Live Video: Kagan Hearings, Day Two
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Here’s the live video feed of the Kagan confirmation hearings, as our elected politicians posture and preen for the public.
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63 comments
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Bubblehead II Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:05:42pm |
Dang it Charles, I haven't made the popcorn yet.
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EdDantes Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:07:27pm |
Snarlin' Arlen's tie is hideous! I said it and I'm not sorry.
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webevintage Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:15:14pm |
re: #2 EdDantes
Snarlin' Arlen's tie is hideous! I said it and I'm not sorry.
wow, that tie sure makes a statement...not sure what the statement is, but still...
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EdDantes Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:16:42pm |
re: #3 Fozzie Bear
Dude, that tie is awesome. Take it back.
Specter should take it back for a refund.
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EdDantes Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:18:39pm |
re: #4 webevintage
wow, that tie sure makes a statement...not sure what the statement is, but still...
I think the statement is, " I dress in the dark."
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:19:23pm |
Let me see: Elected officials are posturing and preening. Russians are spying (using sexy moles).
Now we just need a celebrity somewhere to do something stupid, and the weather to do something worth reporting somewhere in the US, and we have a normal news day.
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rwdflynavy Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:20:06pm |
re: #6 EdDantes
I think the statement is, " I dress in the dark."
Stevie Wonder is my fashion consultant.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:21:29pm |
re: #8 rwdflynavy
Stevie Wonder is my fashion consultant.
In a pinch, he could flag down help with that tie, or maybe blind a mugger.
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:23:22pm |
I'm not worried about our elected politicians. It's the unelected ones that give me nightmares.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:28:12pm |
Personally, no TV cameras in the court. I think it would encourage preening.
Transcripts tell us what we need to know.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:28:26pm |
Tim Blair's at it again, with another feeble slap at me. What a clown.
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EdDantes Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:29:55pm |
re: #11 EmmmieG
Personally, no TV cameras in the court. I think it would encourage preening.
Transcripts tell us what we need to know.
Abso-friggin-lutley!
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:31:10pm |
re: #13 EdDantes
It also might lead to a movement to nominate Megan Fox.
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Gang of One Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:31:25pm |
re: #4 webevintage
wow, that tie sure makes a statement...not sure what the statement is, but still...
I think he used to be an employee of New Jersey Transit
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Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:34:44pm |
It's always interesting to browse through my logs of LGF searches - I can see lots of searches that are obviously by people trying to find a gotcha at LGF.
The new talking point that's all over the stalker blogs and wingnut hate sites is that I'm just like Capt. Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, and sure enough, there goes Blair parroting it like a good little robot.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:34:59pm |
Since I already posted the Kagan story from The Onion, here's some other stories about the court from that respectable source:
[Link: www.theonion.com...]
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:36:34pm |
Not all the lifetime pay, honors, respect, and prestige that go with being a Supreme Court justice could get me to sit through days and days of putting on a serious face and pretending that the blithering blather of a man like Arlen Specter makes any sense.
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:38:20pm |
re: #16 Charles
It's always interesting to browse through my logs of LGF searches - I can see lots of searches that are obviously by people trying to find a gotcha at LGF.
The new talking point that's all over the stalker blogs and wingnut hate sites is that I'm just like Capt. Queeg in Mutiny on the Bounty, and sure enough, there goes Blair parroting it like a good little robot.
I think you mean Captain Queeg of "The Caine Mutiny". The Bounty's captain was Bligh.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:38:26pm |
re: #19 EdDantes
Queeg was the skipper of DMS Caine.
Right, it was The Caine Mutiny. Had a brainfart, brought on by the sheer stupidity of the subject I was writing about.
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RadicalModerate Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:38:27pm |
For those of you who think that it's only the "radical fringe" who are making lunatic statements, House Minority leader John Boehner has spectacularly disproved this myth:
In an explosive interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the GOP leader also charged that Democrats are "snuffing out the America that I grew up in." He added, "Right now, we've got more Americans engaged in their government than at any time in our history. There's a political rebellion brewing, and I don't think we've seen anything like it since 1776."
He's also chimed in on how to pay for the Iraq/Afghanistan wars:
Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country's entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he'd favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them.
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Gang of One Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:38:43pm |
re: #16 Charles
It's always interesting to browse through my logs of LGF searches - I can see lots of searches that are obviously by people trying to find a gotcha at LGF.
The new talking point that's all over the stalker blogs and wingnut hate sites is that I'm just like Capt. Queeg in Mutiny on the Bounty, and sure enough, there goes Blair parroting it like a good little robot.
Charles, how can I retweet your post?
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Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:39:50pm |
re: #24 Gang of One
Charles, how can I retweet your post?
Well, at the moment there's no feature for retweeting comments. Been thinking about adding one, though.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:39:51pm |
re: #16 Charles
I'm going to go and do a search now on "Algerian Parrots Eating Godiva Chocolate" just so you can wonder what I'm up to.
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albusteve Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:45:32pm |
re: #22 Charles
Right, it was The Caine Mutiny. Had a brainfart, brought on by the sheer stupidity of the subject I was writing about.
LOL!
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:48:16pm |
re: #16 Charles
The deuce has been using those terms for a while now.
Stupid stalkers.
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:48:38pm |
Is Kyl wearing a long sleeved shirt today, or did he decide to look even more ready for a fight and opt for the wife-beater tank?
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:50:10pm |
re: #7 EmmmieG
Let me see: Elected officials are posturing and preening. Russians are spying (using sexy moles).
Now we just need a celebrity somewhere to do something stupid, and the weather to do something worth reporting somewhere in the US, and we have a normal news day.
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ReamWorks SKG Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:50:48pm |
re: #23 RadicalModerate
I disagree that Wall Street doesn't need reform...but what's objection with raising the retirement age (slowly, of course, over a period of years, maybe 6 months at a time) to make Social Security more solid.
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:50:48pm |
re: #26 EmmmieG
I'm going to go and do a search now on "Algerian Parrots Eating Godiva Chocolate" just so you can wonder what I'm up to.
If you replaced the parrots with Korean Jindos you might find a story I wrote about just that. Except I haven't written that particular story yet.
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ryannon Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:51:03pm |
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:52:11pm |
re: #23 RadicalModerate
I saw a study several years ago that showed people who retired at 55 outlived people who retired at 65 by about 10 years. Going to 70 is basically saying, "Well, we won't have to worry about social security if we just work people until they're dead."
Fuck you, Boehner...
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Fozzie Bear Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:52:52pm |
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Mad Al-Jaffee Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:52:56pm |
Supremes Court Upholds Stopping In The Name Of Love In 2-1 Decision
[Link: www.theonion.com...]
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Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:53:15pm |
re: #31 Floral Giraffe
The deuce has been using those terms for a while now.
Stupid stalkers.
This is what happens to anyone who dares to criticize the right wing. Blatant character assassination, childish homophobic insults, and deranged stalking behavior.
The right wing is so much worse than the left in this regard. Even when LGF was mocking the far left relentlessly, I never saw anything like the non-stop vicious hatred that's being directed at me now from right wingers.
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Gang of One Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:54:24pm |
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EdDantes Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:55:09pm |
re: #36 ryannon
The only scatman I recognize is Crothers. :)
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:55:24pm |
re: #39 Fozzie Bear
I spy with my little eye... holy crap seriously that spy is hot.
Uh...the gate-code for the Pentagon is 1-2-3-4-5, President Obama's email password is "youbetcha", and my social security number is 555-03-3333...what did she want to know again?
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:55:41pm |
re: #36 ryannon
Aaargh! I could only take 15 seconds of that music. Anyone who can listen the whole way through must be mad.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:56:27pm |
re: #41 Charles
I think it shows that they are afraid of your ideas.
Stalking is just so bizarre.
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ryannon Tue, Jun 29, 2010 12:58:31pm |
re: #45 Cato the Elder
Aaargh! I could only take 15 seconds of that music. Anyone who can listen the whole way through must be mad.
I don't particularly like it, but it's an old and honorable jazz-idiom.
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Fozzie Bear Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:00:27pm |
re: #44 darthstar
Uh...the gate-code for the Pentagon is 1-2-3-4-5, President Obama's email password is "youbetcha", and my social security number is 555-03-3333...what did she want to know again?
I think I may be a communist fantasizer.
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ReamWorks SKG Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:00:57pm |
re: #37 darthstar
There's another way of looking at this.
If SS kicked it at, say, 70 and it was enough to live on, then people will have a reasonable way of knowing if they've saved enough money to retire. You want to retire at 62? Make sure you have enough money to cover your expenses for 8 years, then you're covered.
This allows people not to have to worry about outliving their savings.
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shiplord kirel Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:03:03pm |
Goober Graham might get some better answers if he stopped interrupting every time Kagan opens her mouth.
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RadicalModerate Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:03:18pm |
re: #34 reuven
I disagree that Wall Street doesn't need reform...but what's objection with raising the retirement age (slowly, of course, over a period of years, maybe 6 months at a time) to make Social Security more solid.
Other than the fact that I've seen my retirement age raised twice already in the past 20-odd years? The United States already has one of the highest retirement ages in the western world, and if Boehner has his way, we'd be by far the highest age. And his convenient tying of paying for Iraq- which was "off budget" during the Bush Administration- to this (and other so-called "entitlements") rubs me the wrong way.
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Gus Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:04:50pm |
Whew, that was good. I think Lindsey Graham is a yes vote.
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:14:54pm |
re: #53 Gus 802
Whew, that was good. I think Lindsey Graham is a yes vote.
Lindsey was always a yes vote. He just needs to posture for South Carolina so the more passionate members of his base doesn't burn a cross on his lawn when he gets home.
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RadicalModerate Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:15:03pm |
It appears that FoxNews is committed to its "fair and balanced" reporting yet again:
Fox doesn't air Democrats' questions of Kagan but airs GOP questions
During its' June 29 coverage of Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Fox News decided to skip over the questions of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) -- questions that Fox correspondent Carl Cameron deemed "couldn't have been bigger softballs." And rather than show Leahy's questioning, Cameron spread myths about Kagan.
Fox however, cut back to the hearing when the top Republican on the committee questioned Kagan. Fox News aired the vast majority of questions by the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions (AL) and the second-ranking Republican Orrin Hatch (UT), but did not show any questioning by the top two Democrats, Leahy and Herb Kohl (D-WI).
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:15:57pm |
re: #55 RadicalModerate
It appears that FoxNews is committed to its "fair and balanced" reporting yet again:
Fox doesn't air Democrats' questions of Kagan but airs GOP questions
This shouldn't come as a surprise. Did Fox play the Thurgood Marshall insults by the Republicans? I'm guessing they didn't.
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:19:02pm |
Elena's pretty articulate. I find her much easier to listen to than Sotomayor was, though she, too, was articulate.
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webevintage Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:23:20pm |
Where are all the members?
Do they just leave after they get their time in front of the camera?
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Fozzie Bear Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:24:46pm |
re: #57 darthstar
Elena's pretty articulate. I find her much easier to listen to than Sotomayor was, though she, too, was articulate.
I have had the same experience. Sotomayor was quite articulate, but her voice, I found grating. Of course that has everything to do with my ears, and nothing to do with Sotomayor.
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funky chicken Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:30:23pm |
re: #23 RadicalModerate
For those of you who think that it's only the "radical fringe" who are making lunatic statements, House Minority leader John Boehner has spectacularly disproved this myth:
I've got no problem with means-testing Social Security and raising the retirement age. As for the rest of it, or for how on earth raising the retirement age 20 years from now will help pay for the misadventure in Afghanistan, well...
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darthstar Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:30:47pm |
re: #57 darthstar
Elena's pretty articulate. I find her much easier to listen to than Sotomayor was, though she, too, was articulate.
When Franken gets to question Kagan, he'll likely point out absent members as he has in the past. But when their mind is made up, there's no real reason for them to be there (in their minds).
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albusteve Tue, Jun 29, 2010 1:31:13pm |
re: #57 darthstar
Elena's pretty articulate. I find her much easier to listen to than Sotomayor was, though she, too, was articulate.
say what you want, Roberts was the best I've seen...never twitched and hardly moved a muscle, and had a bright little smile most of the time...his answers were all almost perfect, and I think he frustrated the panel with his icey coolness
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Aceofwhat? Tue, Jun 29, 2010 2:12:51pm |
re: #62 albusteve
say what you want, Roberts was the best I've seen...never twitched and hardly moved a muscle, and had a bright little smile most of the time...his answers were all almost perfect, and I think he frustrated the panel with his icey coolness
Yep. They're all wicked smart folks, but Roberts is a razor amongst blades.
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