another quote, finely tuned political antenna, and a political heart. miss kagan, has called erin barack her judicial hero. is he widely acknowledged as someone who took an activist approach to judging. you ll be hearing more of those, but the problem isn t the attacks in the gop. the problem is these hearings have become somewhat maddening an farpz none other than kagan herself said as much in the university of chicago law review when she described account confirmation process as a vapid and hollow that charade in which repetition of platitudes has replaced discussion of viewpoints. since she wrote those words, it has gotten worse. i think we have john roberts largely to blame. it was lobts contended that a good judge is a complete political blank slate with no views whatsoever, an umpire as he very famously put it.
us rich. everybody is looking new at domestic sources of clean energy production. people are looking at others, nuclear, offshore, things like that. that s going to continue. but people want to make sure that if we re going to do it it s going to be better and safer than what happened in the gulf. let me turn to elena kagan. she worked for senator biden, who was chairman at the time. there she is. she had pretty direct things to say about it. this was an article she pinned for the university of chicago law review during in which she said if recent hearings lack acrimony, they also lack seriousness and substance. when they cease to have meaningful discussion on legal issues, the confirmation process takes on the air of vacuita and farce. you ve met with her. do you think she s prepared to reveal more than she may otherwise about her legal views
and the other is the kagan standard. she said in 1995 in a university of chicago a university of chicago law review that the nomination process was bankrupt. if you couldn t ask tough questions. i m hoping we used the standards. a lot of people don t know what her [stances|instances] are on many topics. i know one stance that looks strong. check that out. she can hit. that is a strong stance. that s from a yearbook from the mid-nineties. we need her on the red eye softball team. that s not just a softball player. that s a softball player manager. she can teach you how to hit. courtney, do we need another woman on the court? we have like six. she will make the third. i m concerned she has never been a judge. if you are hiring a supreme doctor, wouldn t you want an actual doctor to be nominated?