The Democrats have 60 votes in the Senate! Hooray! Now we get health care and climate control and bullet trains and all the wars will end! Except that this doesn't really change anything!

"Twenty years ago when I made Roger & Me, I tried to warn people about what was ahead for General Motors. Had the power structure and the punditocracy listened, maybe much of this could have been avoided." Hah, really?

Invest in Caterpillar! Obama's gonna nominate his second Republican, and it's Illinois Rep. Ray LaHood for Transportation Secretary. Which is eh and kinda lame.