Yesterday Harry Reid's wife Landra and daughter Lana were taken to a DC hospital after their car was rear-ended on I-95. Both were injured, but Mrs. Reid's injuries were more serious — not life-threatening, although she did break her back and neck (ugh). According to doctors she can "feel her extremities," and if I remember my ER correctly that means no paralysis, at least. Still, it's terribly sad that this happened, and I'm sure today we'll see a lot of people putting partisan politics aside to wish Mrs. Reid good health and healing.

Even, presumably, some of the people whose idea of fun is punching her husband in the face.

You might think that Harry Reid is a ball-less ineffectual Senate Majority Leader, but it's not true. Just look at this: He's promising to change filibuster rules…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on Wednesday to take a serious look at revising the filibuster rules at the beginning of the next Congress, calling the current level of obstruction in the Senate unacceptable.

First of all, no you're not, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This is a nice sentiment, and it's fun to make promises and all, but you and all of everybody in the world knows that "at the beginning of the next Congress," you're going to be cleaning the dead opossums out of your pool in Nevada. Sorry to drop reality on Harry your fantasy camp, but somebody has to be the dick here.

But, hey, what's the harm in pretending. I yield the post to the Senate Majority Leader (for now)…

"The filibuster has been abused. I believe that the Senate should be different than the House and will continue to be different than the House," Reid said. "But we're going to take a look at the filibuster. Next Congress, we're going to take a look at it. We are likely [Ed note: read as "unlikely"] to have to make some changes in it, because the Republicans have abused that just like the spitball was abused in baseball and the four-corner offense was abused in basketball."

Reid's embrace of filibuster reform comes after he previously threw cold water on the likelihood of getting the rules changed. His reference to the "next Congress" stands out. To change Senate rules in the middle of the session requires 67 votes, which Democrats clearly don't have. But changing the rules at the beginning of the 112th Congress will require the chair to declare the Senate is in a new session and can legally draft new rules. That ruling would be made by Vice President Joe Biden, who has spoken out against the current abuse of the filibuster. The ruling can be appealed, but that appeal can be defeated with a simple majority vote.

"A simple majority vote," you say? Hmmmm… I see…  I'm sorry, but I am completely unfamiliar with such a concept.

Did you get to watch the magical vanishing/re-appearing beard show this past weekend? As is usual, their political stuff was hit-and-miss.

For example, this bit about health care reform was mostly missy, but a little hitty (especially when talking about Harry Reid's extreme lameness)…

While this trailer for the 2012 elections was all full of hits…

Jim Bunning's been in the news quite a bit for screwing over more than a million unemployed Americans, but let's not forget that he was also one of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. He was a six-time All-Star who threw a perfect game. In fact, it's been said that he was almost as good at baseball as he is at being a cantankerous, elderly Lex Luthor.

Of course, the villains in Congress aren't the only thing wrong with America. After the jump, Jon reports on CNN's Rick Sanchez, who is to journalism what pants-pooping is to pants.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Read more »

If you haven't been watching the past two hours of the health care summit, please allow me to give you a little taste of what you're missing…

President Obama: I am likable and well-spoken, and I have children who have been sick in the past which made me wonder what it would be like to not have health care. Therefore, we need to overhaul everything.

Republicans: We thank you for inviting us to this wonderful event that we spent the past few weeks denegrating in the media. However, this will cost money and things that cost money are inherently bad. And Americans don't want better health care for some strange reason. Also, here are some other talking points. So, we should throw this away and start over and you should assume that we won't torpedo the next bill as we did this one.

President Obama: Everything you said is wrong.

Republicans: No, everything we said is right.

President Obama: That is also wrong. What do you think, Democrats?

Democrats: We have nothing of any substance to contribute to this conversation. However, here is an appeal to people's emotions.

President Obama: You went over your allotted time.

Cable News Pundit: We are breaking in so that I can say words. These are some words. And here are some more. Now let's go back to the summit while I sit in my dressing room, combing my hair and drinking bottom-shelf vodka.

Oh yeah! It's that good.

Hahahahahaha! Those foolish Republicans took the bait and fell for the President's sinister plan to lure them into the Blair House for the ostensible purpose of participating in a Health Care Summit, whatever those nonsense words are even supposed to mean.

Watch Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and all the other Republicans who were hapless enough to have fallen prey to the Democrats' ruse as they're forced at soy-point to gay marry polar bears…