Kagan confirmed under stormy skies in D.C.; Franken apologizes to McConnell for clowning around
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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God Help Our Country!
Was there any doubt that she would be confirmed? God help us is right.
Oh, cr@p!
wnd today has a story up that she is another with previous ties to ‘Bambi and the sealing of his lawschool transcripts. I put little faith in so much of what they publish, but she was the only one with authority at the time that could have so. Unless I totally misread it. Either way, she’s the best ‘Bambi could do on such short notice.
/sarc
Of course that RINO Graham was just re-elected in 2008. Probably figures we’ll forget about this in 2014 (provided we’re still having elections then).
He also voted for that “wise Latina” lefty.
Hey South Carolina, impeach this clown!
Vote these bums out of office!
Just what we needed … an Obama-lite for the next 40 years or so.
That is a long time to trash The Constitution.
Did you hear that ???
That was the sound of our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves.
My God Help Us.
Miserable news, but not unexpected, after all. Hope the four conservatives and Kennedy remain in good health for a few more years.
Yep! We’re in trouble. Thanks a lot to 5 moron RINOs, and Oh Yes, 2 “Independents”.
Hiding Obama’s past pays off well.
Well.. the eunuch demographic is now covered.. Change!
I swear, no one has seen Jeffrey Jones since Kagan appeared out of nowhere.
Hmmmmmm………
I think I’ll celebrate at a bar on the way home.
Yay! We now have a living, breathing Constitution.
Why would a RETIRING Senator be one of only 5 GOP votes for Kagan???
He didn’t need liberal cover in now-blue NH for re-election, so he could have voted on principal. Maybe he did.
Very disappointed in Gregg.
And yet another victory for Saul Alkinsky’s stealth socialism.
Hope the five RINOs and Ted Kennedy remain in good health for a few more years.
Anyone keeping score on how often the D’s are able to get 99-100% of their Senators to vote down the line?
The R’s probably less than 50%.
Makes you wonder what those 5 R’s got in exchange? Most likely their constituents were against Kagen as was more than 50% of the Country based on polling data.
They keep saying something about the ’4th woman’–I thought it was a bloke?
Nope…at the rate we’re going make it 4 years, at most. Too much of it has been trashed already.
Here’s one to get your eyes bleeding; Lindsey Graham – Maverick, deal-maker with ‘vision’ http://tinyurl.com/23jt4ls
And here’s one to sooth them a little;
Resolution of Rebuke of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham http://tinyurl.com/255r5r3
“Stop, or we shall rebuke you a second…third…fourth time!!!!”
I expect she was nonimated for the purpose of putting a Jewish Kvetch into the chambers, which will undermine the deliberative underpinnings of the SCOTUS process. This has been a blow struck against the American political system.
What good can anyone say about Graham? The bastard likes mustard BBQ sauce on his pork.
Squashing those “Birther” cases worked out for you, eh Kagan? Good job at good wages. Nice stimulus package. May the Bible burst into flames when you’re sworn in.
Another nail in the coffin of the Late Great United States….
“So, what is Justice Ginsburg already? Chopped liver?”
A hundred curses on Lindsey Graham unto the 3rd and 4th generations!
All of you are shortsighted idiots. The Constitution was just a starter document anyway.
Every generation must raise up it’s new leaders, visionaries who can lead us to greater and greater heights of social enlightenment and progress. Why do you think they call them Progressives? It will be such a joy to know that more people like Elena Kagan will be coming in the future to help us sort our our miserable proletariat lives. I humbly await my vodka and potato ration with trembling hands.
Now this surprised me.
Hey, you gotta take the good news where you can find it.
But, I don’t even like beets or cabbage.
Wait… You mean some folks are actually surprised by this?
Sure, I bet “they” are absolutely terrified. Riiight. I suppose if “conservatives” actually spent more time and energy engaged in the political process, which is to say, doing more than merely voting for the lesser of two evils in Presidential elections and doing more than just paying lip service to good non-R/D candidates during Congressional and local elections, then maybe “they” would have a reason to feel the slightest hint of dread.
The only positive about Sotomayor and Kagan is they’re both on the chunky side. It’s highly unlikely they’ll last anywhere near as long as JP Stevens.
Not if we can help it. Resistance is not futile..yet…if it comes to that.
Stealth h*ll. They have come full monty out of the closet. They are confident enough to rub our faces in it.
All I can see right now is the image of that Frenchman crying as he watched the columns of Wehrmacht troops marching into Paris on the Champs-Elysées.
Today we have seen five POS that need to be flushed.
He is an interesting fellow. I think whether we like the vote or not he’s attempting to do things he believes represents his constituents.
But he can drive you nuts!
dan708 said:
I think you are overlooking the “ugly” factor. Just look at Helen Thomas. (I don’t mean that literally!) She has been around a long time.
Ugliness often trumps health in regards to lifespan.
Sad day for the highest court in the country…
God Bless and keep healthy Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas and (gulp) Kennedy.
Amen.
Collins and Snowe… Always there with the knife for the IMPORTANT votes.
“The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.”
Thomas Jefferson
Kagan will be one of the foulest stains on the Obama history IF she learns nothing while on the court.
Errah, when was the last time we had two lesbians on the bench??!!
Speak for yourself. I’ve never had two lesbians on the bench.
Well, that depends on which WNBA team you’re referring to.
whew! Thank goodness there aren’t going to be any Protestant Christians on the Supreme Court. That constituency is so small in America that nobody with those values should be on the court. The next nominee better be a Muslim, and ‘the bigots had better shut up’.
The only hope we have is to increase the number of Supreme Court justices. There is no requirement that there be 9. We have to dilute the votes and go to 21 justices.
Since we no longer appoint Senators, why don’t we get to vote for Supreme Court justices. It seems like New York Ivy league is over-represented.
Look at the people Obama appoints and surrounds himself with. Must have some issues with heterosexual white male Protestants.
A couple of token crackers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Obama_cabinet
No kidding. If I were the four Conservatives and Kennedy (especially after he publicly said he would not retire during Obama’s first term) I would hire extra security. Never know when a Chicago “accident” might just occur.
Yep, Kagan got the big payoff for keeping at least nine eligibility lawsuits from ever being looked at on their merits.
Now Obama has a little “insurance” to protect him from the truth leaking out in future.
Kagan involvment in eligibility lawsuits:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=187797
Do I dare watch Rachael Maddow tonight? Prop 8 and Kagan. The Smugness and Arrogance meter will be off the chart!
Hi all: I am in a pessimistic mood today. I will need some bucking up. Having this clown on the Supreme Court makes me ill. Hurry up, November!
Well this gal will be telling us citizens how and what we should think for decades. I am wondering when she puts her hand on the Bible to say she will uphold the Constitution, will there be a flames coming out?
God, please bless our Republic and those who know You. There are us who think You gave our Republic some who can solve this. Thank You from the bottom of my heart.
L
A dark day for our Republic, considering how dark it has been growing for almost 50 years.
Well, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
I think that I will never see
a pip-squeak as nasty as Lindsey.
He talks and pretends
that he’s a good boy conservative,
But observe his votes,
he removes doubt, he is destructive!
My 1 minute ‘paean’ to Grahamnesty!
Richard Lugar makes me ashamed to be a Hoosier.
Won’t be surprised if thunderbolt and lightning accompany her oathtaking.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if whoever administers the oath get back to Kagan with a “Do you really, really swear to…”
I wish Franken would apologize to the people of Minnesota for stealing their election away from them… just another way that he has been an unfunny jerk.
Remember before and during and after how the marketing arm of Obama was/is able get the message out and win with those messages?
Add Kagan to the win column.
Any one hear from Steele ? ? ?
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Me neither.
Shouldn’t that be peon…
Ever hear a parent tell their kid, “Anyone can grow up to be a Supreme Court Justice”…?
Well…
(sob!)
Sometimes I get so discouraged I could puke.
we don’t have a country any more.
if we don’t revolt against these criminal socialists and their dictator soon we won’t ever have the chance.
I hate what socialist filth have done to my country, I hate our society in which everything is upside down and invader roam free while citizens are ground under the Dept of Social Justice boot. I hate leftists and I want a revolution.
After all, elections do have consequences…
To the gallows!!!
This response to a liberal on a thread about officials shutting down a 7 year old’s lemonade stand, did make me smile for a second.
you actually watch that crap?
OOOOPs, sorry, meant to say, does anyone really watch that crap?
You got that right. We have been taken over by an illegal usurper of a “president”, (though most are afraid to discuss that part of the disaster that’s going on), and his enablers and minions. Socialist, Marxist and Communist abound, many are called “Czars” and are the real heads of various government departments, the “vetted” real department heads are just figureheads. The justice department is under the iron thumb of Eric Holder and a band of Chicago thugs. Judges make the decisions the regime wants them to make, and congress is mostly irrelevant.
With the presidency, congress and the judiciary all controlled by the extreme left, there is free rein to do whatever the regime wants, damn the Constitution, full speed ahead.
If I wanted to deal with a$$holes all the time, I would have been a proctologist. Would the adults in Congress please stand up?
you see the kid with the lemonade stand the county official told the kid to shut it down he didn’t have a license…dad being as dad’s do told the official to stow it, take the kid to court. The county is now looking for a liberal judge.
On August 5th, 2010 at 6:33 pm, BOB said:
I actually take an optimistic outlook on Kagan’s confirmation.
Why?
Because when a case finally comes before the Supreme Court regarding Obama’s eligibility, any justice who was nominated by Obama would have a conflict of interest (if Obama is found to be a usurper, than so are they!), so they should be required to recuse themselves. Especially Kagan, who was involved in defending Obama.
Obama is not a “natural” born U.S. Citizen, because he was not born subject exclusively to the jurisdiction of the United States. Regardless of whether or not he was born a U.S. citizen, he was undeniably born subject to the jurisdiction of Great Britain. His own web site admitted he was born a British subject.
If we support and defend the Constitution, Obama will be removed from office as a usurper, and every action he has performed while usurping the office will be expunged.
And that includes removing all judges and justices who were nominated by him.
It also includes a repeal of Obamacare and everything else passed by this Congress and signed by this usurper.
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You all do realize, don’t you, that members of Congress did not request or inspect any birth certificate for Obama, right? They accepted as trustworthy the verdict of “Fact-Checking” groups. Despite the fact that those groups are biased and have been repeatedly shown to get their “facts” wrong.
FIFY
What a revolting phrase.
You forget, leftists never have a conflict of interest.
On August 5th, 2010 at 7:21 pm, travlinman said:
He’s been “compromised” for a long time.
He’s the one that took that “special” trip to Russia with then-Senator Obama.
Replace him in the primary if he tries to run for re-election. And don’t thik it can’t be done. You’re Hoosiers, after all… nothing is impossible for you.
That would have been my next comment, but you beat me to it!
On August 5th, 2010 at 10:56 pm, hawkeye54 said:
Could Chief Justice Roberts force her to recuse herself? She represented Obama in multiple cases that were brought to the Supreme Court!
I would like to hope so.
Wouldn’t be so revolting if Sen. stood for senile. He’d be perfect in a remake of “Grumpy Old Men” in a few years….if he could act….and if he were funny instead of pathetic. No, on second thought just dig up either Walter Matheau or Jack Lemon. Even dead they are better actors…and funnier.
I believe Michelle lumps people who believe this in with conspiracy theorists.
On August 5th, 2010 at 11:20 pm, On-my-soap-box said:
Michelle’s exact words were:
On that same post, I left a comment with a link to my post A Response to Michelle Malkin, which addressed each aspect of Michelle’s post.
You might want to review that. But even if you don’t, please humor me and name even 1 out of 535 members of Congress who actually supported and defended the Constitution and even took the time to request and inspect a Hawaiian Birth Certificate for Obama.
Even if you don’t believe the British subjecthood is relevant, surely you believe that if Obama’s birth narrative is fraudulent, then he has no right to hold that office, right?
So who, among those Consitutionally charged with qualifying the President and Vice-President (see the 20th Amendment), has actually qualified Obama and Biden?
Two predictions:
Kagan can’t control her legal urges any more than she can manage her caloric intake. She’ll produce, within 36 months, an opinion so insanely outrageous that even Dem Senators will pile on her impeachment pyre.
Barry will be lynched by his own Party in 2011 – outed as Constitutionally unqualified to be POTUS – as Dems place blame for the Obamacare midterm disaster squarely on the bill’s namesake. “For the good of the many and the survival of the Party,” Obama will be sacrificed to attenuate public fury over government gone wild.
In other court news…
Just for the record, “independent,” “conservative,” Joe Lieberman voted for confirmation. I’m sure everyone noted that. The are no conservative democrats. There are no independent democrats. There are only democrats. They worship the state. They seek only one goal, that of absolute power over every citizen in america.
As for the republicans, it was clear they could have stopped this monstrosity but chose not too. So what to do? Forget the tea party business. That was so last year. The country must go on strike. That is the only hope we have of stopping this.
One, two, three . . . many strikes.
Worried about your job? In the not too distant future you won’t have one. Worried about missing meals? In the not to distant future, massive economic disruption will begin to affect food production and distribution. Food will either vanish or be priced out of reach. Worried about being slandered as too angry and racist? There is no one less angry and less racist than a starving serf.
Do you think your natural masters will care? No, that is exactly what they want. This out of control spending and endless trillions of dollars of debt backed by the massive force of an unaccountable government will ensure the worst happens. Even the CBO, as Thomas Sowell has noted, is beginning to be extremely worried. We are in unknown territory as far as this country is concerned, though there are historical precedents (see the history of the Weimer Republic).
I no longer care if the republicans do great in November. To hell with them. I have come to reluctantly agree with those who state that such a “victory” will change nothing.
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.
Thank you Red Pill. A solution, a way out of the horrific mess we are in exist, and to not to use the way out is inexcusable.
A CNN poll from just a couple of days ago showed that 58% of Americans at least believe that Obama may not be eligible. Pretty amazing when you consider the total blackout on discussing the subject on the lame stream media, which includes Fox News. As you said, even some conservatives apparently accept the Cracker Jack box COLB as proof Obama is Constitutionally eligible. The COLB provides absolutely no traceable information, no doctors name or signature, no signature of parents, no name or signatures of local or state registrars, no name or signature of witness or attendant, no occupation of parents, no street address, and it was NEVER claimed to have been issued by the Hawaii Department of Health. By design nothing is provided that can be used to verify the validity of the COLB, yet it and the two newspaper 3-line entries which do not give Obama’s name, and which reference an address where no record exist of Obama or his parents ever living, are accepted as not only proof of American citizenship for Obama, but proof of natural born citizenship…and it’s the birthers who are “crazy”?
A way out of this nightmare is available, if we are unwilling to use it America dies…there is no other solution that will reverse the damage already done and set the progressive movement back at least 50 years. It’s our last, best and only hope, the Obots know that and it’s why screaming idiots like Chis Matthews go berserk and wave around the worthless COLB when the subject comes up.
Where is the courage to stop the superfluous talk about every new insult to the Constitution Obama and his minions implement, quit worrying about being called names, and get together by the millions to demand he prove he is eligible to be president?
Obama cannot prove he is eligible…if we force him to have to prove it….we win and America wins…..anything else, and it’s over..
Ragspierre ~
Go ahead pee on Grahamnesty!
She didn’t just appear out of nowhere…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=188453
Snowe removal 2012!!!
They keep saying something about the ’4th woman’–I thought it was a bloke?
Nope — IT’S PAT!!
Not putting words in anyone’s mouth, but I think they they meant in terms of competency, not birthright. Look, loathe the man as I as much you you should rightfully do, but this is not the issue to kick him out. To try to would tear this country apart. To the armchair Constitutionist this might be a clean and pure and painless as a whistle “solution” out of Obamaland, but let me tell you from the grass-roots that trying to oust him on non-criminal grounds would turn this country into Northern Ireland on steroids — and I’m not just talking about blacks going postal, but all those browns illegally here and every campus that feels shafted. Then how we’d be seen internationally for going this route too. Even if there were meat on those bones, birth-reaming Obama is NOT worth it, just like the upstart General in “Seven Days in May” grudgingly agreeing with the lame Prez that a coup just isn’t worth it, no matter how inept the Prez. We got Obama because too many purists couldn’t swallow their pride and vote for a far less pernicious RINO loser, so we learn a bitter lesson NOT to blow 2012 by making it a contest for personalities than a candidate who reap the most all and only important numbers.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
and a little yellow snowe before she goes…
Essentially, we are probably at the point the English parliament was at the time of Charles the 1st and Oliver Cromwell. A land that is ruled by decree with a lapdog, rubber-stamp legislature and a willing judiciary.
The great Richard Harris delivered the line in a manner and an emotional charge that truly resonates with the way many of us feel.
Sir, by your actions here today, do you realize that you have brought this nation to the brink of civil war?!
No, the poll was that 58% either believed Obama was not born in the United States, or that he “may” have been born in the U.S., only 42 % believed he “was” born in the United States. Which is, of course, a separate but possibly related issue to not being a natural born citizen.
I understand your concern, but cannot comprehend a situation that leaves America hostage to an illegal president because of fear of taking action. America would not exist as she has for 200 plus years with the kind of cowardice you speak of, and she will not exist in a form that is remotely like the America we love in the future if no one has the courage to do the right thing. Not sure what the “armchair Constitutionist” means…but, the lies and fraud associated with the charade that is being played out should be a call to action, Constitution or not.
Winning an election as an unqualified candidate by lying and sealing your records should in no way allow the office you stole to be maintained once the truth is known.
If you rob a bank and no one sees you at the time, do you than get to keep the money because the robbery was, “successful”. I don’t think so.
I don’t want to be held hostage while watching a pretend regime destroy my country. There are no possible consequences of exposing the truth that are worse that watching the slow death of America at the hands of imposters.
The lid is going to blow off the charade at some point; the only question is how much damage will occur before that happens.
Nice to finally have a bull dyke on the bench.
BTW, is anyone else disturbed by the preponderance of Hahvahd Law School grads on the SCOTUS? Surely, there are a few other worthy law schools out there. But I guess they’re not part of the New World Order.
All the progressives need is one more on the court and we’ll be doomed. Time for States to ignore these judges who legislate from the bench!!
How many conservatives feel RealPolitik is the way to go here ? That’s what got us here in the first place. We couldn’t question it during the primaries, or before the election and, now it’s off limits too. Some people can’t handle the truth; others willingly suspend disbelief to get along. 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 ! ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew
We are a Nation of Laws, not Men. That either means something or, we are sad little creatures of conformity. I want to see EVERY Congress person questioned about why they failed to check Obamas credentials before the Inaugural, I want Obama answering UNDER OATH, why his Birth record and School records are somehow private. Sorry for running long but, playing nice won’t work. McCain tried that with Obama and we see where that got us.
The libs can (and probably would) put Hugo Chavez on the SCOTUS to replace the liberal zealots there now.
As long as Kennedy is replace by a staunch conservative, that’s all that matters.