Drive-By Monday: June 11, 2007

> You've heard of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is there to protect us from unsafe toasters and toys. How about a Financial Product Safety Commission?


> GOP prez candidate Mike Huckabee thinks Gitmo is a nicer place to be a prisoner than the state pen. Assrape, torture, assrape, torture -- six of one, half a dozen of the other, right, Mike?


> Supreme Court nixes "enemy combatant" policy.


> GOP almost-candidate Fred Thompson challenged by the religious right; Fake Fred talks back.


> U.S. government's security contractor Blackwater Security Consulting countersues families of four American contractors who were burned, beaten, dragged through the streets of Fallujah, and their decapitated bodies hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River.

Postponing the Picture Pages

We have to do it again this week. Why? Stupidly, we waited up all night to watch Internet phenom and certifiable nutcase Ron Paul on the Daily Show, which was neither as nutty nor as interesting as one might have thought. And tonight is all about the GOP debate, which is proving to be quite nuts indeed.

Ron Paul 2.0

News flash: Ron Paul loves the Internet. Duh... it's responsible for all signs of life in his campaign. Ron Paul is becoming the new Howard Dean: outsider candidate who strikes it big with the netroots and then will go down in flames as his party coalesces around an insider. (My money's on the faux folksy one over the pretty boy.)

Prediction: when the time comes that he bows out of the race, the politico talking heads will be falling over themselves to talk about how the "netroots" are now a fact of life for both the left and the right.