When you’re the current administration, perhaps you can take a few of the punches as the tide turns on you over the years. You were able to take Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative lambasting you, around the time of the elections, for your “free speech zones”, and you were able to shrug off the criticism of Pat Toomey and the gang at Club for Growth for the reckless “conservative” spending. More recently, perhaps you could stomach the words of Richard Viguerie, only one of the founding masterminds of the modern Republican party, who called you on your betrayal of the Republican party.

But now, the traditional bastion of libertarianism, the Cato Institute, calls you on your (un)Constitutional arrogance?

Ouch. Just ouch.

(with apologies to Green Day)

Springtime has come and passed
Claims like these can never last
Wake me up when Fitztember ends

Leopold is passing gas,
While Wayne Madsen talks out his ass.
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.

Here come the claims again
Falling from their jaws
A “source close to the case” again,
What fools they think we are!

As my champagne goes flat
I’ll never forget just what they spat
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.

Springtime has come and passed
Claims like these can never last
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.

Wring out your claims again,
Like you did when “Plame” began.
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.

Here come the claims again
Falling from their jaws
A “source close to the case” again,
What fools they think we are!

As my champagne goes flat
I’ll never forget just what they spat
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.

Springtime has come and passed
Claims like these can never last
Wake me up when Fitztember ends

Leopold is passing gas,
While Wayne Madsen talks out his ass.
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.
Wake me up when Fitztember ends.

I saw something about “Artsplosure” in an email someone sent out to the company, but didn’t pay much attention to it. Guilty of judging a book by its cover, I thought the name was dumb and didn’t really pay much attention to it.

That is, until I happened to look at Corey Harris’ website and discovered that he’d be playing there. Awesome!

Louis Rukeyser dead at 73

My dad and stepmom are/were a big fan of his. I only started watching the show in the past few years, mostly after he moved to CNBC, and then only fleetingly… but I liked him too. Good, common-sense stocks advice.