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- It's difficult to muster interest in judicial confirmation hearings in this era of blank-slate nominees, but the Elena Kagan hearings at least provide us a look into the mind of Senate Republicans. For instance, Jeff Sessions comparing Citizen's United to Brown v. Board of Education. Or how Republicans pejoratively invoked Thurgood Marshall but were unable to cite an example of his "activism."
- Suffice it to say, John Boehner's opinion on the "political rebellion brewing" on account of the liberal agenda is just typical election-year bluster with no basis in reality. Still, there's a market for deliberate data manipulation, cutting taxes for the rich, and letting children suffer, so when Boehner says the American people are "willing to look at us again" he's talking about folks like this.
- It isn't my intent to keep writing about why libertarians baffle me, but when I read things like this Nick Gillespie piece in The Daily Caller, I need to clear my head. After several paragraphs of stream-of-consciousness interrupted by parenthetical asides, he provides some guidelines for being a libertarian. "First and foremost," he writes, "libertarians like liberty." I assume this is a necessary but not sufficient condition since few would claim not to "like" liberty.
- Remainders: According to U.S. Senate hopeful Sharron Angle, God's benevolent plan includes forcing rape victims to carry their pregnancies to term; I don't read David Brooks anymore, but apparently I'm not missing much; and the Montana GOP seeks to emulate its Texas counterpart.
--Mori Dinauer
