Monday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

The President is heading to California later today to attend fundraisers in Los Angeles for the DNC and Los Angeles.

The House isn't in session. The Senate convenes at 2:00 PM. On the docket is a vote to confirm Lael Brainard as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. This week, we can expect the Senate GOPers to continue their efforts to block Wall Street reform. They are, after all, dependent on Wall Street for massive amounts of campaign funding.

Today is Patriots Day, which is actually a holiday in Maine and Massachusetts. It commemorates the first organized resistance to the British in Massachusetts back in 1775. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow captured the events in his poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere."

This is also the 15th anniversary of the worst act of domestic terrorism in the U.S.: The Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing. And, in 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. This is now a big day for those anti-government, militia types.

Should be an interesting week...