Saturday Morning Open Thread

Good morning and Happy Hannukah.

It's a work day for the U.S. Senators. While they're waiting for the CBO score on the health care bill -- and trying to sort out issues like drug importation, the Senate is debating the conference report for the Consolidated Appropriations bill.

It's election day for voters in Houston. They're choosing a new mayor in a runoff between Annise Parker and Gene Locke. Both are Democrats. Parker, the city controller, is a lesbian. Locke's supporters provided funding to some of the worst homophobes in Texas, who ran a very ugly anti-gay campaign against Parker. Polls close at 7 PM Central Time. We'll find out if homophobia works in Houston. Hopefully, it doesn't.

So, there'll be news today.