Wednesday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

The President is heading to Missouri today. He's doing another town hall meeting to talk health care in St. Charles, a suburb of St. Louis. Then, he's doing a fundraiser for the Senate candidate who is running in 2012, Claire McCaskill. (I suspect that the White House political operation is aware that there is a very, very competitive Senate race in Missouri this year, too.)

Obama is also meeting with Haiti's President Préval this morning.

There's still a question as to whether the House will pass the health care bill by the March 18 deadline proposed by the White House. That's next Thursday. As of now, it's unclear that the votes are there to pass the bill in the House. David Dayen at FDL has a whip count as does Hotline on Call.

Okay, let's get it started...