• Head of GM Wagoner out.
• Damn right they did.
• If Murphy wins, bye-bye MC Steele.  
• Awful.
• Er, isn’t the whole point to “increase government operations“?
• Klein smacks down Ricks.
• I’m not sure why anyone listens to Rod Dreher.
• Nice going, Harry.
• This outta be good.
• Mitch Limbaugh.

Let’s change his name to Shecky Grassley

From the Muppetopolitan Opera House Pigoletto featuring Beverly Sills.

What’s on your mind tonight?

A co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act back in 2007, California Senator Dianne Feinstein is, sadly, now the lone holdout among those previous co-sponsors in the state’s Democratic delegation in Washington. Feinstein has issued a statement saying that she likely won’t support the Employee Free Choice Act in its current form.

It’s not Glenn Beck saying it. It’s the Senate Minority Leader.

We need to close tax havens not just because they’re tax havens. They’re also one of the tools corporations are using to hide risk.

Erick the RedState Erickson’s twitter feed: a Pez Dispenser of Dumb.

Steve Teles’ book provides a great, readable analysis of how pro-market conservatives organized themselves against a legal profession and legal academy that they perceived as biased against them, and succeeded in changing it. It is reminiscent of other books on the rise of the right, such as Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm, but concentrates on a much more specialized group of actors. Rightwing non-profit law firms have succeeded, at least in part, in bringing cases that raised attention for key regulatory issues. Rightwing funders provided the means that allowed legal academics to pioneer ‘law and economics,’ an approach to legal analysis that has become ever more important in influencing academic analyses, legal decisions and governmental regulatory priorities. Finally, the Federalist Society has allowed conservative lawyers to identify each other and to network (as seen, for example, in the controversies over Justice Department hiring practices under George W. Bush).

The complex Kabuki of financial regulation between bankers and the Obama Administration is gradually widening to become bebop improvisation, with strains from Princeton, Beijing, Main Street, and Brussels eager to get a chance to sit in and change the tune.

The flat-earthers win.