Winnie Bloberino Lives

Remember Henrietta Hippo's mendatious ACOG memo from yesterday that caused such an "academic" rucus on her way to liberal judicial Nirvana?  Amazingly, she proved extremely reluctant to own up to it:

The memo, reported yesterday by National Review, has caused a stir in conservative circles because it appeared that Kagan, then a White House policy aide, put words in the medical group’s mouth in order to soften its position on the controversial procedure. But when Republican Senator Orrin Hatch brought the subject up with Kagan, he had a hard time getting her to admit that she did, in fact, write the document in question.

“Did you write that memo?” Hatch asked.

“Senator, with respect,” Kagan began, “I don’t think that that’s what happened — ”

“Did you write that memo?”

“I’m sorry — the memo which is?”

“The memo that caused them to go back to the language of ‘medically necessary,’ which was the big issue to begin with — ”

“Yes, well, I’ve seen the document — ”

“But did you write it?”

“The document is certainly in my handwriting.”

"I went to a Supreme Court confirmation hearing and an exorcism broke out!"

I can envision exchanges like this in her school days:

“Did your dog eat that homework?”

“Teacher, with respect,” Kagan began, “I don’t think that that’s what happened — ”

“Did your dog eat that homework?”

“I’m sorry — the homework which is?”

“The homework whose chewed-up remains are festooned all over this dog turd that's sitting on my desk in front of me — ”

“Yes, well, I’ve seen the homework — ”

“But did Rover eat it?”

“The documents certainly smell like me.”

It's like Senator Hatch was almost beseeching her to just say, "Yes, I wrote the memo" so that he wouldn't have so overt and inescapable a reason to vote against her confirmation.  I mean, who is she afraid of offending with this?  Is admitting that she's a lying, infanticidal extremist going to reduce her haul of Democrat votes?  Or is contemptuous prevarication now an official right of judicial passage and even litmus test for hard left oligarchists?