Michelle Malkin » Kagan confirmed under stormy skies in D.C.; Franken apologizes to McConnell for clowning around

Kagan confirmed under stormy skies in D.C.; Franken apologizes to McConnell for clowning around

By Michelle Malkin • August 5, 2010 04:06 PM

Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was confirmed by the Senate this afternoon.

USA Today breaks the vote down:

Only five Republicans voted in favor of Kagan’s nomination. Last year, just nine Republicans voted for Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s first Supreme Court appointee.

Today’s yes votes included Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the lone Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Kagan when the panel recommended the nomination to the full Senate on a 13-6 vote. Other GOP yes votes came from Richard Lugar of Indiana, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.

Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass, one of Kagan’s home state senators, voted against her.

The confirmation took place as a thunderstorm raged outside, prompting several wry Tweets as the votes were tallied:

@keithcrc: SuperStorm pounds DC just as #Kagan confirmation vote is taken #someonesnothappy

@kathyrnlopez: the thunderstorms over dc echo my kagan-vote mood this afternoon.

@Winghunter: @michellemalkin If they think that’s a storm, they ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

Here’s hoping…

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Sigh: Franken apologizes for being Franken…

When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid out his opposition to Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination, someone in the chamber appeared to be moving around in his chair, gasping and rolling his eyes.

It was Sen. Al Franken.

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#101

On August 6th, 2010 at 10:08 am, BOB said:

On August 6th, 2010 at 9:39 am, Jeff2161 said:
I’ve been referred to as a ‘birther’ and ‘teabagger’ and, “I’m mad as hell and, I’m not going to take it anymore ! ”

Great post Jeff, I feel the same way. The idea of ignoring and/or hiding the truth about Obama out of fear of the consequences of the truth is about as un-American and cowardly as possible. My relatives and those of millions of other Americas did not fight and die in wars for the present generation to give up to a domestic takeover by the same forces they fought against to maintain Americas freedom.
#102

On August 6th, 2010 at 12:08 pm, Jeff2161 said:

Who would have thought the movie ‘Network’ was actually a documentary…
#103

On August 6th, 2010 at 3:15 pm, Brian Roastbeef said:

The difference between 5-4 and 4-5 is very very large.

Slipping back to a fully functioning liberal activist Supreme court is truly frightening.

As disappointed as I am with this nominee, at least this is not the case now.

Kagan is replacing John Paul Stevens, who was never on our side. Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, Alito, and Kennedy are all still there. Pray for their health and good sense.

Kagan doesn’t change that tenuous 5-4 majority. It only replaces one leftist with a younger far less competent leftist. It means that Breyer will be the only one even remotely attempting to apply some legal reasoning to the left-wing point of view from the court.

But right now it isn’t doom yet. Pray for our five. Pray that their good health lasts until at least 2013. And vote to make sure that 2011 and 2013 brings some better leadership to the other branches of government.
#104

On August 6th, 2010 at 3:42 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

On August 5th, 2010 at 11:36 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

Michelle’s exact words were:

I read her column Truthers to the left…truthers to the right. I just read it again and I still come to the same conclusion. She lumps people who continue on with the birth certificate issue with the truthers. The last paragraph sums up what she believes.

Now, read what I said. Did I offer a debate topic or something other than what I said. I can neither confirm or deny Obama as a US citizen. My personal thoughts are not relevant to my comment.

I do believe if the electorate was not so stoooopid, we would not have Obama as POTUS. I can almost prove that…
#105

On August 6th, 2010 at 3:51 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

on Thursday, August 5, 2010, at 10:33 pm drkate wrote:

I wrote to Cmdr Kerchner about this…he said when his case gets to the supreme court they will ask for Sotomayor and Kagan to recuse themselves, which is truly correct.
#106

On August 7th, 2010 at 12:32 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

“Anti-Birthers”,
as well as Constitutionalist “Qualifiers” (those who expect the “shall have qualified” section of the 20th Amendment to be supported and defended), are requested to read and comment on my newest observation:

CNN Edits Governor Lingle’s Words to Conceal her Lie
and Create their own Lie