Thursday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

Today, the President of Mexico will address a joint session of Congress. I wonder if House GOP Minority Leader John Boehner lectured his caucus (again) about behaving during the speech. You know at least one of them wants to be the next Joe Wilson. And, they'd probably score some points with the GOP base by being rude and obnoxious to the Mexican leader.

The Senate will vote again on cloture for the Wall Street reform bill. That legislation has gotten really complicated over the last couple days. Good amendments from Democrats have been pushed aside, not even getting votes. And, the GOPers are doing their best to protect their Wall Street benefactors. David Dayen's tweets have kept me informed.

GetEQUAL is holding an Emergency Capitol Hill Protest to Save the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) today at noon. People are meeting at the corner of Independence Ave SE & 1st ST SE (by the Library of Congress). We're running out of time to pass ENDA this year. There should be House and Senate action on DADT repeal next week. I posted a rundown of the probable schedule earlier this week at AMERICAblog Gay, based on a very helpful and informative conference call with SLDN's Aubrey Sarvis.

So a lot of action on Capitol Hill today...what else?