- Forget puny SEC inquiries! The federal government is launching a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs which will hopefully land all those rich jerks in jail. (NYT)
- And speaking of awesome federal investigations, your FBI is also investigating the Mine Safety and Health Administration and Massey Energy following the death of 29 miners at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine. (NPR)
- The Arizona legislature didn’t just pass their terrible immigration bill and then head for vacation. They’ve also passed laws removing teachers with heavy accents from the classroom and banning ethnic studies programs from schools. Guys, this is totally not about race, though! (WSJ/Arizona Daily Star)
- Here is a headline which I will just reproduce in its entirety: “Duncan Hunter Defends Call For Deporting Kids Who Are U.S. Citizens.” Awesome. (The Plum Line)
- Louisianans just can’t catch a break, what with the huge BP oil spill expected to reach their coastlines today. (CNN)
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- Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) would like to deport natural-born American citizens who are the children of illegal immigrants because apparently they do not have “our souls.” (LA Times)
- Still-RNC Chairman Michael Steele would like Barack Squidbama to stop “Staining the Contitution [sic] with Red Ink.” Everyone knows that Real Americans™ drop the “s” (for socialism) from the word Constitution. (Wonkette)
- Oh hey, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will run for the Senate as an independent instead of a Republican, a think which everyone except Charlie Crist pretty much figured out a year ago. (Reuters)
- According to Laura Bush’s new memoir, someone (Zee Germans!) poisoned her and President Bush in 2007, but, um, they got better? How did nobody know this? (CNN)
- Oh look, Republicans will let the financial regulatory reform bill come to the Senate floor, so they will not have stay up past their bedtimes and then be even crankier tomorrow. (TPM)
- Boycotting terrible Arizona? Don’t worry, you can still drink Arizona Iced Tea because it, like all the best iced teas, is from Long Island. (CBS)
Mexican Government Issues Travel Advisory for Arizona
The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a travel advisory (PDF) for Mexican citizens traveling to the state of Arizona which says, in part, that all Mexicans should assume that they will be “harassed and questioned at any time without cause at any moment.” (Original text: “se debe asumir que todo ciudadano mexicano podrá ser molestado y cuestionado sin mayor causa en cualquier momento.”)
Just out of curiosity, has any foreign government ever warned its citizens to avoid traveling to a specific part of the United States for fear that they will be summarily thrown in jail? Arizonans should be ashamed that their legislature and governor have brought our entire country to this point.
Things Republicans “Never” Do
- An open-carry gun rally in Maine worried African-American and other residents who saw the prominently-featured Confederate flags waving above anti-Obama signs. But remember: Republicans “never” use President Obama’s race to provoke anger. (Portland Daily Sun)
- Democrats will keep the Senate in session overnight to force Republicans to actually filibuster financial regulatory reform after they voted for the third time in as many days to prevent bringing the bill to the floor. But remember: Republicans “never” obstruct legislation for political purposes. (The Hill)
- Since they can’t actually shoot President Obama, one Pennsylvania conservative group plans to fire bullets into Obama Care and other presidential policy initiatives. But remember: Republicans “never” encourage violent acts (Think Progress)
- The Arizona agency which trains law enforcement officers wants assistance from the federal government for training police officers to enforce the state’s new, and probably unconstitutional, immigration law. But remember: Republicans “never” complain about federal expansion into “states’ rights” issues. (USA Today)
- Sen. John McCain is a huge fan of Arizona’s terrible new immigration law even though he is not sure “whether all of it is legal or not.” Is there anything more mavericky than supporting a law that you think is maybe illegal? (Arizona Daily Star)
- Meanwhile, even Florida’s teabagger Senate candidate Marco Rubio does not like this law, probably because he does not want his orange-skinned opponent Charlie Crist to be deported back to the sun. (HuffPo)
- Your New York Times editors would like the Senate to maybe consider working on two important issues, like, say, climate change and immigration, at the same time. Silly editors, this is the United States Senate we’re talking about. (NYT)
- Oh hey, Wall Street firms are donating more money to Republican candidates than ever before. But this is probably just because they love freedom so much, not because the GOP is blocking new regulations for the financial industry. (WSJ)
- Lobbyists for the coal mining industry say President Obama has declared war on the mining industry, apparently by handing out huge subsidies for nonsensical “clean coal” technology and promising the friends and relatives of dead miners that he will make mines safer to work in. (Think Progress)
- Pretty much nobody from my generation goes to church anymore, which someone is probably going to blame on Barack Obama for getting us all hooked on his Kenyan Muslim Jeremiah Wright Socialism. (USA Today)
Simple Answers to Simple Questions
Think Progress asks, Why Aren’t Tea Partiers Protesting Arizona’s Big Government Overreach On Immigration?
Because they’re huge fans of it.
This has been yet another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
Quote of the Day
Arizona’s draconian new immigration law is an abomination — racist, arbitrary, oppressive, mean-spirited, unjust. About the only hopeful thing that can be said is that the legislation, which Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed Friday, goes so outrageously far that it may well be unconstitutional.
—WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson, on Arizona’s new Driving While Brown law.
- Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is insistent that Charlie Crist stay in Florida’s Republican primary, a primary which Crist is definitely going to lose. Why is Mitch McConnell so racist to orange-skinned people? (Fox News)
- Oh hey, looks like Goldman Sachs knew that they were destroying the housing market and American and global economies but totally did not care because they were also making a shit-ton of money. Woooo capitalism! (MarketWatch)
- President Obama promised to improve mine safety in his eulogy for the 29 miners killed in West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Might I suggest starting with mine owner Massey Energy’s reckless disregard for mine safety standards? (Christian Science Monitory/BusinessInsider)
- Spanish doctors claim to have successfully completed the world’s first full-face transplant. Woohoo, faces for everyone! (BBC)
- Surprise! Looks like dark-skinned people in Arizona are not thrilled with the state’s new law which would require police to racially profile them. Who could have predicted? (CNN)
Cops Arrest Playground Bully for “Disorderly Conduct”
- The Arizona legislature is seriously considering selling its Capitol buildings. And you thought California was broke! (Arizona Republic)
- Low favorability ratings and a high percentage of retiring Republican Senators is excellent news for the GOP, in Politico-land. (Glenn Greenwald)
- Hey, white people can be arrested for “disorderly conduct” too, if they say mean things to cops. Hooray for racial equality! (HuffPo)
- Metrobus drivers must miss the good ol’ days before cell phone cameras, when they could talk on their cell phones while driving in violation of DC law without any consequences whatsoever! (Unsuck DC Metro)
A Stimulating Conversation
- Jon Kyl went on TV today to demand an end Obama Socialism, aka the Stimulus, so Obama said “OK, Jon” and sent his Cabinet to take back Arizona’s stimulus money. What a bad ass. But then Republican Gov. Jan Brewer pointed out that Arizona, collectively, could really use the cash, and all of this made the state’s other John (heh), McCain, very angry. (Daily Kos)
- Awww, did meany Chris Dodd make the widdle lobbyists cry, by saying mean things about them? Don’t worry, lobbyists, the NRSC is there to cheer you up because they love you soooooo much. (Party Time)
- Ugh, now everyone has to line up at the DMV again to get their new socialist ID number tattoo driver’s license, because apparently George W. Bush even screwed those up. (MSNBC First Read)
- Was that Al Franken in the Senate Judiciary Chairman’s chair? Who does this humorous clown, the distinguished gentleman from Minnesota, think he is? (CNN Political Ticker)
- Silly Hillterns,* just because the Democratic Party has all the colored folks in it does not make it the minority party. You don’t have to be a Republican to swim at the Valley Club pool, yet. (Spotted: DC Summer Interns)
* That’s “Hill interns,” for the uninitiated.
(P.S. I offer no apologies for the horrible, horrible pun in the title of this post.)
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