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[drupal=129]Midweek Politics with David Pakman 12-23-2009[/drupal]
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 23rd, 2009
Total Running Time: 57:07
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This Week's Topics:
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--The healthcare non-reform bill passes, with controversy, at one in the morning on the Senate floor.
--Senator Tom Coburn asks others to pray some do not make it to the healthcare vote, then afterward explains he was referring to an alarm clock simply not going off.
--Senator Bernie Sanders withdraws his single-payer amendment to the health insurance bill after Senator Coburn makes a Senate clerk read all 767 pages out loud.
--Al Franken denies Joe Lieberman additional speaking time on the floor of the Senate, and all hell breaks loose.
--John McCain says he does not remember another instance of a Senator objecting to another Senator receiving a few additional moments to speak, but it turns out McCain himself did so a few years back, although the tape was temporarily misplaced by CSPAN.
--Fox and Friends and Bill O'Reilly take the opportunity to criticize both Al Franken and other liberals as a result of this incident.
--Michael Steele equates the healthcare bill to flipping the bird to Americans.
--We look at what exactly is still in the healthcare bill, and whether there is any chance at all of a public option.
--Guantanamo Bay's closing is delayed by at least one year.
--Barack Obama's appearance at the Copenhagen climate talks doesn't quite go as planned, but you would not know it from reading the majority of American newspapers.
--Leading global warming denier Senator Jim Inhofe flies to Copenhagen with no plans or schedule, and makes a fool out of himself.
--Fox News presents a fair and balanced special called Global Warming, or a Lot of Hot Air, and we discuss the differences between that and a special on the Discovery Channel.
--More math trouble for Fox News as they fudge the numbers on an already-biased poll to show that 120% of Americans believe research was falsified relating to global warming.
--Obama approval in trouble, and we look at the various ups and down thus far.
--Congressman Parker Griffith defects to the Republican Party.
--Sarah Palin attempts an incognito vacation to Hawaii by wearing a John McCain baseball hate with the name blocked off, and then quits yet more things by leaving her vacation early.
--It turns out that the man recently arrested for bringing guns near Obama is a former George W. Bush employee.
--Pregnancy ban in the military.
--Rudy Giuliani will not run for anything in 2010.
--New rules for planes and a disaster on a train.
12-23-2009, 06:34 PM
