During the July 2 edition of Bloomberg Television’s Political Capital, Bloomberg News columnist Margaret Carlson exalted Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Carlson stated she would vote for Kagan “twice” because “It has been so long since I saw someone in public life joyful about being there.” The gushing didn’t stop there for Carlson who continued to adorn Kagan for her impeccable “intellectual ability” and “temperament,” despite admitting that there was little substance known about Kagan. This however was not important to Carlson who then proceeded to fawn over Kagan’s joke that “brought the house down.” Carlson ended by blaming Republicans as one of the reasons Kagan wouldn’t receive an almost unanimous decision to the court, similar to Justice Scalia. However, National Review Editor Kate O’Bierne pointed out that the fundamental reason some Republicans were going to vote against Kagan was because of a “deep respect for the Constitution” and Kagan would, “fall into the liberal mistake of wanting laws to reach certain results and go there whether or not the Constitution permits it.”
