Flameouts at Christmas time

That motherfucker in North Korea is dead. There are signs that Newter has peaked and is falling back into the pack in Iowa. And the U.S. House of Representatives is a goddamned embarrassment. Speaker Boner gets a kick in the groin from the tea-dious members of the GOP caucus every time he tries to cut a deal, and if this shit keeps up, maybe a bunch of Republicans will lose their House seats in November 2012. None of this qualifies as great news comparable to angels speaking to shepherds tending their flocks, but it'll have to do for the moment.