Gas prices rose dramatically while George W. Bush was in the White House (after they had complained that gas prices were too high under Clinton), dropped significantly during the Bush/Cheney recession, and are now, because of the recovery, returning to the previous trend. It would be good if some reporter would ask these Republicans what they were saying while gas prices went through the roof under President Arbusto and Vice Preisdent Halliburton. But there’s also something absurd about Republicans demanding that the government do something about gas prices. Wouldn’t that be interfering the free market?

Other countries get results from voting. We don’t. Here are two things you can do.

A government filing submitted last month addresses the defense’s requests for notes regarding various interactions Mohamud had with the FBI. It describes two sets of hand-written notes from a FBI agent(s). The first are the notes an FBI agent took after Mohamud got stopped at the airport last year.

Those handwritten notes were preserved.

But there was another set of handwritten notes–those documenting the July 30 meet at which a recording device failed. Those notes were not preserved.

Sometime in the next month, the Obama Administration plans to release a corporate tax reform proposal. You would be forgiven for thinking that jobs or even the budget deficit will consume the time and effort of Washington over the course of the next year.

To celebrate Mothers Day, the Sunday shows have brought you the Mushroom Cloud Brigade–Condi Rice, Rummy, and Dick Cheney–the three people who, on September 8, 2002 used the Sunday shows to trumpet the intelligence they had laundered through Judy Miller to lie us into war against Iraq.

All those drones we’ve been dropping on the tribal lands of Pakistan?

Well, they must have come close to hitting OBL once before–because a drone in Waziristan apparently killed one of OBL’s daughters.

Happy Mother’s Day! May your flowers be fresh, your candy be chocolate, your breakfast in bed, and your children at home – with you.

Of course the topic on the network shows this morning is the death of Osama bin Laden. No surprise here, but the ratio of Bush officials to Obama officials on the Sunday shows this morning is 6 – 1. As Marcy notes, the torture apologists are out in force today. Will they be challenged? If only. *big heavin’ sigh*

Moving on, our friends Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband Joe host today’s FDL Book Salon: Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World. Please join in at 5pm ET. Movie Night Monday presents Bag It with director Suzan Beraza. And don’t forget, David Dayen and Cliff Schecter are Virtually Speaking this evening at 9pm ET. Support progressive talk, tune in.

Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the coffee table, and try to keep the spitballs off the screen please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?

Given that the continuing deadness of Osama bin Laden has so dominated the news of late, one might wonder if other evildoers who have in their own specific fields of villainy likewise done grave damage to The American Homeland might get the Justice they so richly deserve.

State and federal regulators will submit a second term sheet to big banks in an attempt to settle the foreclosure fraud investigation, with some concessions to banks. But it’s still unclear where the penalties for violations of law and abuse of borrowers will wind up.