Panel savages Bay Buchanan's claim that Obama "dummied down" Supreme Court with Sotomayor and Kagan nominations

Bay is just a much a bigot as her big brother, Pat. These women are not "white" enough for Bay.

I think the four Troglodytes on the Court have "dummied it down" already.

Oh, and Poppy Bush really reaised the Court's intellectual level when he nominated Clarence "Mush for Brains" Thomas......

Has Bay had some work done? She has that Pickles Bush Scary Stepford face thing going.

Plus, I thought the phrased was "dumbed down"; can the wingnut intellectual vanguard even get that right?

More the division of the populace crap from the loony right. They think ANYONE (that is not right of Attila the Hun) that was educated in an Ivy League School is an "elitist".... and now, from Bay Buchanan.... you can be an "elitist" and too "dumb" to sit on the SCOTUS even though you have been the Solicitor General of the United States AND the Dean of the Harvard Law School.

The foolishness of the right wing knows no bounds.

Remind me again of why Bay Buchanan's opinions should matter to viewers? (Other than that she's Pat's sister.)

It should be clear to most that conservatives are test-driving the various anti-Kagan narratives in order to determine which will be most effective during the confirmation hearings. The list of criticisms reads like a book accusatory mad-libs: 1) She's unqualified; 2) She's qualified, but not in the right way; 3) She's more than qualified, just not for this; 4) She's never been a judge, therefore, she doesn't know how to do the job; 5) She's spent her whole life in academia/public service, therefore, she can't relate to average Americans; 6) We can tell from her writings that she's a nefarious socialist/military-basher; 7) She has written so little that we don't know anything about her; 8) She doesn't like conservatives; 9) She panders to conservatives, etc.

Bay's point is so absurd and illogical that she can't even keep a straight face when Carville calls her on it. As we all learned during the healthcare debacle, this methodology of conducting a large-scale public focus group to see what most riles up the republican base will lead to hours of enraged talk radio, but ultimately will leave only a fractured, disjointed opposition in its wake.

I like how she meanders over the fact that she was the president of Harvard by sardonically asking if that makes her qualified or smart.
Uhm yes. Yes it does.
Not to mention, I think I almost heard Bay mutter, "she's no Scalia," at the end of that clip. How terrifying.

"I don't believe that spaghetti's gonna stick"

Oh, James Carville.

considering the last two justices were corporate shills and do the bidding of the right wing. i would say sotomayor and kagan would be a step up on the intelligence scale

I wonder if Ms. Buchanan would have the same opinion if Ms. Kagan were CHRISTIAN . .

Good Lord, I had no idea she was Pat's sister. It all makes sense to me now. She is nothing more than a Parrot for the Nutty Right. I know what she says even before she says it: I just think of the most absurd claim and Voila!