Kagan A Worse Choice Than We Feared

At the time we knew that, like her boss, Kagan was an inexperienced and thoroughly unqualified choice for her post, but if we believe what she and her then-Department tell us, she was not only completely inexperienced and unqualified, but completely disconnected and comically and cluelessly bumbling in her previous job. CNSNews' investigation using FOIA requests of Kagan's former employer, the Office of the Solicitor General, shows the general pattern of coordination and organization by staff in responding to the legal challenges to Obamacare. These include direct communications surrounding this defense, but not the particulars, that include Kagan. Her job, at the time, was heading the department that would defend the law against constitutional challenges. She herself argued cases before the Supreme Court (and was generally demolished as incompetent by the justices, even the liberal ones, perhaps best exemplified when her office argued that the government would be justified in burning books to control political speech).

Yet, from their statements, we are told that in the months between when the threat of litigation first surfaced to when she actually stopped working as Solicitor General after legal action had been initiated, she had absolutely zero to do with the pending litigation or filings of the single most divisive and politically important matter of the entire year - litigation in which her office, the office she was leading, was one of the 2 sides. But she was involved in ZERO discussions about it, gave ZERO opinions about it, provided ZERO input into the litigation - despite the fact that it was happening months before any Supreme Court opening was suspected or she was contacted as being a potential nominee. In fact, when a potential recusal came up, they appeared to all but brag about how she had been "walled off" from the litigation "from day one" - despite "day one" being months before any SCOTUS talk arose.

In other words, the single most prominent case of the year with the highest political stakes and the most media coverage and public involvement was going on with her office playing one of the two parties and she never even sat in on a meeting where it was discussed in more than passing.

So.

Do we believe Kagan when she claims the above - and shows just how dangerously incompetent and unqualified she is for any important job, where the biggest and most important issues are kept from her by staff to keep her from getting involved (maybe they were afraid she'd argue that Obamacare be burned?)?

Or do we believe our lying eyes that where there's smoke there had to be fire?