We do our best to ignore Liz Cheney, in part because we haven’t yet figured out why anybody else pays attention to her. But with the release of her fearmongering group’s latest video, impugning the motives of lawyers who defended Gitmo detainees — calling them the “Al Qaeda Seven” — we’re forced to reveal our theory for her prominence:

Liz Cheney is a living Horcrux.

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Much to our consternation, it turns out that our favorite Obama photo — Smokin’ Barry — is a fake.

On the other hand, much to the hoaxter’s consternation, the fake backfired.

Presuming, of course, that the intent was to discredit Obama before a nation of Rob Reiners. Because the doctored photo actually endeared Obama to a nation of exiled sidewalk smokers. Hey! He’s one of us! Or if not quite one of us, one of our Blue Note album covers! Close enough!

Sure, Barry can’t bowl for shit, but at least he can handle his Camels. And that’s all we ask.

Continuing pattern, Fox Nation posts “hoax” photo of Obama smoking [Media Matters]

Barack Obama Smoking [Museum of Hoaxes]

One day they’re meeting with the President’s minions at the White House, the next day they’re swapping Bibles for Playboys in San Antonio. (Printed pornography? How adorable!)

Folks, if you wanna go without God, great. But organized atheism strikes us as akin to organized anarchy: You’re doing it wrong.

No word on substance of White House meeting with atheists [McClatchy]

College students urged: Trade Bible for Playboy [WND]

Er, sorry. Some asshole kid got our fucking state legislature to ban cussing for a goddam week, so we have to get the filth out of our system in advance.

Assembly approves ‘cuss-free week’ [Sacramento Bee]

No Cussing Club

We’ve heard it said that Scientology keeps you on the hook by knowing all your dark secrets. And how do they know? You tell them, silly! That’s what you’re doing during all those early sessions when they attach an e-meter to your nuts.

So while the news that Marco Rubio used Florida GOP plastic for personal expenses doesn’t particularly arouse us — unless it arouses Rubio’s fans against him, of course — what caught our attention is how the news came out:

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	Think how many more jobs we would have created if we hadn’t blown off $282 billion in tax cuts!
	Medicare for All! Public Option! National Exchange! Whatever!
	Deliver toothless stern warnings to Wall Street!

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Okay, fine. We read it. We looked at how it compares to the House and Senate bills. And, as advertised, Obama’s healthcare “proposal” is pretty much a summary of negotiations that were taking place before the Naked Senator distracted everybody.

And despite our anxiousness to just pass the damn thing and move on, Ezra Klein may have the more perceptive take on the politics involved:

This is not the first time Democrats have waited out a bad political period and then used a combination of televised events, substantive releases, and legislative progress to take back control of the media’s narrative.

As evidence, Ezra cites the healthcare speech after Town Hall Hell, and waiting out the fallout after Senator Douchebag’s Medicare buy-in treachery. His argument is that Obama’s Fightin’ Demrats weren’t being pussies by not fighting back, but strategic.

And y’know? He might be right.

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