Elena Kagan

It would appear our new corporatist in chief has nominated someone to the Supreme Court who thinks corporatism is the new progressivism. (And these "New Democrats" don’t want to have to worry about the Supreme Court overturning their post-constitution view of govt.)

What do you think??

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37296_Page2.html

Kagan defenders say critics who are faulting Kagan for advancing centrist, “New Democrat” views associated with the Democratic Leadership Council are applying a double standard because they never publicly called out Clinton for pursuing the same agenda.

“Bill Clinton himself was Mr. DLC. One doesn’t have to look to Bruce, let alone Elena, for the very leadership on many of those issues,” said Judith Lichtman of the National Partnership for Women and Families. “If they were DLC positions…they were his positions, so, frankly, I would say, whoop-dee-doo.”

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=86&subid=194&contentid=3775

[Last line of the "New Democrat Credo"]

"We believe that as advocates of activist government, we need to reinvent government so that it is both more responsive and more accountable to those it serves and to the taxpayers who pay for it."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1988976,00.html

So what, exactly, does Kagan believe? Her lack of a track record (she has never been a judge, and she has written relatively few articles for so lengthy an academic career) has earned her critics on the left and right who view her as a cipher, but her judicial philosophy can, in fact, be gleaned from her writings. Like Presidents Clinton and Obama, she believes in judicial restraint, or the view that courts should be hesitant to strike down laws and that political change should come not from judges but from Congress and the President. Obama made clear that he shares this constitutional vision when, in comments to reporters at the end of April, he challenged liberal orthodoxy by suggesting that liberal activist judges in the ’60s and ’70s had been "guilty" of overreaching with a judicial approach that "ignored the will of Congress, ignored democratic processes and tried to impose judicial solutions on problems instead of letting the process work itself through politically." Today, Obama suggested, conservatives are making the same error by embracing judicial activism: as soon as conservative Senators such as Mitch McConnell and Orrin Hatch lost the debates over campaign finance and health care, for example, they rushed to support lawsuits challenging the reforms as unconstitutional.
mike………."New Democrat is a 90s term, try to form questions that are current events."

lol………..So are you not even going to address the fact Kagan was in the Clinton white house (during the 90s)???
mike………..So we’re clear: "New Democrats" of the 90s are now "Blue Dog Democrats" in the current day?? The political philosophy remains the same: Corporatism.
reality……………..What is a "centrist"??

This term doesn’t seem to mean anything.

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