Christmas gifts good and bad on the horizon. For the nation, it’s beginning to look a lot like another Covid surge. For Senate Dems, it may be coal instead of a vote on the Build Back Better bill. For House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, it’s demands to ouster two prominent GOP Rep.s. And for the Rockies and the Great Plains states, it’s lots and lots of storms. A couple of good gifts though. A big classified docs release on the JFK assassination and a very, very large check for Bruce Springsteen.