RED STATE UPDATE ON OBAMA AND THE NASHVILLE FLOODS.

You can help via the Nashville Red Cross if you’re so inclined.

UH OH: Democratic Rep. Mollohan faces primary challenge over earmarks.

His rival in Tuesday’s primary is state Sen. Mike Oliverio, who has criticized the agenda of President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. In a state where Republican presidential nominee John McCain won handily in 2008, that criticism has helped the 46-year-old financial adviser attract the support of some of West Virginia’s tea partiers as well as former Mollohan allies.

“I think the voters in northern West Virginia have simply lost confidence in Congressman Mollohan,” Oliverio said. “They’ve lost confidence in his ability to conduct himself and his affairs in Washington in a proper manner.”

So have I.

AMERICA FALLING BEHIND the mobile-calling curve?

MORE ON MCCLATCHY’S GRIEVOUS ERROR: Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 16. “We believe that the congressmen’s story was a fabrication intended to defame the Tea Party movement and distract attention from the resistance to Obamacare. Not a single video corroborates it. No independent witness has stepped forward to vouch for it. Given the involvement of Rep. Clyburn in promoting the story, the fabrication extends to the Democratic congressional leadership. It is a scandal that warrants the attention of the mainstream media. In recent installments of this series, we have posted correspondence — both our own and that of our readers — with McClatchy News investigative editor James Asher. (All previous installments can be accessed here.) Readers have continued to forward their correspondence with Asher to us. This correspondence powerfully points out the deficiencies of the messages we have posted from Asher. But it is evident that Asher has no interest in examining the merits of the story.”

RICHARD CLARKE: The Times Square bomb failed. What will we do when the next bomb works?

I dunno, maybe fire Janet Napolitano?

WHAT NOT TO SAY to a lesbian.

NBC: Obama to pick Kagan for Supreme Court.

UPDATE: The count: “Ain’t I a woman?”

CLIVE CROOK: America has good reason to worry about Greece.

TIM CAVANAUGH: Will Janet Napolitano Be Fired For Times Square Incompetence? “Napolitano’s rhetorical slip is a little too serious to be palmed off with some linguistic woolgathering. She has made clear repeatedly that she believes people with Gadsden flag bumper stickers are a greater threat to domestic tranquility than out-of-the-closet terrorists who receive training and material assistance in foreign terror centers. She has been wrong about this every time, and she will continue to be wrong until Americans actually die.” Don’t kid yourself — she’ll continue to be wrong after that, too.

Plus this: “This is an obvious politicization of her office. (Napolitano’s favored targets — health care protesters and disgruntled veterans — are distinguished not by their propensity toward violence but by their opposition to the administration.) “

A CREATIVE PROPOSAL for reducing prison rape.

CYNTHIA YOCKEY: Why Is It a Slur to Suggest Elena Kagan Is a Lesbian?

UH OH: Bank Funding Crunch Deepens as Swap Rates Soar: Credit Markets.

CHEESIEST MOTHER’S DAY PROMOTION YET: It’s Mother’s Day! Have You Subscribed Your Mom to Reason.tv’s YouTube Channel?

JOSEPH POSTELL: It’s time to reform our administrative state.

MARKDOWNS ON PATIO FURNITURE. Personally, I’ve had the best luck with cheap stuff from Target, but not everyone shares my plebeian tastes.

UTAH HEATS UP: Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson to face primary challenge.

POOR POOR PITIFUL ME: Obama uses commencement speech to whine about blogs and talk radio. All these blogs won’t let me be — Lord have mercy on me . . . woe, woe is me.

But will his attacks on iPads and Xboxes help with the youth vote? From beacon of change to crabby curmudgeon in less than 16 months . . . .

DAN MITCHELL: Subsidizing Terrorism with Welfare Handouts: More Astounding Moments in Government Stupidity. As Mitchell notes, Mickey Kaus has been on top of the welfare-terrorism connection story from the beginning. Kaus: He’s a visionary — put him in the Senate!

THIS WEEK IN THE FUTURE.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we’d get an Attorney General who’d want to curtail Miranda rights. And they were right!

Attorney General Eric Holder said that Congress should “give serious consideration” to updating the Miranda warning which requires law enforcement officials to inform suspects of their rights – including the right to remain silent.

In an interview on “This Week,” Holder said that the U.S. needs to exam whether the current rules regarding Miranda warnings give law enforcement agents the “necessary flexibility” when dealing with terrorism cases.

Ah, remember all that talk about the “lawless Bush Administration” trampling civil rights, and the fierce moral urgency of change? Well, if you believed that stuff when they were peddling it. . . hey, rube!

Meanwhile, Christopher Fountain writes: “If only we had elected Obama, we wouldn’t have this travesty of justice.”

I don’t think it’s going over well: “Put George W. Bush in blackface and what do you get? Evidently, Barack H. Obama. Why not? Obama and his team have sold out on Iraq, Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, Gitmo, military tribunals, health care reform, financial reform, DADT and offshore drilling, so what’s the big deal about throwing Miranda into the pile? And by the way, what is the ‘new threat’ Holder is talking about?”

THE REVOLUTIONARY PROMISE of Graphene.

ARE MEN SMARTER THAN WOMEN, OR DUMBER? Yes.

ARE CARBS WORSE FOR US THAN FAT? If so, can we sue the nannies who have been trying to force us to eat less fat? If nannyists and “public health” crusaders were held to the same standards as, say, drug companies, they’d all be in jail now.

VOLCANIC ASH CLOUD RETURNS, disrupting European flights.

A BEDBUG EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK CITY. Bring back DDT. “The recent citywide resurgence of bedbugs has been well documented. In 2004, the Health Department tallied 537 complaints and 82 actual violations. Last year, those numbers ballooned to 10,985 complaints and 4,084 violations (given that the problem is thought to be significantly underreported, the notion that there aren’t far more cases is daylight madness).”

Here, by the way, is a recipe for homemade DDT, though I haven’t tried it and don’t vouch for it. Perhaps some readers will know more. Given New York’s problem, I’m surprised there’s not a flood of homemade DDT. It’s happened before.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Long time reader, occasional writer. I am a PhD synthetic organic chemist; as such, as I found your article on homebrew DDT to be of some professional interest.

The procedure appears to be legit; nevertheless, I would strongly encourage no one to perform the chemistry outside of a lab environment. Most of the ingredients have reasonable levels of toxicity. As a chemist, I’d feel comfortable performing this chemistry in my lab, where I’d have the protection of a continuously drawing fume hood, lots of PPE and pretty decent temperature control. The ingredients aren’t really easy to get (chloral hydrate is hard to get, even for a professional chemist).

Finally, the waste streams from this chemistry would definitely be considered hazardous waste and something that shouldn’t be poured down the drain.

All of this to say, don’t do this in your garage — I think you’d regret it.

Well, I certainly wouldn’t. But then, I wouldn’t even make black powder nowadays, something I did as a kid. Meanwhile, reader Joan Pickett offers a prediction: “The ban on DDT will last right up until they start appearing in the bedrooms of the political class. Bed bugs are fine for you, but not for your…um…betters.”

AMAZON IS BUYING USED TEXTBOOKS. Also selling them.

ROGER SIMON: Sensitivity Censorship Shackles Our Security.

FAISAL SHAHZAD’S tax problem.

GOOGLE ATTORNEY slams ACTA copyright treaty.

SOMEBODY TELL MAYOR BLOOMBERG: White House Says Taliban Were Behind Times Square Bomb.

MAY, 1970: Remembering the Graham/Nixon protests. Some more background on that — my dad played a big role — in this story. That led to this case. Ironically, if there had been no arrests or prosecution, they’d hardly have been noticed, or remembered.

THIS SEATTLE POLICE BEATING SOUNDS DREADFUL, and if it turns out that things happened as reported, heads should roll. But I’m guessing it will create less national outrage than Arizona’s immigration bill.

UPDATE: “They all get religion when they discover they’ve been caught on video.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Michael Keating writes: “If that beating had occurred in AZ, it would have been blamed on our new immigration law.” Oh, you know it.

PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH and fear.

JOHN STOSSEL: Unpaid Interns Are Exploited? “How the Labor Department’s new rules will interfere with the rights of contract and free association.”

DON’T MENTION THE WAR: Why does the Obama administration find it so hard to utter the words ‘terrorism’ and ‘jihad’ and ‘Islamic extremism’?

WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: “It’s part of living in a free society.”

IF YOU MISSED IT YESTERDAY ON SIRIUS/XM SATELLITE RADIO, the latest PJM Political is now online. With Steve Green, James Lileks, Ed Driscoll, and Jennifer Rubin. Plus Roger Simon & Rick Perry.

SALENA ZITO: House 2010: Nobody Is Safe.

MICHAEL YON: An Afghan Story.

IN THE MAIL: From Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations.

PROF. JACOBSON: For the most part, the right-wing blogosphere is sitting back and enjoying how people like Glenn Greenwald are tripping all over themselves to attack Kagan before right-wingers get a chance to do so. “And why compare Kagan to Harriet Miers? Kagan’s record hardly justifies such a comparison. Doesn’t this reflect an implicit sexism, similar to how Hillary Clinton was treated?”

BOB OWENS: High School Where Flag Flap Occurred Hides A Racist Secret. “What’s more divisive: students wearing American flag shirts or administrators sanctioning a racial supremacist group?”

Related: Roger Simon: Identity Politics is for idiot sheep and the LA Unified School District.

MARK STEYN: Faisal Shahzad, Subprime Terrorist? “Well, one way of falling behind with your house payments is to take half a year off to go to Pakistan and train in a terrorist camp.”

RASMUSSEN: 55% of Colorado Voters Favor Immigration Law Like Arizona’s. Once again, I think this is a sign of media-narrative weakness, given the overwhelmingly negative coverage given to Arizona’s law.

Related: Least Successful P.R. Campaign Ever? Reader C.J. Burch writes: “The Arizona law’s greatest strength has been the people that have opposed it. That doesn’t make it a good law, but if the opposition doesn’t change it will make more like it inevitable.”

TRACY QUAN: The Secret Lives of Prostitute Moms.

NOW HE’S “THE AWARD-WINNING RADLEY BALKO:” Congratulations to Radley Balko, who won a “Maggie” award for his piece on forensics fraud.

MARKDOWNS ON Power Tools.

A ONE-SENTENCE EMAIL FROM THE UTAH TEA PARTY: “Term limits began today.”

KRUISER CONTROL: Keith, Contessa & Ed Welcome 2 More Clueless White Guys to MSNBC, Plus a Very Special KC Comment.

TACKLING THE IMPORTANT TOPICS: Lemondrop vs. Slate on whether ugly gals are better in bed. Still more on this vital issue, here.

JULIUS CAESAR OF THE INTERNET: The FCC puts another industry under political control.

ANYTHING SOUND FAMILIAR HERE? A timeline of the Asian Financial Crisis.

NASHVILLE SCENE: Why Did It Take So Long for National Media to Notice We were Flooded?

HEADLINE: Obama Goes Golfing as Nashville Suffers From Biggest Disaster Since Civil War.

NEO-NEOCON: Thoughts On The 50th Anniversary of the Birth Control Pill, inspired by Gail Collins.

Further thoughts from Raquel Welch.

ED DRISCOLL: As Always, Life In The Legacy Media Imitates Orwell.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, WE’D SEE STONEWALLING ON “NATIONAL SECURITY.” And they were right! DOJ Tells Intel Community to Stonewall Members of Congress.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN, we’d see Halliburton spinoffs getting half-billion dollar no-bid contracts. And they were right! “KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.”

IF SHE WERE A TEA PARTIER, IT WOULD BE A SIGN OF INCIPIENT FASCISM OR SOMETHING: Detroit Free Press editor caught on tape vandalyzing $5M pedestrian link in Detroit, span marred less than 24 hrs after it opened.

WHY IS THE NEW YORK TIMES endorsing tyranny in the name of anti-terrorism?

MEANWHILE, in Nashville.

CHARLES BLOW has written the same column, yet again. They don’t get more persuasive with repetition.

JERRY POURNELLE is having a pledge drive.

AN EVEN MORE POTENT cup of tea.

MOODY’S: U.S. Debt Shock May Hit As Soon As 2013.

What my father said about the bailouts in 2008 seems prophetic: “The bad thing is that the federal government has figured out that it can borrow a lot more money than it previously thought.” For a while. . . .

PANDORA’S BRIEFCASE. The background on this story is also to be found in The Man Who Never Was.

SO I’M NOT AN EXPERT LIKE JOE KLEIN, BUT DOES THIS COUNT AS “SEDITIOUS SPEECH?” UCLA Professor Calls For Mexican Revolution in the United States.

UPDATE: Allahpundit says the video is from 2007. That makes it okay. It’s impossible to commit sedition when a Republican is in the White House!

ANOTHER UPDATE: High school teacher? Still doesn’t change the sedition point.

DAN RIEHL ON the fallout from Utah.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “If the establishment GOP lets itself become back biting spoilers, they are done. No one lives up to deals cut with back biters and spoilers. They don’t have to. They only need them to win, not govern. The GOP old guard need to find themselves a coalition to join. There is only one that has any momentum, and that actually believes the ideals the old guard has pretended to believe, the tea parties. Bennett could have joined them himself, but he chose to brazen it out.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Jim Verdolini writes: “His base told him pretty clearly they would not stand for TARP, spending, and ‘compromise’ Health Care Schemes. Bennett, like most of or ‘leadership’ ignored them. Now he is retired. Eventually republican ‘leadership’ will understand that they work for us. Till then they will become ever more extinct.”

MORE: Utah Tea Partier David Kirkham emails: “After convention we walked up on the podium and took this picture. We took over the Utah GOP. All of our candidates were elected today without having to go to a primary (or booted in the case of Bennett). Obama has awakened a sleeping giant.”

REPUBLICAN RANK-AND-FILE TO LEADERSHIP: Don’t Get Cocky. They don’t have a lot to be cocky about, do they?

MICKEY KAUS UPDATE: In California, Could a Blogger Unseat Barbara Boxer?

ILYA SOMIN: Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On. Generally, when states try to undertake things that are federal responsibilities, the results will be suboptimal. That’s why it’s so unfortunate when the federal government fails to do its job. I have to say, though, that Ilya’s comments are also a damning indictment of traffic-law enforcement. . . .

MARKDOWNS ON automotive gear. I have to say that this year the pollen is so heavy that I’m actually using the “California Car Duster” I bought a couple of years ago. Heck, I could get out and use it at every stoplight . . . . And allergies are terrible in my household. Why should we suffer just so a bunch of trees can have sex?

SEN. ROBERT BENNETT DEFEATED BY TEA PARTIERS. Utah Tea Party activist David Kirkham writes:

The hall exploded on the announcement Bennett was defeated. I’m sure you’ll see the Utah Tea Party on the news. We went nuts.

I am so exhausted I can’t speak. I’ve lost my voice. We emailed each other all night–no one could sleep all night. On to round 3 between Bridgewater and Lee. The result between them is not important now. Both are great men. Our work in this race is done.

Glenn, please tell all Tea Partiers if they’ll just stand up they CAN really make a difference. Thank you for all you have done. Utah now passes the Tea Party baton to the rest of the nation–use it to beat the RINOS out of office at the ballot box!

Among others.

UPDATE: Here’s a news report.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Richard Fernandez on what it means:

The game was redefined in a single place and time from “one of Republicans versus Democrats” (Romney’s reference) to that of “Small Government versus Big Government”. In isolation the Bennett defeat is insignificant, but it now raises the wider question of whether the ‘Smaller Government’ idea can catch on. If it does then it has the potential to redefine the political landscape in ways that are both a threat and opportunity to different communities.

The Tea Parties represent an asymmetric threat to political organizations optimized for party-line warfare. The threat is no longer across the aisle but outside the building. As such, two possibilities suggest themselves. The first is that the Washington elite will circle the wagons, bury their minor differences and concentrate on keeping the money and power flowing to the capital. A threat from outside the building is after all, a threat to everybody inside the building. The other possibility is that enough members of the elite will realize that jig is up and strive to accommodate themselves to the new reality. In the coming months we are likely to see both gambits. Some politicians will opt to tap the tide; others will seek to master it.

That new reality is driven by economics. The real problem is that Washington — and Brussels globally considered — is running out of Other People’s Money (OPM). The Tea Parties are not the cause but the expression of the underlying problem. By all the standards of power the Tea Parties are a nothing. But that is to misunderstand their nature. The political elite can infiltrate the Tea Parties, revile it in the press and put it down as hard as they can, but like like the weighted doll it will rebound incessantly because the deficit, unemployment and the declining confidence in the elite system will keep pushing it up. The Tea Parties are the elite’s dark political dual. The only way they can vanquish the doppelganger is to leave the stage themselves. . . . Although the elite may go out clinging with their fingernails to the carpets of their offices their real enemy will always be not the Tea Partiers but the repo men. It’s the lack of money that will be their ultimate downfall.

I just got off the phone with a Tea Partier who’s thinking of running for Congress.

KATIE ALLISON GRANJU: “I am the mother of a drug addict.” I’ve been following Katie’s struggles for a while, and she’s borne up nobly. Personally, I think true addicts are born, not made, and that while parents deal with the consequences, it’s really all about genetics and what receptors you have in your brain. Possibly I would be a hopeless thionite addict, if anybody ever discovered thionite. If so, it wouldn’t be my parents’ fault. At any rate, wish Katie well, as no parent should have to deal with what she’s dealing with.

THE NEW RULES: “If freedom of expression is faced with the threat of illegal violence, freedom should be curtailed.” From Official Ethics Experts! Sounds like an incentive to be violent in response to ideas you don’t like. Keep this in mind. . . .

INCESTUOUS? Peter Orszag’s fiancee to anchor Good Morning America weekend. (Via NewsAlert). I’d really like to see someone do a chart of all the romantic connections between politicians on the one hand, and pundits and media folks on the other. I think it would be . . . revealing.

NEWS FROM THE FOLKS at SpaceX.

CARBLOGGING: So I drove a new Toyota Highlander Hybrid yesterday, and in comparison to my 2006 Highlander Hybrid I was . . . underwhelmed. Oh, it’s a fine vehicle, noticeably quieter and smoother. But the first-gen Highlander Hybrids were marketed as sporty (due to the electric motors’ additional torque) and while that may not have been the right marketing approach, my Highlander feels noticeably quicker and more responsive than the newer generation. Throttle response is very quick, while on the newer ones it feels like they’ve retarded it a bit in the interest of economy, making things feel more sluggish, probably, than they actually are. The steering on the new ones seems vaguer, and the suspension a bit softer, too.

On the upside, the inside is roomier, more luxurious, and prettier — the interior on mine is fine, but has that trademark Toyota busy-ness, while the new Highlander’s interior is a bit more Lexus-like. The new version’s a fine car, but I got back in mine with no desire to replace it, and with a renewed appreciation for its good qualities. Still, with mine approaching 100K miles — how did that happen? — I’m beginning to think about a replacement. Any thoughts?

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Nashville flood: The South’s self-help disaster. “While the Nashville, Tennessee, flood will bring federal aid, some complain the area became the nation’s hidden disaster. But many Tennesseans are happy to clean up the mess on their own.”

MATT WELCH: We Are Out of Money: American governance won’t begin to inch forward until the political class faces basic facts.

MARKDOWNS ON ’60s and ’70s TV Shows.

WHAT’S THE BEST WAY to pop a bubble?

VIDEO: Obama’s really bad, not good, terrible week. “Lost in the bluster of the panel discussion is the real problem for the White House this week, which is the loss of a sense of competence across the board. In that sense, the Gulf spill is akin to Katrina for Bush, and the botched Times Square attack adds onto the impression that this administration has become clueless. The Sunday talk shows will chew that over at length unless the White House dramatically changes the narrative — which is why we’ll probably get a SCOTUS leak today or tonight.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Meet The Unemployable Man.

UPDATE: On Facebook, Alex Lightman suggests that if you’re unemployed or underemployed, you take advantage of these free online business courses from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Meanwhile, also via Alex, here’s a list of MIT’s most popular free online courses. Alas, this won’t help those who aren’t well-enough educated to benefit from this level of course.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails:

I had to laugh when I read this article. I especially liked this one tidbit, “…there will be some jobs for workers without much education, for the plumbers, electricians and software technicians. But not enough to go around.”

I would hope to remind the pompous ass who wrote this that electricians and plumber’s require more real (i.e. math skills, reading comprehension, etc.) education, go through more thorough training and must pass far more difficult examinations for professional competence & certification than any journalist. Which, by the way, is an occupation, not a profession.

Presently this country is facing a skills crisis because many of those skilled tradesmen & women who were the centurions of industry when this country was really great, are aging and retired or on the brink of it. When that institutional memory is lost we will not get it back because we have an education establishment that no longer values technical skills and has abandoned an entire generation of young people. As Dr. Ken Ryan at Alexandria Technical College has said, “We have duped ourselves into believing we can build a sustainable economy without the durable manufacturing activities that characterize those nations threatening to eclipse us.” So very true. I have been thinking and saying that, though not so succinctly, for years.

Nor industry without fault in this evolving debacle. in their never ending pursuit of short term profit for stock holders skilled employees have been devalued and made a commodity.

So ask yourself, when you are trying to add that room, repair leaky pipes, find the short in the wiring or fix the flood damage in your home, who do you want doing it? That Columbia School of Journalism major or that electrician, plumber, carpenter without much ‘education’? Furthermore, I’ll bet those tradesmen/women would do better a writing a story for the WSJ than that ‘journalist’ would at actually making anything.

Fortunately, the internet is rapidly making Mr. Wessel’s remaining time as a member of the employed, shorter, I hope.

Ouch.

INFOGRAPHIC: How many mp3s / albums / streams must an artist sell to make minimum wage?

THE BOY CRISIS in China.

ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE SPIN: U.S. News & World Report: ‘Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Is Good News.’ That’s the great thing about having a Democrat in the White House: Everything is good news!

CHANGE: FCC Lets Hollywood Turn Off Your Output Jacks. “Hollywood will soon have the power to remotely disable the analog outputs on your set-top box, under a decision by federal regulators on Friday intended to prevent home recording of new movie releases.” Remember — nothing belongs to you. It all belongs to them. They just let you use it. If you’re nice.

MARATHON PUNDIT: A “teabagger” attends an Organizing for America training session.

DEMONIZING WALL STREET, THEN A BIG DOW DROP: Coincidence?

LOOKING AT Warren Buffett’s disclosures.

IN THE MAIL: My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel.

“THE WORLD HAS NO MONEY, and the Emperor has no clothes.”

MOMS TO THE BARRICADES! ‘The tea parties are an extension of our need to protect the future for our children.’

Plus this: “Maybe if the president and Congress did the grocery shopping, they’d know why we’re mad.”

HEY, WAIT: Flag burning incident at Vintage High. I mean, what’s the “incident?” Flag-burning is just free speech, isn’t it? Oh, wait. . . .

PETER SUDERMAN: The FCC Makes Its Move On Net Neutrality.

Some related thoughts of mine are here.

RICK SANCHEZ’S Ron Burgundy moment.

JACK CAFFERTY bashes Obama over immigration.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: 4 ways Congress caused the financial crisis.

PROF. JACOBSON: So Why Am I Already Defending Elena Kagan? “If Elena Kagan were a liberal legal hero, with a long record of reaching the correct conclusions from the left-wing perspective, no one on the left would care about Kagan’s hiring record as Dean of Harvard Law School. That hiring record, by all accounts, included an almost unprecedented commitment to intellectual diversity, including the hiring of several prominent conservative legal scholars. . . . So why am I defending Kagan? Because the line of attack being used by the left against Kagan is very familiar. Facts are twisted, conclusions are drawn, and charges are made of racial insensitivity or outright racism, for political purposes. We see this all the time, but usually the targets are conservatives, or health care protesters, or Tea Party followers.I definitely will not say, ‘first they came for Elena Kagan,’ because she is far from first. There is a long line of decent, fair-minded, non-racist people who came before her.”