We’re really enjoying the Elena Kagan interview process. It’s almost like getting interrogated by hundreds of overly confident questioners for a crime you didn’t commit (and frankly for a crime which doesn’t exist. Each member seems to think they’re going to be the one blowing the doors open to some new revelation that makes Kagan unsuitable for SCOTUS, when in reality what we likely have here is a practical, modern version of David Souter.
Funnier still? You know these people are going back to their offices muttering, “I KNOW she’s got a gay agenda. I just KNOW it,” yet sadly for them (and good for the rest of us), nothing emerges.
It’s like creating a conspiracy out of a theory: how do you avoid looking like a whacko for pressing the issue and when do you start looking like the morals police for probing someone’s personal choices in the interest of making some bygone way of thinking important? In short, how do you turn the American public against someone just because they might be gay and/or supporting any aspect of this so-called “gay agenda” that floats in your scared mind?
You’ve gotta hand it to the Obama administration: so far they’ve failed to pull the same Supreme gaffe Bush 43 pulled, and we’ve definitely seen no Borks walking the halls.
Newsweek’s coverage of Kagan and same sex marriage is an interesting read and can be found right here.