Note: I’ll be on 1600 with David Shuster tonight around 6:10 PM ET to discuss this — jh

My overall sense after reading the pool reports and hearing what various people had to say is that reforming Social Security is very much on the table now, but how that gets done — and when — is something that is being negotiated.

Here’s a weird one. Obama agreed to host a “fiscal responsibility summit” because Jim Cooper was pushing for one in December, and it was a way to get Blue Dog support for the stimulus bill.

But when the list of invitees to the summit was released today, no Jim Cooper.

Most of you know about the AIPAC criminal case that has been simmering below the main media radar since it was filed in May, 2005. In a nutshell, the indictment alleges that Lawrence Franklin, a DOD/Pentagon official working in Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s office, passed top-secret information relating to Iran and Iraq to Steve Rosen, AIPAC’s then-policy director, and Keith Weissman, a senior Iran analyst with AIPAC.

Obama said the rising cost of health care is the single most pressing fiscal challenge we face by far, not Social Security. It’s pretty clear. There’s really no ambiguity.

Throughout the history of civilization, profound questions have tested scholars, philosophers and citizens through the ages. None more perplexing than this: where is that next exact moment where wingnut heads explode? They are volatile little people.  It could be anything, really, that sends them, once again, down the shrieking path. Let’s go to the transcript from yesterday’s press briefing at the Obama White House to peek at a strong contender

• Prime time POTUS speech tonight.
• But…but…everyone hates the stimulus TEA PARTY!
• More socialism for everyone!
• Good news.
• Civil rights? You crazy?!
• McBobo sure loves him the Village.
• Glenzilla does not.
• He doesn’t speak for me.
• No. This has been another…

Village Idiots.

Rogue Wave’s accoustic performance of their song Lake Michigan.

That’s one Mardi Gras float I’d hate to see. Show us yer . . . er, never mind.

While the Coleman contest trial winds down to the nitty-gritty, and Coleman’s chances get ever slimmer even as the universe of rejected absentee ballots to be counted shows signs of tipping in Franken’s favor