Christopher Beam discusses Jon Stewart's efforts to resuscitate the bill to pay health costs for sick 9/11 Responders. It looks now like the bill's going to get passed before the Lame Duck Congress flies home. Stewart doesn't deserve all the credit but he seems to deserve a lot for a guy who claims he just criticizes from the sidelines and doesn't play any of the games.
Assuming this passes, by the way, that'll have been a helluva Lame Duck Congress: This, the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the tax deal, the thing about food safety…and it looks like the START treaty's going to get through, as well. Not bad for the home of Partisan Gridlock. Then again, if they nuke Net Neutrality as it looks like they're going to do tomorrow, we'll be wishing they'd done less.