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Here is Barack Obama’s latest attack/response ad about the gas tax and Hillary being a mean old bully. Snooze. Hillary’s just better at this attack shit. You have to invent facts, Barry! [via Ben Smith]

FEWFWEe32fjkfrlkqrkleqjnkqwkljdqw#@!#!@DWDQW, the end. [YouTube]

From this morning’s ABC “town hall” with Hillary Clinton, about the gas tax holiday:

STEPHANOPOULOS: “But can you name an economist who thinks this makes sense?”
CLINTON: “Well, I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.”

Silly George, the Clintons don’t listen to economists for economic advice. Spanky the Money Octopus tells them all they need to know.

Here is Barack Obama’s new campaign ad in Indiana, “Pennies,” in which he makes some “correct” economic argument about why we should keep taxing your damn motorcar fuel. It amazes us, every day as we wake up, to see how much of a liberal this schlock is. Just because the oil companies are *rich* doesn’t mean they don’t have *families* to feed. [YouTube]

Barack Obama visited an assisted living home today in Indiana. Here is an old woman, so old she can barely speak, can barely even remember what she’s going to ask, challenging Obama on why he won’t accept the economically unsound gas tax holiday proposal, and then making a crack about how she’s going to die soon. Obama laughs awkwardly because GOOD GOD, give that woman a morphine already. [YouTube]

Many of you may be aware that gas prices are rising about 20 cents a week, causing much despair among Average Americans. John McCain found the perfect anti-solution for this energy Depression, in which the price of crude oil is reaching $120 a barrel, in his hilarious tax plan (the other aspects of which include slashing corporate taxes from 35% to 25%, eliminating the alternative minimum tax entirely thus re-opening old loopholes for the wealthy, and making the Bush tax cuts permanent — all of which will be balanced by the elimination of like $200 million in earmarks). McCain proposes a “gas tax holiday” — a break from the current 18.4-cent gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day — and Hillary Clinton has announced she is all for it as well. Barack Obama isn’t. Every. Single. Economist. Agrees with Barack Obama — even the conservatives and Hillary’s favorite Paul Krugman! MORE »

RON PAUL MUST HELP BLACK VAMPIRE TAX HERO! The Feds threw the book at American cinema/tax hero Wesley Snipes! Three Years for just evading income taxes and escaping to Africa. FREE WESLEY SNIPES! [New York Times]

Movie hero Wesley Snipes is beloved by Americans for killing vampires and helping Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis colonize space planets for the American Dream, but now the Evil American Government is trying to destroy him for protecting your tax rights! The celebrity star is in Florida today so a federal court can sentence him for tax evasion. The feds want to put him in jail for three years! But Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson have arrived in Florida and they are going to bust him out of the joint, hooray! UPDATE: Nooooooo! Three Years! [CNN/Ocala.com]

LOOK THE POST OFFICE IS REALLY CROWDED K? Anyway yes, “Mom,” taxes will be paid for your terrorist war against the Green Zone.

Pilar O’Leary, this magazine cover lady who was head of the Smithsonian’s Latino Center until resigning in February, was apparently in the midst of an ethics investigation at the time that found her wasting your taxpayer money (that you have to pay today ha ha!) on limos, fashion show tickets, five star hotels, concerts and “music award ceremony” FAVORS. According to a report released yesterday, “The investigation revealed that O’Leary has not always acted in the best interests of the Smithsonian… Her conduct has violated the basic ethical rules of the Institution.” The National Air an Space Museum is currently building a rocket to shoot O’Leary to Neptune. [Washington Post]