Quote Unquote: Obama on the SCOTUS Nominee

Sen. Barack Obama on the President's controversial choice of Supreme Court nominee…

"[S]ince her experience does not include serving as a judge, we have yet to know her views on many of the critical constitutional issues facing our country today. In the coming weeks, we'll need as much information and forthright testimony from [her] as possible so that the U.S. Senate can make an educated and informed decision on her nomination to the Supreme Court."

Politicians should really just stop saying things. Things always have a way of making them look kinda silly later on.

Tags: Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Harriet Miers, Quote Unquote, Supreme Court

Jon Stewart: Release the Kagan!

Is Elena Kagan President Obama's Harriet Miers? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. Kagan is obviously Obama's Ebenezer Hoar, who, as you know, was Ulysses Grant's Reuben Walworth. Duh.

After the jump, Stephen Colbert grasps at some anti-Kagan straws.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Fox, George W. Bush, Harriet Miers, Hurricane Katrina, Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity, Supreme Court, The Daily Show, Video

The Daily Show Presides Over The Best Supreme Court Appointee Moments

While America waits with baited breath to find out why Elena Kagan — Obama's choice for Supreme Court appointment — is the evilest woman to ever walk the Earth, here's a collection of Daily Show clips on Supreme Court appointments to help us get a running start at over-reacting…

August 6, 2009: White Men Can't Judge – Sotomayor Confirmation

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Tags: Antonin Scalia, Arlen Specter, Elena Kagan, George W. Bush, Harriet Miers, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Jon Stewart, Robert Bork, Samuel Alito, Sandra Day O'Connor, Senate, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Ted Kennedy, The Daily Show

The Nine Most Honorable Supreme Court Moments from The Colbert Report

Now that Justice John Paul Stevens has announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court this summer, we can pretty much expect an endless stream of appointee speculations, rehashings of nomination battles past and pretty much anything — anything! — that's vaguely SCOTUS-related until we actually want our brains to explode and just get it over with.

So, let's get an early start on all that with this list of Stephen Colbert's nine best Supreme Court clips…

How to Bork a Nominee

The list continues after the jump…

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Tags: Clarence Thomas, Harriet Miers, Jeffrey Toobin, Robert Bork, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Colbert, Supreme Court, The Colbert Report, Video

Karl Rove Didn't Want Attorneys to Get Fired, He Wanted Them to Get Tasty Treats

For whatever reason the House Judiciary Committee insists on investigating things that happened in the past, like members of the Bush administration allegedly breaking the law, instead of things that are going to happen in the future, like Barack Obama's confirmed plot to kill seniors. Ugh, bureaucrats!

Anyway, yesterday these backward-lookers dredged up 6,000 pages of documents about the 2006 firings of nine United States Attorneys, a scandal that resulted in serious consequences for students at Texas Tech University, and somehow poor Karl Rove got dragged into the mess…

[Rove aide Scott] Jennings wondered "what else I can do to move this process forward" in one e-mail, and told Griffin in another that, "I would really like to move forward with getting rid of NM US ATTY."

Rove told the judiciary committee, according to transcripts of his interview, that Jennings was "freelancing" in his attempts to have Iglesias fired, but [former White House Counsel Harriet] Miers, in her interview, said that a very "agitated" Rove telephoned her from New Mexico in September 2006, saying that Iglesias was "a serious problem and he wanted something done about it."

There you go! All Karl Rove said was that he "wanted something done" about the New Mexico attorney. That doesn't mean he wanted the guy to get fired, for heaven's sake. My guess? Karl Rove just wanted someone to send Mr. Iglesias a fruit basket, to make him feel like a team player. I bet Karl Rove sent lots of people inspirational fruit baskets over the years.

Not that the liberal media will ever report on that completely obvious explanation for everything.

Tags: Harriet Miers, Karl Rove