Couldn’t Help But Notice (121806)
I’m just the messenger (and the messages, as with this previous one, keeping coming as if manna from heaven) — I cannot tell you how much this guy (also here) and this guy are going to hate this, followed by the “dialog” between Two-Timing the Cosmos (here, here) and Julian Sanchez (HTs to Volokh, who defends DC’s honor; Notes from the Lounge; and Instapundit [See? Manna from heaven.]).
Remember which party dominates DC’s voting, fellas. :–>
There are better topics to cover, so one hopes the flow of manna will subside. There’s no need for me to further elaborate on a point that the other side keeps going further with than I ever did, and that in fact it has obsessed over for years.
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The Bellwether’s Bill Sloat notes that Saul Green, a court-appointed police monitor in Cincinnati, is “an ACLU ally in the (NSA) spying case” that is on appeal at the Federal District Court in Cincinnati. That IS odd, as Green’s Cincinnati responsibilty is to be a neutral observer and to report to the City and civil-rights organizations, including the ACLU, which brought the original lawsuit that led to the “Collaborative Agreement” that, among other things, led to Green’s position.
Does Green’s involvement in the NSA appeal represent a conflict of interest that means he can’t be relied on to monitor the Collaborative Agreement and its aftermath properly? On appearances, certainly — he has a vested interest in the ACLU’s success that he apparently didn’t have at the time his monitoring gig started. Is he conflicted in fact? Possibly not, but he ought to be challenged by the City and satisfactorily justify himself on the record as to why not.
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Through the first two months of Uncle Sam’s fiscal year, receipts are up 8.8% ($25.2 billion), expenditures are up 4.7% ($19.8 billion), and the reported deficit is $5.4 billion lower than through the same period last year. December and January are big months for collections, so we won’t have a good handle on whether the supply-side momentum continues to chip away at the deficit until mid-February.
