Countdown Tuesday: Iraq Bottom
Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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The Other Shoe Drops: Having lied about the intelligence during the run-up to the War in Iraq... Having lied about the intelligence after the invasion when no Weapons of Mass Destruction were found... How ironic would it be if -- in our fifth story on the Countdown -- Vice President Dick Cheney, by refusing to join the Bush revisionist chorus and refusing to insist the war might not have been inevitable -- were now the only one telling the truth?
It's Whose Party?: When it comes to getting things done... President-elect Obama is probably aiming for legislative victories far greater than the Clinton administration and certainly the Carter administration... But the Speaker of the House of his own party... has reportedly made clear, just how she would like him to operate. Meantime, in our fourth story on the Countdown, a leading Democrats' deference to Republicans over the confirmation of Attorney General-designate Eric Holder...might* leave skeptics wondering... Is the party in power acting like the party in power?
ODDBALL: A naked run in the Phillippines, and a pizza drop.
Power Stripped: Having systematically stripped Americans of our rights on everything from unwarranted spying to Habeas Corpus....Our third story on the Countdown - President Bush is now trying to take away perhaps the most American right of all. The right to sue.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Eric Prince, Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh vie for tonight's top honors.
Shoes Fly, Don't Bother Me: "It's so crazy, it's almost not fun to do anything about it" So said Conan O'Brien last night...speaking, of course, about the shoes heard 'round the world. In our number one story...Not since Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face had the late-night comics been so blessed... Equally blessed have been the web elves... and so will we be blessed in a minute when Joel McHale joins us.
