It may be beginning to look a whole lot like Christmas, but the holiday cheer was limited on today’s O’Reilly Factor as host Laura Ingraham and Dick Morris decried the last of the bills passed during this month’s lame duck congressional term– and especially the Republicans “selling out” and making legislation like the START Treaty pass.

Politico has set out to find what Tea Partiers think of some of the conservative movement’s top leaders. While most results were predictable– their love of Glenn Beck and suspicion towards John McCain, for starters– Politico also found some surprises in the attitudes towards some of their biggest supporters.

RedState.com is currently focusing their rage on Florida governor and Republican senate candidate Charlie Crist, who quipped to Greta Van Susteren on On the Record last night that his opponent, Tea Party darling Marco Rubio, had spent upwards of $100 on a “back wax” using the State Republicans’ credit card. Christmas is now coming early for Charlie, too, who is getting massive amounts of expensive depilatory wax, courtesy of Erick Erickson and company.

Sen. Scott Brown is making his mark as a legislative maverick whose yet-untainted heart is his compass. Too bad it’s not 2008, the Republicans don’t have anywhere near a majority in the Senate, and Republican mavericks are passé.

Michael Steele, the current chairman of the GOP who continues to threaten to deal harshly with any member who does not toe the line, appears to be suffering with the same malady affecting much of the Republican party: what to do about Sarah Palin. The current answer apparently involves some flip-flopping

If you were watching the coverage of the voting on the Baucus Bill on Tuesday you know that the star of the show was the “bipartisan curious” Republican Senator Olympia Snowe who voted for the bill and against party lines. Apparently all it takes to become the new American hero in the eyes of the media is to vote against party lines in a bill that would’ve passed anyway.