Posted on 05/11/2010 11:13:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Elena Kagan worked under Under the tutelage of Sean Wilentz — lefty historian, friend of the Clintons, and notorious Bush-basher — Kagan wrote a thesis called “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933,” which first raised eyebrows when Kagan was being considered for Souter’s seat last year:
“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,” she wrote in her thesis. “Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.”
She called the story of the socialist movement’s demise “a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America … In unity lies their only hope.”
I.e., dumb as a post.
History major, pfft. Don't want to have to bother with that icky math, do we?
The effort to “discover” Kagan’s political viewpoints is a waste of time. unless one is unable to see the obvious.
Are they going to hide her thesis, major papers, and transcripts like they did with Obama?
I may vomit.
In plain words, he knows she's gay, and he wants to gush, but he's not going to "out" her.
Her senior thesis is public. It’s a lament of the failure of 30’s socialism. Her grades, unlikely. But I’m willing to bet a lot of money she never passed a calculus class.
And I hate to break it to people, but the Ivys aren’t that difficult in the humanities and social sciences because those subjects are easy to begin with.
Drunk and ugly is no way to go through life, young lady.
- Dean Wormer
All those Christian names -- not. What a tolerant liberal.
How many guys sat down and wept when Holtzman lost?
Kagan’s support for Holtzman and her strong disappointment at her electoral defeat is a glimpse into her personal ideology. That she would get drunk and weep tells me that she BADLY wanted Holtzman’s policies to prevail for this country.
And what do we know about Elizabeth Holtzman ?
On January 11, 2006, the left-wing magazine, The Nation published Holtzman’s essay calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush for authorizing “the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”
In other words Holtzman was against the Patriot Act, so against it that she would want the man task with executing it to be impeached.
Holtzman expanded on her arguments for impeaching President Bush in a 2006 book coauthored with Cynthia L. Cooper, The impeachment of George W. Bush: a practical guide for concerned citizens.
Question -— Does Kagan share this view ? This will have strong implications on our war against terrorism.
In June 2008, Holtzman published a commentary on the action of U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in introducing articles of impeachment against President Bush on June 9, 2008.
She is currently weighing a bid for New York Attorney General in the 2010 elections.
Sherrr. And as far as working for Liz Holtzman goes, by the way, Liz was a nutso, obsessive, man-hating feminazi from the git-go, and a confirmed bachelorette, if you catch my drift. In those days (as in these), normal liberal girls stayed away from her, because she was so bitter and weird, and so good at making enemies.
To want to work in Holtzman's coven bespeaks a very special gal.
I think by calling these people 'liberal' we are making a big mistake. They are not liberals. They are radical leftists. They have no resemblance to liberals of the past.
Remember, these are the very same people who were willing to burn Chicago to the ground in 1968 because the greatest liberal of his generation, Hubert Humphry, won the Democrat presidential nomination. Since then, they have purged the Democrat party of liberals. It is now the party of hard, radical leftists.
Lets start calling them what they are -- Radical Leftists!
Currently, she's on a golf course, looking for the real socialists.
To sum up: We have a self-important, radical, vociferous, anti-military lesbian who has sheltered her entire adult life in an ivory tower and laments that the left just isn’t left enough. But we’re supposed to believe that she’s mainstream because her fellow “lefter left” friends in academia assure us of it while at the same time they piss down our backs and remark on the rainy weather.
“Democratic candidate Elizabeth Holtzman had lost the race for one of New York’s Senate seats. And then she sat down and wept.”
I’m sure Holtzman’s loss was a disappointment, but more likely a far greater disappointment to Kagan that year was Ted Kennedy’s abject failure as a liberal challenger to Jimmy Carter in the spring primaries and Carter’s subsequent defeat by an unashamedly conservative candidate, Ronald Reagan. I’m sure Kagan thought the U.S. was going to hell in a handbasket rather than being on the cusp of the greatest postwar economic expansion ever seen.
Over and over again, this article hits the same point - her uniformly hardcore leftist views are not radical. They are "well-reasoned," "sober," "calm," "mainstream", etc.
The people interviewed, and most journalists, consider hardcore leftist thought to be mainstream and reassuring. All their friends, colleagues and acquaintences believe all the exact same things and they're all nice.
Myopic dingbats.
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