Huh?

I actually impressed. The Dems make a bold campaign promise and not just meet it, but beat the clock; accomplishing more in 87 hours then the GOP ruled House did in the past six years. But how can that be? Didn't the MSM tell us just days after the election that Pelosi had lost control over the House? Weren't the Dems supposed to be so splintered and lacking in a unified position to accomplish anything other than squabbling and disarray?

While I'll quibble about the Student Loan bill for doing more for outgoing grads than incoming ones, it was a substantive bill with a real impact. Same with the oil tax rollbacks, the minimum wage bill, ethics changes, prescription negotiation power. We can all argue that they don't go far enough, but they are a real change. Evidence that Pelosi made her compromises quickly in order to avoid stalemate. Best of all, save for the Gator Day bill, not an empty symbolic bill among them, no flag burning, praise Jesus, Moms and puppy dog protection acts in the bunch.

No wonder that even a Fox News poll shows Dem popularity rising.

What's really funny is that O'Reilly, feigning to be a good guy by playing along and pretending that it was all in fun, doesn't seem to realize how thoroughly he was skewered by Colbert.

Delicious.

I thoroughly enjoy Jon Stewart's often dead-on political and social satire. And, thanks to the minute to minute armada of lousy, local, latebreaking grief headlines everywhere else, I look forward to the Daily Show "balance" where skewering of the powers that be and wannabe is a tasty delight.

However, the Daily Show's spin off, Colbert Report is a disappointing conundrum. Easy to look at, though he is, Colbert is coming across to me as a lazy entertainer contributing little that's memorable to the public humor discourse. Making O'Reilly uncomfortable is not enough of a reason to squander minutes with him on the Colbert Report. The presentation was childish and a waste of good air time. If pulling off funny hours daily is too much to handle, then hire a bevy of writers with a world view, experience, perspective and strong writing skills. Make a difference.