Countdown Monday: New Kids on the Blocked
Posted: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Back to Work:
And the night before the Senate of this nation is to convene... With twin plot-lines that neither Frank Capra nor Rod Serling would've touched. An ex-Saturday Night Live comic, elected by just 225 votes in a Minnesota re-count... And a distinguished member of the Hall of Fame of Centralia, Illinois, appointed by an allegedly, almost-cartoonishly, corrupt governor. Call it: Mr. Franken and Mr. Burris Go To Washington... And who knows what they'll find when they get there.
It's the Economy: Any yelling about the evil "Bush Tax Cuts" may have to be muted. There are new proposed tax cuts which are -- at least over the next two years -- more than President Bush ever gave. Our fourth story on the Countdown, 300 billion dollars in tax relief proposed by a new president. And they weren't proposed by President-Elect Mills of Ghana.ODDBALL: Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper do New Years Eve and the world's largest human-sized bug zapper.
Meddle East:
The death toll in Gaza today... after ten days of aerial bombardment... on this third day of Israel's ground invasion... is now estimated at more than 540 dead... 200 of them civilians. With world leaders flying to the Middle East... and working the phones for a cease-fire, only one voice in the global community said today, "whoa, let's not stop the bloodshed too quickly now." Our third story tonight, another Bush debacle, bequeathed to Barack Obama.
Worsties...see below! WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:
Joseph Farah, the proprietor of World Net Daily, radio host Bill Cunningham, Alaska's state Public Safety Commissioner, Joe Masters.
The Littlest Idol:
There is something uniquely American about even a discussion about the possibility that the first African-American President might be culturally overshadowed by... His own kids. Our number one story tonight: the Obamas have arrived -- literally -- in Washington... And we may have seen a long unresolved national "empty-nest syndrome" -- relieved. Sasha and Malia Obama attended their first day of school, escorted by their mother and the Secret Service...And trailed by journalists.
