There’s a fascinating inside-blogger-baseball conflict currently playing out between ThinkProgress blogger Lee Fang and Levi Russell, Director of Public Affairs for Koch Brothers-funded Americans For Prosperity. Russell accused Fang of, among other things, misrepresenting himself as a student to gain access to AFP’s Defending The American Dream conference last weekend. Fang has audio that proves otherwise.

Republican Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana got himself caught out on an awkward limb this morning while talking class warfare with MSNBC’s Chris Jansing. When asked about the profit his businesses (Subway and UPS Store franchises) brought him in the past year, he offered that much of the $6.3 million is whittled away by taxes and operational costs, and “So by the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over to invest.”

Yes, barely enough to let themselves eat cake.

Over the weekend, GOP frontrunner Rick Perry made a thuddingly poor comparison, equating the Civil Rights movement with the struggles of corporations and wealthy individuals. During a pitched Twitter battle with BreitbartTV Editor Larry O’Connor over whether Hardball fill-in Chris Jansing “lied” when introducing the Perry clip Tuesday (she didn’t), I noticed that Jansing’s introduction hewed suspiciously close to the headline of a Thinkprogress item on the same clip.

Sandra Bullock is backpedaling to condemn a PSA she made as part of the Restore the Gulf campaign. The PSA, called “Be the One,” features Bullock and other celebrities asking viewers to sign a petition to Congress demanding a fully funded restoration plan for the Gulf. Turns out, though, that the campaign is sponsored by an organization called America’s Wetland Foundation, which, despite the nice sounding name, is actually a greenwashing front group for big oil companies likes Shell, American Petroleum and, you guessed it, BP.

This year’s Netroots Nation, the annual gathering of of progressive bloggers launched in 2006, was different: The president from the party they fought to elect — President Barack Obama, a Democrat — is in power, and they no longer represent the voice of the opposition.

But that doesn’t mean they don’t have any.