In case you haven’t heard, the fabulous duo of ferocious comedic political satire, the only two (save for maybe Olbermann as well) who still hold our elected and appointed leaders accountable are coming back. That’s right, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are coming back… and not a moment too soon.

It must be said that it is too bad that they have to do so without their writers, who are still embroiled in a strike against the wholly un-magnanimous Scrooges of the television and movie industry. In typical fashion they addressed this by saying they wish they could have their writers, but ““If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.”

Even without their writers, this is a true holiday blessing. The thought of having an election without Jon Stewart (and Colbert) has been bumming me out ever since the first day of the strike. Who would point out with such irreverent humor the ridiculousness of Rudy Giuliani’s answers on Meet the Press, or the unbelievably NOT coy attempts at smearing Barack Obama by the Clinton camp… mentioning cocaine abuse “accidentally” roughly 24 times and ex-Senators serving as Clinton campaign chairs mentioning his Muslim heritage, calling him “Osama.” All we get is Brian Williams dryly glancing over this then moving on to more important topics, like why Hannah Montana is so cool or something.

Just dealing with the awesomeness that is the Bush Administration the last few months without Stewart has me utterly crestfallen. Would Charlie Gibson point out the absurdity of the Bush Administration hailing an energy bill (that was stripped of so much good and still shoved down his throat) as a great piece of the fight against global warming, and then for the EPA to immediately (literally that day) tell California its CO2 regs are too tough and are officially stricken? No, Charlie does not notice the contradiction.

Where was everyone’s favorite tart, Katie Couric, when the NIE announced that Iran was not making nukes? DId she run a montage of El Chimpo saying moronic things like “World War III” and “axis of evil?” No. Nobody pointed out this utter retardedness in such honest fashion as Stewart (and to a different extent, Colbert) would.

We NEED Stewart for this election. We need somebody who will keep these blathering idiots honest by mercilessly making fun of them. Right now I’m daydreaming of a bit on MIke Huckabee, swapping back and forth from his gee-golly guffawing during the campaign and some past speeches saying that women should submit and AIDS patients should be put on an island.

Well thankfully they’re coming back. I can’t wait for the rehash of the Iowa Caucuses…