• Dr. Gupta is unavailable.
• GOP Senate obstructionism: part 1…
• And part 2.
• Republicans vociferously defend unpopular media figure.
• Bush-era CIA to be Feinstein’d.
• Instead of passing the torch, can we let it go out?
• Bill Kristol and Faux making shit up again.

In this time of big problems, the agendas are set…and quite clear.

The Last Vegas – I’m Bad.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Wingnuts: Obama is focusing on Rush Limbaugh to distract the nation from Serious Problems! Wingnuts: Har har, Obama gave Gordon Brown crappy prezzies!

Chas Freeman might be in real trouble.

One of the realities of life appears to be that economic bad times bring out the vultures, AKA, Debt Collectors. Now, the debt collectors are around, even in good times, but they multiply in bad.

As expected, the Franken legal has filed a Motion to Dismiss the Coleman contest in its entirety. The bad news is that Franken’s motion will likely be denied, as the Election Contest Court doesn’t want to give the Coleman side anything on which to base an appeal to the Federal courts system. The good news is that this twenty-nine-page motion is so tightly constructed that the ECC will likely base a good chunk of its case ruling on the points laid down therein.

First off, I was thisclose to finally agreeing with McMegan. . . .

For a party “in the communications business,” I guess it makes sense to worship a guy whose raison d’etre is to drive up his own Arbitron ratings.

There’s too much going on this week to focus on one topic. So here’s a rundown from the world of working people and their unions.

-Hilda Solis made her first public appearance as labor secretary during the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Miami, where she toured an Electrical Workers (IBEW) union training facility and held a meeting in the inner city with 700 community members.