Not that our side doesn’t do it too, but still…
“[Kagan] hasn’t written that much, and what’s she written is technical,” said the [former senior GOP] aide, who worked on judicial nominations. “She goes into the confirmation process with 59 votes. Unless she murders someone between now and the vote, she gets through.”
The source predicted, however, that Senate Republicans would raise concerns with the nominee to rally the party base and raise money.
“That’s what it’s all about,” said the GOP source. “The nomination will be used for two things: raising funds and energizing the base to vote in 2010. It’s all about turnout at this point.”
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’ve been saying this for a while. And I’ve been saying that Republicans care about the Supreme Court about fifty times more than Democrats do, because they want to use the court to change laws they’ll never have the votes to change in Congress. Democrats want the laws to stay the same. We had no problem with prohibiting corporations from being able to make unlimited expeditures in politics, for example.