Going going gone

Courtesy of gocart mozart, a little exit music for book-seller/temporary GOP front-runner/future NeoConfederate grifter king Herman Cain:

MC CRAZY BREAD
Hit me
Going going gone
Now I proposed 999 a long time ago
Don’t you see how now they’re reactin’
They only come and they come when I poll well
I’ll get the right sound bite to sell well
I don’t care ‘cause I stay paid anyway
I’ll teach ya like an ace that can’t be betrayed
I know I stumble with no use people
If your life is on the line, don’t care if you’re dead today
I’ma late coming man with the late coming plan you betcha
It’s a body bag in disguise y’all betcha
I call it body snatchers quick they come to fetch ya?
With a bankruptcy suit just to dissect ya
We are the kings ‘cause we swing amputation
Lose your arms, your legs to us it’s the enterprise system
I can prove it to you just watch the juxtaposition
It all adds up to a funky situation
So get up get, get get down
999 is a joke in yo town
Get up, get, get, get down
Late 999 wears the late crown

999 is a joke

Everyone knows the math don’t never come correct
You can ask my man right here with the pocket protect
He’s a witness to the job never bein’ done
He would’ve been in full in 999 and some
Was a joke ’cause we always jokin’
I’m the token to your life when it’s croakin’
You’ll need to be in a pawn shop on a
999 is a joke but we want ‘em
If I have my way the poverty will come quicker
The bankers huddle up and call a flea flicker
The reason that I say that ’cause they
Flick you off like fleas
They be laughin’ at ya while you’re crawlin’ on your knees
And to the strength so go the length
Thinkin’ you are first when you really are tenth
I hope you don’t wake up and smell the real flavor
Cause 999 is a fake life saver
So get up, get, get get down
999 is a joke in yo town
Get up, get, get, get down
Late 911 wears the late crown
Ow, ow 999 is a joke

Musical accompaniment:

 

And Now, For Something Completely Different

Except it isn’t:

So. The Secretary of State receives 206 names from the state Republican Party chair, and goes after them. He finds nothing. No fraud. No illegality.

Next, he sends 191 of the students a letter, where he asks that they cancel their voter registration “if they are no longer claiming to be a Maine resident”. He includes a form so they may more easily do that:

The NeoConfederates have been on a voter suppression tear for some time now, and Kay is right in that they are getting more blatant by the minute.

A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

President Obama made a swing through NC and VA yesterday.  Chipsticks has a hilarious roundup, complete with pics!

This One Is A Keeper

Charlie Pierce is awesome:

“Americans are trying to re-establish the link between effort and reward. This was the link that was severed on Wall Street, where so many made so much for work that served no productive purpose. This was the link that was frayed by the bailouts, when people who broke the rules still got rewarded.”

Oh, really? What tipped you off, Sherlock? Got two sources for that insight? Have no fear, though. Brooks has lingered as long as he cares to in the general vicinity of the fact that the people his politics enabled and celebrated were grievously amoral in almost everything they did for a decade. He’s got workers to bash.

“The auto bailouts mostly worked, but they are unpopular even in the Midwestern states that directly benefited because those who failed in the market still got the gold. Public sector unions are unpopular because of the perception that benefit packages are out of balance.”

The prosecution would like an offer of proof on that first sentence, Your Honor. As to the second, and the ironclad “perception” on which it depends, I guess Brooks was watching the Amanda Knox trial and missed all those people standing around on the lawn in Madison last winter, and he’s still missing all those folks in Ohio who are kicking John Kasich’s nuts through the roof of his mouth.

Any takedown of Brooks is worth a few minutes of your time; this one should be engraved on a plaque and shot all the way to Alpha Centauri.

 

 

The Latinum, It Prints Itself

 

Or so the Hermanator™ thinks…

(h/t John Cole)

Republican presidential contender Herman Cain used campaign funds to buy his own books from his motivational speaking company, Federal Election Commission records show.

Although his autobiography was published by a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., Cain paid Stockbridge, Georgia-based T.H.E New Voice Inc. $36,511 for books. His campaign spent $4 million through Sept. 30, including more than $64,000 paid to his motivational speaking company for airfare, lodging and supplies, as well as the books.

Cain said the sales are in compliance with FEC rules because the campaign is paying the going rate for the material.

Bill Allison, editorial director at the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group that tracks political money, said the transactions deserve scrutiny.

“All candidates publish books and they offer them as premiums to donors, but most candidates aren’t buying them from their own companies,” he said. “It raises the question of his campaign contributions ending up in his own pocket.”

Candidate or performance artist – getting harder to tell.  Either way, he seems to have improved on the Christine O’Donnell/Sarah Palin playbook in that the cash is making at least one stop along the way…