Everybody knows – Lorie Byrd notes that assertion in politics is all that’s needed to establish credibility: “Whatever happened to truth in politics?” On the same theme, Mark Levin writes “No Fitzmas, but nothing changes.”

Extra – From Balloon Juice: “This administration has screwed up so many things that it is hard to keep track, and yet some still persist in being petty and foolish about things that not only don’t matter, but aren’t even true.”