I recently joined a Facebook group in support of Yale Law Prof. Harold Koh as appointee to a position as Obama's legal advisor but have become disenchanted by the more and more frequent calls to make phone calls of support to key legislative leaders. It sure seems like more of gift to AT&T more than to Obama or Koh.

Politics has become big business and it is no wonder, given its bent to be in bed with business, that a politic leader has called for a Supreme Court appointee with empathy for the vast majority of us who are not in business, unlike say Joe the Plummer.

"Not somebody who has set their hair on fire to ..."
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ROFLAO

Just a further thought about raison d'etre to pass along to Bob: The phrase means 'reason for being.' If you're going to adapt it for other reasons, use 'raison' -- not 'd'etre,' which simply means 'to be' or 'for being.'

Ha!
I was just thinking to myself "Hmm.... fundraising d'être, that's a new one" when Bob copped a plea about the term.

Tom Goldstein would have been my choice, I guess there is a one "bow-tie" limit on the Court :0