Questions For The Day

So, after my cursory reading of the morning headlines, I'm left with two simple questions:

1. Will our obstructionist congress allow Obama to move ahead with his plan to act on consolidating federal bureaucracies, or will they bloviate about the unreasonable extension of executive power, or something of the like? 
2. Now that the state has had to come out and say what we've all known for years --- that PG&E is criminally negligent in its actions, and has been since at least 1956 --- and is looking to ding them for hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, will PG&E cry poverty, and go to the state regulatory commission to request that these costs be passed on to the customers (including those survivors of the deadly 2010 blast which instigated the whole process, of course), or will the State have the balls to demand that the shareholders actually take the downside of their risk for once, and eat the cost the way they should (if capitalism worked the way it is supposed to)? 

I'm afraid I'm not too hopeful about the outcome in either case.

 Happy Friday, and Happy MLK Jr. Weekend.