Ari Melber on Elena Kagan (and Paul Rosenberg on Obama and the BP "spill")

Politico:

One commentator, The Nation’s Ari Melber, told POLITICO: “As a lawyer, I think there is no doubt that: 1. Kagan is supremely qualified and merits confirmation by any standard. 2. Replacing [Justice John Paul] Stevens with Kagan moves the court to the right. Ergo, 3. The sum consequence of Obama's first term appointments will be to advance qualified nominees through a respectable selection process that ultimately tilts the court a bit more to the right. Not the end of the world, but not what most Obama voters had in mind, either.

Howie P.S.: Can we "move on" now? More rumbling from Obama's left on the BP oil "spill":

As Paul Rosenberg points out (also in a post on Open Left!), Obama appointed an Interior Secretary (Ken Salazar) with deep ties to the oil industry. Salazar was confirmed in January of 2009. The BP permit for the Deep Horizon well was approved 3 months later in April, with zero meaningful oversight.