• Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for all three hours of “Humpdays With Hal”
• Julie Bolcer, New York correspondent for The Advocate, calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about New York’s vote for marriage equality
• Lisa Bloom, author of “Think,” calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about the results of the Blagojevich trial, Judge Prosser, and Bachmann’s attempt for the GOP nod
• Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the budget and the deficit
• President Obama yesterday brought a made-in-America pitch to Iowa, saying innovation and adaptation will help the manufacturing sector and the entire U.S. economy rebound with more gusto. He admonished a divided DC to stop bickering and rally together like a team.
• While Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the “welfare rolls,” the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005.
• Eight suicide bombers attacked Kabul’s Hotel Inter-Continental in a brazen, carefully orchestrated operation that began Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday, ending with their deaths and those of 10 others, officials said.
