Faithless Love

Just trying to get some hard details on the budget/debt ceiling deal, but the more I learn the less I like.

Jeremy Alters Is An Obama "Bundler"?

Among the usual list of big money Obama bundlers like lawyers Chris Korge and Kirk Wagar is none other than Jeremy Alters, who despite firm squabbles still managed to raise somewhere between 50 and 100k for the President's re-election.

Small change compared to the big boys, but it'll still get you a seat at a State Dinner honoring Chancellor Merkel.

Your Tuesday Morning Bullcrap Club.

Let's see, so if the President's Afghanistan plan works perfectly (always the case there) and the President does not cave in or compromise (he never does!), then we can expect to target the "hand over" of Afghanistan to Afghan forces sometime in 2014, with US troops expected to remain there well in 2015 or beyond.

This turns out to be a great campaign re-election slogan:

FOUR MORE YEARS!  FOUR MORE YEARS!

Basically I blame the President to forcing me to agree with Glenn Garvin.

Even worse, Glenn Garvin now appears to agree with Glenn Greenwald.

Worser yet, Obama loyalists now find themselves agreeing with this esteemed crew:

“The United States must see this effort in Libya through to its conclusion,” reads the letter, signed by conservatives including Liz Cheney, William Kristol, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz and R. James Woolsey Jr. 

Obama partisans, Liz Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz(!) -- bet you didn't see that coming way back in 2008.

In other news, Justice Scalia is a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

(But this we already knew.)

Donald Trump Is Too Busy Talking About Obama's Birth Certificate to Appear at Mediation.

I completely agree with Judge Jordan -- why should Donald Trump have to appear at a mediation when he can send a lackey his Assistant GC Alan Garten?

Question -- does "Mr. Garten" have a true live birth certificate, or just a ginned-up-in-Kenya fancy-dancy chardonnay-stained certificate of live birth?

Or maybe it's as phony as Mr. Trump's own "birth certificate"?

Let's just put it on the table -- just who is this mysterious "Mr. Garten" and why does he have Mr. Trump's "full authority"?

I'm just asking the question!

Things Inside My Head.

 Here's a quick snapshot of what's inside me noggin this morning, in no particular order:

1.  I plan to ask for a kosher meal at today's FBA luncheon.

2.  It's almost worse that Con Law Perfesser Obama legitimized Gitmo, indefinite detention, and military tribunals than it is that "rancher" George W. Bush instituted these Constitutional aberrations in the first place.

3.  Could Johnny Storm really be dead?

4.  I totally agree with Andrei Codrescu on NPR the other day about defacing my new e-book with some "crowdsourced" idiocracy contest regarding highlights:

And this thing on my Kindle is supposed to be new. And then I discovered that the horror doesn't stop with the unwelcomed presence of another reader who's defaced my new book. But it deepens with something called view popular highlights, which will tell you how many morons have underlined before so that not only you do not own the new book you paid for, the entire experience of reading is shattered by the presence of a mob that agitates inside your text like strangers in a train station.

 5.  Dan Le Batard may finally have to blame someone I've never seen him identify before as being responsible for anything negative, ever -- the players.

6.  Wes Parsons was only hoping to lose the latest citrus canker trial by $3 million, but instead lost by $12 million (plus fees and substantial interest), but what's $10 or so million between friends:

"I was hoping for the amount of compensation already paid, which was around $3 million."

Question -- wasn't there a defense on liability too?

7.  This post is starting to resemble Greg Cote.

(Note -- no offense, but I have met Greg Cote).