Jonathan ("stupid voters") Gruber, the Obama health adviser with a penchant for telling the plain truth, said at the time the Affordable Care Act was being written that the reform definitely would not be affordable. The Daily Caller reported Gruber made the statement in a 2009 policy brief in which he said Obamacare had no cost controls in it.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., faces demands that he resign his House leadership post because he once spoke to a white supremacy group. The late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., was a member of such a group, holding a high position in the Ku Klux Klan, and he was elevated to a position third in line of succession to the presidency.

Some end-of-year statistics to ponder:
The Obama administration created 75,000 pages of new federal regulations in 2014.
Federal student loan debt now tops $800 billion.
The U.S. deported 52,701 fewer illegal aliens in FY 2014.