Mission accomplished.

Obama meets with Vikram Pandit of Citigroup, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and Ken Lewis of BofA hoping they’ll be willing to support Geithner’s plan and “sell distressed assets at prices attractive enough to create a new market and enable banks to start lending, which they have been reluctant to do.”

The U.S. war in Pakistan and its Afghanistan adjunct.

Oprah Winfrey is more powerful than George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Jesus, and Shakira’s Ass combined and that is why Barack Obama is America’s Nubian King today.

Bloomberg:

The Obama administration’s call for greater financial regulation may have its limits.

The administration late yesterday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to bar New York and other states from enforcing their fair-lending and other consumer-protection laws against federally chartered banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.

The legal brief, which adopts the Bush administration’s position, is a setback for consumer and civil-rights groups that had urged President Barack Obama’s team to switch positions.

In the words of an SEC civil filing against Bernie Madoff’s accountant, David Frehling: “In addition, the S.E.C. filed a civil enforcement action alleging that Mr. Friehling “did not perform anything remotely resembling an audit” of Mr. Madoff’s operation.” Ouch. But I think that could be tweaked a bit for the current “no numbers needed” GOP super-awesome alternative budget proposal.

• GOP releases hilarious joke “budget.”
• Cue the wingnut fight.
• Cue the analysis.
• Getting bad in North Dakota.
• Plus, a levee failure.
• Funny, they don’t like being called godless heathens.
• Real plumbers vs. “Joe.”
• Tough love for progressives.
• Stay classy, Glenn.

No irrelevancy or triviality too stupid for the Villagers.

The BoDeans – Good Work.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Jonah Goldberg thinks liberals are fascists bent on totalitarianism. Also, he thinks they’re paranoid conspiracy theorists. Git.