Thursday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

No political events on the President's schedule. He's heading out on the road tomorrow for the final swing. Today, he's hosting the Americans who worked on the Chilean mine rescue. I really got sucked into that story. According the Daily Guidance, this is who will be at the White House: "Representatives from NASA and the following companies will attend the meeting and then join the President in the Rose Garden: Schramm, Inc of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Center Rock Inc. from Berlin, Pennsylvania, Layne Christensen Company of Kansas City, Kansas, Geotec Boyles Bros., S.A., a US-Chilean company based in Santiago, Chile and Aramark."

Obama was on the Daily Show last night and said that Larry Summers has done a "heckuva job." I think Summers was like the Brownie of this administration. Supposed to oversee a crisis but didn't do the job.

Biden is attending a fundraiser for Congressman Frank Kratovil (D-MD).

We don't even have that many competitive races in the DC area and local t.v. is deluged with political ads. We're seeing commercials for the Maryland Governor's race and the contest for the 11th C.D. in Virginia. That's a battle between incumbent Democrat Gerry Connolly and GOPer Keith Fimian. Most of them are so, so bad -- especially Fimian's. It's hard to believe that people pay any attention to them. And, it's galling that media consultants make so much money for producing such crap.

Five days left.