Supreme Court Nominations

"To the victor belong the spoils...."

Elections, winning or losing them, have consequences. BO won the last election and now has the opportunity to appoint justices to the Supreme Court when vacancies occur. That is his Constitutional prize for winning the Presidency. But I don't have to like his nominee and I do have the right to ask my US Senators to oppose the nomination by rejecting confirmation.

Sotomayor might well be the bully and legal lightweight that some of her critics and former clerks have alleged. Well, not all nominees are the brightest bulbs on the block. Some are downright mediocre. But as Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska once stated, "Mediocre people deserve representation, too."

No, although I oppose what her politics and legal opinions appear to be, that's my problem with her---appear. Now, one might argue, what she is doing is the way to get confirmed...that, to be honest, would doom confirmation. Maybe--maybe not. But this is still my problem with her. She is dishonest. Why doesn't she just say what she believes? She's going to be confirmed anyway, whether she is disingenuous in her hearings or not. Why not have the guts to say what she really believes? You see, I don't like cowards....

And in now seems one will soon be sitting on the Supreme Court.