Just a few short weeks after a self-proclaimed "shellacking" in the US midterm elections made the Barack Obama, US president's, legislative agenda look bleak, he and his party have celebrated a comeback. After controversially agreeing to extend tax cuts, the US Congress lifted the ban preventing gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. And on Wednesday a new treaty to cut the number of nuclear weapons Russia and the US possess was approved by the US Senate. Al Jazeera's White House correspondent Patty Culhane reports.
