Some Notable Quotes Today On Elena Kagan

NEVER MIND HOW GAY LIBERAL ACTIVIST SCOTUS NOMINEE Elana Kagan is described below. Never mind that she has no judicial experience with scant paper trail, has never argued a case or briefly consulted with Goldman Sachs. Then there's her decidedly anti-military stance at Harvard in upholding gay rights. None of this concerns me as much as the real liberal ax issue she will be expected to grind. More on that later. This for now:

SOME OF THE president's allies on the far left, and even the not-so-far left, are grumbling that she's not really one of them. They're unhappy that Mzz Kagan was polite and civil to conservatives at Harvard Law School, where she was the dean. Under her tenure the odd conservative in the faculty lounge was even allowed to use the restroom and could sip an occasional cup of coffee from china decent folks used. This is supposed to allay fears and concerns of conservative senators who would otherwise fret over her lack of judicial experience, her limited courtroom experience and a dearth of her opinions on the written record.

The early conventional wisdom is that Mzz Kagan is nice, bright and highly intelligent, a "wise Jewess" like the "wise Latina" that Justice Sotomayor assured us she was, and pressing the nominee on her judicial philosophy and intellectual temperament is something that only a churlish Republican senator would do. This will probably be enough to intimidate the Republican senators whose mission in Washington is to assure everyone that Republicans are not really as bad as people think they ared for President Obama which no one seems to be talking about.

---Wesley Pruden, Washington Times

"I DON'T THINK she's a bad person, I don't think she's a dishonest person, I do think her behavior at Harvard Law School with military recruiters is at least something she needs to defend."

— Bill Kristol on Fox News

"THERE IS NO DOUBT that Ms. Kagan possesses a first-rate intellect, but she is a surprising choice from a president who has emphasized the importance of understanding 'how the world works and how ordinary people live.' Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square, Hyde Park, and the D.C. Beltway. These are not places where one learns 'how ordinary people live.' Ms. Kagan is likewise a surprising choice because she lacks judicial experience. Most Americans believe that prior judicial experience is a necessary credential for a Supreme Court Justice."

---Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) member of Senate Judiciary Committee

"WE ARE EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED by the President's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Kagan's nomination is a triumph for liberal ideology and judicial activism. She has never been a judge, nor written a judicial opinion. In fact, she has very limited experience in the actual practice of law. Her resume reveals her to be an academic who has served liberal judges, liberal presidents, and liberal universities. Her entire career has been lived in a narrow slice of the judicial spectrum. Even with her sparse legal record, one thing stands out—her emotional and legal commitment to the LGBT agenda."

— Tom Minnery, Vice President of Public Policy, Focus on the Family, social conservative activist group

"IN HER FERVENT OPPOSITION to the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law and the Solomon Amendment, Kagan elevated her own ideological commitment on gay rights above what Congress, acting on the advice of military leaders, had determined best served the interests of national security. At a time of war, in the face of the grand civilizational challenge that radical Islam poses, Kagan treated military recruiters worse than she treated the high-powered law firms that were donating their expensive legal services to anti-American terrorists."

—Ed Whelan, Commentator on National Review Online