The Froth of July

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Any justice for Sunny Sheu?

How about Donald Siegelman?

John Kiriakou?

At least President Hopey's DOJ is working out nicely for the people who paid for his election.

As head of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the past four years, Mary Schapiro failed to win a major civil action against any Wall Street executive connected to what may be the worst financial fraud in history, the subprime-mortgage scam that led to the 2008 crash.

As head of the Justice Department’s criminal division for the past four years, Lanny Breuer failed to accomplish the same with criminal action. And now both are headed back over to the other side: deep-pocketed firms that earn their keep largely from Wall Street. In Schapiro’s case, that’s Promontory Financial Group, which advises financial firms on regulation; in Breuer’s, it’s Covington & Burling, a major law firm that defends financial clients.

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Kristol Shrew Persuasion

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Cross-posted at Whiskey Fire. Mouse over pics for captions, and click them for larger versions.
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Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie

AKA the 2012 Goat Rodeo.



Campaign Theme Song Suggestion:



Will Chris Christie weigh in? Stay tuned, Bat Fans!
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Did You Even Watch The Video, Josh?

Watch the video, or read the NY Daily News:

Impersonator Reggie Brown had his mic cut off and was escorted off the stage after he slammed Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and Michelle Bachman during his routine at the GOP event in New Orleans on Saturday.

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Tin soldiers and Obama coming

Tin soldiers and Nixon Obama coming,
We're finally on our own.



Credit for this title goes to metamarcisf at Wonkette (the -99 rating comes from his habit of posting over Andy Breitbart's BigRepublican blogs).


From The War Criminal Post:

CHICAGO — FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband.

The agents seemed keenly interested in Weiner’s home-based business, the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand, which sells silkscreened baby outfits and other clothes with socialist slogans, phrases like “Help Wanted: Revolutionaries.”

The search was part of a mysterious, ongoing nationwide terrorism investigation with an unusual target: prominent peace activists and politically active labor organizers.

Wrong, War Criminal Post, these are the usual suspects.


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Rapture Time is almost upon us!

Yes, people, tomorrow Jesus will take all the saints (they know who they are!) up to heaven, leaving the rest of us to burn in the lake of fire.

I'm gonna miss them! *sniff*

No wonder Mooselini has yet to throw her Bumpit™ into the ring. She's going to be gone by Sunday! I'll miss her. Who are you going to miss?



UPDATE: Keeping up with the zombie.


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OOPS - IKS

Somehow, I forgot that I had these red onions in a rarely-used cupboard. Similarly, Google says it had a little problem with some 'routine maintenance'.

Here's their cover story. Sure thing, Blogger...routine maintenance! Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. But we know what really happened:




That's right...three different places on the internet report the existence of the secret Obama-Soros Internet Kill Switch. One of these is not even connected with this blog!

Now some among you had your own blogs disappear as well, but that was simply part of the test. There was a real target, and a real victim: Ann Althouse, of course!






Narcissus: Ann, honey, don't you think you're getting a bit full of yourself?



UPDATE! Via low sodium hunchback at Sadly, No!


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The Beatings Will Continue...

I don't believe the Administration is stupid enough to believe that yelling at their voters is a winning strategy. I can believe that they see losses in 2010 as inevitable, and so are now scapegoating "the Professional Left". This has the added benefit of sucking up to the corporate media, lobbyists, and plutocrats who employ same.

It will set up a toxic post-election season in D.C. All the punditry will shriek with one voice, "The Administration has been too liberal! MUST MOVE RIGHT!"

Meanwhile, the Presidential Catfood Commission will be coming in with their recommendation to cut Social Security, to be given an up-or-down vote by a Congress full of emboldened Republicans and lame-duck Blue Dogs about to go on to their new jobs as lobbyists.
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P.S. Helping fish.
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Ombudsman Fail

Steve Benen, almost one year ago:







Try 3Bulls!, WaPo.

In other news, what's for dinner when the heat and humidity are both around 90 and the air conditioning is out?


UPDATE: First, the execrable hack Howie Kurtz (ok, just my comment):



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Flippin' the Byrd

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fish bait

As demonstrated by Pinko, there's plenty of chump at TPM.




P.S. A couple of blooger responses:



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Got my guns in a stranglehold!

Teh Nuge:




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Conservative blogger Ann Althouse reacts

Conservative blogger on racial epithets: "So what?"

It's also important to distinguish "angry protesters" from particular individuals who cross the line into the kind real ugliness or violence that should be condemned. There's nothing wrong with showing anger at the thing that motivates you to protest. That's what protests are for! The members of Congress have a lot of power, and they ought to have to hear the anger their exercise of that power is causing. It's outrageous for them to pose as victims without very good cause. So what if some idiot said a bad word? That's a trivial distraction compared to the power they are about to exercise in the face of such strong opposition to what they are about to do.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war snarkers of slackitude!




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