Oh and another thing, Obama has clearly made this moderate pick to try and win favor with Republicans, thereby claiming a 'bipartisan' victory that he can point to this fall (as if anyone cares about bipartisanship these days?).
The problem is, I suspect that Senate Republicans won't hardly vote in favor of her, if at all, because they know full well that the Dem caucus itself will vote her in (only 51 votes are needed, and I seriously doubt Obama has lost 9 Dems/Inds with this nomination)... So once again, the Republicans will bludgeon Obama with his own self-created weakness. They get a moderate, possibly conservative USSC Justice without having to sacrifice a damn thing themselves, AND they get to make him look like a jackass for doing so.
This will especially be true, if Republicans can manipulate nomination discussions to be about her time spent at Harvard and how she hired and promoted a bunch of conservatives to foment ideological diversity (generally a good thing, unless you're a Dem who wasn't sure if you were going to bother voting this fall)... Plus they can curry favor with IND minorities by pointing out how Kagan hired 29 professors during her tenure as Harvard Law School dean, and 28 of them were white and one was part-Asian. She didn't hire a SINGLE black or Latino professor. Republican strategists are salivating as I write this.
