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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:

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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:

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.

Here’s a list of things a community organizer never has to do. He doesn’t have to: Make tough decisions Make payroll Hire and fire Do the actual work Live with the consequences Here’s a list of things a president must do: Make tough decisions Hire and fire Do actual work Live with consequences *funding optional and dependent on Congress aka The Board

Greece's financial collapse is turning into theater of the absurd. Today, public employees in Athens staged an occupation of a government building to dramatize their demand that they be maintained at taxpayer expense, in the style to which they have become accustomed, forever. Even though there is no more money:

I have a confession to make. When the whole "Tea Party" thing first started, i was tremendously excited. I thought it was all about me. And while I richly deserve such accolades, it was a bit surprising.

I was quite disappointed when I discovered that it wasn't all about me. But lately, I've been a bit relieved. After all, those "teabaggers" are scary dangerous.

First up, there's that guy who attacked the Pentagon yesterday. He's got "Tea Party" written all over him. A Bush-hating 9/11 truther and pothead who...

Actually, that sounds like Michael Moore.

Note to self: never underestimate the power of Andrew Breitbart.

At last weekend's Tea Party Convention, the professional gadfly took on the "birther" movement (those people who deny President Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president). Breitbart didn't engage them on their chosen battleground -- legal minutiae and 18th century semantics and other forms of arcanery -- but instead on a strategic ground: what do they intend to achieve, and what will be the ancillary damage caused by their victory?

Here's another indication as to just where all the money is going as our liberal kakistocracy spends us into inevitable economic collapse:

A warning from my favorite economic analyst, Donald Luskin.

Don't think that Republicans can't be sucked in when an anti-Wall Street lynch mob gets its blood up. Recall that Sarbanes-Oxley, the devastating antigrowth response in 2002 to the Enron and Worldcom scandals, was passed with virtually unanimous support by Republicans in Congress, and signed by a Republican president. Recall that last year 85 House Republicans voted for a 90% tax on bonuses for any employee of any bank that took more than $5 billion in TARP money.

Investors got some good news last Friday.

It looks like Erroll Southers, the Obama administration's nominee to head the TSA, corrected his testimony about his abuse of his position with the FBI only after Senator Susan Collins learned that his testimony was inconsistent with FBI records and asked him to account for the inconsistency. To summarize this situation, about which I wrote here, In an affidavit, Southers admitted to Congress that he was censured by the FBI in 1988 for using his position to gain access to data about his ex-wife's new boyfriend.