Friday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

What a week. It's August. It's supposed to be slow. It's not.

This morning, Obama is holding a meeting with former Senator Tom Daschle. For some reason, the Obama press crew wanted people to know that this meeting is taking place. It's on the schedule (and not every meeting is on the schedule.)

Daschle was supposed to be the health care czar, but had some tax problems. Does seem like we could have used a big-time health care czar right about now, doesn't it? (Although, Daschle has close ties to the health insurance industry.) I wonder where we'd be on the reform package if Daschle had paid all of his taxes...

Let's get it started...