democrats. david corn is washington bureau chief for mother jones and jonathan allen is with politico. i have never seen a character like this. he seems like a character that only charles dickens would have fully created. somewhere in there was scrooge, i think, or fagan. it s christmas season. he s showing lots of chutzpah here. they had 89 fill busters this past congress, which with was a record. they set a record. and he is out there saying, you know what, we are going to come back and do it all over again. he is showing a lot of hubris at a time. you just noted that the president on s.t.a.r.t., and also on don t ask, don t tell, just figured out how to peel off some of mitch mcconnell s republican allies to pass important legislation at the end of the lame duck session here. yet, mitch mcconnell coming out saying we are going to say, no, no, no all the way home like the