Obama wants a fast-tracked $83.4 billion from Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

It’s not Rome v. Avignon, but Pat Buchanan and Lawrence O’Donnell had an epic row last night on Hardball over the bizarre (and apparently very limited) opposition to Notre Dame University inviting President Obama to speak:

Eric Kleefeld has the latest from the NY-20.

Let’s re-start the party.

… then why are anti-stimulus Republicans suddenly clamoring about the stimulative effect of military spending?

Sigh.

NOM’s anti-gay marriage campaign: 2M4M.

Not everyone in the media fell for the GOP’s “up is down-ism” this week on the new Obama Pentagon budget:

But even as we were putting together the above montage, along came this from the always reliable Fox News:

A lawyer representing detainees at Gitmo tells TPMmuckraker that the foot-dragging and stonewalling that marked the Bush Administration’s handling of detainee cases continues unabated under President Obama:

It did not surprise me in the slightest that the Bush administration would do everything in its power to subvert the Supreme Court’s ruling. I expected that. What I did not expect is that there would be absolutely zero change in the stonewall strategy when the [new] administration came in.

Zack Roth has more.

The commercial fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide industry is not so happy about Michelle Obama’s organic White House garden — and took the trouble to write her a letter about it:

“Fresh foods grown conventionally are wholesome and flavorful yet more economical,” the Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) wrote the first lady last month a few days after she and fifth-graders from a local elementary school planted the White House Kitchen Garden.

“CropLife” and “MACA” — neither of those things sound wholesome or flavorful. But since they mentioned it, I think I’ll make a special trip to the farmers’ market tomorrow morning.

Late Update: TPM Reader BW does me one better:

How weird is it that “conventional” farming is the sort that involves synthetic chemicals, massive amounts of water and petroleum, and technology only available in the last 100 years.