DL Open Thread Tuesday December 14 2021

A host of Fox News personalities watched the attempted Jan 6th coup with horror. In a flurry of text messages, they begged Mark Meadows to beg Trump to call off the coup, and not kill Mike Pence. They have all since revised their position on insurrection and the merits of murdering Mike Pence.
The Democratic Party has a serious problem - the moderates who have won control of the party are addicted to alienating working and middle class voters. The NYT recently published an op-ed by Jamelle Bouie who implores moderates like Coons, Manchin and Sinema  to stop whining about progressives, to stop blaming liberals for your failures and get down to business.

The Bottom Five Worst Christmas Songs

This is a companion post to my definitive list of the best Christmas songs and the best versions of those song.   In this list I don't bother with versions because these songs are so execrable that figuring out degrees of awfulness doesn't interest me.  To get on the list, the songs must be from the modern era (not traditional), truly bad and yet,  somehow still widely played along with the rest of the holiday canon. 5) The Little Drummer Boy 4) Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time 3) Last Christmas I gave You My Heart 2) Santa Baby 1) Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer If you are a really glutton for punishment, check out this Esquire list of horrible holiday music that (thankfully) isn't widely played. [The Christina Aguilera version of 'Oh Holy Night' gets my vote for "The Worst Song Ever", if anyone ever has the nerve to compile that list. ]