Jon Stewart: “You couldn’t even get 60 senators to agree to vote on the 9/11 responders bill, because the top 2 percent of Americans haven’t officially received their engraved notifications that their taxes won’t go up 4 percent?” Watch.
In tech news, a new mobile credit-card swiping device that plugs into your smartphone.
New iPad coming early next year with front and rear cameras plus higher resolution.
Nancy Pelosi says she can get a standalone DADT repeal bill through the House if the Senate sends her one, which is what Joe Lieberman is working to do.
Our quick rundown of the incoming Republican committee chairs in the House.
Scenes from the student protests in London, where Prince Charles and Camilla’s Rolls Royce came under attack on the way to the theater:
Sen. Bernie Sander (I-VT) is just about 6 hours into his floor-hogging speech in the Senate, opposing the Obama tax cut plan. So may people were watching the speech streaming online that it apparently crashed the Senate servers at one point. But it’s back up now.
President Obama and former President Clinton held a joint press briefing on the tax cut plan in the White House briefing room — or at least it was meant to be joint. Obama soon handed things over to Clinton and left the room where Bill held court just like in the old days. Video soon …