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.