your own party can cry foul. Crying foul is essentially what Tea Party is about.
Sesssion to Kagan: I’m a little taken aback that your words are unconnected with you actions at Harvard.
Sen. Cardin: She complied with military at Harvard.
Sen. WhiteHouse: She actually moving with the honors...of our Military.
These guys can lie from any position. Kagan couldn’t fool an honest jury .
Kagan just said that she is not qualified to give a personal opinion on two settled 2nd Amendment cases [Heller and McDonald] ...
And she’s wants to be a Supreme ??? ...
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