Wednesday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

Your president is meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada this morning. I know they've got a lot of foreign relations-type issues to discuss, including Afghanistan and trade. But, perhaps they could take a minute or two to talk about health care and the fact that Canadians have universal health care and really seem to like it. The PM should also be prepared to rebut the right-wing lies about his country, too.

Later tonight, the President is speaking at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Awards Gala.

Max Baucus will finally reveal his long-awaited health care reform bill. It was supposed to be a bipartisan bill, but has no GOP support. And, it won't have a lot of Democratic support. This legislation is already a failure. What a waste of time.

And, it does seem like more and more people are willing to acknowledge that racism is playing a role in the anti-Obama hysteria and the hatred oozing from the teabaggers and other extremists. It looked pretty obvious to me on Saturday.

Let's get started...