I had no roundup yesterday, so this may feel like two roundups. Again, the world is not cooperating with me by generating less news.

LATE UPDATE: I mentioned way down below that Tom Coburn was toying with dispensing with the idea that the Senate health care bill be read aloud. Now there will be a day-long debate on Saturday, with the cloture vote on the motion to proceed and final passage being the same vote. In other words, if the motion to proceed passes Saturday at 8pm, the decks are cleared. The Republicans wanted to go home early for Thanksgiving, that’s what you can read this as.

• The Senate will issue its first vote on the motion to proceed on Saturday at 8pm ET. Technically speaking, they have to vote to end debate on the motion to proceed to debate – gotta love the House of Lords Senate. After that, the actual motion to proceed wouldn’t occur until Monday.

• Tom Carper and Olympia Snowe are talking about triggers. Yay!

• John Conyers had some strong words today about President Obama’s leadership on health care, saying “I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can.”

• A district court judge in New Orleans ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers was liable for failing to maintaining the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet channel, leading to the flooding after Hurricane Katrina. This is a major accountability moment for the Army Corps. This could mean billions in payouts to New Orleanians, if upheld.

• The House approved the “doctor’s fix” legislation today, which would save providers from a 21.5% cut in Medicare rates. The White House has endorsed the legislation.

• Joe Lieberman thinks that Barack Obama never favored a public option. He’s crazy. And Politico didn’t challenge him on it.

• A positive update: a wind farm project in Texas, getting stimulus money, that initially would have produced its wind turbines in China, will build a US plant to make the turbines. This is a win for American workers.

• The President has finally admitted that he will be unable to close Guantanamo by his January deadline. Democrats have stymied an effort to block the transfer of Gitmo detainees to US prisons, however, so many this will go smoother.

• Speaking of timelines, Harry Reid acknowledged that a climate change bill wouldn’t be taken up until spring. Head climate denier James Inhofe did a victory lap. However, President Obama and the Chinese still may seek emissions targets in Copenhagen.

• As the polls flip around on the public option and its compromises, Joe Klein (gasp!) makes a good point, that people don’t have a good enough sense of the issues to really trust these kinds of polls, which often turn on individual words.

• Republican obstruction to the unemployment insurance extension bill has put the benefits of a million laid-off workers at risk because of a deadline of December 31 of this year. This will require new legislation.

• Adam Serwer is basically right about the insistent statements by Eric Holder and Barack Obama that KSM will essentially be automatically convicted represent a failure of the rule of law and the criminal justice system. They need to not give in to fear and walk that back.

• Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is pallin’ around with domestic terrorists.

• Is Tom Coburn going soft? First he lifted his hold on a bill that will expand veteran’s health care benefits; now he may not force a full reading of the health care bill on the floor.

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• Congratulations to Michael Whitney and Work In Progress, the latest addition to the FDL family of blogs. WIP focuses on labor and working America.

• DNC Chair Tim Kaine may have found a nut talking about Creigh Deeds’ loss in his home-state governor’s race. “I always believed from the very beginning that the paradigm in Virginia had changed and that the way to win the race was to energize voters who had demonstrated they would vote for Democrats.”

• I’m really trying to steer clear of Palinpalooza, but her endorsements of racial and ethnic profiling and statements that settlements in Israel should expand are pretty ridiculous.

• Texas’ constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, passed by voters in 2005, may have banned all marriages in Texas.

• And finally, great moments in 1960s advertising: oil produces enough energy to melt glaciers!