"Daily Show" Mocks Senate Health Care Debate (VIDEO)

Taking on the seemingly endless health care debate, Jon Stewart mocked the Senate's claim that they were working through the weekend with "no end in sight." After pointing out that, by default, weekends end on Monday, he scoffed at the efforts -- putting in extra hours does not change the fact that they missed their August deadline. "Working weekends doesn't send you back in time," Stewart joked.

Determined to figure out the cause of the prolonged session, Stewart then called out the Republican Senators, notably Judd Gregg, for hypocritically stalling the process. In 2004, Gregg publicly accused the Democrats of stalling. As Stewart astutely pointed out, "the cock-blockee has become the cock-blocker."


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[Sergeant]

01:59 PM on 12/08/2009

By August. Why say it unless you can do it?

[ILuvBubbles]

10:36 AM on 12/09/2009

Its well past August and IS still alive whats your point?

[mamapower]

01:36 PM on 12/08/2009

A Conservati­ve Government is an organized hypocrisy.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

[grifter180]

01:07 PM on 12/08/2009

I find the daily show is becoming less and less funny as times go on. Not to say that the jokes are not funny but wean you think about how much truth is behind these mockeries of the gridlock in Washington with such issues as health care it makes people like me angry to see how much of a joke Washington really is. Wean they talk about the single payer option all I hear about is how much it will cost us. Why didn’t we hear this kind of descent wean the bail outs were happening? Over forty thousand people die in the United States every year just because they don’t have health care and we are still waiting for legislatio­n to be passed? Are you kidding me? I guess you have to be a large corporatio­n in America for your government to bail you out. It’s not funny anymore. In fact it is sad that I live in a country that believes in profit over human life leaving comedians on T.V to joke about it.

[rabblerouser42]

12:40 PM on 12/08/2009

Will Public Option eventually look like one of those bank 'bait and switches'?
http://sat­iricalpoli­tical.com/­2009/12/06­/congress-­health-ins­urance-two­-public-op­tions/

[LorettaSingbiel]

01:07 PM on 12/08/2009

What should be required reading for the righteous republican­s ...

www.nameso­fthedead.c­om

[Elbrando]

12:40 PM on 12/08/2009

Gotta love how the whining in 2004 about "obstructi­on" is now the republican call to arms.