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Subscribe to RSSThe AP's Benac: "Confident but still cautious. Smart and then some. Disarming. Knowing. Wicked funny. This week's Senate confirmation hearings were America's first and probably last chance for an in-depth conversation with Elena Kagan, who most likely will soon vanish into the cloistered corridors of the Supreme Court."
"Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan appears on her way to confirmation on the nation’s highest court, with Republicans showing little interest in a long-shot filibuster attempt after grueling testimony over abortion, gays in the military, and other divisive issues," AP writes. "The powerful National Rifle Association attempted to spark interest in Kagan’s defeat yesterday by opposing her as someone who 'has repeatedly demonstrated a clear hostility to the fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms guaranteed under the US Constitution.' But, barring an unexpected turn, Kagan will succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens and become the fourth female justice in the Supreme Court’s history."
But the Washington Post writes that she might get fewer GOP votes than Sonia Sotomayor received. “Last August, Sonia Sotomayor won 68 votes to be confirmed to the court, including those of nine Republicans, a level of support that appears unlikely for Kagan. Just seven Republicans voted for her confirmation as solicitor general in March 2009; Democrats and Republicans expect few, if any, senators who opposed that nomination to a lower post to support her lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court. Among the Republicans who voted 'aye' were three conservatives -- Sens. Tom Coburn (Okal.), Orrin G. Hatch (Utah) and Jon Kyl (Ariz.) -- who often support executive branch nominees out of deference to presidential hiring. The three were some of Kagan's toughest interrogators this week.”
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Few or no GOP votes, no surprise there. .Conservatives care not for smart women, and Oh! my is she smart and funny too.
Yes she is smart and funny, and you are correct, repugnants are terrified of smart women, always have been, always will be.
So funny that the repugnant ones proved Elena Kagan correct that Senate conformation hearings for our less than supreme court are "vapid and hollow". Nothing could have been more vapid and hollow than Huffy Jeffy Sessions or Creepy Kyl asking some of the lamest questions ever asked a supreme court nominee. Nothing but a bunch of limpwristed conservative crybabying from the dopes of nope who don't want to confirm anyone but a corrupt radical subversive conservative activist justice who will legislate from the bench for their petty partisan political ideology.
Ofcourse most of the repugnant ones aren't man enough to defy the corrupt NRA so they'll wimp out and vote against Elena Kagan. The dopes of nope would rather protect terrorists on the terror watch list to be able to buy guns than vote for a Liberal judge who would stop that nonsense.
We all know repugnant ones hate smart women, just look at the female trash they push at us like Sinner Sarah Palin, Scary Sharry Angle, Bachmann Moron Overdrive, Sieg Heil Jan Brewer and Vulgar Virginia Foxx.
I really don't care what the NRA thinks or who they suppport. I own a gun and being raised in rural middle Tennessee I gotta tell you my dad and uncles made sure I could shoot, clean, and properly store the darned thing by the time I was a young teen (yep, we teach girls gun responsibility at an early age in the rural south), so i don't need the NRA to tell me anything, I've done quite well without a membership to them for over 50 years and I'm quite tired of them meddeling in our politics. Now the national sportsman association is a group worth joining, they have great classes for children and teach responsibility that should come with owning a gun. I don't care who owns one as long as they have enough sense to know how to use, care for, and store it like I do. I don't take my gun to the park or to my favorite restaurant, if that becomes necessary I'll find a new place to camp, play and eat - quite a few of them out there to choose from.
Here's Kagan with no answer to Sen. Coburns (R) question on whether the Commerce Clause would be violated by a law forcing all Americans to eat fruits and vegetables every day. Thanks Senator!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSoWGlyugTo