'Happy Dependence Day'

Who coined the mortifyingly apt greeting, "Happy Dependence Day"? The earliest use I have found in a by-no-means exhaustive search was in 2010 by cartoonist A.F. Branco marking President Obama's giant spending programs. Recycling the slogan this week, Branco came up with a far more potent image. In his one-frame cartoon, star-spangled letters spell out Happy Independence Day as a gavel labeled SCOTUS whacks the "In" off of "Independence." Happy Dependence Day..