Good Thursday morning. The Fresno State Bulldogs ousted the Georgia Bulldogs (not a typo) to win the College World Series last night, making them the lowest-ranked team to win an NCAA championship. Their win is the equivalent of a 13-16 seed winning March Madness. Here's what Washington is watching this morning:

-- The Senate will take up amendments to a House-passed FISA bill a day after passing their own version by a wide 80-15 margin. The House is debating a measure promoting the use of public transportation. President Bush made an announcement this morning at the White House lifting some sanctions on North Korea, including removing the rogue country from the terrorist watch list. The House Intelligence Committee will take up North Korea, which is said to have made significant progress on its pledges to rid itself of nuclear weapons, this morning as well. Bush will also address the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and give a speech to a faith-based conference in Washington, before choppering out to meet Crown Prince Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of Abu Dhabi, at Camp David.

-- Today also marks the beginning of the final coming together of two Democrats who stood as rivals for nearly a year and a half. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will meet today with Clinton's national finance team at a Washington hotel, where Clinton will encourage her donors to back the Illinois senator and where Obama is likely to offer his own support in the form of debt retirement. After meeting today in Washington, where they will also participate in votes on the Senate floor, the two will head to Unity, New Hampshire, for the first of what could be many joint rallies.

-- Behind the scenes, Washington super lawyer Robert Barnett, who has negotiated book deals for both the candidates, is hashing out unresolved questions between the two campaigns, the New York Times writes. Brought on at Clinton's request, Barnett is working to hammer out deals on Clinton's role at the Democratic National Convention and over Clinton's campaign travel on Obama's behalf. The two elephants in the room that have not come up yet: Bill Clinton's role in the general election and whether Hillary Clinton would be offered the vice presidential slot. Too, Clinton staffers are miffed that so few from their rank have been recruited by Obama's campaign. One new Clintonite headed to Chicago will be former policy director Neera Tanden, who is in talks about a job.

-- Meanwhile, Obama's support of FISA legislation that passed last night, guaranteeing retroactive immunity to the telecom industry, has irritated some core backers in the netroots, as Huffington Post's Sam Stein writes today. And irritated is a kind word. The top lefty bloggers are furious that the Democratic nominee would back such a bill, though he describes the telecom immunity as less important than national security. Truth be told, though, many thinkers in the liberal blogosphere, who were more in tune with John Edwards in the primaries than with Obama, think the Illinois senator is more with them on tactics surrounding organizing than on policy.

-- Could Obama actually be dangerous to the netroots? After some Democrats prostrated themselves to the Koses and Atrioses of the world, Obama's campaign is based on running everything internally, with less interest in external drivers like the netroots. Witness Obama's almost complete swallowing of the Democratic National Committee. If Obama wins the White House, bloggers, who maintain they have contributed to several down-ballot wins before, will be stuck with a president driving the Democratic Party who got there largely without their help and who has serious policy differences. Obama has already shown he cares more about traditional Democratic groups than he does about the netroots. His win in November could be a netroots setback.

-- Obama has not only paid more attention to typical Democratic constituencies, he's also run a surprisingly traditional campaign. In fact, both Obama and John McCain have spent the first few weeks of the general election running campaigns that are just as negative, if not more so, than the last few election cycles, the Washington Post's Dan Balz writes today. Far from being the post-partisan change agents bent on creating a new kind of politics, Obama and McCain have instead devolved into a debate about debates, screamed at each other over campaign finance, offered demonstrably false attacks against the other and become experts at playing the victim, both when deserved and when undeserved. Both have yet to demonstrate anything approaching outside-the-box campaigning.

-- With poll numbers showing him at a severe and, perhaps, growing disadvantage, McCain is looking for new ways to vault himself back to the top. That path back to the lead is within reach, especially in a political climate that is so volatile, though he will have to choose from myriad options that every pundit and strategist will offer. The consensus, in a nutshell: Let McCain be McCain, the come-from-behind maverick who likes nothing better than irritating Washington while cultivating his media base. Second, build a field program that rivals Obama's, because with Republican enthusiasm down, McCain's voters are going to need an extra shove out the door. Time's Mark Halperin has twenty more ideas for McCain.

-- Issue Of The Day: For the first time since 1939, the Supreme Court will issue a significant ruling on the Second Amendment, when they decide District of Columbia v. Heller, regarding Washington's wide-ranging gun ban. As the Court winds down its activities this term, it has held its most significant rulings until the last minute. Speculation is coursing through both pro- and anti-gun communities about how far-reaching the majority opinion will be in affirming (likely) or rejecting (unlikely) the individual's right to bear arms. Stick with Politics Nation for coverage once the ruling comes down.

-- Today On The Trail: Obama finishes his economic tour this morning with a major summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Among the attendees, retired Marine General Jim Jones, who shared a stage with Barack Obama a few weeks ago, and top executives from business and labor, including SEIU President Andy Stern, US Steel CEO John Surma and GM chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner. McCain, meanwhile, has a town hall meeting set for Xavier University in Cincinnati. Michelle Obama is on the trail today with stops in Manchester, New Hampshire, to campaign with ex-Governor Jeanne Shaheen, and in New York, where she will keynote a DNC event for the GLBT community.