How will the Kagan confirmation negatively effect Obama?

[underpants]

Come on, there is no reason to wait for the pundits to tell us how this too is just the worst thing ever to happen to any President.

[sharp_stick]

1. It's yet another failure of the Obama administration

to install a vocal commie/atheist into the Supreme Court as he must have said he wanted during the campaign at some point.

PS. What does Obama have against rich white guys, he hasn't put one on the court yet?

[TBF]

2. From what I see on Facebook -

the meme is that she doesn't have judicial experience.

To which you respond "neither did 40 others" (look it up)...

but that is what they are fixated on so far.

[Bitwit1234]

10. And of that 40 most were republicans and guess what

that's why stupid nudeo Brown didn't vote for her. And the little guy Sessions said she will be an activist judge and put the party before the court. Damn damn damn tell me what Robers, Alitio, Thomas and Scalia do...if they AIN'T ACTIVIST JUDGES what the hell are they.

[blondeatlast]

3. It's already being floated on DU--"lack of diversity." It's horrible that

she's a graduate of the (arguably--but not much) best law school in the nation.

FWIW, I work with attorneys A BIG LOT and Harvard and Yalies, etc. are markedly above the bar, so to speak.

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Diversity can mean many different things.

Adding another woman to the court increases gender diversity. That's a plus.

But the Kagan appointment was anti-diversity on many other levels. The Ivy League education you already alluded to is one of them. There's no reason an entire 9 position court needs to come from either Harvard or Yale.

Religiously, the court is now LESS diverse. Sotomayor increased the number of Catholics to 6. Kagan increases the number of Jews to 3, and with Stevens gone, there are no more Protestants on the court. Let alone any other religion. Or non religion, for that matter. Obviously America is not 2/3 Catholic & 1/3 Jewish, so both groups are over-represented. Should that make a difference? Frankly I don't give a shit what any of them do with their Saturdays or Sundays, but a court that makes decisions for ALL Americans should be a little more representative of ALL Americans.

And any 9 position court that has three members from the same city, well that's just as UNdiverse as you can get. Especially when two of them are the most recent two appointees.

Time will tell what kind of Justice Kagan will be. But she definitely did not make the court more diverse, in the big picture.

[ThomWV]

4. In no way at all. The moment she is confirmed she becomes a stand-alone entity in Government

Every Justice stands on their own the moment they don the Robes - they lose their Presidential identity and become part of the Court, subject to their own criticism.

[blondeatlast]

5. In the 24 hour cable news era? If only, my friend, if only. nt

[jefferson_dem]

6. Here's their super-thin reed...

Elena Kagan Critics Point to Close Confirmation Vote
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012846-503544.html

[Ken Burch]

7. 62-37 is "close"?

Funny, they never accepted that Clarence Thomas' 51-48 squeaker was "close".

[blondeatlast]

9. That's it--they have officially lost all sense of reality. Scarily so.

:scared:

[rocktivity]

8. You should get a job writing push poll questions!!!

:rofl:
rocktivity