Did Elana Kagan compare the NRA to the KKK?

  Did Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court– Elena Kagan– compare the NRA to the KKK? On the surface it sure looks like she did. From this article:

Two documents discovered at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and obtained by National Review suggest that Kagan was involved in these discussions. One does not contain her name, but the handwriting appears to be hers. (You can see an example of Kagan’s handwriting here.) It has the name of administration colleague Fran Allegra at the top, and lists two “Bad guy orgs” that might be covered — the NRA and the KKK.

The second does have Kagan’s name on it; it is a memo from Allegra to Kagan. Allegra reports that he checked the IRS’s “Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170(c)” — the list of tax-exempt organizations, which, he says, are the only organizations the bill would cover — and that neither the NRA nor the KKK was on it. “If you have other names you want me to run down in the Cumulative List, I would be glad to check them out,” he adds, suggesting that Kagan requested the initial check of the NRA and the KKK.

  No, she did not directly compare the NRA to the KKK, but she does lump them together as “bad guy” organizations, so in a way she was comparing the two organizations. While she may not be calling NRA members clan members, the fact that she puts both the NRA and the KKK on what she considers the “bad guy” list is bad enough in itself. She has lumped the NRA and KKK together as organizations that she considers bad.

  To even mention the NRA in the same context as the KKK is deplorable. This just goes to show us that Elena Kagan needs to be examined thoroughly during her confirmation hearing. There is not allot that is known about her, but we can rest assured that Barack Obama knows enough about her to believe she will be a good card carrying liberal on the Supreme Court. The more that we learn about her, the more I am convinced that she is not the type of person that should be anywhere neer the Supreme Court. When she was announced as Barack Obama’s choice to replace the retiring Justice Stevens many on the right breathed a sigh of relief because they thought that the choice could have been much worse. I am now beginning to wonder if that is true.

  It is up to Elena Kagan to prove that she is not the radical I believe she is when she testifies before the confirmation hearings, and the senators at that hearing owe it to the American people to expose he if she is indeed as radical as I am beginning to believe she is.