Kagan Confirmed to Supreme Court

Bennet would have opposed her

If Romanoff hadn't gotten into the Senate race.

I just know it.

Today, you're either going to get better or you're going to get worse, but you're never going to be the same.  Which one will it be?  --Joseph V. Paterno

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by: Ralphie @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:08:21 PM UTC

One thing's for certain.

Bennet didn't support her until AFTER Romanoff challenged him in the primary.

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by: RedGreen @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:15:52 PM UTC

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What you said

Today, you're either going to get better or you're going to get worse, but you're never going to be the same.  Which one will it be?  --Joseph V. Paterno

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by: Ralphie @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:19:35 PM UTC

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Hasn't it occured to you guys that super liberal

Romanoff wouldn't have voted to confirm her because she's not far enough to the left? The MSM keeps describing him as the challenge from the left so it must be true. He must really be a lefty.  Who knew?

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by: BlueCat @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:34:51 PM UTC

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That too

Today, you're either going to get better or you're going to get worse, but you're never going to be the same.  Which one will it be?  --Joseph V. Paterno

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by: Ralphie @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:51:47 PM UTC

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All it would have taken is one senator

Or something.

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by: botw @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:45:10 PM UTC

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very happy i wasn't sipping anything...

..but now I'm the crazy old lady who laughs alone in her house.

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by: CrankyOldLady @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:46:08 PM UTC

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me too...

and damn if vidalia onions don't make my feet stink.

" The webinar is free, however, there are only 250 spaces available "

Some douche

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by: Fidel's dirt nap @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:48:41 PM UTC

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Ben Nelson (Nebraska)

the lone Democrat (?) to vote against her nomination.  WTF Ben?

Don't believe everything you think.

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by: Diogenesdemar @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:29:56 PM UTC

<3

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe!

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by: stadt @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:37:11 PM UTC

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Collins, Snowe, Lugar, Graham, Gregg

The GOP 5 who voted yes. So Nelson is to the right of Graham now?

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by: BlueCat @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:09:00 PM UTC

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Yes.

Well, no, but at least he's working on it.

"We're below sharks and contract killers." -- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), speaking on Congress's 9% approval rating

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:11:51 PM UTC

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I hate what the county GOP people in SC are doing to Graham

for acting responsibly and rationally and not being a total do-nothing obstructionist asshole like everyone else.

We don't get things done in Washington because we punish those who do (at least in South Carolina).

" The webinar is free, however, there are only 250 spaces available "

Some douche

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by: Fidel's dirt nap @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:42:25 PM UTC

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Yep

The Republican base is working to destroy the concept of working together to make things better. A lot of them seem to be nihilists.

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by: DavidThi808 @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 22:31:23 PM UTC

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I think we should offer them a trade . . .

We'll take Snowe and Graham, and they can have Nelson and Lieberman in exchange.

(I wonder what we could get for Harry Reid?)

Don't believe everything you think.

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by: Diogenesdemar @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 02:49:57 AM UTC

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They don't cotton to rationality in S.C. these days.

Defeated incumbent, R-SC Rep Bob Ingliss, a guy with a 93 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union found that out when, during the primary campaign, he couldn't hide his what the hell are you people talking about face when constituents told him stuff like this. It's already been posted but it's good enough for a second run:

I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there's a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life's earnings, and you are collateral. We are all collateral for the banks. I have this look like, "What the heck are you talking about?" I'm trying to hide that look and look clueless. I figured clueless was better than argumentative. So they said, "You don't know this?! You are a member of Congress, and you don't know this?!" And I said, "Please forgive me. I'm just ignorant of these things." And then of course, it turned into something about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderbergers and all that stuff. And now you have the feeling of anti-Semitism here coming in, mixing in. Wow.

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by: BlueCat @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 05:55:33 AM UTC

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and the masses responded with a collective

meh

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by: koop @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:38:18 PM UTC

I don't know from "the masses"....

...but if they truly responded with indifference (or whatever bland emotion you attempted to convey) to this history news, the masses are stupid.  Not that this is a new revelation.

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by: OuiserBoudreaux @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 23:10:36 PM UTC

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Still Waiting

I hope to see a real Progressive Justice before I am gone.  I feel very sure that Obama will never nominate anyone who believes LGBT people are equal to everyone else in all aspects including marriage.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Edmund Burke

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by: Pam Bennett @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 20:42:28 PM UTC

Yup.

Given that she is replacing Justice Stevens, Justice Kagan has actually moved the court to the right.

"But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."  Glenn Beck  

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by: Arvadonian @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:10:54 PM UTC

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We can't even begin to say that

Until she starts issuing opinions and voting as a Supreme Court justice, we have no idea where she'll ultimately wind up compared to Stevens.

"We're below sharks and contract killers." -- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), speaking on Congress's 9% approval rating

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:12:46 PM UTC

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Oh, had Justice Stevens

...gone on record as supporting gay marriage?

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by: OuiserBoudreaux @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 23:12:13 PM UTC

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No but...

his record on economic issues would seem to indicate a more liberal bent than Kagan.

"But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."  Glenn Beck  

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by: Arvadonian @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 14:02:04 PM UTC

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and how do you know...

..that Kagan doesn't feel that way about LGBT people?

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by: OuiserBoudreaux @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 23:13:08 PM UTC

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The fact that she likes

to play softball already already has a lot of Republicans convinced.

Don't believe everything you think.

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by: Diogenesdemar @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 02:52:23 AM UTC

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judging from the RW cries of "Judicial activism" over prop 8

Kagan's Confirmation only goes to swell the conservatives disdain for the judicial branch as a whole.

She will have a tough row to hoe in proving she is unbiased. But then again I really can't wait to hear the RW sing her praises when she rules in their favor. (if only to prove she is unbiased)

"Fake but accurate!" ~GOPwarrior "infrastructure,whatever that is." ~bjwilson83 "You leftist DICK!" ~ Laughing Boy
See you at the polls you dumb bastard.~Libertad  

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by: Froward69 @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:40:47 PM UTC

She doesn't have any kind of row to hoe

She's confirmed.  The right-wingers can sit and spin on her decisions at this point.

We don't expect Alito, Thomas, or Scalia to be unbiased, do we?

"We're below sharks and contract killers." -- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), speaking on Congress's 9% approval rating

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:44:18 PM UTC

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I stand corrected.

"Fake but accurate!" ~GOPwarrior "infrastructure,whatever that is." ~bjwilson83 "You leftist DICK!" ~ Laughing Boy
See you at the polls you dumb bastard.~Libertad  

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by: Froward69 @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 21:55:29 PM UTC

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Having just left working for the Courts..

....most Repubs would be astounded at how non-political most of the Federal Judges are.

Now that I type that, that's probably their problem with the Judiciary...didn't Dubya and the Repubs campaign in 2004 on MORE CONSERVATIVE JUDGES?

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten." Calvin Coolidge

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by: SSG_Dan @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 22:32:19 PM UTC

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So what's up with John Andrews' "Clear the Bench" campaign?

I saw one bumper sticker on one gigantic SUV several months ago, and that was it.

"Why not do the right thing for the American people, even though it's not exactly what we want." - Speaker Boehner

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by: Half Glass Full @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 22:43:49 PM UTC

Gigantic SUV?

I always pictured Andrews as driving a VW bug (circa 1972), or maybe a mini-cooper.

Don't believe everything you think.

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by: Diogenesdemar @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 22:48:53 PM UTC

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That would not support the oil and gas industry.

Not possible.

Today, you're either going to get better or you're going to get worse, but you're never going to be the same.  Which one will it be?  --Joseph V. Paterno

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by: Ralphie @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 01:39:08 AM UTC

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Yay for the ladies!

Let's see how long Ruth can hold on; it would be interesting to see if having 3 women on the court changes the dynamic in some significant way

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by: OuiserBoudreaux @ Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 23:17:06 PM UTC

They can!

For sure, they can bring changes.

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by: suchitrasunil @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 11:22:36 AM UTC

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Now that we have a reasonable number of women

Next time I'd like to see a non-Ivy League westerner, any gender, any color, any religion.

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by: BlueCat @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 05:59:44 AM UTC

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