(I’m going to try to do a nightly roundup of all the stories I don’t get to in a day)

• That derivative legislation I mentioned before that passed the House Financial Services Committee today may be even worse than I thought. Industry will basically get to set their own rules for trading.

• In VA-Gov, Bob McDonnell outraised Creigh Deeds in September and has much more in the bank for the final few weeks. There’s a reason that Obama and Biden are campaigning with Jon Corzine instead of Deeds.

• That story about the House Republicans claiming there are Muslim spies inside Congress? It comes entirely from a book by a certified nutjob named Dave Gaubatz. Oh, and the Council on American Islamic Relations is getting death threats over this. Nice.

• Greg Sargent has been all over this story about CNN’s Alex Castellanos also being the media buyer for the insurance industry’s scare-seniors attack ads. CNN has promised full disclosure in the future. I’ll remember that the next time they have Lanny Davis on the air.

• Alan Greenspan said in a speech today “if they’re too big to fail, they’re too big.” It’s disorienting to realize that Greenspan, on this point, is to the left of the current Administration economic team.

• What year is this? An interracial couple was denied a marriage license in Louisiana.

• Senate Republicans are looking for two months of debate on the health care bill. Delay, delay, delay. It’s all they have left.

• The House passed the Homeland Security appropriations bill, which would allow Guantanamo detainees to stand trial in the United States. Maybe Republicans will put up another one of their pants-wetting “Terrorists in your grocery stores!!!” videos again.

• And I’m happy to have made it through my entire first day on the News Desk without once mentioning the Balloon Boy.