Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, May 10, 2010

Kagan to the Supreme Court?

President Obama is going to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.

I think this is a bad pick. Kagan doesn't strike me as being very progressive. Why in the name of (insert name of your favorite deity here) is he not pushing the envelope on this one? In the next Congress, Obama would have a problem getting the Republicans to approve anyone to the left of Torquemada; this is his last shot for at least two years at getting in a game-changer on the Supreme Court. There are four solid fascist/corporatist conservative votes on the Court as it is; the idea of nominating someone who seems attracted to the idea of "if the President does it, it is per se legal" is something that I find troubling.

I'd like to see a justice who has had to run for a public office, served in the armed forces or who has worked in the private sector; anything that would give a potential justice some first-hand experience in what it means to have to hold down a job in this country. Kagan doesn't seem to be that justice.

5 comments:

jeff said...

Please no one who has run for office and won.

merlallen said...

he likes to play it safe and make people who would never vote for him happy for some reason.

XR650L_Dave said...

Bloody hell, you still think obama is progressive?

He's authoritarian at heart, and she fits right in with that worldview.

And the right thinks it's socialism they should be worried about, hah!


Dave

Anonymous said...

I liked Nora Demleitner, the Dean of Hofstra Law School. For one thing, we were in college together, and I know something about her intelligence and ethics. For that reason, I don't want to submit her to the process.

Cujo359 said...

Dawn Johnsen would have been an excellent choice, I think. Of course, that means there's no way in hell Obama would nominate her.

Kagan's been a good little enabler to Obama while she's been WH Counsel. That she seems to have no strong opinions of her own, including the idea that SCOTUS nominees should have strong opinions, I'm seriously unimpressed with her.