Elena Kagan makes Charles Dickens's, Fagin, look like Thomas Paine. Perhaps she took a lesson from Judge Sonia Sotomayor as to the hazard of answering a direct question with a direct answer. Obviously, Kagan saw judge Sotomayor's claim that she saw the Second Amendment as a right of the individual to keep and bear arms only to reverse herself once upon the court, as a snake pit she does not intend to jump into. Kagan's simple minded evasiveness leads me to suspect she could very well make Ruth B. Ginsberg look like Sean Hannity by comparison, and leaves me to ponder one question: how many generations back does one have to go to get where being connected to Harvard meant something good?
I've lost track as to how many times nominee Kagan has used the word humility in her testimony so I don't know how many times she could already be charged with perjury. Kagan virtually has woefully unjustified arrogance erupting from every pore on her body, and I've grown nauseated by the media's repeated references to her pedestrian maneuvering as genius. So inappropriate do I find the term for Kagan's flimsy excuses not to answer questions, I am forced to place genius at the top of my list of most abused words, above awesome and karma.
When my father first told me that someone could not be an effective lawyer or journalist and also a good person, I viewed his cynicism as extreme, but now I believe it is time to jettison the artificial, baseless complexities lawyers have used to burden and bastardize the Constitution and to treat it like the simple, product of true genius that it is.
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