If you were waiting for fireworks at last night's debate or hoped to see some interesting changes to the candidates' overall strategies, well, you got what you were looking for.

5:48 The debate doesn't actually start until 6, but man, the pre-debate discussion is getting nasty!

It's a little early for any endorsements to come out, but you may not hear of many (or any) labor endorsements during the primaries, no matter who wins tonight's AFL-CIO debate at Soldier Field in Chicago, which George will be liveblogging. Join him tonight from 6:00 PM Central. Join us below for some pre-game talk about NAFTA and endorsements.

The junior Senator was in El Paso yesterday, talking about the need to increase border security and saying that the key isn't a big border fence. Which is weird, because he voted for a big border fence. Now he is backing off of that assertion, or at least he engaged in a little quibbling and quantifying about it when he was in front of the El Paso Chamber.

The biggest news over the weekend, more or less, is that Senator Clinton had a decent welcome at Yearly Kos.

For this episode of On The Record, we speak with Zada True-Courage, the Committeewoman for SD 25, Comptroller for the True Courage Action Network, and co-founder of the Northeast Bexar County Democrats.

This week's mailbag has a little bit of everything, from yuks to some kind of serious examination of why a multi-party system, while democralicious in other nations, just isn't happening here at home.

Congress is getting ready to pack it in and hit the road, so there's been a lot of action on bills this week. Since the Senate passed the ethics reform bill on to the White House yesterday, we will now learn the truth: will George Bush completely veto ethics? Forever?

For this episode of On The Record, we speak with Giovanni Garibay, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Houston representing the Young Democrats of America and Chief of Staff to City of Houston Council Member Adrian Garcia.

To all of you who were concerned that the nation's law enforcement was headed by a man with no compunction about lying under oath, worry no longer: Alberto Gonzales wasn't lying — he was unintentionally confusing.