Anybody know what is behind the craze of right-wing journalists and politicians to dub themselves with J-Lo-esque and/or rap-like nicknames? You know what I’m talking about, right? A particularly virulent trend in the Politico newsroom apparently. But not only there.

It’s hard to believe we’re coming up on the third annual Golden Duke Awards.

A Tea Party group that had planned an event to “converge” on the Capitol for today’s crucial test vote on health care clarifies – the event is for those “within driving distance of DC” who “want to be there tomorrow when the Senate votes in the cover of darkness on cloture.”

Evan McMorris-Santoro has the story.

Sarah Palin tells her 25,000 Twitter followers just now:

Thot I’d stick w tour news on Twitter but can’t help digress: Call senators! Tell ’em KILL THE BILL tonite;horrible govt healthcare takeover

On the Senate floor this morning, Majority Leader Harry Reid dismissed David Broder as “a man who has been retired for many years and writes a column once in a while.”

The jab came in response to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s citation of Broder’s column set to appear tomorrow.

Broder is 80. Reid is 69.

In a statement to TPMDC, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) takes issue with that George Washington University study which found that his anti-abortion amendment would ultimately cause insurance companies to stop covering abortions.

Mary Landrieu will finally announce her decision on how she’ll vote today on cloture on the Senate floor in about 20 minutes.

Hard to imagine she’d go so far as to block the bill from even being debated. Then again, you never know.

Late Update: Landrieu will stick with her party and her President … for now.

Mary Landrieu says Harry Reid will have to make a tough call on the public option at some point very soon, and that Chuck Schumer’s at the center of the trigger negotiations.

Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln just announced her support for bringing the health care reform bill to the floor for debate — so that makes the Dems united … on debating the bill. Not a surprise, but an important step. The official vote later today still, but now everyone’s put their cards on the table.

The only potential monkey wrench in tonight’s vote was whether Max Baucus, who was tending to his sick mother in Montana, and Robert Byrd, himself in frail health, would actually be able to be physically present for the vote.

But Baucus is apparently in the building, and Byrd just arrived. So we should be all set for a vote shortly.