Speakout for Good Jobs Now Tour

ProgressiveCongress.org in conjunction with the Congressional Progressive Caucus is sponsoring a Congressional listening tour -- the Speak Out Tour -- of the US, with the goal of giving Americans a chance to talk about the thing they most care about, jobs:

Ungrateful

They got an extraordinary bailout funded and guaranteed by the taxpayers of the United States of America -- they still are -- and yet Jamie Dimon of Citibank Chase is whining about regulations from Dodd-Frank:

Bob Herbert is Back

...and he's writing for The Policy Shop, the in-house blog of the DEMOS group. His piece there is called The Jobs Emergency and America in Crisis:

Late Night Video — Hear No Evil

The so-called Libertarian Rand Paul tells Sean Hannity that he is willing to undermine our freedom of assembly in order to round up people who are listening to people talking (just talking) about the overthrow of the US government. So Steven Colbert observes that (according to Paul) apparently we have Freedom of Speech, but not Freedom of Listen:

The Most Prominent Politicians from Delaware

Erik Loomis over at Lawyers, Guns and Money is working on a project to identify the most prominent politicians from each state. He is working on this in order of admission to the Union, which means that a survey of Delaware's politicians is up first in this task.

Monday Open Thread

Monday and we're all back to work, even the intrepid UI. If my own experience returning to work from vacation is any guide, she's underwater today, so I'll post up today's Open Thread.