Republicans Reluctantly Agree To Consider Getting Whatever They Want

• Senate Republicans foolishly blocked tax cuts for ninety-eight percent of Americans on Saturday, giving Democrats perhaps their greatest legislative victory to date -- because now they have the perfect bargaining chip . Yes. Everybody is laughing at Mitch McConnell and all the other spineless Republicans who might compromise their family values and agree to "temporarily extend Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, along with unemployment benefits that have expired." Suckers! What a bad deal, for them. (Only twenty-six percent of Americans want all the Bush tax cuts to be extended. One-hundred percent of people who don't want unemployment benefits to be extended are assholes.) Democrats win! [ AP / The Caucus / CNN ]

• The drug-fueled Mexican Civil War is as bad as you thought, according to those leaked diplomatic cables. [ McClatchy ]

• Iran is having a friendly Nuclear Threat Q&A session with a bunch of other countries in Geneva. We thought that Julian Assange destroyed diplomacy forever? Hillary lied to us. [ CSM ]