1.) Obama to say even more words about other people’s money — Yay, Obama is going to talk some more today. And guess what? Nothing is his fault! TheDC’s Neil Munro reports: “President Barack Obama continues his two-front media campaign with a White House press conference at 11.00 a.m. Monday. Washington’s myriad political advocates will be watching, but so too will many of the nation’s swing-voting independents, whose support he needs to win back by November 2012… He’s likely to use the press conference to repeat his calls for a complex $4 trillion, ten-year debt-ceiling package that combines some as-yet-unexplained mix of tax increases, accounting shifts, program changes and spending cuts.” Why does it need to be explained? All you need to do is trust Obama. He’s the smartest and the best, and he loves you. He won’t let the bad guys keep him from raising your taxes. Just let his soothing words lull you back to sleep: “The American people sent us here to do the right thing not for party, but for country. So we’re going to work together to get things done on their behalf. That’s the least that they should expect of us, not the most that they should expect of us.” Zzzzzzzzzz…
2.) Fast and Furious and Nixonian — TheDC’s Jeff Poor reports: “Although it hasn’t gotten much mainstream media attention, the Operation Fast and Furious scandal could rank up there with the Nixon administration cover-up of the Watergate break-in, according to Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume… ‘This Obama Justice Department reminds me of nothing so much as the Nixon Justice Department,” he said. ‘You have the scent of high-level knowledge of serious wrongdoing and you have the smell of cover-up and I think the stench of cover-up on this gun-running operation is very strong indeed.’ Operation Fast and Furious was a program in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Justice Department allowed guns to be taken into Mexico via ‘straw purchasers,’ or people who were eligible to purchase guns in the United States, but were doing so with the known intention of trafficking them into Mexico.” And now those guns are being used to kill people, including federal agents. This could reflect very badly on Obama, which is why you haven’t heard much about it on the news.
3.) Palin says she can win — Is Sarah Palin running for president? She hasn’t said. Does she think she could win if she did? TheDC’s Alex Pappas reports: “The former Alaska governor appears on the cover of Newsweek, telling the magazine this week in a rare interview, ‘I believe that I can win a national election… I’m not so egotistical as to believe that it has to be me, or it can only be me, to turn things around. But I do believe that I can win.'” Interesting that she says “can” win, not “could” win. The first step in that process would be to declare she’s running, wouldn’t it? Then again, running a traditional campaign hasn’t done much good for, say, Jon Huntsman. Hey, whatever happened with those 24,000 e-mails? That was a really big story for a while. Maybe she’s waiting for that huge scandal to start.
4.) Hey, did you know Joe Biden’s on Twitter? — Because Joe Biden’s on Twitter! TheDC’s Amanda Seitz reports: “Biden, who announced his staff would be writing tweets on his Twitter account, @VP, launched his Twitter presence and his first tweet Monday, July 4. The vice president has only 20,000 followers thus far, compared to the 9 million Twitter users who follow the president, and the one million users who follow Charlie Sheen on Twitter… The vice president has tweeted only seven times since opening his Twitter account and follows only six other Twitter users — all of them senators or representatives.” Here’s a taste of what you’ve been missing: “congrats @NASA astronauts and space shuttle program – here’s to next chapter of space exploration and new frontiers to be discovered” See? How would they know that if he wasn’t on Twitter?
5.) PETA vs. Zookeeper — Kevin James is just a cuddly little cuddle-bear. Why is PETA being mean to him? TheDC’s Alec Jacobs reports: “It turns out film critics weren’t the only ones who hated the new Kevin James movie ‘Zookeeper,’ out Friday. Patch reports that as the film’s stars arrived at the Regency Village Theater in Westwood, California, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals met them with shouts and signs. At the premiere this week, PETA activists protested the film over allegations of animal abuse. The organization is most upset over the death of Tweet, a giraffe featured in the movie, which collapsed and died after shooting on the film wrapped.” Who knew a giraffe could die of shame?
6.) Today’s words of wisdom from Alec Baldwin’s Twitter feed — “All right wingers hate the draft more than Libs. It means the end of Pro-war US hegemony.”
VIDEO: Hume: Obama handling of ‘Fast and Furious’ reminiscent of scandal-plagued Nixon DOJ