A very busy day. I’m exhausted, but that may be due to watching a 3-hour Werner Herzog movie last night. So:

• Needless to say, the PCCC was not amused by Dick Durbin’s intention to whip against any amendments outside the agreed House/Senate deal in the reconciliation process, including the public option. He may have to do it – Bernie Sanders says he’ll introduce the amendment.

• Sherrod Brown, along with Jim Webb and Bernie Sanders have begun the process of pressuring Obama to pick members of the Federal Reserve board of governors who actually saw the crisis coming, want to help consumers instead of Wall Street, and are committed to transparency. Good criteria.

• Looks like MoveOn members support passing the health care bill. There’s a little selection bias here, as those most likely to support might have been most likely to click through to register their opinion. But I don’t think that’s an enormous factor.

• Regardless of what happens on the health care bill, employers have a plan: shifting more and more costs onto workers by buying crappier and crappier insurance for them.

• Unions are again talking primaries, but instead of choosing random members where the deadline for filing has already passed, they’re at least targeting primary races that are ongoing, like Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Ohio.

• Alan Grayson is claiming 50 cosponsors for his public option bill, though Thomas only shows 10. The link is a tool to contact your member of Congress and get them to register support.

• Tim Geithner has picked a fight with the European Union over regulating the hedge fund and private equity sector. For now, Europe isn’t paying attention.

• I said a while ago that Evan Bayh could fund Brad Ellsworth if he’s the pick for the Indiana Senate race. Well, he is. Good, it frees up fundraising dollars to go to decent Democrats.

• Did Scott Brown have #massappeal, too? Who knows, but it is quite amazing that the Coakley campaign and the DNC left this in their back pocket prior to the Massachusetts election. Nice oppo research team, Dems.

• The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will get their hands on Alan Greenspan next month. Paging Dean Baker to the FCIC hearing room…

• Yes, foreclosure rates are increasing slower. I long for the day when “things are getting worse more slowly” is not the only good news. At any rate, this certainly is why Fannie and Freddie have been left alone for the moment – without them the housing market really would be in danger of collapsing.

• Let the Iraqi election squabbling begin, although Maliki looks like he has an early lead.

• Impeach Now! It’s back on the table! For a federal judge who took bribes, anyway. Not even Jay Bybee. Ah well.

• I didn’t know Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell had this in him, essentially throwing out the pro-discrimination rulings of his Attorney General.

• An amazing meditation on Detroit, from Julien Temple. I want to see the documentary. I went to school in Ann Arbor and always found the Detroit story fascinating.

• More general strikes in Greece. You’re really seeing a people v. the powerful story play out there.

• Oh good, just what California needs to revitalize their thin political media bench: a spate of “Democrats in disarray” stories from the new LA bureau chief for the NYT, Adam Nagourney.

• If I’m Tiger Woods, I definitely look to the marketing genius behind the Iraq War to rehabilitate my career.

• Speaking of former Bush officials who shouldn’t be asked to do anything anymore: Dan Senor for Senate?

(postscript: The movie was Fitzcarraldo.)