The thing that stuns me most about the Kagan-ACOG story is not that Kagan would attempt to manipulate an independent group's testimony on a matter of public import. The ACOG people are big boys and they get to decide what they put in their press releases, they didn't have to take her dishonest wording.
No, what horrifies me is the end to which her manipulation was directed. Lying to save Sudanese refugees, yes, even to ensure generous welfare benefits or to protect state secrets I can understand. But to preserve a barbaric practice like Partial Birth Abortion? To change testimony from "never ever needed" to "definitely needed" for PBA? For a procedure that D. P. Moynihan described as "tantamount to infantacide".
I'm not worried so much about Ms. Kagan's penchant for dissembling, I'm worried about whether she has a moral center that responds to any standard but expediency. Do we really want a lifetime Justice with her values?
Well we're going to get one. Way to look out for the 'common' good, Barry.
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