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Ever since Barack Obama was sworn in as President two and a half years ago, Republicans have used almost every trick in the book to try and stop him from imposing his anti-American agenda on the country, with varying degrees of success . But now that Obama has cleverly teamed up with Hollywood to trample on the civil rights of America’s most vulnerable constituency— corporations —it’s time for more radical tactics. And so, in an effort to protect the American dream against these domestic enemies , impeachment has been placed on the table. God save the Queen !

Ever since Barack Obama was sworn in as President two and a half years ago, Republicans have used almost every trick in the book to try and stop him from imposing his anti-American agenda on the country, with varying degrees of success . But now that Obama has cleverly teamed up with Hollywood to trample on the civil rights of America’s most vulnerable constituency— corporations —it’s time for more radical tactics. And so, in an effort to protect the American dream against these domestic enemies , impeachment has been placed on the table. God save the Queen !

Each day in this (still young) summer, it grows harder for many of us to read the front page of the newspaper, listen to the top stories on television or scroll through the links on an Internet news site. The prospect of almost 1000 barrels of oil seeping into the Gulf of Mexico every second of every day–for some 63 days now–has become a kind of “shock and awe” from which we instinctively turn away. So, too, has the buying and selling of Congress on the Wall Street reform bill.

What’s getting the most attention right now is Dr. Paul on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bravo Rachel Madow. And of course that is the most offensive of his loony libertarian literalisms. But that’s not what Democrats should focus on going into the November elections. That issue invites Paul and other Republicans to insist, yet again, that they are not racists, while acknowledging a few seemingly nuanced differences on how best to counter racism and, anyway, whatever–those civil rights laws are ancient history.

Today on “Hardball,” Jack Conway charged that Ron Paul wanted to do away with the Civil Rights Act. In fact, Rand Paul’s words to the Courier-Journal, in their editorial board interview, were even more extreme than the paper’s editorial reveal. The interview that reveals Rand Paul’s views on civil rights was done in April. People have linked to the editorial, but the transcript has not been circulated. Conway’s charge today on “Hardball” sent me searching.

The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition commented today on the continuing blind spot afflicting the Republican Party: “What does it say about a national party when they are so scared of their neo-Confederate base? Why was there such silence from the leading lights of the GOP, when their much-praised, up-and-coming future contender Governor McConnell reinstated the racist Virginia practice of praising Confederate History Month?

On April 19, Alaska’s Senate passed a resolution that claims “sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.” Now the resolution will head to Governor Sarah Palin’s desk, where she will be faced with the decision of whether to join Texas Governor Rick Perry in endorsing an unorthodox interpretation of the Tenth Amendment that some say courts secession. Perry himself made waves after an April 15 Tea Party by brooking the possibility of secession .

Not Sarah Palin. Not John McCain. Not the Republican Party. No. The biggest loser is Clarence Thomas. Watch him as he sits but a few feet away from Barack Obama at the swearing in ceremony. Watch the furious, suppressed envy in his eyes. The hatred. The jealousy. In his small, simple brain he thinks: Him? That should be me taking the oath of office. I’ve done everything they wanted. Before Barack Obama was elected President, the highest-ranking black person in the government was Justice Clarence Thomas. He knew it and acted thusly.