Thu 8/6 Roundup: Bad Banks, Confirmation, Wearing Pants While Being a Woman

- The Obama administration intends to announce today a new plan for detaining undocumented immigrants facing deportation.

- The "gang of six" will roll through the White House today to talk health care with the President.

- The government is considering stripping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of their troubled assets, and putting them in a bad bank.

- Sotomayor will likely be confirmed this afternoon.  The GOP will vote against her.

- The Senate will likely inject an extra $2b into "cash for clunkers."

- In the WSJ, Erica Alini writes that wages are stagnant across the country, but DC is in better shape than most.

- Nouriel Roubini looks to other countries that seem to be doing fairly well despite the global recession.

- A Sudanese journalist, facing a sentence of 40 lashes for wearing pants while being a woman, will contest her conviction all the way to the highest court-- and if she loses, she asks for not 40 but 40,000 lashes.

- The Argentine soccer league has ground to a halt thanks to crippling debt.

- Last, Lou Dobbs is a huge racist: