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The realization of the Gunwalker Plot continues to slowly broaden and deepen in the popular culture, and to the Obama administration it must seem like Chinese water torture as they wince in anticipation of each new revelation.  The one constant that they can cling to, however -- the one solace in an ever darkening gloom -- is the partisan faithfulness of the major network evening news shows, and newspapers such as the New York Times and Pravda on the Potomac, the Washington Post.

As evidence, ladies and gentlemen of the jury of history, I present the undisputed fact that on the evening news shows of NBC, ABC and CBS this week not one -- NOT ONE -- mentioned the unprecedented subpoena by a Congressional committee of information regarding the entire top echelon of the Justice Department in the Gunwalker Scandal.

Say, it’s a good thing the media has Occupy Wall Street to focus on right now to deflect attention not just from this story, but from all of the other high-speed Obamacontinental train wrecks crashing into each other right now, isn’t it?

Over the weekend, Senate Democrats passed a dubious milestone — going 900 days without fulfilling their legal obligation to pass a budget.  Worse is the fact that this gross dereliction of duty has gone largely unnoticed.

It won’t make the front pages and the 11 o’clock newshours, but sometime next year Iraq will become an appendage of the Iranian mullahs.

...As reporters and print shop folk join the rest of us on the unemployment line, they can wonder about the wisdom of lying to the consumers of [their] product.

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(Image and arrangements, HT: Roberta)

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Roberta contemplates the dog’s breakfast that is the upcoming Indianapolis mayoral race:

...You can vote for a new mayor of any ideological hue you like, too -- as long as you like stupid.

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...is that it can just as easily be "10-10-10.”  Or "20-20-20.”

I’m not interested in giving them a national sales tax unless the 16^th Amendment gets repealed first.

UPDATE, Elsewhere (111013 15:20):

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Note that Williams did not actually liken Obama to Hitler. What he did was come up with a situation he thought was as ridiculous as Obama playing golf with Boehner - Netanyahu playing golf with Hitler. The comparison was not between the individuals involved, but between the level of enmity implicit in the situation.

No matter, though. Williams used the words Obama and Hitler in the same sentence...

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It's helpful to remember just how far this Administration, DoJ and media will go to protect Obama and Holder from [the "fast-n-furious”] story and also how coordinated it all is.

...Forget the United States Border Patrol guys that were killed about these ‘Fast & Furious’ guns.  Real-live, or previously live, citizens of third world countries — the kind of people that NPR [and]The New York Times claim to love — are dead because of this...  Why isn’t that a national scandal?”

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James Taranto:

Our guess is that if Romney is the nominee, the vast majority of Tea Partiers will hold their noses and vote for him, the way the nutroots types who loved Dean did for John Kerry in 2004.

If the GOP manages to foist another RINO on the rest of us, who make up the majority of the party (add up the percentages of us voting in the primaries for Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Santorum, and Paul, versus those voting for Romney and Huntsman), and I think you will see the final crackup of the Republican Party as a viable political organization.

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Michael Walsh:

On top of stonewalling Rep. Darrell Issa’s House investigation of the [Fast-and-Furious] mess, Justice has floated a series of contradictory excuses:

• There was no such program.

• Even if there was, Holder never knew about it.

• Even if he should have known about it, he might not have read Breuer’s memos.

• Even if he read Breuer’s memos, he misunderstood the simple question: "When did you first know about the program, officially, I believe, called Fast and Furious?”

. . .

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