Elena Kagan is a shoo-in to be confirmed as the newest Supreme Court nominee. The republicans are not going to try and block her, unless they find out that she has been snorting cocaine out behind the Supreme Court building. I doubt if that is going to happen. Let's hope she has a compassionate mind. It still, bottom line, isn't going to change the 5-4 make up of the court, which is why the republicans aren't going to waste needless political hits on this. Already the republicans have suffered setbacks with all kinds of political blocs, and they don't need to further alienate women when the outcome of the battle will not determine the war. So Kagan will skate to her nomination - at least that's my prediction.