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Elena Kagan nomination live and at the moment, as she is expected to pass with several moments of the nutcase party voting her in. The live coverage of the vote is here, on C-Span website . And as I predicted, it was 63-37 . Ben Nelson becomes the first Dem Senator since 1967 to vote against a Democratic appointed President. Collins, Snowe, Graham, Gregg and Lugar voted for her. Besides that, everyone else went with the party line, including Sanders and Joey Lie (Lieberman). Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court Justice and 4th women in history.

The best example, over even Gold boy, of how these nutcases are drive even more nutty (and mean) on the future latest member of the Supreme Court and her centrist ways. "A family woman would be a better choice". Savage The......well, Savage, a deserving winner today of the ......Straight Jacket Award.

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It seems that Democracy Now is the only place where you can find serious, actual grown up, 1 on 1 banter that isn't about garnering ratings or entertainment points, but to informed their viewer on the most important news events and situations of our time. Today, DN featured the settled discussion (for now) in a week long respectful back and forth debate between Glenn Greenwald and Lawrence Lessig on Elena Kagan's nomination. Simply put, for those who didn't have a chance to see or hear about this discussion that took place on the invaluable Amy Goodwin's show, it was the "settling of the score" for these two renowned legal figures on the left after their back to back appearances on Rachel Maddow's Monday show. Even though both certainly left the show with the same sentiment on Kagan as they held before, but exhibited a level of decorum, as well as intelligent colloquy, severely missing in our usually terrible television discourse. Here's the ent...

The segment that stood out the most for me in MSNBC primetime tonight on Elena Kagan was not Ezra Klein and Jonathan Turley on Countdown, nor the potential growing (and hopefully respectful spat) between Glenn Greenwald and Lawrence Lessig. Rather, it was the third segment on Rachel Madoow's show that highlighted the main perspective that I harbor for today's well-bantered nominee for the highest court in the land. It displays for my eyes that Kagan, despite her tremendous credentials, just doesn't have the strength to keep to the court to the left like the terrific predecessor she hopes to replace, John Paul Stevens. Now besides Roberts being a virtually classless arrogant a-hole like he normally is, Maddow strikes the right point on Kagan being able to fight, something that Diane Wood would have provided in my opinion (and certainly Dawn Johnsen would have bestowed if need be.) But the terrific Dahila Lithwick tracks just a main problem with Kagan here: Does she t...

Kagan and Obama are definitely alike, as the President has said and cherished about his friend. Sadly, our dumb media will focus on what stupid and dishonest stuff the Republicans and conservatives will say, once again providing kindergarden discourse in a time where high level discourse will only suffice. And what about Arlen Specter, if he needs anymore on his mind : Of political interest is what Arlen Specter will do. He voted against her for solicitor general, when he was trying to be a Republican, because she ducked questions he felt were critical. His primary will be over by the time the hearings start, but he'll likely still be a Democrat this time around and vote for confirmation. The White House will begin consultations with Senate Democrats, presumably including Specter, on Wednesday or Thursday. Jonathan Turley has just said that Kagan will "move the court to the Right." Basically agree and thensome. The reason why I agree with Turley and Greenwald ...

Well, the White House looks even sillier trying to debunk all the reports of them choosing Kagan, because they have chosen just her. More to come on this folks. She moves the court to the Right sadly, and it is a choice that is another centrist happily go lucky choice from the President. I sure can't wait until the White House can explain her Goldman Sachs ties, as well as her problems with diversity .

No matter how much she is liked by conservatives, Elena Kagan will still be painted by them as far to the left. In the minds of conservatives, everyone is simply a far-leftist . Every.........ONE : I hasten to repeat that no matter how sensible Kagan may be on the national-security and executive-power issues that aggravate the Left, it doesn’t follow that conservatives should welcome her nomination. For on a host of other issues—abortion, same-sex marriage, race and gender quotas, and an aggressively secularist reading of the Establishment Clause, to name just a few—there’s no reason to believe that Kagan would be anything other than a doctrinaire liberal judicial activist. Even when they are a weak minority and their ideas are both irrelevant and disastrous, conservatives will always want everything THEY want at every single time. It just only makes common simple sense that President Obama chooses someone who truly has a liberal background. A true liberal background not locate...