Lots going on today. Energy & Commerce Committee markup happening today.

And in case you missed it, the House progressives are in revolt over the Blue Dog Deal.

14 down, 26 to go. Whip it!

YThis constitutes all the footage that Stark and cameraman Brett Vaughn took of Blunt. Although Blunt says he believes that Obama was born in the United States, he still actively feeds the “birther” fire by asking “why the President can’t produce a birth certificate. I don’t know anybody else that can’t produce one. And I think that’s a legitimate question. No health records, no birth certificate.”

There’s a new and damning report from the Department of Defense Inspector General on its investigation into the electrocution death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth. The report concludes that Staff Sgt. Maseth’s death was the result of shoddy electrical work, electrical work performed by U.S. military contractor KBR.

It also concludes that the Army failed to properly oversee KBR’s work, allowing the danger to U.S.

We’re hearing that the Congressional Progressive Caucus is not going to lie down and get rolled by the Blue Dogs on the Health Care bill. They are having a press conference tomorrow at 2:30 on the Hill, and tonight they are circulating a letter for signatures. What the letter will contain is unclear, but at this point they are saying they have the votes to defeat the Waxman-Blue Dog compromise on the floor.

Who here thinks that a stern talking to from the President about renegotiating loans will send all those duly chastened financial giants out to be scrupulously honest?

Or that they’ll find redemption in being fair and decent because now they have a “verbal agreement” to be good little lenders?

*crickets*

Not when there’s money to be made, right?

• Deal made in the House?
• Meanwhile, Baucus pwned in Senate.
• The sausage making is making people queasy.
• Progressive backlash?
• But…but…white cops are never racist.
• KBH takes on the Secessionist.
• I’ll take a Blue Moon, myself. 
• The future of Teabagging: thuggery.

Or maybe we could get Max Baucus to throw up the double “V’s” from the helicopter steps?

Walter Trout – They Call Us The Working Class, But We Ain’t Working Anymore. And a liberal torture video.

Once again, the Republicans project their racism in IMAX™.

Clear Channel, the folks who paid Rush Limbaugh $400 million, has declined to hire Palin. . . even as a fill in.