Posted on 06/29/2010 4:36:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Of course it’s a charade. Mark my words — Kagan gets confirmed 67-32 (assuming WVA doesn’t have a new Senator seated yet). Way too many Repubs don’t have the stomach for a fight.
“It sometimes seems like the higher the job, the fewer the qualifications and proofs required. As long as you can pose and fool people, you get the job.”
This describes Obama to a T. If we lack the courage to inquire too deeply into the birthplace and ideological origins of our president, it’s a safe bet we’ll never do so with SC nominees.
On a related point, an administration bound and determined to lie if needed or bend the rules to enact health care reform surely will not abandon those tactics when it comes to placing a left-wing ideologue on the Court who may be there for 4 decades (Kagan is 50: Stevens was 90 when he retired).
The ends justifies the means with this crowd—a lesson reinforced daily with the administration’s crossing of ethical or legal lines in pursuit of an agenda opposed by the majority of voters.
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