JIM MCDERMOTT ISN’T SURE Debbie Wasserman Schultz is up to the job.

ON SALE, TODAY ONLY: The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete Series.

MICKEY KAUS ON WISCONSIN: “There is also the minor issue of whether opponents of the anti-union law have a case. Or does everyone agree that doesn’t matter anymore?”

L.A. TIMES: White House Fears Gas Prices Could Tank Obama.

I’m guessing his advice to just buy a new car won’t help. Even if the Associated Press tries to clean things up for him.

JERRY BROWN: Yeah, I own guns. Three of them!

LEGAL-ACADEMIC POLITICS: Group Wages Campaign Against Conservative Case Western Dean Finalist.

During L’Affaire Chemerinsky, everyone agreed that this sort of politics was wrong. Will we hear the same thing now that it’s not a lefty who’s being attacked?

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Goldstone Report Was “Blood Libel.” There have been a lot of those lately.

PJTV: Obama’s 2012 Announcement: Watch Him Run, And Hide, At The Same Time.

THE NEW CIVILITY: Lefty who threatened Maine gov arrested, pro-lifers get threats and tire slashing in Chicago.

THIS MUST BE MORE OF THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WE WERE PROMISED: NBC’s Brokaw: Saudis ‘So Unhappy’ With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia Seeking Enhanced Ties.

Really, if you were trying to wreck America’s world position, what would you be doing differently?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Federal examiners protested help for politically connected bank, e-mails show.

A decision in late 2008 by top officials of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to help a politically connected bank in Boston left federal bank examiners there angry enough that some called it a “travesty of justice,” according to internal e-mails obtained by The Washington Post.

The chairman of OneUnited Bank, a friend of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), had rendered it insolvent through lavish spending and bad investments, according to the examiners’ written accounts. But by the end of that year, after Waters arranged a key Treasury Department meeting for the bank, it had won a bailout loan and a unique exemption from the FDIC’s accounting rules. . . . The claim that OneUnited benefited from assistance organized by Waters — whose husband held substantial stock in it — lies at the heart of unresolved House Ethics Committee charges.

I’m sure the Justice Department will be right on this.

I EAGERLY AWAIT J STREET’S FIERCE DENUNCIATION: Palestinian Authority Torturing Journalists.

BARRY RUBIN: Mass Media on Egypt: Admitting in April What Was Obvious in February. More early hope-and-change enthusiasm that didn’t pan out.

OWNING IT: The Hill: Democratic Senate rejects GOP amendment to block EPA climate rules.

BRUCE FEIN drafts Obama articles of impeachment over Libya attacks.

EUGENE VOLOKH: JUDGE PUNISHING JUROR FOR MAKING RACIST COMMENTS ON QUESTIONNAIRE? “Actually, if this story is accurate, what’s outrageous is the appalling abuse of power by the judge. The woman seems to have reprehensible moral beliefs. This is America, and she’s entitled to possess those beliefs.”

We seem to have a lot of “leaders” who’ve decided otherwise lately.

REALLY, SHERLOCK? Obama discovers that “companies don’t like uncertainty.”

HOWIE CARR ON HIGHER-TAX HYPOCRISY:

Money talks, you-know-what walks.

So far this tax season, the state Department of Revenue has received 1,971,000 returns.

And of those 1.971 million filers, exactly 862 have checked the box to pay at the old, higher 5.85 percent rate rather than the current 5.3 percent rate. . . . Of course, this is an old tradition in Massachusetts, liberals running up the tab and then when the check arrives — hey, come back here you ponytailed carpetbagger! They play the political equivalent of the old chew ’n’ screw. And I don’t just mean their heroes, such as Sen. John Kerry, with his $7 million yacht, the SS Deadbeat. Or the assorted state solons loading up on booze and smokes in tax-free New Hampshire.

We already know the most liberal states contribute the least to charity per capita. The louder the liberals talk about the need to pay more, the faster they flee from helping out the most vulnerable members of society who fell through the safety net shredded by George W. Bush, etc. etc.

Read the whole thing.

WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT: A Referendum That Wasn’t. Nope. The unions went all-in and managed a dead heat in a judicial election. The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse.

LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF: U.S. Fiscal Crisis In Spitting Distance.

UH OH: Food Prices and Global Hunger Equal Riots, Civil Wars and Revolution.

BLOGGING the mortgage crisis. On a personal level.

ZOMBIES. Always with the zombies.

IN SALON, A SHOCKING CONFESSION: I can’t believe my best friend is a Republican. Is that allowed?

Word got out that Janet and I were spending time together.

“You know she’s a Republican, right?” whispered another member of our weight-loss group after I took her card. It was meant as, well, what, exactly? A warning?

Pretty much. Self-herding behavior. Nice to see someone resist.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Do We Really Need To Raise Taxes To Close The Deficit?