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RUSH: It\u2019s all smoke and mirrors, Snerdley. By the way, a brief time-out here for those of you calling the program. If you think you\u2019re going to get on this program and start telling me that Elena Kagan is some sweet moderate woman not at all closed-minded like Robert Bork, take it to some other show because I\u2019m not in the mood to put up with you scammers and spammers and seminar callers from the left who know that you\u2019ve nominated a dud. You ought to be happy about it. You\u2019ve got an Obama clone in there. You\u2019ve got somebody that doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s doing, has never been there before, has no idea what she\u2019s going to do when she gets there except advance Obama\u2019s agenda. But don\u2019t waste my time today with, ‘She\u2019s smart, she\u2019s really open-minded, not like Robert Bork.\u2019 Snerdley, put that call up there, I said, ‘I\u2019m not in the mood today.\u2019 Normally I want to humor and have some fun with these people, I\u2019m not in the mood today. Take it to some other program. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, listen to this. ‘Elena Kagan has an extremely sparse paper trail for a Supreme Court nominee, even by recent standards. She reputedly has signaled sympathy to environmental laws and regulation. But with so little to go on, her personal actions offer obscure and conflicting clues. On the one hand, she has a history of needlessly inflating her carbon footprint. ‘A couple of times when she was so focused on her work, she would park her car and leave it running overnight,\u2019 said Lawrence Lessig, a longtime friend who taught alongside Ms. Kagan in Chicago. ‘She just forgot to turn it off.”<\/p>\n

They lock people in mental wards for less than this. This, we are told, is a resume enhancer. Elena Kagan, she\u2019s so devoted to her work — I want you to picture this — this woman is so focused on her work, she has to get to her office in Chicago where she\u2019s going to inculcate young skulls full of mush with a bunch of liberal legal BS, so she shows up in the parking lot, she\u2019s so eager to get there, she\u2019s so focused, she can\u2019t wait, she gets out of the car, she grabs all of her papers and suitcases and whatever, gets out of the car and leaves the keys in the car and leaves the engine running, goes inside overnight. What if there had been kids in the car with the engine running?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst at CNN has written a piece here for the New Yorker in which he basically says he\u2019s been Elena Kagan\u2019s friend for 30 years and he has no idea what she believes. How many of you have a friend that you\u2019ve known for 30 years that you would describe as a close friend and all you can say about them is, ‘Clearly she\u2019s a Democrat.\u2019 But beyond that, her views are something of a mystery. How many of you have a close friend you know nothing about? What you know may not be true. You could have a fraud as a friend, at least you — (interruption) what, you have a friend you don\u2019t know anything about? You\u2019re not talking about what I think you\u2019re talking about, are you? A fraudulent friend, yeah, but you knew enough to know they were a fraud at some point. Here\u2019s a guy who knows her 30 years that doesn\u2019t know anything about her. I mean it\u2019s fascinating. It\u2019s weird. All that we know about this woman is that she wanted to ban military recruiters from Harvard and was overturned by the Supreme Court. Wanted to ban \u2019em. Tried to ban \u2019em. She lost. That\u2019s the point. But that\u2019s her only significant decision that she\u2019s ever made. While we\u2019re on the subject here let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Last night on MSNBC appeared David Axelrod, White House advisor. He got this question: ‘A lot of progressives think that Elena Kagan is not liberal enough, that she doesn\u2019t go anywhere near as far as Justice Stevens. Was the president looking for a liberal leaning judge?\u2019<\/p>\n

AXELROD: On the same day that you\u2019re asking me that question, you know, there are people on the right who are hammering her because she clerked for Abner Mikva and she clerked for Justice Marshall and accepted his view that the court should stand up for the least of us. And, you know, she has a long history here that should give people some sense of what her personal sensibilities are but what the president was looking for above all was a justice who believed as he believed, that we have to respect the Constitution, uphold the Constitution, do it in a way that makes sure that everybody gets a fair shake, not just the powerful but everybody gets a fair shake, and that\u2019s a view that Elena Kagan reflects.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The implication here is the Constitution\u2019s unfair. That\u2019s what they believe. The Constitution\u2019s unfair. This little notion she clerked for Justice Marshall, accepted his view that the court should stand up for the least of us, it was Media Matters who wrote a piece yesterday that said I supported slavery by analyzing what Kagan meant when she agreed with Marshall that the court should be biased in favor of the despised and the disadvantaged. And Marshall wrote that the Constitution was unjust or — I forget his exact word. They\u2019re on such thin ice here. They know what they\u2019ve nominated. They\u2019ve nominated a clone of Obama, and what they have to do is come up with a way of making her appear to be Obama: thoughtful, wise, learned, deep, charismatic. They got a long shot on that one. But they\u2019re going to try to make everything else about her look like Obama. Let\u2019s see. Here\u2019s Roland Martin. We read his piece from CNN yesterday on the air. He was on Anderson Cooper 220 last night, and Anderson Cooper said, ‘Elena Kagan, you\u2019re disappointed with this? Some on the left are saying she\u2019s too conservative.\u2019<\/p>\n

MARTIN: Any time there\u2019s a Republican president they are going to appoint a strong conservative. Yet Democrats always seem to be afraid of appointing a strong liberal, so they\u2019d rather appoint someone who\u2019s a centrist. Folks on the left who are saying she\u2019s not as strong a liberal as they would have liked. If she is confirmed, you will have basically an Ivy League Supreme Court, folks all who went to Yale Harvard, Princeton, or whatever — Stevens went to University of Chicago and law school at Northwestern — it would be nice, frankly, to have points of views who didn\u2019t simply go to these East Coast schools that, frankly, doesn\u2019t represent the same views of other folks across the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, it might be nice to have a president that didn\u2019t go to one of those schools either, Roland. Clinton went to one of them; Bush went to one of them; Obama went to one of them. When\u2019s the last time we had a president that didn\u2019t go to one of them? The Republicans didn\u2019t always appoint strong conservatives. Look at Souter. Look at O\u2019Connor. John Paul Stevens was appointed by a Republican. These idiots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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