Posted on 07/01/2010 4:50:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here are the top ten quotes from Solicitor General Elana Kagan as she goes into her fourth day of Senate hearings.
1. "Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant." — Responding to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who asked Kagan was she was doing on Christmas Day of last year, when a an terrorist was caught trying to blow up a plane.
2. "Lets just throw that piece of work in the trash, why don't we?" she said. "That's before I went to law school, and didn't understand much about the way judges should work." — Speaking about her thesis to the Judiciary Committee, which defended both judicial activism and bemoaned the demise of the Communist Party in the United States.
3. "The 'disaster' would be if the statement did not accurately reflect all of what ACOG thought." — Trying to wiggle out of her previous reflection that the it would be a “disaster” if the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists could not identify any circumstances under which that partial-birth abortion “would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.”
4. “Senator, the military at all times during my deanship had full and good access.”— Speaking on her decision to exclude military recruiters from availing themselves of Harvard’s career services office, and instead force them to work through a student group with limited access to the student body.
5. A "loosey-goosey style of interpretation in which anything goes." — Describing her opinion of a “living” Constitution.
6. “A vapid and hollow charade,” serving “little educative function, except perhaps to reinforce lessons of cynicism that citizens often glean from government.” — From 1995 Law Review article, expressing her opinions of Supreme Court hearings. Ironically, she ensured her very own hearings embodied that sentiment perfectly.
7. "Sounds like a dumb law. But I think that the question of whether it’s a dumb law is different from whether the question of whether it’s constitutional and I think that courts would be wrong to strike down laws that they think are senseless just because they’re senseless." — Responding to a question from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who asked Kagan if she thought a bill that required Americans to eat three vegetables and three fruits every day would violate the Commerce Clause.
8. “My political views are generally progressive.” — Responding to a question from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who brought up the fact that a former chief counsel to President Obama characterized Kagan as "largely a progressive in the mold of Obama himself."
9. “I’m not quite sure how I would characterize my politics.” Responding to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
10. “I wish you wouldn’t [ask].” Responding to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, (D-Minn.), who jokingly asked Kagan to give her opinion on the "the vampire versus the werewolf" in the television series Twilight. Klobuchar’s teenage daughter had seen the midnight showing on the morning before the hearings.
How about, “The role of the Supreme Court is to figure out the intent of Congress when they passed the law, and that’s all”?
Jeff Sessions asked some pointed questions....good on him; the rest just tossed her roses, kisses, and marshmallows.
What a joke.
These quotes are “de minimus”.
The “dog” stopped “barking” when she lied to Congress.
If Congress accepts it, the American public’s opinion
of SCOTUS and Congress will drop even more (if that is
possible).
She's a committed lesbo and abortionist which equates to "no morals"....and our government, like it or not, is based on morals.
That long dissertation called the Declaration of Independence says "All these things are morally wrong".
How about, “You will never get me to reveal my agenda -— never!”
This was frivolous. Even the Sotomayor hearings produced more substance. I do give Jeff Sessions for trying to make these hearings serious.
Kagan has zero respect for the Constitution. It means nothing to her. She will rule according to her doctrinaire leftist ideology completely without regard to the intent of the Framers or any other legislators.
Tell me what Progressive has respect for the Constitution? She is not the exception
Progressives beat America in the World Cup of SCUSA.
Elections have consequences
Elections have consequences
She said, “I will work hard.” Like she was applying for a job at Tom & Jerry’s.
Elections do indeed have consequences, and that is why I held my nose and voted for McCain - oh, and his running mate had a little to do with it (smile).
This woman has no judicial experience, shows no ability for it, and shouldn’t be on the most important court in the land.
11. My father is a Communist, my mother is a Communist, my brother is a Communist, but the KGB only very rarely asked us to carry out “special tasks”.
Which we did.
Read the book Radical Son by Horowitz if you don’t believe me .................
She is nothing but a ‘disaster’ waiting to happen so that must mean she gets the nod,see D.C. record.
with regard to number 5 about the “loosey goosey” .....are you sure she was saying this was her interpretation OR was she really saying that in fact she did NOT agree with or was in favor of the people who have that interpretation?
Can you explain?
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