Kagan Shows Her Sense of Humor
Andrew Siegel — June 30, 2010 – 2:50 pm | Domestic Policy Comments (1) Add a commentSolicitor General Elena Kagan showed a “delightful” sense of humor in the Senate confirmation hearings. After an exchange with Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), the Senator commended Kagan and said:
You have shown a really admirable sense of humor and as Senator Schumer said yesterday, we’re looking for somebody who can moderate the court, and a little humor would do them a lot of good.
This was not the only time during the hearings that Kagan was recognized for her profound sense of humor. During a discussion about the Christmas Day bomber, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) asked Kagan where she was on that day. In an attempt to answer the question she thought she heard, Kagan said, “That is an undecided legal issue.” Graham quickly responded by saying, “I just asked you where you were on Christmas?” Without missing a beat, Kagan responded, “you know, like all Jews, I was probably in a Chinese restaurant,” and the room filled with laughter.
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I agree! The ability to be funny wtihout being foolish, to joke without being silly, to laugh at things without being sly…to remind us of our common human bond without causing irrational fear and hate….is something any Supreme Court in any Historic Democracy, however fragile and weakened, on any life-sustaining planet in the Universe, however abused and mal-appreciated needs more oif! If anything Kagan’s subtle, discrete and honest sense of humour will put back some life and joy in a place too often facing dead-serious questions, decisions that can have deadly consequences if decided wrongly, and which tends to look more like an odd collection of party-poopers and repressed party-goers! I can’t wait to see Kagan do the cha-cha-cha and be a bit of a Marxist with one-liners like:(the following words are from The Marx Brothers; if you don’t know them yet just remember that Karl wasn’t one of them!)
“You can’t fool me, there ain’t no sanity clause.” and with a hilarious exchange similar to this one:
Groucho Marx: Now pay particular attention to this first clause, because it’s most important. There’s the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part. How do you like that, that’s pretty neat eh?
Chico Marx: No, that’s no good.
Groucho Marx: What’s the matter with it?
Chico Marx: I don’t know, let’s hear it again.
Groucho Marx: So the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part.
Chico Marx: Well it sounds a little better this time.
Groucho Marx: Well, it grows on you. Would you like to hear it once more?
Chico Marx: Just the first part.
Groucho Marx: What do you mean, the party of the first part?
Chico Marx: No, the first part of the party, of the first part.
Groucho Marx: All right. It says the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part, shall be known in this contract - look, why should we quarrel about a thing like this, we’ll take it right out, eh?
(...that’s only a party of the rest of it…)
So; let’s get Kagan on the Supreme Court and restore the Party part of all parties; Democratic, Republican and elsewise! Three cheers for the Lady in Blue!