ROLL CALL: Most Blue Dogs Voted for Budget Deal — But Not a Key Leader.

The Blue Dog Coalition fired out a press release on Friday afternoon, boasting that its members “overwhelmingly supported” the bipartisan budget agreement the House passed on Thursday night.

It declined to mention that Rep. Kurt Schrader, a co-chairman of the contingent of fiscally conservative Democrats, voted “no.”

The press release went on to frame the Blue Dogs’ support for the budget deal as part of the coalition’s commitment to working across the aisle to solve the country’s economic woes. It referenced a letter reflecting that sentiment, which the three Blue Dog co-chairmen and three GOP moderates sent to the chief budget negotiators earlier this week.

Schrader was one of the signers of that letter.

Oops.

INVESTIGATIONS: ObamaCare contractor to comply with Issa subpoena.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) announced Friday that an ObamaCare contractor would comply with a subpoena he issued, despite efforts by the Obama administration and some Democrats to keep the documents out of his hands.

After consulting with its legal counsel, MITRE Corp., a contractor working to assess security issues with the ObamaCare website, determined that it “has no alternative but to comply with the terms of a Congressional subpoena absent some form of judicial intervention.”

MITRE was the second ObamaCare contractor to say on Friday it would comply with the disputed subpoena, following CSSi.

“MITRE’s decision is a rejection of efforts by the White House to obstruct oversight,” Issa said in a statement. “The American people deserve an honest assessment of decisions by the Administration to proceed with the October 1 launch of HealthCare.gov despite warnings about security vulnerabilities.”

Earlier on Friday, MITRE in a letter to Issa said the subpoena put it in a “difficult position” because it’s concerned about the security of the sensitive information it would be required to hand over, and because the documents technically belong to the government agency tasked with implementing ObamaCare, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

There needs to be some oversight on this debacle.

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Teacher Accused of Feeding Hot Sauce-Soaked Crayons to Autistic Child Being Reinstated.

ROWBACK: Ryan: Boehner ‘got his Irish up.’ “Ryan adopted a more diplomatic tone in the interview, calling the groups ‘indispensable.'”

GALLERY: The 19 most awesomely ridiculous Obama photos of 2013. Looking at these, you can kinda see why the White House doesn’t want independent photographers anywhere near him.

HOWARD NEMEROV: From Sandy Hook To Malpractice: Doctors use dead children and manipulated research to promote civilian disarmament.

MOE LANE: This Is Not A Monarchy Watch: panicky HHS just making up new #obamacare ‘laws’ on the spot. “To the best of my knowledge, they don’t have this authority. Which leads me to my question: What makes the government officials implementing this policy think that they are immune from prosecution for any laws that they break while following the administration’s orders? – And don’t say that they don’t have to worry about that. After February 2017, Barack Obama won’t be able to fix a parking ticket.”

REMEMBER WHEN WE THOUGHT THE SECRET SERVICE WAS ALMOST INFALLIBLE? Fake Sign Language Guy and the death of competence.

A fake sign-language interpreter is the sort of thing a reasonably savvy advance team would be on guard for, no matter how inept the local government might be. Is part of the problem here that everyone merely assumed the sanctified government of post-Mandela South Africa must be competently managed?

But now we learn the guy was potentially dangerous, his criminal case files “mysteriously empty,” with a tendency towards hallucinations and violence by his own account… hired by a shadowy fly-by-night firm that promptly flew by night and disappeared… and yet he managed to get onstage with the President of the United States. The Secret Service must be having some interesting closed-door meetings right about now.

But as far as I know, no one has been fired.

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21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The “Practice Wife.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: Who Funds the Far Left? You’ll Be Surprised. Akin Gump, AT&T, Coca Cola? I’m surprised people aren’t complaining at the corporations’ shareholder meetings. Akin Gump, being a subsidiary of the Democratic Party, is less of a surprise, though they do sort of pretend to be otherwise.

GALLERY: 15 Gorgeous Photos Of The Old Cincinnati Library.

CHANGES IN DIET CAN QUICKLY CHANGE GUT FLORA. The “meat is bad” angle, prominent at the beginning of the article, is pretty much caveated away by the end.

EATING THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: I attempt to determine what a “Twelve days” feast would actually look like, nutritionally speaking.

HMM: U.S. Government Nastygram Shuts Down One-Man Bitcoin Mint.

Related: With $25 Million Bet, Silicon Valley Officially Claims Bitcoin as Its Own.

23 LIFE LESSONS from working at a restaurant. Some of them seem more generally applicable. For example: “16. Even the best establishment can be run into the ground by a petty, spiteful manager.”

50 LAST-MINUTE WAYS to prepare for an emergency.

CHANGE: Manhattan Apartment Rents Drop for a Third Straight Month. Hmm. Fallout from the DeBlasio election?

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THAT WOULD BE MOST OF THEM, WOULDN’T IT? The Worst Movies Of 2013.

VIDEO: Casting A Fire Ant Colony With Molten Aluminum.

21ST CENTURY ETIQUETTE: Does the Gentleman Use His Phone at the Urinal?

WHY SPENDING A THOUSAND BUCKS CAN MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A MILLION.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Lisa Regan, Finding Claire Fletcher.

MAPPING: How Connectedness—Not Distance—Predicts the Spread of a Pandemic.