EBay gave to Brown campaign

Meg Whitman has been calling Jerry Brown's entire political career a failure, but the company she ran forked over $5,000 to his 2006 campaign for attorney general, according to California Watch. The eBay political action committee also contributed to Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.

To be fair, a company's campaign contributions do not necessarily reflect the political preferences of its CEO. Corporations give for all sorts of reasons: to back candidates whose policies they support; to support powerful incumbents whose help they might someday need; or to bump up their place on a critical politician's priority list. For its part, eBay gave thousands of dollars to dozens of candidates on both sides of the aisle.

Well, yeah, but it does bring into focus Whitman's unbridled hypocrisy - this is the woman who hasn't even bothered to vote and who cynically spread as much money to as many candidates as possible, and who is now bereft of any workable ideas for the state.