re: #298 MandyManners

She’s replacing Souter who was neither on the left nor on the right.

Yep. Lawhawk pretty much laid it out that, despite all the grandstanding, Kagan being seated on the court won’t change the composition of the court in any significant fashion. All the Congress critters are doing is using these hearings as a soapbox for their own particular talking points. The Republicans to rant against Obama, the Democrats to rant against “Big Business” and conservatism.