Quickies

• Mortgage relief on the way?  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman calls today's mortgage relief package a "down payment towards the overall goal of accountability," and a small step in the right direction.

• A "small step" because the package is aimed at about $25 billion and the overall mortgage default equity is about $700 billion.  In other words, much smaller than the trillions the feds gave the banks.  Money for ordinary, average Americans though is much harder to push through Congress.

• I don't live anywhere near a nuclear power plant.  Do you?

• Nancy Pelosi takes on the Colbert Super Pac.  Jabs it for raising money to spend against her friend Newt Gingrich.

• Don't forget to read the latest installment of the Fold Blog's religion doesn't matter unless it's political discussion.