14 January 2011 edition

The 14 January 2011 edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann aired on MSNBC.

Guest host Chris Hayes filled in for Keith.

No. 5

Guest commentators Ezra Klein discussed plans by House Republicans to debate the wholly symbolic and utterly meaningless "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" despite the fact that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act does not cut jobs and that only 43% of Americans support scaling back the Care Act, as well as the selection of Reince Priebus as the new Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and guest commentator Reihan Salam discussed the desperate need for civility in American political discourse.

No. 4

Guest commentator Dennis Henigan discussed New York Representative Carolyn McCarthy's proposed gun safety bill, which would outlaw high-capacity clips and ban the sale or transfer of magazines that hold more than ten rounds, in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting.

No. 3

Guest commentator Mike Konczal discussed the foreclosure crisis, with more than a million homes being repossessed in 2010, 14% more than 2009 and the most ever in a year, and the likelihood that that high-water mark would be surpassed in 2011 after the temporary hold on foreclosures is lifted, as well as the $4.8-billion profit made by JPMorgan Chase in the final quarter of 2010.

No. 2

Hayes discussed Sarah Palin's upcoming interview on Fox News, and the tendency of conservatives to use softball interviews on Fox to rescusitate their public images.

No. 1

Guest commentator E. J. Dionne discussed a recent poll indicating that 77% of Americans, including 62% of Republican voters, approved of the actions taken by the Democratically-controlled lame-duck congress contrary to the insistence by Republicans like Michele Bachmann and John Boehner that the American people "would not forget" the "awful" measures passed by the outgoing congress.