It's definitely an overused adjective, but I like the way it rolls off my tongue:  I have to agree with DEPLORABLE Bill on this.  Not likely to happen this month.  While I still believe this will get done, I have pretty much given up all hope that it will be anytime soon.  Just one disapointment after another.  We all have a lot of "dead" $ tied up here.  I guess the good news is that most of the downside has already hit us.  This past week's action was really annoying, to put it mildly.  

Anyway, wishing everyone a happy Christmas. And let's hope that we'll have definitively good, as in applaudable (not deplorable) news early in the new year.