Countdown Monday: Everlasting GOP Stoppers
Posted: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Economy by Partisanship:
It is Lucy pulling away the football she has held for Charlie Brown. As she always has. As she always will, in perpetuity. The Republicans who have pushed to strip decades of regulations that had protected the economy from -- from, well, this... Have, now, in our fifth story on the Countdown, reneged on promised bi-partisan support for the Stimulus Package, and offered instead... more George Bush tax cuts, which they had promised would protect the economy from -- from, well, this.
Fuzzy Math:
"We don't make these figures up. They're not done willy-nilly." The response of spokesman Geoff Morrell, when pressed for details about the 61 former Gitmo inmates that the Pentagon claims have returned, or might have returrned, to the --quote-- "battlefield". Yet in our fourth story on the Countdown tonight - increasing evidence that both the willy and the nilly are in full effect.ODDBALL: Bear pick of the week, and virtual anesthesia.
Spying Justice:
Last week, we revealed on this news hour the allegations... from a former NSA analyst... that President Bush's National Security Agency targeted news organizations for surveillance... and even pried into personal records, like finances and travel. We asked the Obama White House for its response, and today, in our third story... we have it. Sort of.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Vikram Pandit, and Richard S. Fuld vie for tonight's top honors.
The Blago Blitz: This weekend Rod Blagoyavich invoked the names of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King in relation to his own imprisonment. In our number one story tonight...a better comparison may lie somewhere between Walter Mitty and Jon Lovitz's pathological liar Tommy Flanaygan. Today, while the Illinois senate convened impeachment proceedings... Rod Blagoyavich boycotted them with a media blitz on the "Today Show", "Good Morning America" and "The View". Let's tour the wreckage.
