SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 A.M. ET:

WHAT A PHONY – FROM THE HILL:   Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) formally endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential bid Thursday after months of remaining neutral in the Democratic primary.  “I’m ready,” Warren told The Boston Globe Thursday. “I’m ready to jump in this fight and make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States and be sure that Donald Trump gets nowhere near the White House.”  Warren said she's getting behind Clinton because "she’s a fighter, a fighter with guts."  "I am ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton..."  Oh please.  After months of neutrality, figuring out which way the wind was blowing, she suddenly discovers Hillary's great virtues?  This is the same person who advanced her academic career by claiming to be a native American.  Would you buy a peace pipe from this woman? 

OH WAIT, HERE'S THE REASON FOR LIZ'S SUDDEN PASSION – FROM THE HILL:  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday night she isn't looking for the job of Hillary Clinton's vice president, but said she would be ready for the role.  Appearing on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" to formally endorse Clinton, Warren was asked about speculation that she will be picked as a running mate and whether she believes she is capable of serving as president if needed.  "Yes I do," she told Maddow.   But Warren said she hasn't been contacted by the Clinton campaign about the possibility of being her running mate and didn't say that she is seeking the VP job.  "I know there's been a lot of speculation about this, but the truth is I love the work I do," Warren said. "I can't tell you how grateful I am to the people of Massachusetts who sent me here to just wade into these fights and now we're about to enter another big fight and that is a general election fight that pits a tough woman who is willing to lead against a small, insecure bully."   Of course she has no interest in being vice president, but she's ready to serve as president.  Do we laugh or cry?  Warren is the darling of the party's left, a female Bernie Sanders, another self-declared woman of the people.  Fact:  Just before she ran for the Senate, she sold her BMW, bought with money made from corporations, apparently to look more like the average, struggling woman.  If Clinton picks her, they can compare notes on how to make more millions.

I LOVE IT – WE'RE NOT THE KOOKS! – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians.  A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” now says it got it wrong. Very wrong.  The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.  “The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed,” the journal said in the startling correction.  “The descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.”  In the paper, psychoticism is associated with traits such as tough-mindedness, risk-taking, sensation-seeking, impulsivity and authoritarianism.  We knew it all along, didn't we?  So when you encounter your next liberal, give him or her the name of a competent shrink.

June 9, 2016