It's true!
But ... I got better.
Also, Elena Kagan is too centrist! And Barack Obama is a spineless girlyman!
And, Elena Kagan supports bans on late-term abortions, because she likes to eat babies.
In other news, we've got about $2.5 billion in flood damage in Nashville. I find the whole Supreme Court nomination fight a little less-than-important when I've got neighbors without jobs whose homes just got destroyed.
To be honest, I'm just as put off by the White House talking points and the Barack Obama YouTube videos as I am by the stupid attacks from National Review about how Kagan didn't get her drivers license until she was in her 20s. She didn't get nominated for NASCAR driver, she got nominated for Supreme Court justice.
I don't know where things will end up with my two Tennessee GOP Senators. Alexander voted for Sotomayor, Corker voted no on Sotomayor. Both of these gentlemen from Tennessee claim that they'll approach the nomination with an open mind.
But when you've got the Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin outrage machine cranking back up into overdrive, and you've got Glenn Greenwald, Cenk Uygur, and others claiming that Kagan is a corporatist centrist lover of the unitary executive, I just want to stop reading blogs and go volunteer - which is maybe what I should be doing, except that I was kind of hoping that someone somewhere might have something substantive to say.
Of course, Jeffrey Toobin went to law school with Kagan and even he says that he doesn't know where Kagan stands on a number of issues.
At the end of the day, however, I have a strong suspicion that Elena Kagan will not need any fancy lobbying campaign to win approval from the Senate. Her record is impeccable, it speaks for itself, and I am almost looking forward to watching Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-AL) try to find fault with Kagan. I don't feel a need to defend Kagan - I want her to face tough questions and I look forward to seeing a brilliant legal mind engage with the Senate Judiciary Committee.