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But the figure of $2 million that's being thrown around has no basis is fact.

No basis in fact?

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2009 October quarterly report (covers July 1, 2009, to Sept. 30, 2009)

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2009 July quarterly report (covers April 1, 2009, to June 30, 2009)

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2009 April quarterly report (covers Jan. 1, 2009, to March 31, 2009)

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2008 year-end report (covers Nov. 25, 2008, to Dec. 31, 2008)

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2008 post-general election report (covers Oct 16, 2008, to Nov. 24, 2008)

I suppose all this money went to Perkins Coie for Obama pom poms and candy. /sarcasm

The Obama campaign raised almost a billion dollars during his presidential campaign and not all of that was spent. All of it is funny money to Obama. What this looks like above is that Obama had a lucrative contract to pay the leftist legal firm Perkins Coie to cover all his legal issues over a period of time. Furthermore, the point made above by lorenC that Perkins Coie covered Obama's donkey-butt out of the goodness of their lefty hearts who "worked pro bono" on his eligibility cases is a ruse. Why gee, I suppose Perks & easy COIn could say that since Obama likely was paying them for unlimited use because of a super lucrative paying contract that covered everything and/or it subsidized the work because of all the funny money that Obama threw at them...for working to produce Obama pom poms and candy.

There is obviously other legal work the firm is doing for Obama. It makes no sense that $2 billion would be spent on a handful of cases that never went anywhere.

Kleon: "There is obviously other legal work the firm is doing for Obama. It makes no sense that $2 billion would be spent on a handful of cases that never went anywhere."

Not only is that true, but Red Steel's own visual aids prove this. To wit:

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2008 post-general election report (covers Oct 16, 2008, to Nov. 24, 2008)

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2008 year-end report (covers Nov. 25, 2008, to Dec. 31, 2008)

Now that's a total of over $378,000 spent before December 31, 2008. And not only were there very few Birther cases brought before December 31, 2008, only ONE had involvement from Perkins Coie attorneys.

That case was Berg v. Obama. And although its filings all signed by a Philadelphia attorney and not a Perkins Coie attorney, we'll go ahead and treat this as a Perkins Coie expense. Just for the heck of it. And thanks to PACER, we can see every document that Obama's attorneys filed in the case.

To be specific, they filed only three documents. A total of 30 pages, including Certificates of Service.

So 30 pages of filings, and $378,000 paid to Perkins Coie. In pretending that the Perkins Coie expenses are all Birther-related, Red Steel is proposing that Obama spent $12,600 PER PAGE of filings. To defend a case against a Plaintiff's attorney so incompetent that he cited a fake document signed by 'Dudley Doright' as evidence of a conspiracy.