Tonight on Olbermann......

Tonight on Countdown
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With the battle over Democratic filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees about to escalate, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday "If what Democrats are doing is wrong today, it won't be right for Republicans to do the same thing tomorrow." But history shows that Republicans did something similar to the Democrats' filibusters five years ago. In 1999 and 2000, before he became majority leader, Frist was one of the Republican senators blocking President Clinton's nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Richard Paez. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7518425/
And that's just one example.

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Worried about a political deadlock in Iraq and a spike in mayhem from an emboldened insurgency, the Bush administration has pressed Iraqi leaders in recent days to end their stalemate over forming a new government, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney personally exhorting top Kurdish and Shiite politicians to come together. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/international/middleeast/25cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1114488000&en=8182971230370587&ei=5094&partner=homepage
MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7629770/

As the prosecution nears the end of its case against Michael Jackson, jurors face a dilemma: How much should they believe testimony from key witnesses who have admitted past lies? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7630727/

Singing the U.S. anthem proves a perilous fight for one Canadian. Despite two tries, she forgot the words to the U.S. anthem and then left to get the lyrics. When she returned to the rink, she slipped on the carpet covering the ice and plopped on her back before a Quebec Coliseum crowd of 7,166. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7630987/

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.


Finally,
An animal shelter has taken in more than 70 cats that were given up by their owner in what officials described as a case of "animal hoarding." Sharon Turner, director of the Coastal Humane Society, said the man who had the cats is a hoarder and that hoarding "is a bona fide mental illness" related to obsessive compulsive disorder. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAT_HOARDER?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
The cat hoarder, asked for comment, raised his tail, meowed demurely, then returned to his afternoon self-cleaning.

-- Carey Fox

Countdown Home: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

Does the cat story and Frist have a tie-in somewhere?

I hope Frist doesn't find out about it

He more than makes up for Scarbouro Country.

He really went to town on Dobson about Spongebob in his Blog back when that was going on. That was some fun reading!

and definitely as good as, if not better than TDS w/Jon Stewart! Stay tuned :)