Tom, as if to prove your point, Newsmax today informs us that millionaire Rob “Meathead” Reiner is using taxpayer funds to promote his “universal pre-school” referendum. Meanwhile, the government-subsidized Fannie Mae Foundation is funding anti-Alito efforts.

For years, the heroic Howard Philips has lead a campaign to defund the left. At one point in early 1995 it looked like the newly-empowered GOP Congress was going to stop the use of taxpayer dollars for political advocacy but the GOP leadership backed down. You would think the GOP would see that, principle aside, it is in their self-interest to stop taxpayer funds from going to groups dedicated to electing liberal Democrats.