Top Lines: Optimistic Boehner, Reid invokes Charlie Brown, and Colbert wishes people a Merry Fiscal Cliff-mas

>>> from eternal optimist and cold reality to labor pains in michigan. here are today's top lines. you want to dance?

>> i remain the most optimistic person in this town. m.

>> he doesn't sound optimistic.

>> obama is daring republicans literally to blink.

>> i'm pretty confident.

>> they're going to have to cave in.

>> i know some republicans who had their eyelids surgically removed.

>> while names are thrown out.

>> the fiscal cliff is coming to town.

>> there is a process.

>> merry cliffmas.

>> we're going to stay here right up until christmas eve .

>> how many times is charlie brown going to try to kick that football?

>> the key is to make sure the taxes go up. we can afford it.

>> you have a national treasure .

>> i'm a warrior and i'm a statesman and i'm not going away.

>> puts me in a stupid hat and uses a picture. we know their game.

>> wimpy pastors produce wimpy christians.

>> there's a new tone being set by big labor and looks like this.

>> it's really a right to work around the union. like strip bars call themselves for gentlemen's clubs.

>> you got hit hard. off chipped tooth and other injury.

>> i'm underretsed, overworked and still tough enough to take the union's greatest punch. i'm still tough enough to take this punch.

>> capitulating to the mob. it looks like the arab streets. hope and change and we're going to man the barricades and demand change right now.

>> if i would have defended myself, they would have killed me. i will press charges and you will go to jail or face me in the people's octagon in a legal mixed martial arts bout.

>> working in a factory all day building chevys. like the volt. you plug it in then you win ecologically because if it was an actual race you would not.