The Wingers Collect Another Head

This time it's NEA communications director Yosi Sergant.

"This afternoon Yosi Sergant submitted his resignation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately," said a spokeswoman, Sally Gifford, in a statement.

Sergant, who helped make artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" image ubiquitous as an organizer of Obama campaign support from artists, had seemed to mix the NEA's work -- essentially non-partisan politics -- with the administration's legislative agenda on a conference call reported on by Andrew Breitbart's new conservative site, Big Government.

"I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service," Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. "My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table," he said.

Texas Senator John Cornyn, among critics, complained that the call politicized subjected the agency to "political manipulation, though the NEA initially defended the call. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman later said the call "inappropriate" and that Sergant had acted "unilaterally" in helping to organize it.

Using fake intel to gin up a war of choice? No problem. Having artists getting NEA grants to donate some time and art to the government in return? Unconscionable Nazi-era propaganda of the most profane order.

Bob Cesca is 100% correct. Should Republicans get control of the House in 2010, they will impeach President Obama on charges that he might have skipped a day on wearing deodorant because you know as true patriots they simply have no choice, and besides, America deserves a real leader like Dubya was.