Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan where he seems only to want to turn tail.

I tend to avoid televisions politics and places with velvet ropes.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.