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Rachel reports on the GOP playing political games where they're obstructing for the sake of obstructing and holding up appointments of nominees who they will eventually vote for and not against despite all of the pomp and political games being played in the mean time. Rachel talks to Sherrod Brown about just how much the GOP will continue to play the role of obstructionists and whether it will help or hurt them politically to continue to do so.

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Countdown's "tribute" to the Bush administration....At Last.

Though the speech was relatively brief at eighteen minutes the song was truly short. Only four stanzas which is critical if you've got to dance to it ten times. But in our number one story that love song doubled as revelatory political commentary last night because of two simple words...the title...At Last. Yes there was dancing to the classic song made popular by Etta James in 1961, the year President Obama was born and by the first time the First Couple rounded out the tenth and final ball, At Last no doubt had new meaning. But for the nation eight years and then in an instant President Obama's predecessor had exited, at last.

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Jon Stewart wonders how our cable "news" coverage will change with the election of Barack Obama and pans Fox for their coverage of the Bush departure on inauguration day.

Finally there was Fox. They've spent the better part of eight years lovingly following every move George Bush has made. How did they handle the day when it was Barack Obama in the spotlight?

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Let it go...he's gone. If you love an administration...if you love an administration, set it free. If it comes back...we're all moving to Canada.

Keith talks to NSA whistleblower Russell Tice who reveals the NSA was spying on every American without warrants and targeting journalists and collecting "everything", all of their phone calls, emails and communications.

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Despite his best efforts, it appears even Stephen could not help himself from getting just a little choked up over the inauguration of Barack Obama.

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Jon Stewart talks to Bishop Gene Robinson about his experience at the Obama inauguration, his brief encounter with Pastor Rick Warren and his hopes for the advancement of gay rights in the United States.

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Stephen on just what the country has actually sacrificed under the Bush administration.

I think the President is leaving office with a truly historic legacy. Somehow he has managed to make something that was once evil into a virtue. And to those of you who say the President has never asked the public to sacrifice anything in a time of war, well to you I say you are just not paying attention because clearly he's asked us to sacrifice the difference between right and wrong. And that's the Word.

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Jon Stewart talks to Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara about the stark contrast between the way the war in Gaza has been reported in the United States compared to the Arab world.

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The Colbert Report's ode to the Bush administration: What I Did For Love.

Rachel Maddow with her second to last edition of Lame Duck Watch and a follow up to Keith's Special Comment with Jonathan Turley who again weighs in on the need for the Obama administration to allow the Bush administration to be prosecuted for war crimes. I say Turley for Special Prosecutor! Now that would be a change I could believe in.