Countdown Tuesday: Dasched
Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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David Shuster in for KO tonight...
Vet to the Point: When Senator Tom Daschle redd the newspaper this morning... he said he knew it was over. As he told our own Andrea Mitchell, in a brief and emotional telephone conversation, quote: "I redd the New York Times. I can't pass health care if it's too much of a distraction... so I called the president this morning." Our fifth story on the Countdown: Daschle withdrew his nomination as President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services. And he wasn't the only member of the administration to quit today over tax problems.
Stim For Sale: President Barack Obama is determined to sell the stimulus plan...And sell it, and sell it, and sell it. In our fourth story on the Countdown, the President granted interviews with five news anchors today... And behind the scenes, he is basically telling Democrats to do what it takes to get the stimulus package passed.
ODDBALL: Bloomberg gets bit, a lobster goes free, and a Hungarian politician goes boom.
Justice For All: For years - he has refused to cooperate with any investigation into the political firing of nine U-S attorney generals. But tonight, in our third story on the Countdown, Karl Rove has capitulated. Just as a new era begins at the Justice Department
Still Bushed...
G.O.P. Joe: To our number one story on the Countdown...and tonight, great news for Republican Lawmakers left out in the wilderness after the past two elections that have swept the Democratic party into power. Back-up is on the way...and his name is Joe. Actually, it isn't Joe...he calls himself Joe.
