congress. they all thought they d be home by now. nevertheless, republican senators held a post-6:00 p.m. friday night news conference tonight to talk about the deals they are working on and more work we re told is expected to come this weekend. the holiday season is nice. it s also a lot of extra work. and that does mean stress. if you are like me, that stress sometimes means not sleeping. so tonight s cocktail moment is a holiday appropriate cocktail i like to think of as the poor man s ambion or the drunk man s ambion. it s called a whiskey skin. it s a hot drink. a variation i m turning on the kettle because it s a hot drink. there s something going on. it s a variation on the drink called the hot toddy. there s something going wrong in america right now. and everybody this holiday season is trying to make hot buttered rum. don t do that. hot buttered rum is disgusting even when you do it properly. don t do that. do a hot toddy or do this instead. this is from david wondrich s