re: #321 Nimed

It’s funny Kagan is considered a moderate. This is only the case when you used the simplistic heuristic “she is criticized from the left and the right”.

There once was a time when someone who supported altering our checks and balances in favor of the branch of our government that most worried our Founding Fathers (and rightly so) would be considered a radical.

You’re just not gonna let this go, are you? Obama is a left-of-center guy. If you’re looking for a hard-left liberal, they only exist (presidentially speaking) in Republican Fairy Tale books now.

He’s not appointing an idealogue. That’s both a strenght & weakness of the Democratic Party right now. It’s why they can put in Scalia. It’s why they can get a Rush or a Beck on the air - they believe in ideological purity. Dems simply aren’t that cohesive - a left-wing ideologue just doesn’t get the attention of the party.