Kagan SC nomination

Luko

At first blush, the nomimation of Kagan for Supreme Court justice seems more than a little worrisome. No judicial experience? Supreme Court seems likes the wrong place to "learn on the job."

dennisking

sometimes its good to bring in someone who isn't tainted by the system, whatever system that may be. it's weird that all the nominees are female. not that it's a bad thing but aren't there any qualified guys as well.

Hayblet

I would vote for Jessica Alba or Megan Fox for the SC

jlzimmerman

I dunno.

Les.bi.an. (wow, the word *** is banned? Really??)
Jewish
Single
Childless
No Judicial experience

At some point the GOP and Dems need to fill judicial roles with people that better represent the people of America and their values/beliefs.

PS - Is it really that hard for Democrats to find an semi-attractive woman within their ranks to appoint?

sightunseen

Is this going to turn into another Harriet Miers?

rossdavey2

I don't know whats gonna happen here. Some people think its the end of the world, others well who cares. I know the SC has a major impact on normal life in the US. I would have thought they could have found someone who has experiance AND still not biased because of it. Or is that just me thinking that people really can be alright?

Luko

Her and Obama are friends since their days together at the University of Chicago too. Not that she's the first friend of the POTUS to get a patronage job before, but given how things are shaking out for this administration, being that closely aligned with Obama ain't necessarily a good thing.

Vulchor

The paranoia, ideas of favortism, and need to disagree for the sake of disagreeing gets a bit maddening. It could have been the reincarnation of John Marshall or Oliver Wendel Holmes, and they wouldve been criticized for not having as good a name as Antonin Scalia. The chief justice right now is the third youngest ever, no complaints found there. And as far as her being a woman and a *** and that not fitting into the mold of America, I think that only hurts Clarence Thomas.

PuroFreak

I could go on for hours and hours about this woman's radicalism and who in her college papers she wrote that her brother's radical socialist views shaped her political philosophies, but instead I will point out one thing. Can the President please NOT appoint someone else that looks like Janet freakin Reno?? First that Napolitano "guy" now this one... Is he trying to just scare the sh*t out of his political opponents? lol

docbp87

My concern is that she is going to be too politically motivated, based on her prior work, instead of simply interpreting the constitution.

fla-gypsy

She's the one that banned the military from recruiting at Harvard, another flaming liberal but par for the course for this Admin.

lilwing88

Sometimes I watch Rachel Maddow at the gym. Helps me get really angry, so I get a good workout in......

But anyways, last night she was addressing the nomination of this Kagan lady (who, BTW, is a HOTTIE) and she actually didn't do a very favorable analysis. She played a clip of a little exchange between Kagen and Justice Roberts over The Citizens United v FEC. I think Rachel was trying to make Roberts look like an overbearing bully who was picking on poor little Kagen. But all she did was make Kagen look like a babbling 2nd year law student who was out of her league. Rachel then went on to point out that while Kagen was Dean of Harvard Law, she had a less than favorable hiring record. Kagen hired mostly evil white disgusting men and only a few highly qualified awesome women and minorities. For shame, Kagen!!!

Contradictions were abounding on the Maddow Show last night......

Bottom line is that this nomination should not come as a surprise to anyone. It's funny that Obama was just in front of the podium the other day shaking his finger at the media for telling lies about him and his administration. His finger was obviously pointed at his rightwing naysayers. But I have to believe that Obama doesn't give one crap about what the right has to say about anything. I think what really bothers him is the criticism he's been getting from the left. They're obviously not completely satisfied with his presidency to-date. This nomination was an obvious "olive branch" to his voting base (or, as we call it in my line of work: "a real brown-nose move"). Experience and qualifications be damned. Obama was gunning for a liberal white lady, preferably of the l e s b i a n persuasion. I think this, again, reveals that Obama has absolutely no interest in transparency and fairness. He gonna do what HE wants to do and what HE thinks his voting base wants. Rest of the country can kiss his ass, apparently.

You got what you voted for, America: A Chicago politician in the WH. Congrats.

Amos_Umwhat

docbp87:

My concern is that she is going to be too politically motivated, based on her prior work, instead of simply interpreting the constitution.

Good point. It really gets frustrating, do any of these people (in charge) ever remember that it's all supposed to be about freedom? I don't care about her sexual preferences, even though I may find it gross. I just wish that The Right would remember that freedom means other people may do things in their personal life that members of The Right wouldn't, and that The Left would remember that freedom includes the freedom to fail. In other words, (to the left) if you don't work, you don't eat! Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right...sigh.

zoom6zoom

In a 1996 paper, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine,” Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government,”

All I need to know. The Constitution means NOTHING to this woman. Silence, serf.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/kagan-disappear-free-speech-if-the-government-deems-it-offensive.html

phobicsquirrel

Damn liberals!!! GRRRRRRR....

cabinetmaker

phobicsquirrel:

Damn liberals!!! GRRRRRRR....

+1 , ... lol ...