Posted on 05/10/2010 1:16:47 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
Top White House officials bristled Monday when asked whether they think Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s sexuality will become an issue in her confirmation hearings.
“It’s not anything I’m going to get into,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking to reporters in his West Wing office.
Gibbs was asked a handful of times about rumors that Kagan is gay, and gave terse responses each time.
Asked why the White House pushed back so aggressively when CBS News published a piece on its website (CBS appears to have pulled the piece) that said Kagan, if confirmed, would be the country’s “first openly gay justice,” Gibbs said it was not an issue to the president.
“We are going to defend the nominee that the president has chosen,” Gibbs said when asked if he thinks the rumors will be brought up during the confirmation process.
When asked what the White House was defending Kagan from, Gibbs said: “That’s just a broad answer.”
“I’m just not going to get into somebody who is doing what that person was doing on CBS’s website. This is about who she is going to be as a justice,” Gibbs said.
Ron Klain, chief counsel to the vice president and a key figure in the White House legal team, said: “Elena went through the same vet that everyone else goes through for the Supreme Court is all I’ll say.”
On a separate issue, Klain said that the administration will not immediately release memos written by Kagan when she worked at the White House under President Bill Clinton.
“I’m sure the committee will request those papers and we’ll reach an accommodation with the Clinton Library on that,” Klain said. “We’ve got to see what the committee wants to see and we’ll go from there.”
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*shrug* Ok, please to meet you, Mr Crazy...
just wait till he replaces Ginsberg with a 3rd bull on the court.
Because you're a guy?
The more dysfunctional the better as far as the kenyan is concerned. The longer the prison record, the larger the amount that was evaded on taxes, the more they hate America. There is no limit to the insanity.
“Elena went through the same vet that everyone else goes to”
Thats because she is a dog.
Perhaps Westboro Baptist “Church” will show up at her confirmation hearings. ;-)
But seriously, since she’s already demonstrated her extreme anti-heterosexual bias at every opportunity, at this point her own “sexual orientation” is a moot point. We already know that she would side with the gays, and thus regardless of her personal life she is an enemy of moral governance.
“Elena went through the same vet “
uh...
You really can't make this stuff up.
Top White House officials bristled Monday when asked whether they think Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s sexuality will become an issue in her confirmation hearings.
“It’s not anything I’m going to get into,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs
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Of course not, Mr. Gibbs. No man ever has.
My suggestion? Send Janet over. SHE’LL get into it all right.
You brought up a good point.
Most conservatives will have “tolerance” for minority cultures and lifestyles,
as long as the same courtesy is extended from them to us.
It isn’t.
Gay? I think we're jumping the gun a little here.
Let's first determine if she's actually a woman. She looks like the spawn of a bizarre Mike Myers/Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick gene splice.
Given The One's predilection for masculine Clintonistas, can a nomination for Jake Reno be far behind?
Nominating an open pervert to the Court is unconscionable. There is no excuse. She needs to be filibustered.
“Mr. Gibbs, is she ashamed of who she is? Does she think there is something wrong with that sort of lifestyle?”
You may be correct, but personally I don’t care what she does in her bedroom as long as she’s an originalist Justice who actually doesn’t treat the Constitution as a “living document”.
““It’s not anything I’m going to get into,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs”
I can only guess the WH has a don’t ask, don’t tell policy in effect for Supreme Nominees. I wonder why?
Butch is a bulldyke? You mean she is a unicorn?
ROFLOL!!!
Oh the irony........
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