A case could be made that all presidents should get their nominees provide the nominee is objectively unqualified.
Kagan is objectively unqualified.
Is she going to continue to stutter like Porky Pig if she gets confirmed?
By that standard, so was Harriet Meiers, who parenthetically had FAR more practical (and accomplished) legal experience than Kagan. But, wiser and more practical conservative legal minds prevailed. It wasn't a liberal challenge to Meiers that sunk her, it came from the intellectual right.
If there was the same kind of intellectual honesty on the left, people would be revolting about Kagan, who clearly doesn't possess the subject-matter expertise to sit on the country's most revered Court.
Considering it’s a lifetime appointment shouldn’t the burden be on the nominee to prove they ARE qualified? Kagan could be on the SC for the scope of 5-6 presidencies. Why should all those future presidents have to deal with her idiotic interpretation of the law?
Because Obama liked her? Come on...