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#514 The manufactured debt crisis Part 2 (Special Event)
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Act 1: Lincoln, the 14th amendment and full faith and credit of the U.S. – Melissa Harris Perry on TRMS Air Date: 7-26-11
Song 1: Broken – Awake
Act 2: Armadebtdon 2011- National Bullshit Ceiling – Daily Show Air Date: 7-18-11
Song 2: When I Grow Up – Version 2.0
Act 3: Obama Already Conceded He’ll Pay Ransom – The Progressive Air Date: 7-26-11
Song 3: Better Off Alone – Who Needs Guitars Anyway?
Act 4: America’s Bucket List – Colbert Report Air Date: 7-26-11
Song 4: Blueprint – Jackson Square
Act 5: Media covering Obama and the debt negotiation – Counterspin Air Date: 7-28-11
Song 5: Logical Song – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 6: Debt to America! – The Bugle Air Date: 7-28-11
Song 6: Play With Fire – The Darjeeling Limited (Original Soundtrack)
Act 7: Who’s lying more on the debt ceiling debate? – On the Media Air Date: 7-29-11
Song 7: Get ready – The Proclaimers
Act 8: The Lose-Lose Debt Situation – The Progressive Air Date: 7-29-11
Song 8: Cool to Hate – Ixnay on the Hombre
Act 9: GOP ready for compromise and common purpose – Wait wait Air Date: 7-30-11
Song 9: The Sound of Settling – Transatlanticism
Act 10: Father knows best how to compromise – Le Show Air Date: 7-31-11
Song 10: Growing Up – Only God Can Judge Me
Act 11: The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal – Countdown Air Date: 8-1-11
Final comments, thanks to @OnyxShard for the Countdown clip tip
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Armadebtdon 2011- The End of the World As We Owe It – Daily Show
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#470 The Idiots are taking over (Congress)
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Act 1: Boehner’s People – Jim Hightower
Song 1: Tears and Rain – Back to Bedlam
Act 2: Ineffective GOP – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: If you’ve got trouble – The Beatles
Act 3: The do-nothing congress – Slate.com
Song 3: Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tears for Fears
Act 4: Congress forgets how to pass a bill – The Onion
Song 4: Kill the Director – The Wombats – EP
Act 5: Three quarters of Senate Republicans don’t believe in science – David Pakman
Song 5: The Idiots Are Taking Over – The War On Errorism
Act 6: Congress slumps back to Tom Delay ethics – Jim Hightower
Song 6: These Are the Days – Ibiza After Dark – Late Night Luxury Grooves
Act 7: Boehner is bad at his job Part 1 – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Theme from “Greatest American Hero” (Believe It or Not) – America’s Greatest Hero
Act 8: Useless GOP distractions – Bill Maher
Song 8: Radio – As Smart As We Are
Act 9: Boehner OK with Americans losing jobs – Young Turks
Song 9: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Act 10: Johnnie “Business as usual” Boehner – Jim Hightower
Song 10: Broken Horse – Weathervanes
Act 11: Boehner is bad at his job Part 2 – Rachel Maddow
Voicemails:
BYU basketball player kicked off for honor code violation – Scott from California
Supporting Mumia because he’s based on facts – John From Omaha
Excitement about YouTube playlists – Max from Berkley, CA
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on Power Shift, new video version of the show and the listener of the year
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John Boehner’s Large Gavel – Colbert Report
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#453 The unfinished story of filibuster reform (Filibuster)
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Act 1: Recap of Dems for filibuster reform – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Clocks – The String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay
Act 2: How to bust the filibuster – The Breakdown
Song 2: Trains to Brazil – Through the Windowpane (Bonus Track Version)
Act 3: Filibusters and the judiciary – Majority Report
Song 3: Let’s Dance to Joy Division – A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
Act 4: Delaying reform – Countdown
Song 4: Get Up Stand Up – Legend (Remastered) [Bonus Tracks]
Act 5: One looong day – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Civil War – Guns N’ Roses: Greatest Hits
Act 6: History of the filibuster – Countdown
Song 6: The Importance of Being Idle – Time Flies… 1994-2009
Act 7: Reforming the filibuster – The Political Scene
Song 7: I’m Not Over – Coming to Terms
Act 8: Why it didn’t work – Rachel Maddow
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Working toward reform – Rachel Maddow
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#447 The Hammer and the Gavel Part 2 (Tom Delay)
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Act 1: The Hammer has fallen – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Delay – In his own words
Act 3: The Delay Litany – Al Franken
Act 4: Delay – In his own words
Act 5: Memorable moments – The Young Turks
Act 6: Delay – In his own words
Act 7: I’m just a bug man – Slate Podcast
Act 8: Delay – In his own words
Act 9: Good Riddance – Jack Cafferty
Song 9: Future Is Now – Dune
Act 10: Verdict is in – Young Turks
Song 10: Tonight I Have to Leave It – Our Ill Wills
Act 11: Commenting on Tom Delay – It’s all politics
Song 11: The Office UK – Outro #2 – The Office UK Theme Music
Act 12: Story behind the conviction – Jim Hightower
Song 12: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye – 60′s Gold
Act 13: Sam announces the sentence – Majority Report
Song 13: Cigarette Smoker Fiona – Who the F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? – EP
Act 14: Allison announces the sentence – Citizen Radio
Song 14: Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol: Greatest Hits
Act 15: Cocky Delay gets three years – Jim Hightower
Song 15: Behind Bars – Baga Tricks
Act 16: Liberals to blame for the conviction – Countdown
Song 16: Montaña – Love & Liberte
Act 17: 3 years prison for Tom Delay – Young Turks
Source Story Series Featuring Rachel Maddow
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