Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Don't waste your time on the Kagan confirmation hearing.

Unless she carelessly drops a smoking gun, she's in. I concur with liberal columnist Susan Estrich that it's a charade. Skeptical Senators are reduced to finding 20 year old memos written by the nominee. Estrich writes:

“Watching the confirmation hearings, unless you're a masochist or a satirist, is a waste of time. You learn nothing except how silly the process has become. Ever since Robert Bork -- who was highly qualified but also arrogant and divisive -- went down in flames at his hearing, every successive nominee has understood that the game is to say as little as possible, disown prior controversies, eschew any hint of ideology and simply endure. Five days of misery are certainly worth a lifetime appointment.” LINK

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