Elena Kagan barred military recruiters from Harvard’s campus as a protest against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” but she didn’t find that it compromised her principles to go work for the man who created the “Don’t Ask/Don’t tell” policy?
She has said she acted because the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bars openly gay men and women from serving, was a violation of the university’s anti-discrimination rules. And that as an alternative, she encouraged a campus veterans group to facilitate the Pentagon’s recruitment of students.
Sessions disputed Kagan’s version of events, saying that for one recruiting season “you gave them (the Pentagon) the runaround. … You’ve continued to persist with this view that somehow there was a loophole in the statute that Harvard didn’t have to comply with.”
Kagan is clearly obfuscating on this issue because she knows that her view on this is wildly unpopular. And at the heart of it lies a glaring inconsistency.
Clinton introduced Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell in 1993 which Kagan protested by keeping recruiters out of Harvard yet Kagan took the job as Clinton’s Associate White House Counsel to the President in 1995. So either Kagan shuttled her principles for the sake of career enhancement or Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell had nothing to do with Kagan keeping military recruiters off campus in the first place.
Kagan says she respects and esteems the military but what other reason could there have been other than an animosity towards the military?
June 29, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Oh what? Another unprincipled, lying (Dem) politician? It's pretty pathetic that she will not be filibustered for fear that some day the Dems may filibuster a Republican nominee. Lindsey Graham is just flat out wrong. We should FIGHT each and every time for what it right, regardless of the consequences!
Then again it may just be hard for Senators to go rough on her – they probably just look at her and imagine her saying, "Mmmmyeah, THAT'S the ticket" in Jon Lovitz's voice. Is it a coincidence that all those videos have disappeared from YouTube? As Bugs Bunny would say, "Mmmyaaa.. COULD be…."
June 29, 2010 at 7:04 pm
I found laughable Kagan's comments about commitment to principle and the rule of law. In her case, which is it – commitment to principle (shifting sands) or rule of law? While she pretends both/and, clearly her past actions establish either/or.
June 30, 2010 at 4:22 am
Not long ago the senate was in session. And someone was speaking. A man stood up and said "Liar!" Evidence shows that name was aptly applied. Today the senate was in session. And someone was speaking. Already the evidence indicates that the name would aptly apply. Someone needs to stand up and say "Liar!"
June 30, 2010 at 2:19 pm
There is only one reason Kagan kept recruiters off campus……because she engages in the gay lifestyle and the military opposes that behavior. She was sending a public message about her personal morality.