Geithner sings Elizabeth Warren’s praises in breakfast appearance this morning, but stops short of touting her for post as top cop on consumer financial protection beat.

Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle tried her hand at doing a press conference — the kind where you speak for three minutes and don’t take any questions from the press.

I knew a tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico would wreak havoc on the oil cleanup and the effort to seal the wild well. I didn’t realize it meant they might have to reopen the cap and let oil resume coursing into the sea: “Worse yet, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said foul weather could require reopening the cap that has contained the oil for nearly a week, allowing oil to gush into the sea again for days while engineers wait out the storm.”

Here’s the projected path of the storm that is now a tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea southeast of Florida: Read More

The White House’s description of the call: Read More

I’m just getting a chance to watch Rachel Maddow’s segment from last night’s show on the Sherrod case, tying it to the last 50 years of politically calculated right-wing race-baiting, fear-mongering, and just plain old racism. Just go watch it.

TPM’s Jill Rayfield submits to week three of Glenn Beck University and a class they call “Charity 101.”

In a post on its Facebook page, BP acknowledges that those two images that appeared photoshopped had in fact been cut and pasted: “Although BP is a private company, we’ve instructed the photographer who created the images to refrain from cutting-and-pasting in the future and to adhere to standard photo journalistic best practices.”

Pics from yesterday’s debut of the power tea partying set:

Unfortunately the debut wasn’t without its hiccups.

Sens. Reid and Kerry confirm that climate change legislation — which assumed room temperature about six months ago and has been stinking up the place all summer — is in fact dead.

Christina Bellantoni has landed in Las Vegas where she’ll be covering all the goings on associated with Netroots Nation from today through Saturday. Because it’s an election year, Markos’ event will draw a lot of candidates and campaign types, and Christina will be talking with them, doing video interviews, and tweeting updates through the weekend. Conveniently NN is in Nevada this year, where Harry Reid’s reelection bid against Sharron Angle is one of the headline races of 2010. In addition, conservatives are once again staging a counter-NN event. So a lot going on, which is why we have Christina on the ground. You can follow all of her reporting over the next three days on the live updating page we’ve set up. Christina’s tweets and links to her posts, video, and other news will appear there first. So bookmark it and follow everything at Netroots Nation in one spot.