I did not know that Kagan actually in the same document suggested checking out the NRA and the KKK.
Yeah, that’s who I want for SCOTUS, someone who thinks that my support of the NRA makes me as worthy of keeping track of as a racist KKK member.
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While being questioned by Republicans, who aren’t in orgiastic throes like the liberal members of congress, Kagan said:
“My politics would be, must be, have to be completely separate from my judging,” said Kagan, who was a domestic policy adviser in the Clinton administration.
Horsesh*t. There is not a single judge nor has there ever been or will be that could separate their bias from a case. NOT ONE.
The real test of a judge is whether they apply bias or whether they apply prejudgment. “Bias” says “if I can judge in a certain way, I will.” “Prejudgment” says “I will judge in this way regardless of the case.”
I don’t foresee Kagan applying only bias, and “politics” is actually worse than prejudgment because it comes from without, not within.
The distinction between bias and prejudgment is not a concept I thought of – it was presented when I first saw it in Frank Herbert’s book “The Dosadi Experiment”. Perhaps one of my top ten books of all time. “Whipping Star” also features the same main character – Bureau of Sabotage member Georg X. McKie. Awesome awesome books.
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I really really hope that Pete Stark pays a hefty political price for mocking a voter with an honest concern.
Oh, yes. Kagan is a real beaut, LK. She’s an O’Bugger nominee. No need to guess at her politics. Just assume the worst.
You didn’t have any other impression, did you?
No, she’s validated all of my concerns so far, with flying colors.
You know, I can even handle the liberal judge thing but I’m really torqued about the “no judicial experience” aspect of it.
Yes, there’s precedent, but that doesn’t mean it is a good precedent.
Dosadi Experiment – that was an awesome book. I didn’t care for Whipping Star as much. It’s been many, many years since I read them though.
Hiya, Enas! Whipping Star was not as good but it kind of helped set the scene. The whole idea of the Bureau of Sabotage and Gowachin Law takes a bit to grasp.
Did you ever read Herbert’s “Man of Two Worlds”? That is worth a look, too.
Anyone who says, “It’s fine if the law bans books because government won’t really enforce it”, has a serious problem with reality. And intelligence.
Actually I think she is probably fairly intelligent, except for the fact that she’s dumb enough to think that we are stupid, and will believe that her pronouncement makes it “ok”.
My parents used to say “Oh sure, we added mushrooms to that spaghetti sauce, but you can’t really taste them.”
Even then I thought “This is BS… why add them then?”
Why Kagan thinks that this type of argument is going to work for the majority of Americans who are not brain damaged is beyond me. It’s confusing and insulting.
But that won’t stop her from being confirmed. The dems “got wood” about getting her on the court, like Sotomayor, that Wise Latino Woman.