In defense of Harvard and Yale only on the Supreme Court?

Nobody wants an idiot on the court (outside of the Teabaggers) but this argument for yet another Harvard or Yale grad sounds flimsy. Does this mean Thurgood Marshall shouldn't have made the cut? As a business person who watched "the smartest people in the room" run Enron into the ground and then watched the Ivy League elite screw up Wall Street and the global economy plus watching Washington from afar, any argument supporting yet another person from one of two top schools in America simply doesn't float. That it's an old boy network who takes care of its own is unquestionable. That these two schools are the only schools that can deliver someone smart enough sit on the Supreme Court? Hardly.

If we've all been living in a society run by the elite from Harvard or Yale, maybe there's something wrong with Harvard and Yale. They should get over themselves because it's not as impressive as they might like to think. Here in France people often complain about politicians all being from the same school or business leaders all being from one or two schools. They often talked about how much more open the US was but the reality today doesn't support that argument. The US has become as narrow minded as Old Europe and possibly even worse. At least in France the population is on 60 million and it's only one of twenty five countries in the EU so that power is limited. There are also "elites" from the UK, Germany, Spain, etc.

Surely in a country with as many people and as many fine universities as we have in the US there has to be more than just Harvard and Yale. No? Are some really saying that what school someone attended in their twenties is really a defining and qualifying moment? What a sad day when it comes to this.