It's becoming clear why President Obama first tapped Elena Kagan for his Solicitor General, and then Supreme Court nominee: their ideologies and ethics are remarkably congruent. And that alone should be enough to scuttle her nomination.

Back in the 1990's, Kagan was working for the Clinton administration. At that time, there was a bit of a fight over partial birth abortion. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists offered their professional opinion on the matter, and their paper stated definitively:

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket blog joins us by telephone today, as he is on the road.  We’ll talk about the latest in politics and media, especially about the unfolding crisis between the White House and its commander in the main theater of war.  We’ll also talk about the polling fallout of the Oval Office speech, and all of the rest of the headlines.

This really has to be seen to be believed. We all know that MSNBC--Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, etc.--is in the tank for the Obama administration, but I think this is the first time an on-air MSNBC personality has confessed to "working with the White House" on talking points; here, regarding the Gulf oil spill. The MSNBC employee in question is Mika Brzezinski, the daughter of Jimmy Carter's national security adviser. It's really pretty funny to see her reading the White House talking points on air:

All a day in the life of a commie, but there you go: “Well, according to ESPN’s Martin Tyler, those aren’t North Korean fans at all: they’re paid actors from China.”

WASHINGTON D.C. — Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) and the House Republican Economic Recovery Working Group today announced a new round of YouCut proposals for the public to vote on. So far, more than 860,000 votes have been cast.  As they’ve done every week since the project’s launch, House Republicans will bring the winning cut to the floor next week for a vote.

You must be kidding me.  But this is Reuters reporting it, not The Onion:

The definition of a tough crowd? When Obama sycophants like Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and Ezra Klein all give the President’s speech the worst reviews since the latest Ben Affleck movie, there’s not a whole heckuva lot for the MWU to add. Perhaps Olbermann said it best (didn’t think you’d ever see that line, did you?

If there is anything worse for a leader than rhetorical impotence, I don’t know what it is. Even a sex scandal implies some sort of virility. But empty words? [Text here.]

[Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, Christopher Buckley, Twelve, 272 pages] I HAVE NEVER MET Christopher Buckley, nor, I think, his attractive socialite mother, Pat, but have a dim and distant memory of his father, William F. Buckley Jr., from when he came to visit my parents in England. It was a long Publication: The American Conservative

According to Steven F. Hayward, author of the book The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989, here's why Ronald Reagan would likely have voted for Sarah Palin:

Amazingly enough, the same Saturday Night Live that brought us obnoxious moonbats like Al Franken and Chevy Chase also produced the patriot Victoria Jackson, who has noticed that there's a communist living in the White House and wants to know what we propose to do about it.

Via WND, on a tip from Charlie G.

Paul Krugman, the hyper-partisan columnist for the New York Times, must have been a competent economist at one time. But those days are so far in the past that even Krugman apparently can no longer remember them. James Taranto documents the extent of Krugman's amnesia:

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls "the incredible gap that has opened up between the parties":