If you made a list of ambiguous words, then got a group of opposing activists together and held a poetry contest using that list, you would have an event that – to the average observer – would have been indiscernible with yesterday’s confirmation hearing. It’s only the first day, so everyone had to prep the room by hosing it down with pompous rhetoric.
Kagan has never served as a judge. She’s only in the past few months worked for the Obama administration’s lawyer arm. Now she’s being considered for a position as a judge on the Supreme Court. Her main qualification – one would assume from the hearing – being that she’s a woman. We’ve had over one hundred men but only three women on the court – so here she is, a woman, she has a vagina and no penis.
The job of a Supreme Court justice is to interpret the law, namely the Constitution. I won’t get too deeply into this, but, if you don’t think being a judge is an important qualification to being a Supreme Court justice – well – you’re a lightly informed person with limited critical thinking skills, and need to give the subject more thought.
The main problem is that Kagan has no judicial history – no examples of verdicts, nothing to show her approach to legislative interpretation. She could be a crazy person with a life long position on the highest court. And that problem is her biggest strength in this type of nomination/confirmation process. She can sit there in front of all those performing seals and slowly mutter vague general answers to the questions and no one can pin her with anything.
Are we about to see an ideologue on the court? Who knows? We can’t. But who really cares. If she is of the Leftist persuasion, and any reasonable person knows she is, having worked on the Bill Clinton and Obama administrations, she’ll only be replacing a Leftist.
I say have her show congress her vagina and get this whole thing over with, confirm her xx-chromosome ass.
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Raging Kitty