Because they lack the necessary organs, like gonads and spines.
Recent photo of the current Republican leadership 
Posted on 06/30/2010 7:24:42 PM PDT by dr_who
Washington – At Day 1 of her Senate confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan struck tones of modesty and restraint – the template for every nominee since Judge Robert Bork opted to go toe-to-toe with liberals on the Senate Judiciary panel in 1987 and was rejected.
“The Supreme Court is a wondrous institution,” Ms. Kagan said in her opening statement. “But the time I spent in the other branches of government remind me that it must also be a modest one – properly deferential to the decisions of the American people and their elected representatives.”
It is this time spent in other branches of government – specifically, as the Obama administration solicitor general – that, under typical circumstances, might have become a focal point of these hearings. But Republicans are treading softly in asking for Kagan’s memos as solicitor general, guided by a deep sense of injustice over a failed judicial nomination far less well known – yet little less controversial – than the Bork nomination.
From 2001 to 2003, Democrats refused to confirm President Bush’s solicitor general, Miguel Estrada, for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. It was the first-ever filibuster for an appeals-court nominee, and it centered on Mr. Bush’s refusal to give over memos produced by Mr. Estrada in his work as Bush’s top lawyer.
That shadow lingers over these hearings, with Republicans seeking to take the moral high ground.
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Because they lack the necessary organs, like gonads and spines.
Recent photo of the current Republican leadership
Because they are cowards and nothing but politicians who care more about THEIR careers and THEIR benifits than they do the well being and future of America.
Because they’re really Wee Publicans.
(thanks to Jim Eason for the moniker)
Quite simply, iz it gonna take gunz?
Because a) they're a bunch of pansies and political cowards, or b) they're progressives, too, but just don't want to reach Communism as fast as The One.
Either way, I'M SICK OF IT! BORK KAGAN!
My theory is that they did a vote count and found out they don’t have enough votes for a filibuster, and therefore, don’t have anything to threaten with.
Thank you “McCain is a RINO so I’ll stay home” voters.
Could Odumbass have picked a worse candidate? Noooo
Have the Republicans ever gotten their way even when
they held the presidency and congress? Noooo
Will they do something this time? Noooo
Are we screwed one more time? yessss
These hearings are an absolute cakewalk compared to the Bork and Thomas hearings. Plus they don’t want to be seen beating up on a girl. Doesn’t Drudge have a pic up of her crying? For Pete’s sake, can you imagine Bork or Thomas resorting to TEARS?
Are you sure it is one.
Here is a MUST SEE embedded video although it begins discussing Sarah Palin’s resignation. But it evolves to discussing Alinsky and his followers in the DNC and their strategy of “holding moral people to moral standards while immoral people have no standards to be held to”. The key point made toward the end is WE MUST be willing to fight just as dirty with these Alinsky socialists or we will lose this war and lose America. The absolute best vid op-ed...you can’t take a knife to a gun fight!
http://weekendpundit.org/2009/10/sarah-plain-is-not-fading-away.html
Damn the man for rolling over again.
I sort of think she looks a little like John Belushi.
This Kagan thing has as much bizness being on the SCOTUS as I do. Actually, I probably have more.
Republicans play nicely on every issue!
Time to get down and dirty!
No argument from me.
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