Sen. Jeff Sessions is grilling Kagan on Harvard’s DADT policy with the military on campus.
Gen. Petraues speaking now. Only available on the Senate live stream.
I have no idea why the gays think they are so oppressed. She should move to Tehran and see how they treat gays there.
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What Are Those Democratic Flower Children Smoking?
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA) - Sunday, September 23, 2007
Author: Ross MacKenzie
So now Gen. David Petraeus has reported on Iraq, and the question is: Are the Democrats overgrown flower children?
Think about it.
Even before Petraeus ‘ congressional appearance, key Democrats
were on the ramparts dissing the general most of them had voted to confirm as the Iraq theater commander - implying he is a ventriloquist’s dummy for President Bush, a liar , and worse. . .
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - in a pre-emptive strike - implied Petraeus ‘ coming remarks were written by the White House, and so dismissed them as “the Bush Report.” Clueless Pelosi added: “The facts are self-evident that progress is not being made.”
• Again, prior to Petraeus ‘ testimony, Sen. Joe Biden termed him “dead flat wrong.”
• Sen. Barbara Boxer told Petraeus to “take off your rosy glasses.”
• SEN. CHRISTOPHER Dodd declared that despite the Petraeus report of moderate progress since the troop buildup (or “surge”), he favors cutting off funds for U.S. troops beginning next spring. His presidential campaign spammed an e-mail declaring: “The fact that there are questions about Gen. Petraeus ‘ report is not surprising, given that it was brought to you by this White House.”
• Sen. Barack Obama , noting “the same false promises of success that got us into Iraq,” said he wants to begin withdrawing troops at the rate of 8,000 per month. The only question about the lost Iraqi cause, he said, is “how do we clean up the mess?”
• Sen. Hillary Clinton told Petraeus , “The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.” She found the administration’s proposed rate of troop drawdown - to pre-surge levels by next summer - “too little, too late, and unacceptable.”
AND LET us not overlook two other manifestations of malign thinking in the fever swamps of the Democratic left:
(1) A Sept. 9 New York Times editorial proclaiming “Gen. Petraeus has his own credibility problems,” stipulated, inter alia, this: President Bush “isn’t looking for the truth, only for ways to confound the public.” Or: Both Bush and Petraeus are liars .
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Petraeus talking about ROEs now. Says he will “look very hard” at the complaints from troopers. Says he has talked with Karzai and other Afghan leaders on the past few days about need to bring full fight to the enemy. Says we still need to minimize civilian casualties and collateral damage. That’s about all he said on that.
As much as it would pain me to lose Sessions as my Senator, I do believe he would make a great Supreme court justice.
Sen. Orrin Hatch questioning Kagan about the Citizens United case.
Hi all....
....saw this thread and had to jump in. I am watching Kagan....SHE IS LYING LIKE A RUG.
The rug on my kitchen floor, felt-backed and foam held doesn’t lie as good as Kagan.
She won’t answer his questions. Plain questions, yes or no type questions. She keeps dodging. He asks, “do you believe...?” and she keeps telling him what Congress determined. Like he doesn’t know.
I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of other personal presidential and top WH legal counsels being in the hearing room, ready to advise/coach the nominee, in the past.
He wasn't seated so prominently yesterday, and per his past documented hardball MO, he might be there in the front row as a not so subtle reminder to some of the questioners. 
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is calling the Constitution a living document, saying its framers wrote it to last through ever-changing circumstances.
Her remarks in an exchange with Sen. Patrick Leahy on the second day of confirmation hearings touched on suggestions by Republican critics that she would legislate from the bench.
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"Either way," she said, "we apply what they say, what they meant to do, so in that sense we are all originalists."
Now with Feinstein: “Do YOU think...?” and she answers “I think the court has held...”
Won’t say what she herself thinks.
Obligatory “Carpet Muncher” Alert!
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If they don't filibuster kagan there is no reason to support the party as it currently exists
I've never seen anyone less qualified
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I’m sorry, but I’m not at in the least bit impressed with Petraeus. His philosophy on Afghanistan, IMO, is complex and ambiguous.
I found one of his comments about the ROIs to be absurd. He said (paraphrasing) that if troop are taking fire from a house, that they shouldn’t necessarily take the house out, because there might be “civilians” inside. That possibly disengaging or regrouping may be the best idea.
Huh?
He’s wrong. “Civilians” need to learn that the insurgents they’re dealing with are radioactive and that hanging around them or allowing them to hang around you can be dangerous or fatal.
He’s going to “take a look” at the rules of engagement. WTF is that supposed to mean? If he hasn’t realized by now that they’re not working and they’re getting our soldiers killed, he is, quite simply, a dumbass.
This entire concept of trying to get everyone to us is ill-conceived and dangerous. It wouldn’t be so bad if it actually worked on a practical level, but it doesn’t work on any level. The Ishmaelites don’t like us regardless.
Now we learn that language purporting to be the judgment of an independent body of medical experts devoted to the care and treatment of pregnant women and their children was, in the end, nothing more than the political scrawling of a White House appointee.
Miss Kagan’s decision to override a scientific finding with her own calculated distortion in order to protect access to the most despicable of abortion procedures seriously twisted the judicial process. One must question whether her nomination to the Court would have the same effect.