This is a very popular map right now among the wonky liberal bloggers of the grown-up end of the internet. It is designed to make the electoral college and the Senate more "democratic." Which defeats the point of those institutions!

"It is mathematically impossible for Democrats to pass legislation on our own." -Senate Democratic memo.

"I don't see the votes for [passing the Senate bill] at this time." -Nancy Pelosi

Democrats should either ram through a vote before Brown is seated or pass the Senate bill and improve it through reconciliation. Barack Obama just took the first option off the table and Barney Frank has ruled out the second.

With Scott Brown's stunning, come-from-behind victory over the boring lady who hated baseball in Massachusetts, the Democrats must admit defeat. Please welcome our new unstoppable Republican Superminority.

Rep. Steve King on illegal Haitian immigrants: "If they are deported, Haiti is in great need of relief workers, and many of them could be a big help to their fellow Haitians." Maybe Royal Caribbean will give them a ride?

Democrats in disarray as 14th Republican Congressman announces retirement.

Democrats will lose two or three Senate seats. Like North Dakota. But they will also maybe pick up a Republican seat or two. That is the state of the Democratic catastrophe you keep reading about.

Merging of the Senate and (superior) House health care bills will be expedited by avoiding a formal conference committee. This is good, because the GOP cannot pointlessly obstruct, and bad, because it once again freezes out the House.

Thanks to the media-hating GOP, the poor saps who cover Congress will be spending Christmas Eve in the Capitol watching Communism happen in the form of a vote on the healthcare bill. Their White House counterparts will be in Hawaii.

Ugh. Shut up, bill-killing liberals. You know who has more liberal cred than all of you? Bernie Sanders, who secured $10 billion for community health and then voted for cloture.

According to the wonks (and the anguished wails of conservatives), we'll have a health care bill signed by the State of the Union. And it may even incrementally improve between now and then. What did we learn?

First we thought, "when did we get a job writing headlines for venerable old Roll Call?" but then we were like "oh, there is a sorta sleazy congressman named Dicks. Norman Dicks." Anyways him and Murtha are (mostly) ethical!

Washington DC will allow gay marriage, yay! But because DC is not allowed to govern itself, the legislation can still be revoked by the US Congress. No one in Congress really wants to get involved. Besides one Republican hero! (Corrected!)

Not that it was hard to see this coming, but The Business That Is Tiger Woods is starting to lose a grip on its multinational corporate backers. In fact, one two of them have gone down! Can you guess who?

The House of Representatives passed legislation today designed to tighten regulations on Wall Street and prevent another financial crisis from unfolding in the future.

The War on Christmas is proceeding apace. Fox news fired the first volley before Halloween (it gets earlier every year yuk yuk), and now Wonkette finds this tragic victim of liberal Jesus-hate

Harry Reid won a compromise between Senate Centrists and Senate Liberals: centrists killed the public option and liberals get the privilege of voting for something that they could argue resembles a public option, sort of.

We were rather bullish on it before, but a government-run insurance option is now dead in the water.

D.C. seems poised to legalize gay marriage. Let's see what Congress says about that.