Countdown Wednesday: The Senate Shuffle
Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Alaskan Surprise: Breaking news: absentee ballots counted today in Alaska -- and they are not all counted -- have put Democrat Mark Begitch in front of Republican Senator Ted Stevens... by exactly three votes. One two three... That leads our 5th story on the Countdown tonight, along with Minnesota, and Georgia. Senator John McCain denounced Saxby Chambliss as "reprehensible" for his infamous 2002 ad showing the faces of his opponent, Max Cleeland, and Osama Bin Laden. That was then; this is tomorrow -- when, in advance of the Georgia runoff, McCain will campaign for... Saxby Chambliss. Because the word "Reprehensible" may start with the letters "R-e-p," but so does "Republican".
Not So Fast, Bushie: You may have heard that President Bush got an early start on his last-minute regulatory changes... because incoming presidents can easily undo them if they're done after November first. You may have not heard... and Mr. Bush apparently hadn't, either... that an obscure little law could make it easy for Democrats to undo any last-minute Bush regulations enacted any time in the last six months of his presidency. As a wise man once said... pretty sneaky, sis! Diagonally! Our fourth story tonight, on Mr. Bush's attempts to extend his legacy, the question we will ask of Mr. Obama nightly until his inauguration... What Do We Do Now?
ODDBALL: Bigfoot the slug.
In the Year 2012: Good evening...again. It's still Wednesday, November 12th... And for the purposes of our third story on the Countdown, the number is one thousand, four hundred and fifty five....That would be the number of days until next presidential election on November sixth, 2012. Three years, 11 months, and 25 days for Republicans to clean up their act -- or the exact opposite -- before making another run at the White House.
Worsties...see below!
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Bill-O, traffic wardens of Hounslow, in England and Mark Foley
Campaign 2012: To paraphrase the late great comic Bill Hicks... The self-aware world's reaction to Governor Sarah Palin is like the guy with the sore tooth -- can't stop touching it -- owwww, owww. Our number one story on the Countdown: Since her return to Alaska on Friday she's given interviews to...
-- The local NBC station...
-- Assembled state capitol reporters...
-- A CNN correspondent...
-- Greta Van Susteren...
-- Matt Lauer...
-- Wolf Blitzer...
-- And Larry King.
And each was an exclusive.
The only way she could be on television more often was if CBS started a series called "CSI Sarah Palin."
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Thus, new interviews can be used to digest **old** inteviews.
In an exclusive interview, Matt Lauer asked her about... an exclusive interview with Katie Couric.
