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Slash Best. Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Count Down, NPR's It's All Politics, The Young Turks, The Daily Show, and Rachel Maddo.

Here's your first quote. It's a series of teases from a United States senator. I haven't made up my mind. I want to hear more. Let's see how the day goes.

Now, that senator has been tantalizing Democrat Max Bacchus and others for weeks with her will she or won't she vote for health care.

Well, this week she finally said yes for now. Who? I'm guessing that's the senator for me, Olympia Snow.

It is Olympia Snow. Absolutely. Does everybody remember that fall night about a year ago when thousands of people collected in Grand Park here in Chicago to celebrate the election of Olympia Snow as president of the United States?

Well, the most powerful person in America decided to allow health care reform to go forward when she became the only Republican to vote for any form of the bill.

The White House says that this single vote makes the bill quote bipartisan, which is a little like saying you're a world traveler because you saw a slum dog millionaire.

Of course, there was a lot of horse trading getting this yes vote from the senator from Maine did not come cheap. For example, the national bird of the United States is now the lobster.

Isn't it weird that this woman has so much power? I think it's hot. Really? I want you to end of Greece. I see her like coming out now like in leather pants.

Would the cigarette like send me a book because I need a plan?

I'm just trying to see if it's Max Bacchus. Am I hard to sit on you? You're the plan that I want.

The main equivalent of that, anyway. Yes. So that's what she said to Max Bacchus. She said, tell me about it. It's done.

Exactly. And put out the cigarette?

Yeah.

I'm sorry, but that image is so incredibly disturbing.

It's better than when Barbara McCalsky does it. That's true.

What's your job?

What's your job?

What's your job?

What's your job?

What's your job?

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