Jon Stewart, on the new financial watchdog: “We should give it laser eyes. Oh, and a jet pack! And Adamantium claws! It will be an unstoppable dog killing machine!” Watch.

A key vote switch: Dennis Kucinich just announced that he will vote for the health care reform package even though it’s not as progressive as he would like — and despite his pledge to vote against it.

It’s gotten so out of hand that Hawaii is considering legislation that would allow state officials to ignore repeated requests from the same individual for Obama’s birth certificate.

One of the ironies about Democrats, especially in Congress, being so tentative about health care reform is that the anger the reform efforts seem to have unleashed isn’t really about health care reform at all.

That’s not to say the anger isn’t real. Take a look at this video shot by the Columbus Dispatch, of competing health care rallies yesterday outside the office of Democratic congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy (thanks to TPM Reader JL for the link). Pay particular attention at the :50 second mark, where anti-reform protesters yell and throw a few bucks at a man holding a sign claiming he has Parkinson’s.

Those guys screaming about “handouts” would be perfectly at home at a rally in the 1990s, or the 80s, or the 70s and so on. This isn’t new, and it’s not original. The social and cultural currents running through this debate exist independent of the debate, and the anger can’t be tempered or avoided by procedural figleafs that few people inside Washington understand or by better messaging. At the end of the day, even abandoning reform won’t calm that kind of anger.

Multiple sources in the House and Senate are telling us to expect the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the health care reform package to come out late today. Nothing official yet, but if the House is going to vote on the Senate bill Saturday, the CBO score basically needs to come today.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) helpfully explained on Fox today what he meant when said Dems were “all liquored up on sake” and “making a suicide run.”

“My comments really reflect the fanaticism of the Democratic leadership,” Graham said. “And I don’t know whether sake or moonshine, but no sober person would do this.”

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) says some of the Health Care Reform fix bill might fail the reconciliation test.

Somehow MSNBC’s David Shuster got Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) to come out in support of a single-payer system on national TV. Go figure.

Here’s an example of how fluid the current state of public opinion is on Health Care Reform and, even more so, how you really need to dig into the weeds with some of these polls rather than just focus on the toplines. In the new NBC/WSJ poll 48% say the current reform bill is a “bad idea” and only 36% say it’s a “good idea”. 15% are undecided. That actually shows reform being considerably less popular than most recent polls. The current TPM Poll Average has the question at 48.9% against and 42.5% for it.

But look at the next question on the poll. “Do you think it would be better to pass Barack Obama’s health care plan and make its changes to the health care system or to not pass this plan and keep the current health care system?”

46% say better to pass it; 45% say do nothing.

And the one after that asks if your Representative voted with the Republicans to kill reform, would make you more or less likely to vote for them. 31% say more likely, 34% say less likely and 34% say it wouldn’t make a difference. In other words, a wash, with perhaps the slightest advantage to the pro-Reform forces.