The Washington Post‘s Kathleen Parker, recently named the best commentator in all of American journalism by the Pulitzer Prize committee, has written some crap today about, let’s see, Elena Kagan, the arch-lesbian. Is Elena Kagan not ordinary enough to win confirmation to the nation’s highest legal authority? Why is she from New York and not a shithole like Georgia, where most people in America are from? What is Elena Kagan’s fucking problem and why did Barack Obama pick her, knowing that she wouldn’t pass the “ordinary-people principle” that he apparently invented and lives by? She probably lost her virginity to something other than a horse! OR IS SHE STILL A LOSER VIRGIN? Kathleen Parker considers at least some of these important issues, today.
Parker first notes how Barack Obama says he likes to appoint people who are in touch with Ordinary Americans. Much like the more standardized Real Americans, Ordinary Americans do not live in either cities or the Yankee states. They certainly do not live in that Communist Catholic Jewnicipality, New York City, and they generally went to bad schools, which are in effect good schools, according to the principles of Ordinary America, as outlined by the condescending moron Kathleen Parker.
Certainly New York City dwellers would argue that they struggle with ordinary concerns, just in a more dense environment. But New York, like other urban areas, tends to be more liberal than the vast rest of the country.
To the Pulitzer board: this is called a non sequitur.
More than half the country also happens to be Protestant, yet with Kagan, the court will feature three Jews, six Catholics and nary a Protestant. Fewer than one-fourth of Americans are Catholic, and 1.7 percent are Jewish.
One does not have to be from a rural Georgia backwater (Clarence Thomas), or the child of recently arrived immigrants (Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito), to qualify as a justice, though it might help in claiming identity with ordinary people. One could even argue that it matters only that one regard the law with utter neutrality.
But the president adheres to the ordinary-people principle, and so the question must be asked: Does Kagan meet the standard? She may have other qualifications, including her willingness at Harvard to invite conservative scholars to her faculty. But a New York City girl who attended a prep school, Ivy League colleges and law school — who once barred military recruiters from Harvard’s recruitment office and was an adviser to Goldman Sachs — can’t be characterized as anything close to mainstream America.
Either Obama may want to tweak his operating narrative — or geography may well be Kagan’s wound.
Why can’t the vast majority of Americans who live in cities with populations greater than 200,000 understand that they’re not Ordinary Americans? They have no concerns, because they are Liberal. They should all take a trip down to Georgia and shit on the nearest patio. Could learn something.
[Washington Post via TAPPED]
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For that matter, why didn’t Barack Obama nominate Jose Delgado, my barber? Guy’s about as ordinary as they get!
Fuck Barack Obama. He’s clearly just bullshitting when he says he wants to nominate an ordinary person.
Alls I know is that her “friends” claim she’s NOT teh lesbian. So that still leaves Roberts as the only gay judge on the court.
or the child of recently arrived immigrants (Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito)
Alito: educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit prior to joining the Supreme Court.
Scalia: . He attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate, and obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. After spending six years in a Cleveland law firm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an assistant attorney general. He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago.
Wikipedia and Common Sense tell me that neither of those gentleman, despite the overwhelming EYETALIAN-ness of their names, has ever set foot in Georgia, and really has no conception of flyover country, nor holds plans to visit there.
anyone else wanna just slappper face?
I think it would be hot to shit on Kathleen Parker, but I doubt I’d learn anything.
I think its very easy for merely halfwitted, as opposed to insane fucktarded, conservatives to develop a habit of condescension; they are too dumb to recognize when someone is smarter than they are, and they spend most of their time with other conservatives, so they become accustomed to actually being the smartest person in the room. I have two dogs, one is fucking dumb, the other is smart, for a dog, so the smart one is like the halfwit conservative, she thinks she is way smarter than she is, but she’s still a fucking dog.
Simplest Townsend: Why can’t Release The Kagan be more like Sarah Palin?
It is writing like Parker’s that makes me hope and pray that Obama eventually gets to replace every single person on the Supreme Court.
I’m sure Kathleen Parker thinks about the plight of ordinary americans all the time from the posh offices on 15th and L. So convenient — so close to the University Club.
[re=575768]Joshua Norton[/re]: Roberts is also the only one who committed international adoption fraud in order to illegally adopt two Irish orphans so he and his homespun-wearing, sedatged beard could pretend to be normal procreating humans.
Did you guys know it’s only sexism when people say shit about Sarah Palin that she doesn’t like? It’s true. Questioning anything and everything about a female Democrat? Freedom!
The 80% of the country’s citizens who live in cities and near the coasts do not share the same concerns as the vast unpopulated rest of the country. Those concerns being, naturally, that there’s just too many dang liberals!
She’s like Noonan, but with a massive brain hemorrhage instead of a crippling Xanax addiction.
All I know is, if we ever want to get this country back to Ron Paul’s Contitution, we have to get rid of all the damn mackerel-snappers on teh court.
Parker has a conservative smirk. It gives me nightmares.
Peter Francis Geraci or GTFO!
Yeah, why can’t the moron-Americans have someone like them on the Court? Sigh.
It’s time to break out this famous quote gain: “Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance?” – Sen. Roman Hruska (R-NE) on failed Nixon SC nominee G. Harrold Carswell.
My answer: no.
It really is a treat to observe Kathleen Parker suck the throbbing cock of FAIL with such gusto. The FAIL Facial just never gets old, no matter how often one witnesses Kathleen go at it. Can there be any question that she deserves a Putzer Prize?
Something tells me if she was an unwed mother of four living on food stamps and working at the Wawa, she’d still be an insufficiently “real” for this Dame Nooningtard wanna-be.
This is why Hopey should have nominated Sasha. Malia would probably have a longer tenure on the court, but she’s just not reliably liberal.
On a slightly more serious note: Am I correct that Kagan’s principal qualification for Obama’s nomination is that she allegedly will be able to “build consensus” with the conservative wing of the Court?
In other words,the theory is that she’ll be able to “charm” Alito, Thomas, Roberts, and Scalia (or at least, Kennedy) into voting for something sensible for change? Or persuade them by the Sheer Force of Her Enormous Intellect?
Hmmmm.
I never thought the “Jewish [Lesbian] Mother Factor” was an element in the selection process for USSC. Silly me.
[Dear God, but Liberals are dumb sometimes. Mind Bogglingly Dumb.]
Makes sense to me. How else will we fulfill our nation’s goal of becoming a true mediocracy? Duz it…to you?
He should have nominated Paula Cole. She sings a song about being ordinary.
And where are the men on the Court from? Funny, she only mentions Thomas being from Buttfuck, Georgia.
Let’s see: Buffalo, Sacramento, Trenton, SanFrancisco, and Trenton. And Stevens was from Chicago.
[re=575794]Neilist[/re]: Don’t fall for that horseshit, thats for the public. She is just a Clintonista careerist, making a play for the top job in her profession, she got the nomination onnacount of her connections, plain and simple.
If McCain had been elected we would have Joe the Plummer and Esquimaux Iron Musher Todd on the court.
[re=575798]Airborne Toxic Event[/re]: He should have nominated Sly Stone, because he is everyday people; and so on and so on and scooby-dooby-doo.
As long as a majority of supreme court justices end up being from NYC..
Parker is right. What the SCOTUS needs is somebody with a well rounded educational background from some college like Liberty University.
http://www.liberty.edu/
The vast majority of Americans are underrepresented in Congress due to the pesky old Constitution, which gives a congressman and two senators each to federal-pork-dumping-grounds like Alaska and Wyoming, whereas poor old California has 53 congresscritters and two senators, and one of the senators is Barbara Boxer, which should only count half.
Go Mickey!
She would more approve of Joe the Plumber?
Such a genteel racist, our KKKathleen, whose “ordinary people” are always Bubba and The Bride Of Bubba. Was that a remedial Pulitzer? I think so. Is she up for a Nobel in Lack Of Self-Awareness? You bet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah: brilliant thinker, consensus builder, sits down to pee like roughly 55% of the population, but does she understand that the Constitutional Right to Hunt mandates that the First Day of Deer Season be a school holiday? I know a lot of extremely ordinary people, many of them lawyers and this Kagan person is not ditinguished by her ordinarinous.
I’m reliably ordinary, myself. Note to Kathleen Parker: While I’m happy with the New York born, lesbian Jew-ness of Ms. Kagan, I’m afraid she may be insufficiently Communistic for my tastes.
Note to everybody else: Ms. Parker does not seem to like Jeeews. Subtle, but it’s definately there.
Like most Americans, Kagan is fat. Good enough for me. Pass the Funyuns.
“The wits of the town wrote, not to please themselves, but to flatter the taste of their patrons, and many of them succeeded so well as to echo in prose or verse the precise accent of the tavern.”
Oh, when is Peggington going to write about Kagan?
Let me take a wild fucking guess where Kathleen Parker is from. New England?
Kathleen Parker meets the ‘Ordinary-Bitch’ principle.
Skoal Rebel for SCOTUS!
So, now we have to have teatards on the court? Brawndo on the crops!
what’s the opposite of meritocracy?
And Kagan doesn’t eat fried green tomatoes, in the customary fashion, but prefers rather to masturbate with them. That’s right. She puts them in her twat.
What a narrow-minded bigot, it clearly pisses her off that Jews and Catholics are “over-represented” on the court.
I just say that if you have to appoint a woman, and you do because your a cake eater and a communist and you can’t appoint Sarah Palin, which you should and you know it, why not Judge Judy? I know why. Because she’s got too much common sense and you want somebody who is a big Eastern liberal who is probably queer. So, thanks a lot. That’s just great.
President Obama should nominate Timothy Hutton — if there’s anyone who knows how to act like and ordinary person, it’s someone who won an Oscar for doing exactly that.
One must think that one is lacking in self of steam, one is.
Also, one.
[re=575818]slappypaddy[/re]: “The slang which they used—and they were all masters in this kind—was not the curious slang of metaphor…; rather, it was composed of the catch words which seemed worth a smile when they were heard in the coffee-house, but which instantly lost their savour when they were put in print”
[re=575833]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Kagan was also really good in Misery.
Oh, sorry — saw “fried green tomatoes” and “bates”, and got confused.
[re=575802]Prommie[/re]: I think you’re right about Kagan being a skilled careerist. Thought that about Hilz, too, but she’s working out pretty well as SOS. One suspects Obamar has encountered a careerist or two in his own career, which come to think of it is pretty careerist as well: onward and ever upward my résumé!
The worst was Bush the First: got to the WH and had no idea what to do.
[re=575835]Mustang[/re]: ‘Twould take a little getting used to:
“I’m speaking! I’M……SPEAKING!”
[re=575841]Extemporanus[/re]: Kathy Bates. Another godless, lesbo, commie LIE-brul.
Six Catholics and three Jews on the Supreme Court is a little funny. How come there are no Rastafarians?
[re=575816]yellowerdog[/re]: Subtle? Less subtle than Kristallnacht maybe.
Unless that was the point of the post and, as I generally do, I missed it.
[re=575782]comicbookguy[/re]: Why didn’t he nominate a catus or an outhouse???
I thought she was on a softball team. Isn’t that close enough to baseball to be All-Merikun? No? Then I guess we know how the hearings will go.
If that photo is any indication Kathleen Parker is a simpering idiot.
[re=575834]BlueStateLiberal[/re]: Its kinda amusing that the republicans have made it their rule to nominate catholics, because they are the educated fetus fetishists, and they still have some ability to accuse their detractors of anti-catholic bias, and the dems have made it a rule to nominate jewesses, for no one reason, but rather a plethora of political considerations. One reason I suspect is because their wives nag them to nominate a chick, and it throws a bone to the progressive-tards, and jewish intellectuals are usually liberal, and the biggest plus, the fact that criticizing, opposing, or speaking harshly, to any one specific person of the menorah-lighting persuasion, is anti-semitism (just like criticizing the Likud party).
Clarence Thomas is from Savannah which is kinda a city.
[re=575842]V572625694[/re]: Bush I, yes, wasn’t that his campaign slogan? “Its my turn.”
[re=575771]Prommie[/re]: True, dat.
We need more ordinary mediocrities like Thomas, Scalia, and Alito on the bench.
Why did she leave out Chief Justice John Roberts? He’s an ordinary mediocre person, too, with a name that is about as generic as you can get.
Shame on you, extraordinary columnist Kathleen Parker! You don’t deserve to be a columnist with your high-falutin’ Pulitzer Prize and whatnot!
[re=575840]Nappied Hypotenuse[/re]: “They dragged their muse, as they would still have called her, down to the level of sawdust and spilled wine.”
[re=575778]bureaucrap[/re]: We might be better off if Kathleen Parker DID contemplate life “from the posh offices on 15th and L.” In actuality, she’s one of those pajama people who shoots it through the tubez of the internets, in her case under the aegis of The Washington Post Writers Group. Guaranteeing she never comes into contact with any of those elitists from DC, except when she deigns to appear on Chris Matthews’ Sunday roundtable, just to keep up her cootie cred. (No offense intended to any esteemed editors out there who might shoot theirs all the way from tubez buried in the desert, said the grrl from Tucson, still wearing her pajamas at 11:30 a.m.)
Parker lives with her attorney husband and three sons in Camden, South Carolina. (Remind you of anyone?) Camden, population approximately 6,600, is in Kershaw County, which calls itself “Steeplechase Capital of the World.” It is the site of the Battle of Camden, the worst American defeat of the Revolutionary War. (Perhaps the residents just didn’t have their hearts in fighting off King George.)
But my favorite part of this journey into the Wikipedia? Ms. Parker, a native of Winter Haven, Florida, earned a master’s degree in Spanish Literature from Florida State University. Do you suppose that means her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns counts as magical realism or did she devote herself to the Spanish literature of the Franco Era? And what did she do there in her spare time? http://www.xomba.com/pictures_of_florida_state_university_cowgirls
There is still so much to learn about the life of this defender of the common folk.
Two words: Skoalrebel. Real Murkin
[re=575887]slappypaddy[/re]: “They were ribald, they were agile, they were fearless.”
That sounds like a certain cat in a box to me! *scritches*
Kathleen Parker: Butt Hurt for no Real Apparent Reason
We have a homeless woman who sits in our Starbucks who stares at everyone who comes in with that exact same look on her face.
[re=575889]Jukesgrrl[/re]: You know who else enjoyed one hundred years of solitude while enrolled at FSU?
[re=575943]Extemporanus[/re]: Sorry, my Spanish is a little rusty — the correct translation is actually “one hundred beers with solid dudes”.
[re=575771]Prommie[/re]: Well done!
The president’s new appointee to the Supreme Court of the United States is not exactly a ‘regular guy’. Many Bothan spies died to bring us this information.
I have personally advised Goldman Sachs, as well. Whether they will actually eat shit and die is still unknown, and unlikely.
And, +1 for “Jewnicipality”. My anti-semitic Polish employees shall relish this one.
Why are extraordinary people never ordinary?
“New York, like other urban areas, tends to be more liberal than the vast rest of the country.”
Luckily square miles don’t get a vote. People get a vote. Maybe I should shout that because you must be SO FAR AWAY out in the vast rest of the country.
I don’t believe the President “adheres to the ordinary-people principle”. Would it be too much to ask you, Ms. Recent Pulitzer Prize, to actually quote the President on this? Or at least define what “The Ordinary-People Principle” is, in your mind?
I think he actually said something about ‘having empathy for the plight of ordinary Americans’. One can have empathy with dolphins, for instance, without actually being a dolphin.
First of all, where did the hyphen come from? Was it left over from your Pulitzer-Prize acceptance speech?
Secondly, I don’t believe there actually are any more ‘ordinary-people’ left in America (with the possible exception of pundits.) Have you seen how complicated even french fry computers have gotten lately? Everyone is an expert, simply to stay employed and solvent.
Thirdly, why did conservatives declare war on expertise? Do they really believe being on the SCOTUS is less complicated than, say, fixing your car’s (all-digital, most likely) accelerator or treating your aunt’s recurring excema?
[re=575794]Neilist[/re]: Yeah, that whole “persuasive consensus builder,” what crock of shit.
Look at Rehnquist, look at Stevens, both of them well-known “consensus builders.” Nobody ever listened to anything those two stupid jackholes ever said.
I like this lady! She’s right! Cities are full of liberals! Nebraska is bigger than New York City and it deserves more political representation! Heck, one of the largest cities in the nation, my home town of Sitka, Alaska, is way, way bigger than New York City! And why doesn’t Sitka have more political clout? Sure NYC has 940 times more people than Sitka, but it’s land area that counts baby! Sure there are over 27,000 people per square mile in NYC, and only 3 in Sitka, but NYC is ONLY 303 square miles! Sitka is nearly 10 times larger and should have 10 times the number of political representatives NYC has!. And that would employ every man, woman and child in Sitka!
Again, a common sense bipartisan compromise that solves the liberals in the city problem and the unemployment problem in Sitka, Alaska.
I am a genius!
Yes, because all ordinary Americans become Supreme Court Justices… Clearly. Also.
[re=576078]Starrigavan[/re]: You’re like my mom, looking at an electoral map of W’s “landslide” victory over Gore in 2000.
“Look at all that red!”
[re=575889]Jukesgrrl[/re]: nice herd of heifers you got there. they all branded yet?
Parker says:
“One could even argue that it matters only that one regard the law with utter neutrality.”
Is that code for the Harriet Miers “not previously familiar with constitutional law” standard?
[re=575832]Papas got a brand new teabag[/re]: Dubyocracy, ‘mirite?
The next time it snows at the Parker residence, Ms. Kagan should shovel the Parker’s walk, then she’ll like her more.
[re=575809]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: This would be the first college of choice for conservatives, since Liberty disbanded the nascent College Democrats group on campus.
The Post has obviously exceeded its quota for idiot blondes. When Ol’ Miz Pahkuh rouses her fine self to complain about that, I promise I’ll complain about exclusion of the bell-curve-riding Ordinaries of our rural vastnesses from the Court. Tee it up, Kathleen!
[re=575901]the problem child[/re]: (the sound of purring, followed by the sound of an inflated ego exploding.)
What makes me want to stab myself in the eye is that she was SUPPOSED to become a judge, but some douche from Oklahoma or Texas held up her nomination for so long that another douche appointed by President Douche got her job instead, and two whopping years later that douche became a Supreme Court CHIEF justice. And what was John Roberts’ chief recommendation before being a judge for two minutes….Oh, he was George Bush’s lawyer on Bush V. Gore. GAH!!!!
I’ve never met a second generation black Catholic (not counting Africans). So Clarence Thomas just turned himself into a Catholic so he could fit in and be different from the other blacks and be a Republican and marry Ginny. But Clarence’s down-home blackness is Protestant as hell.
Is an “arch-lesbian” similar to a “buttress-homo”?
[re=576150]June Cleaver 2.0[/re]: I’ve never met a second generation black Catholic
What is that? Lots of Black Catholics in SoCal…
[re=576049]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: If memory serves (back, lo, these many years, to law school) Rehnquist typically didn’t convince anyone, other than Warren Burger — who was, of course, a Complete Fucking Idiot.
Rehnquist didn’t start “convincing” any of the other Justices until the panel changed to the present crop of Complete Idiots.
That said, Rehnquist’s opinions were fun/interesting to read, the sense of Kirt Vonnegut’s comparison, in “Mother Night” of the “facist mindset” with a “Cuckoo Clock In Hell.” You’d look for the point in Rehnquist’s legal reasoning where he hit the stripped gears in his brain, and the whole (typically dissenting) opinion went sideways.
Nowadays, of course, there’s Justice Thomas. His brain is more like the “Salvador Dali Cuckoo Clock In The Filmore West, Circa 1969.”
As to comparing Stevens with Kagan: Well, both are human beings. I think.
What she’s saying is that Kagan doesn’t seem like the sort of person you’d see at the Applebee’s salad bar.
I live in small backwards town in Georgia. I sure as fuck hope these people aren’t ordinary Americans.
[re=576078]Starrigavan[/re]: Ex-Half-Governor, thanks for writing in!
[re=575949]Extemporanus[/re]: “One hundred beers with solid dudes.” Olé.
[re=576098]slappypaddy[/re]: That’s the THIRD image that comes up when you Google images of FSU. But I like the one [re=575943]Extemporanus[/re]: posted — it’s more apropos: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/CristPigRoast%5B1%5D.JPG
[re=576188]problemwithcaring[/re]: I’ve never met any of them. Born and raised in VA, but lived my entire adult life in CT. Down south, black protestants, up north white catholics. But maybe that’s just my particular circumstance.
Isn’t Parker that french game where dudes in black leotards run into walls? Because I love that sh*t, that’s the funniest sh*t ever.
“… or geography may well be Kagan’s wound.” Sly reference to munching the carpet, Kathleen. Pulitzer style!
“Certainly New York City dwellers would argue that they struggle with ordinary concerns.”
But if you have actually seen a New York City dweller emerge from its C.H.U.D. tunnel, chewing an aborted foetus and dragging an American flag through the gutter, you realize … these are not ordinary Americans. Indeed, are they even … human??
I would like for you all to know Ms. Parker lives in the State of South Carolina. I am not sure is she has the Crescent Moon tatooed on her left Breast. I usge any Female TSA employee to follow her into the nearest Rest Room to confirm and report back ASAP.
Alito is from New Jersey. and Scalia from New York City. Neither of which borders Georgia
It should hardly need mentioning, but serving on the Supreme Court is not a an ordinary fucking job. You know what kind of jobs ordinary people are best suited for? Ordinary jobs! Extraordinary jobs — like, oh, say, serving on the nation’s highest court — should generally be filled by extraordinary people. Whether Kagan is extraordinary or not I leave to others to decide. But to say that she’s not right for this extremely high-ranking and important job because she’s not “ordinary” enough is possibly the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard in a long time.
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