and glenn beck in the murders against dr. george tiller and the three pittsburgh policemen. all the news and commentary now on countdown. enough is enough. good evening from new york. as the bid to strip senator joe lieberman of his committee chairmanships and assignments and if possible his senate seat took a remarkable leap forward, lieberman himself took an almost impossible to believe leap backwards. our fifth story on the countdown, mr. lieberman has now threatened to filibuster any health care reform that includes a medicare buy-in for anyone under the age of 65. in so doing, not only was he contradicting his initial reaction to the idea last week, not only was he contradicting his own proposal supporting medicare buy-ins when he ran for vice president nine years ago, but today it turned out he was also contradicting an on-camera interview in which he still spoke approvingly of the very medicare buy-ins over which he now threatens to filibuster to destroy health
which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? afghanistan liberals like the withdrawal plan, don t like the troop increase. conservatives like the troop increase, don t like the withdrawal plan. this confuses republicans who assumed democrats towed the party line without thinking. like they do. the secretary of state, secretary of defense, chairman of joint chiefs testified to senate armed services and house foreign affairs. july 2011 is when we expect the transition process to begin. that date condition-based or not? no, sir. the far right thinks obama should have thrown in more bloodlust, torture, and demands for victory and it s completely forgotten he already sent 17,000 more troops to afghanistan 28 days after he was sworn in. it took him 80-some odd days to do this. took us 50-some odd days to remove the taliban from power in afghanistan after 9/11. hey, porky pig, too bad you didn t do anything to keep them out of power when you quit on afg
rachel@msnbc.com. countdown with keith olbermann starts right now. good night. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? signed, sealed, only the speech not yet delivered. the orders given by the president for more troops to afghanistan. tied, we learned, to a drawndown to begin as early as next july. because without an aggressive push now, the president fears the light at the end of the tunnel would be pushed further away. you can be assured that the president will talk about the fact that this is not an open-ended commitment. trusting the president is one thing, but when was the last commitment by our pentagon not an open-ended commitment, no matter what they said at the time? and why after its endless lies about iraq and his endless lies about pat tillman, why are we trusting general mcchrystal and the pentagon? a special comment. afghanistan as the newest republican excuse to gut health care reform. can we trim up the health care bill and othe
which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? signed, sealed, only the speech not yet delivered. the orders given by the president for more troops to afghanistan. tied, we learned, to a drawdown to begin as early as next july. because without an aggressive push now, the president fears the light at the end of the tunnel would be pushed further away. you can be assured that the president will talk about the fact that this is not an open-ended commitment. trusting the president is one thing, but when was the last commitment by our pentagon not an open-ended commitment, no matter what they said at the time? and why after its endless lies about iraq and his endless lies about pat tillman, why are we trusting general mcchrystal and the pentagon? a special comment. afghanistan as the newest republican excuse to gut health care reform. can we trim up the health care bill and other big-ticket items to pay for a war that we can t afford to lose? well, no, actual