Barbara Boxer Ideas Are Green Like Moss

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Barbara Boxer is so focused on being green she is totally clueless to the fact that her state is going down the tubes! During the mockery of a hearing for the nomination for Elena Kagan for Supreme Court Justice Barbara "call me Senator" Boxer focused on green questions.

If that doesn't demonstrate the level of distance the Senator is from reality, what does?

During the hearing I e-mail Senator Boxer expressing my concerns about Elena Kagan. I received a postmortem response.

If California is to lift itself out of the current financial slump/depression we will need new leadership.

Go Fiorina!

Some food for thought: World Cup and Politics

SPORTS

Don't cry for me Argentina?

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/columns/story/_/id/5352239/ce/us/bastian-schweinsteiger-gets-little-revenge-diego-maradona?cc=5901&ver=us

Lakers begin to reload!


http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=5350443

POLITICS
Obama blames the GOP/ GOP fires back: Republicans blast Obama's immigration speech

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37879

Kagan bla, bla, bla...she's in like sin.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37873

The Supreme Court Dog and Pony Confirmation Hearing/Show

The dog and pony show known as the Supreme Court nomination hearings continues. Does anyone really believe that all Dems won't vote her through? Seriously?

Senator Arlen Specter (Democrat – Pennsylvania) seemed to have a serious concern with Supreme Court justices disrespecting Senatorial legislation. The senator asked Elena Kagan several times if she thought the Supreme Court justices had disrespected the fact finding and work of the Senators. Kagan dodged the question time and time again and Senator Specter said he would have to move on since he was not making in headway. Will he not confirm her? Did anything he asked her have any bearing on whether he would vote to confirm her or not? Nothing Senator Specter said indicated that anything he asked would bear any consequence on if he voted to confirm Kagan or not. Bla, bla, bla.

Senator Feinstein (Democrat – California)threw batting practice. First Feinstein feigned toughness by asking a question about guns. Then she focused on green issues. She is as out of focus as her hairstyle is out of date.

Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican – South Carolina) asked Kagan if she was a progressive. She said yes. Graham than spoke about Miguel Estrada, a Bush nominee, who was rejected by the largely Democratic congress, and how Estrada wrote a glowing letter of recommendation for Kagan. Graham asked her to write a letter for Estrada. Kagan said she would. This, to me, was the only significant exchange that I saw before I fell asleep. What Graham did was simultaneously slam the Dems for ruthlessly, and spitefully rejecting the confirmation of Miguel Estrada during the Bush era and get Kagan to write a letter of recommendation for Miguel Estrada. It was very nice ways of saying the Democrats are ruthless, spiteful jerks with no conscience. Nice work, Lindsey. Graham also asked about Kagan's opinion on Miranda rights in a war, if Kagan thought enemy combatants should receive them. She said no. Graham thought many would be surprised with her views.

Well, the dog and pony show goes on. The only thing I see is that the Republicans are less partisan than the Democrats and the Democrats say a lot that means little.

That’s the way I see it, how do you see it?

Why Kagan Worries Me

Supreme Court nominees are subject to a healthy portion of scrutiny and well they should be. The Supreme Court decides on the toughest most important cases in the country. They are the final legal word. The trust we as American citizen put in them is almost sacred. Because I believe in the ideals of the United States of America and the principles that our founding fathers set forth to govern this great country I am greatly concerned by the appointment of any Supreme Court nominee.

I am deeply concerned by the nomination of Elena Kagan for Supreme Court Justice by President Obama. Here are four reasons why:

#1. She is an Obama appointee. His choices have not been good so far and his approval rating illustrates his disconnect with the rest of the country.

#2. She is a liberal and not just an average liberal but a liberal from the ivory towers of academia.

#3. The Obama administration is carefully showing the public only what they want the public to see about Elena Kagan’s history of thought which would give us a better understanding of what her liberal ideals look like politically. Y.ou only hide what you don't want seen.

#4. What’s behind the curtain? Senator Tom Daschle advised then Senator Obama to run for president in 2008 because if he (Obama) waited until 2012 his record of voting would be too well documented. That is deception, that is dishonest. Now, President Obama is doing the same thing with information about Elena Kagan. What don’t they want the American public to know about Elena Kagan?

That’s what I say, what do you say?

Just Say No

It is an interesting coincidence that the nominee for the soon to be vacated Supreme Court Justice position has a rather small record. Was it Tom Daschle who told then Senator Obama to run for President before he had a record of voting tendencies?  So, how does President Obama approach his selection of a Supreme Court Justice nominee? He gives us someone with little judicial experience, a background in the extremely liberal soil of academia, and in the small sample we have of her choices are a bit (ok, maybe a gigabyte) left of Middle America. Elena Kagan, current solicitor general is an ideal candidate for Supreme Court Justice in the eyes of President Obama.

President Obama had said that it was very important that his choice for Supreme Court Justice would take into account women’s rights, yet rejected an idea of a litmus test, and believes that women should have the right to make often difficult decisions about their own bodies and issues of reproduction, however…no litmus test?

I am not surprised. Pissed off, but unfortunately not surprised. America drank the cool called change and now we are paying for it and will pay for it for years to come.

Dear congress: Just Say No

Thus saith me.