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Owner59 -> Democratic Secret Weapon For 2010 Mid-term Election (6/30/2010 12:22:32 AM)
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Let republicans talk......
That`s it! [:D]
Last week is was the BP "apology",then the apology for the apology...Then the realization that cons still suck corporate dick.
Now,.......
Attack one of America`s most beloved civil rights icons,Thurgood Marshall.
"The Republican National Committee (RNC) caused a firestorm Monday after questioning Elena Kagan’s support for the judicial philosophy of the nation’s first African-American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.
The initial charge from the RNC arrived even before Kagan stepped up to the White House lectern to accept her nomination.
The comments in question came from a 1993 tribute to Marshall that Kagan penned in the Texas Law Review. She quoted from a speech Marshall gave in 1987 in which he said the Constitution as originally conceived and drafted was “defective.”
Marshall cited in particular the definition in the original Constitution to slaves as representing three-fifths of “free Persons” when counting the nation’s population. That reference was rendered moot after the Civil War with the ratification of the 13th and 14th amendments abolishing slavery and granting full citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
Kagan also quoted Marshall as saying the Supreme Court’s mission was to “show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”
“Given Kagan’s opposition to allowing military recruiters access to her law school’s campus, her endorsement of the liberal agenda and her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution ‘as originally drafted and conceived,’ was ‘defective,’ you can expect Senate Republicans to respectfully raise serious and tough questions to ensure the American people can thoroughly and thoughtfully examine Kagan’s qualifications and legal philosophy before she is confirmed to a lifetime appointment,” Steele said in the statement.
The RNC document is likely just the opening salvo from GOP researchers, who have spent months examining the public records of all of Obama’s potential Supreme Court nominees. Yet an effort to associate Kagan negatively with Marshall, who is revered by liberals and African-Americans, could prove explosive.
Kagan, currently the solicitor general, is a former law clerk for Marshall."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/96909-gop-uses-thurgood-marshall-to-attack-kagan
and
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/96909-gop-uses-thurgood-marshall-to-attack-kagan?page=2
Or let minority leader John Boenher talk:
"If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're retired, why are we paying you at a time when we're broke?" he said to the paper in an interview.
Boehner's comments come as lawmakers in both parties, but especially Republicans, have expressed concern with the growing national debt. Boehner said in the interview that entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will need to be reformed to address the problem."
Or call the worst financial crisis in 80 years,......an ant.
"Boehner also criticized President Obama's proposal to revamp Wall Street, which is working its way through Congress. Boehner compared the measure to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon."
Great "strategery" republicans.The only thing worse would be lamenting the loss of the "good old days."
Like leader John Boinher did.
"They’re snuffing out the America that I grew up in," Boehner said. "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."
Oh really?[:D]
When Boenher was growing up,many blacks were denied the right to vote,gays could get jail sentences for having sex,many states outlawed marraige between blacks and whites and Jonas Salk hadn`t yet developed a Polio vacine.
What is it that boner is refering to,that "they`re" snuffing out?
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