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Countdown Thursday: McMortgage McBailout

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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The Resurge Isn't Working:  Since Senator McCain has become fond of posing everything he says in the form of a question: With the Dow already down seventeen percent for the week so far -- do you think, Senator McCain, that Americans give a crap about rehabilitated sixties radical William Ayers? With the Dow on track for its biggest weekly percentage drop ever -- do you believe, Senator McCain, that voters would be in favor of your self-named "American Homeownership Resurgence Plan" if they realized that it would "Re-surge" only the balance sheets of financial institutions... passing all of their losses onto American taxpayers? Our fifth story on the Countdown: Senator McCain, cooking the books of his own homeowner bailout plan.

Wile E. Quixote:  If the polls weren't bad enough, if the economy weren't dragging you down, if both Democratic candidates weren't calling you out, if all that did not spell trouble for your campaign... how about one of the nation's leading conservatives comparing you to Don Quixote? Our fourth story tonight, tilting at windmills is not an alternative-energy proposal.

ODDBALL: Cop car piggyback and a terlet on wheels.

Shellshock Shock:  It was one thing when Cindy McCain said that Barrock Obama had voted against her son, because he voted against a troop-funding bill that failed to include a timeline... just as Senator McCain voted against a troop-funding bill that had a timeline. That was just a mendacious attack on a poliitican. Tonight, in our third story, Cindy McCain's mendacious attack on the troops themselves.

Worsties...see below


WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Annie Karni of Page Six of The New York Post, Ed Snider, the owner of hockey's Philadelphia Flyers President Bush



Political Chutzpah:  If voting is the bare minimum of participating in our democracy...It can be doubled by persuading someone else to vote. And in our number one story on the Countdown... if you fly all the way to Florida to do it... You are either a great patriot. Or you are the comedian Sarah Silverman, who will join us presently.

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