Gingrich: Kagan 'Disqualified' from Court

[mick silver]

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/gingrich-beck-kagan-nra/2010/05/16/id/359183 ...



U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan "should be disqualified" from a position on the country's highest court, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Glenn Beck Saturday at a meeting of the National Rifle Association.

Gingrich said Kagan tried to bar military recruiters from the Harvard Law School campus when she was the dean there during the gathering in Charlotte, N.C., The Charlotte Observer reported.

"That is an act so unbecoming an American that she should be disqualified," Gingrich said.

Gingrich and Beck both urged the estimated crowd of 10,000 people at the event to vote in November for candidates who supported a conservative agenda.

"We have to think of something because the Titanic is going down. We need to save the passengers, that's what we need to worry about," Beck told the crowd.

"Your mission is to organize at every level ... and to simply, decisively beat all of the [liberal-leaning candidates] and get this country back on track," Gingrich said.

Gingrich also drew loud applause when he talked about the right to bear arms: "It's not in defense of hunting, it's not in defense of target shooting or collecting. The Second Amendment is defense of freedom from the state."

[Heimdhal]

I dont like the lady, and surely there are numerous faults and shortcomings for which she could be, or should be, disqualified. But not allowing recruiters on a private college campus is certainly not one of them.

I dont recall reading law where one is REQUIRED to allow the MIC to recruit those under your supervision, on land also under you supervision.

[V10Silver]

Sorry Good for the goose good for the gander. If (and all colleges do) they take federal money (read student loans / pell grants/ etc) they should be and I believe are required to open their campus to federal programs (ie recruiters). Just like some of the more liberal causes claim they have a right to access so should the military.

>:( I'm so tired of the hypocrisy of the progressives. It makes my blood boil.

[Saul Mine]

Sorry Good for the goose good for the gander. If (and all colleges do) they take federal money (read student loans / pell grants/ etc) they should be and I believe are required to open their campus to federal programs (ie recruiters). Just like some of the more liberal causes claim they have a right to access so should the military.

>:( I'm so tired of the hypocrisy of the progressives. It makes my blood boil.


So the government owns you if they take your money, and they own you if they give you money. One of those does not compute. I for one am d*m tired of the government thinking they own everything and everybody everywhere.

[Quantum]

Kagan is far more qualified to be on the SCOTUS than Gingrich...and Kagan is not qualified.

Gingrich is a royal POS.

[EE_]

Kegel should be disqualified, and Newt is an anti-semite

[Johnny Ringo]

Sorry Good for the goose good for the gander. If (and all colleges do) they take federal money (read student loans / pell grants/ etc) they should be and I believe are required to open their campus to federal programs (ie recruiters). Just like some of the more liberal causes claim they have a right to access so should the military.

>:( I'm so tired of the hypocrisy of the progressives. It makes my blood boil.


So the government owns you if they take your money, and they own you if they give you money. One of those does not compute. I for one am d*m tired of the government thinking they own everything and everybody everywhere.


Don't know about the first part, but the bolded section - like it or not - is true.

Exhibit A would be the stimulus package awhile back, when a couple of states (I think Louisiana was one) said "No Thanks" to the fed's money, because each state that accepted the money was supposed to use part of it to start programs that they'd have to fund later on.

We all know how f'd up public schools are, but many charter schools fall into that trap, too. Lots of people think charter schools are the same as private schools, but most of them line up at the federal trough. That means they have to play by the NCLB and all the BS "free and equal" rules.

A local charter school had a 6-year old just sneak out a door his class was passing on the way back to class. Nobody noticed. Cops found the kid in the middle of a highway about 4 miles away. He's apparently autistic, and this wasn't the first time the kid had put himself in danger - only people noticed all the other times. The school director told the kid's mom that the school didn't have the staff to provide the services this kid requires, including the constant one-on-one monitoring, and she needed to find another school for him.

She sued, and since the school accepts federal money, they have to provide accomodations for this kid. That's the whole reason people send their kids to charter school - they think they're getting their kids away from the lowest common denominators and won't have to put up with behavior and discipline issues. Wrong.

If you want to avoid all that, find a school that tells Uncle Sam to put his money where the sun don't shine. Yeah, it'll cost you, but like anything else, you get what you pay for. A kid becomes a behavior issue and starts to ruin the learning environment, he/she is gone. That's how some of these private schools can stick 30+ kids in a class, and everybody still learns. Try that with public school apes. See, free markets are great - both parties have to live up to expectations. If one of them doesn't , the other can terminate the contract.