Kagan Causing Friction Between GOP And Its Base

[babylonsister]

Awww....:nopity:

Sam Stein
Kagan Causing Friction Between GOP And Its Base

First Posted: 06-28-10 04:08 PM | Updated: 06-28-10 04:08 PM


As the formal stages begin for the confirmation for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, the most noteworthy element seems to be the potential for friction between conservative activists looking for a fight and the elected GOP.

Hours after lecturing Kagan on the pitfalls of judicial activism and the shortcomings of her record, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told MSNBC that he didn't think a filibuster is forthcoming.

"The only people who have ever used a filibuster were the Democrats and, by the way, President Obama participated in filibustering judges," he said. "And I have to say that I don't know of any Democrat who really wants to filibuster this nominee and I personally don't believe that judges should be filibustered. But be that as it may, I would be surprised if anybody even talked about filibustering very often on the Republican side. The only ones that have really done that were Democrats, including the president."

This seems to be the conventional take on the nomination process. Kagan has been criticized at length for her scant written record and the dearth of substantive explanations for her jurisprudence. But the flip side of that coin is that there is remarkably little on which the GOP can attack her nomination.

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[rpannier]

1. Hatch lies

But that's okay
Because he does it so readily now

[trotsky]

2. Hmm, looking at DU one could say she's done the same thing for the Dems and their base.

Interesting.

Ah, Orrin. "The only people who have ever used a filibuster were the Democrats..." That's because the only people who have ever nominated all-out political morons and hacks have been Republicans.

[LaurenG]

3. Good the GOP and it's base need to get a life

they have ruined their party (hehehehe) and they are trying to do the same to the country. Separate, get a divorce, whatever it takes, they are all toxic.

[Pab Sungenis]

4. Maybe if it pisses off the tea party activists

and gets them to stay home or vote third party in November, then I could tolerate Elena Kagan. Hopefully one of the Gang of Five will retire next year and we can undo the damage putting her on the court will cause.

[KharmaTrain]

5. They Gotta Cause They Just Gotta...

Once again President Obama has sent up a nominee who doesn't have much of a paper trail that could cause a scandal or get the media chattering. The fact we heard almost nothing about her confirmation until yesterday speaks as to how poor the GOOP "attack" on her will be. If they had some real dirt, it would have been dished a while ago to try to scuttle the nomination before it got to this stage.

What they've come up with are Kevin Bacon accusations...guilt by association or presume guilt. It's not guilt in the real sense but in the parallel universe world of the right wing. Since she was associated with Harvard...a liberal bastion, she must be guilty. Then there's her association with the late, great Justice Thurgood Marshall who was a champion of civil rights, another crime in the GOOP world, and thus she's guilty again. Next there's the "judicial activist" meme...despite the fact she was never a judge which is also being used against her...guilty no matter which way she turns. While it's all nonsense to us and the rest of the rational world, on hate radio, it's gold.