Christmas Movies Open Thread

It’s been a depressing week. Let’s try something cheerier to talk about. What are your favorite Christmas movies? This is an open thread (but you already knew that)

Answer: They stand for nothing

Byron York: What’s wrong with Democrats? Sure, they got their butts kicked on Nov. 2, but they still control the Senate and the White House, and they remain in charge of the vast bureaucracy of the executive branch. So why do they seem so lost? “We’re uniting,” one key House Republican said recently, “and they’re [...]

Pee or get off the pot

Women’s bathroom in House: $200K Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner’s idea to build a women’s bathroom could be a costly proposition. The incoming Republican House leader proposed plans to build female members a new restroom off the House floor, but the project could cost the taxpayers at least $200,000, according to a congressional aide who has seen [...]

Say it isn’t so!

Clinton to leave politics? Hillary Rodham Clinton says her work as U.S. secretary of state will be her final public position. She told an interviewer in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain that she does not plan to run for president. And she appeared to rule out taking any other public role, saying that instead [...]

Oh. My. God. We are so screwed.

Paul Krugman and Anglachel have two important posts up.  After you read them, you’ll get a sickening feeling that things are about to get worse.  If anyone expected Barack Obama to use his veto pen to stop the Republican Horde from wrecking havoc, they might want to rethink that notion.  As Paul says in Freezing [...]