let s jump off this for one quick thing. my question is, if you heard the secretary of state a couple of weeks ago when someone asked her, did you ever think about becoming a supreme court justice and she said, no, i wouldn t want to do it. they said, who should the president pick? and she said, i think he should pick somebody that s young and bring in some new, fresh ideas. these people aren t old, don t get me wrong elina kagan is considered the youngster of the bunch. clarence thomas was appointed when he was 43. you can imagine someone part of the generation that actually elected obama and had a different sensibility. now it s pretty hard to establish enough of a legal reputation to that point so elina kagan hadn t done too badly in a short time. an even younger person could be interesting, too. the republicans want a so-called moderate but the political left wants a solid liberal to replace justice