Realistically, what will happen if Kagan fails to be confirmed?

I think we all should know the answer to that.

Obama would be forced to nominate somebody further to the right.

You know it.

I know it.

The GOP knows it.

That's why they tried to find ANYTHING to justify going after Sotamayor. It's why they'll try ANYTHING to take down Kagan.

They're fortunate that they have many allies on the Left who are helping them do this.

will be confirmed in the end. Hell, there's not even much to the orchestrated play by both sides.

It's all been decided by the REAL OWNERS of this Nation. :shrug:

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If you recall, the naysayers said Sotamayor was "Corporate Frinedly", too.

It's all part of the pattern.

"Corporatist" is to the fringe left what "Socialist" is to the fringe right.

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She'll get through.

breathe a sigh of relief.

makes her the most corporatist nominee possible.

:eyes:

that way if you get reined in you still can "give in" and go with a Wood or certainly a Kagan.

I tend to believe almost nobody knows anything much about this nominee's stances on most issues, including those she socializes with.

There are some very qualified folks that are much more know quantities but wingers would cry and pout. Kagan is punting and punting on 2nd down since the wingers are going to cry, pout, and try to drag this woman through mud of their own creation.

Of course it seems you somehow view Justice Kennedy as a moderate so our vantage points are wildly different. Justice Kennedy is one of the 10-15 most conservative justices to ever serve on the high court. He is the swing vote, not a middle ground or a moderate. Sometimes he figures the loony goons have gone a bridge too far but that ain't moderation but a sign of fading sanity.

She will be more or less liberal than any other potential candidate you could name on specific issues.

Overall, everybody on the list of prospective nominees was about equally liberal, the degrees differing only on specific issues.

That the far left is screaming will do more to help her confirmation process, though. The fringe on the left does serve its purpose...

Primarying the person who appointed her in 2 years is building momemntum as a solution to the appointments we don't like though.

"See, that fringe lefty Glenn Greenwald calls her conservative, so she can't be as liberal as that Orrin Hatch says!"

Even those who are complete assholes serve.

let them piss and moan

while Obama wins again...

She is as centrist a nominee as they are going to get out of Obama. They should be thanking their lucky stars to have someone like her.

Nobody appointed you commissar so your opinion doesn't mean any more than any of ours.
And besides, they are going to do what they want anyways, the American People be damned. That's why Obama embraced "Drill Baby Drill" just weeks before the oil spill. He and the rest of the aristocracy in DC could give a shit what you or I think.
You know it.
I know it.

And all of you conservaDems can cram it. The rest of us will think for ourselves. We don't need you to tell us what to think.

So knock it off with the bully routine. It's oh so transparent.