there will be no more surprisingly liberal judges any more. The Cons learned their lesson with Souter: From now on, nobody gets in unless they're known and proven right-wing ideologues. I was a critic of Elena Kagan from when she was first announced for the Sollicitor General position. Her confirmation testimony and lack of experience sealed my opposition. She is another status quo imperial Presidency loving hack. I would disagree though that the Supreme Court should be made up of only judges or even attorneys. I think SCOTUS needs those who can look behind the letter of the law to deeper principles and issues. The current Court's thinking is often unclear, disjointed, crypto-political, and altogether poor. 'The official line in China was "loose on the outside, tight on the inside." That meant the government wanted both to increase its political control and to speed up economic growth and reform. The Chinese wanted political stability and economic revolution.' It's very much like Harriet Miers, but she wasn't a head-fake: Bush really thought he could get her onto the court, and tried to dig in his heels when his own party objected. A similar situation obtains for Kagan, the main difference being that Rahmobama's working the refs -- in a rather blatant fashion -- to try and either stifle objections to her or paint them as being about her alleged sexual orientation rather than her record. (Because if the argument goes from her lack of experience to her alleged orientation, that shores