I agree 100% with Genie in her observation that the Dams caved on Roberts and Alito... The entire Senate confirmation process is nuthin' but smoke and mirrors side show that does not permit the Senate, or the American people, from having a clue as to whom they are about to get on the Court...

One thing encouraging is that those sentiments are the sentiments of Kagan herself who has written purdy much those exact words...

I would like for nominees to expound more on their general judical philosopies and stay the heck away from the standard, "I won't be an activist judge"... I mean, that seems to be the standard and then the folks get in and they become, ahhhhh, "activist" judges...

Kagan, at best, is a crapshoot at this point in time... I'd still have gone with Robert Kennedy, Jr., a known quantity...

B~