Friday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

Life is slowly returning to normal here in the nation's capitol. It was quite the weather week, especially for us weather geeks.

The President has a very low-key public schedule today. Nothing big on the daily guidance.

The House and Senate are both in recess til February 22nd. How about that drama in the Senate yesterday over the jobs bill? Harry Reid pulled the legislation crafted by Max Baucus because it had so many non-jobs related provisions. Baucus added those provisions to assuage the GOPers (who don't really care about job creation.) After the debacle on health care, it's stunning that the Senate Democrats trusted Baucus to do anything.

The Winter Olympics start tonight from Vancouver, which is a really beautiful and very cool city. NBC has been do heavy promotion of the opening ceremonies. I have a feeling tonight's festivities won't match what we saw on the first night in Beijing, although NBC wants me to think it will.

Let's get it started...