MATT WELCH: Obama, Left Behind: What Does It Mean When Progressives Turn Against The President. It means that some people have finally answered the “who are the rubes?” question.

STILL ONE MORE DAY — well, until tonight, anyway — for overnight shipping via Amazon. Interestingly, they’re offering local express delivery in select cities for orders placed tomorrow. But only a few big metropolitan areas.

ROGER SIMON: Post Copenhagen: Is Man-Made Global Warming a Dead Issue?

LEARNED HELPLESSNESS OR LEARNED OPTIMISM? You decide.

A PROTEST AT Claire McCaskill’s office today.

THREATSWATCH: A stealth move toward joining the ICC?

MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS DROP to two-month low.

AN ARMED SOCIETY IS A POLITE SOCIETY: Gun Sales Surge, Violent Crime Drops.

JOEL KOTKIN: The Green Movement’s People Problem. “The movement needs to break with the deep-seated misanthropy that dominates green politics and has brought it to this woeful state.”

MICHAEL BARONE: When legerdemain is used to pass an unpopular bill. A Kansas-Nebraska Act for the 21st Century? Well, it worked out so smoothly before . . . .

RON BAILEY ON The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Nuke Environmentalists. “Why do environmentalists reject a good bet for renewable energy?”

Plus, from Peter Suderman, Solar Power Is Wonderful, Really, Except When You Build It Anywhere Near Anything.

If you’re going to tell me that carbon dioxide is an unparalleled catastrophe for this planet, you’ve got to be willing to demonstrate your sincerity by, you know, endorsing other forms of energy. Otherwise, I’m inclined to think you’re a lying opportunist or something.

RED, RED MEAT: Gingrich rallies the base to take back Congress.

AGW: The Greens’ Tet Offensive?

CHARGES OF political corruption in Pennsylvania.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: The Bipartisan Threat: “I have always said that the word bipartisan has a very scary meaning in Washington, D.C. Here is more evidence: Faced with a massive amount of federal debt and future spending that is about to explode, Sens. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) and Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) decided that instead of cutting spending and forcing the bloated government to slim down, they would introduce legislation creating a bipartisan task force that would try to cut down the deficit.”

To me, bipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties. . .

A COPENHAGEN CODA: European weather deaths pass 100: Freezing weather brings death and disruption in Germany, Italy and across eastern Europe. Seems like it would have been better politics to have the conference in July . . .

DAVID CORN: Obama the Calculator: A Copenhagen Postmortem.

CHRISTMAS SPECIALS on home appliances.

CHANGE: Obama Now More Loathed Than Bush at End of His Second Term.

ABUSIVE LAB TEST: Garbage Bag Faceoff.

MARKDOWNS AND GIFT IDEAS in kitchen, cookware, and housewares.

CROWDSOURCING the Contract With America 2.0. Hey, you can’t rely on the GOP leadership to come up with this stuff . . . .

SUCKERS: ‘We Are in a Sense Being Punished for Our Own Charity’. If you’ve got something that’s golden, you don’t just give it away for free.

VIDEO: Democrat turned Republican unloads on Democrats. “There are still a few Dixiecrat strongholds left, but thanks to Hopenchange, they won’t be that way for much longer.”

Not really Dixiecrats, but yeah.

CHANGE: Lobbyists On Pace For Record Year.