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" Elena Kagan is President Obama&amp;#039;s pick to fill retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens&amp;#039;s seat, and for someone expected to be so easily confirmed, there were more barbed reactions this morning than the typical bloviation meter would have it. The New York Times makes you an instant historian: she&amp;#039;s a traditional, independent nominee. The Washington Post makes you an instant pundit: she&amp;#039;sa Very Serious Thinker. But, of course, the GOP will oppose her anyway. Conservative Ed Whelan at National Review Online explains why; his points will be echoed continuously in NRO&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Bench Memos&amp;quot; over the next several months. Meantime, liberal Glenn Greenwald of Salon is having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Kagan, in his view, is so right-wing she&amp;#039;s practically Ed Whelan. The Daily Caller notes that in 1995 Kagan called for enhanced interrogation techniques to be deployed against SCOTUS nominees. (John McCain to lead the waterboarding?) Finally, decorated veteran Bill Kristol stretches the bounds of logic to declare that Kagan hates the military because she opposes Don&amp;#039;t Ask, Don&amp;#039;t Tell. No profit in combating a golem with logic; worth pointing out, though, that another opponent of DADT is Robert Gates, military-hatin&amp;#039; Secretary of Defense... appointed by military-hatin&amp;#039; George W. Bush. Stay tuned for (sensible) perspective on Kagan all week (summer?) right here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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