Let’s start with the facts; on election day 2008 in outside a polling station based in a housing project in Philadelphia two guys in rather in your face paramilitary looking gear stood around trying to look fierce and got caught on tape saying some mean stuff about white people. This was, as it should be, investigated by the local and Federal authorities for possible voter intimidation. It was decided by the Justice Department of President Bush and the local authorities that while these guys were assholes they did not do anything that could be successfully prosecuted and the case was dropped. All of this happened before President Obama ever took office.

Now this little non-story has become a cause célèbre for the Conservative Right. There has been the usual conservative fumbling; at the start they did not acknowledge that the decision to drop the investigation was made by the Bush DOJ not the Obama DOJ. Still it has not gone away. The folks at Faux News, with the help of total scumbags of the Andrew Breitbart, have latched on to the meme of “them scary Black folks are coming for you!” and aren’t going to let it go.

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On Friday seven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary committee decided to weigh in. They wrote a letter to the Chair Leahy asking for an investigation of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, under the charge that it was being politicized. I know, take a minute to wipe the coffee off your screen. This is the classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

The major commercial networks and even PBS were apparently all too busy pushing bogus Tory/GOP talking points on the BP spill Friday night to mention this, so it fell to a radio network, NPR, to tell us that the sand berms that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal wants so badly won’t last, won’t work, and will be environmental disasters in their own right. If you’re a regular FDL reader, you likely already knew all this over two weeks ago, thanks to our own Kirk Murphy.

Investors who drove the price up with other people’s money should go to jail.