Kagan: Those who can’t do, teach

Kagan’s radicalism does not stop there. One thing the media missed (surprise, surprise) is that she hired Cass Sunstein while she was the dean at Harvard. Sunstein—Obama’s regulatory czar—has become well-known mainly because Glenn Beck went after him on his TV and radio shows.

Beck calls Sustein “the most dangerous man in America.” Sunstein has publicly stated that he wants animals to be represented in court and would use the courts to create a “chilling effect” in order to regulate offensive speech. He also wants to repeal the 2nd Amendment and ban hunting.

We can’t necessarily infer that Kagan supports the same wacky ideas that Sunstein professes, but we can infer that she is sympathetic enough with his ideas to hire him. If she doesn’t consider Sunstein radical, she cannot be too far away from him ideologically.

Kagan’s intertwined relationship with our country’s influential and left-leaning intelligentsia leaves some questions about her nomination. We must be skeptical about people whom arise out of this section of academia. Kagan’s only qualifications are her connections to powerful people.

Obama’s administration is filled with people with sketchy views whom haven’t done anything substantial in the private sector. Kagan has been a teacher or government official nearly her entire life. According to President Obama, this is the type of wisdom and experience we need on the Supreme Court.

Ron Meyer hosts We the People Internet Radio Show and writes a weekly column for Human Events. He is a student at Principia College and a former National Journalism Center intern who has also written political opinion for AOL News and the Santa Barbara News-Press.