Does anyone care, is anyone paying attention?
As Elena Kagan begins her second day of testifying, gallons of oil continue to flow into the Gulf, General Petraeus prepares to go before the Senate to be confirmed to redirect a messy war, immigration laws are being written in state capitals and the economy, well… So it’s no surprise that Americans are unusually uninterested in Elena Kagan’s nomination. According to a Gallup poll Americans are not tuning into this nomination at the same rate they did for the past four Supreme Court nominations. 24% of Americans have no opinion of Obama’s nomination for the highest court.
Well, we should. OS tuned in for the opening statement, a well-crafted piece of lawyer-speak designed to fill time, evoke nostalgia, create sympathy, soothe doubts, say very little, and mean precisely nothing. It was an example of how the Left views language, e.g., 'an organized series of intrinsically meaningless sounds emitted with the goal of getting one's way'.
After a lifetime of aggressively shilling for the Left, in Clinton's White House, and later at Harvard, the language offered about 'restraint','respect', 'a trustee of that inheritance', delivered in well-rehearsed humble tones seems a bit, shall we say, suspect.
So, we don't know much about this lady, but we do know this: One way or another, over the next ten years, the BP oil spill will be capped and the Gulf cleaned up. Fifteen years from now, we will have been out of Afghanistan for several years, and our military focus will be elsewhere. (OS ate shrimp farmed in Vietnam for supper last night!) Twenty years from now, the economy will have sorted itself in some fashion. Obama will be holding forth from some created academic post at Harvard, still spewing his poison, overseeing the rewriting of history, blaming George Bush for his shameful failures as a leader and person.
Thirty years from now, Kagan will likely be on the Court, Obama's longest legacy.
We had best be paying attention.
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Those who do care about Kagan OPPOSE her confirmation
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/june_2010/42_oppose_kagan_s_confirmation_35_favor
America rejects leftist activists like Kagan. Will Congress listen?
When Bush nominated judges, conservative judicial groups ran ads in states with vulnerable senators. Alito and Roberts were confirmed and will leave a lasting legacy of jurisprudence. Will conservatives take up the cause of voicing opposition to Kagan's activism?
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