This week's column examines the Republican approach to Hillary during her Senate confirmation hearing and finds it, um, ... lacking.

Not that anyone seems to have noticed.

Michelle Malkin, meanwhile, is commendably outraged over the tax-evading Treasury nominee here.

Devotes of the show 24 will have learned that this season's mission is being run as an extra-governmental effort mounted by remnants of the now-disbanded CTU. The US government, it seems, has been thoroughly corrupted by forces working in cahoots with some pretend-nation in Africa. Kind of cockamamie, natch, but I am afraid the government corruption part rings all too true. And how many good guys are there? Not counting Jack Bauer, three.

Unfortunately, that sounds about right.