• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to wax rude about the news of the day.
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• President Obama is set to head to northeast Ohio today with a final sales pitch for health care legislation that the top Dem vote-counter in the House said lacked support to pass. Obama’s top political adviser, David Axelrod, said he was “absolutely confident” the measure would pass during a make-or-break week that already saw the president delay his trip to Asia.
• Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, plans to unveil a proposal today that expands the powers of the Federal Reserve but creates a consumer protection entity with less authority than President Barack Obama once demanded. His draft legislation aims to avoid a recurrence of the financial crisis that brought Wall Street to the verge of collapse 18 months ago.
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife has been released from a Virginia hospital, where she was taken after being seriously injured in a traffic accident. The 69-year-old Landra Reid underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and her daughter were riding in Thursday.
