Barack Obama Promised A New Kind Of Politics, But Played The Same Old Game

Obama's picks for the Supreme Court are nothing to crow about.  Both Sotomayor and Kagan are to the right of the justices that they replaced (Souter and Stevens).

See here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

ElenaKagan is the GoldmanSacks seat, not to mention that she was the 5th vote in rolling back Miranda a few weeks ago, and she joined the conservatives on the Medicare portion of ACA (that states may opt out) a couple of weeks ago.

Obama's spin when trying to get both Kagan and Sotomayor (a lackluster intellect if ever there was one) confirmed was that they'd be effective at countering the conservati­ves arguments when it came to trying to pull Kennedy over.  It hasn't happened; Roberts, Alito, and Scalia wield far greater political warfare skills.  And it was Kennedy who worked on Roberts for weeks, to bring Roberts over to the conservative side on ACA??

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