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Our guest today for the Political Junkie segment on TOTN.

Lots to talk about in today's Political Junkie segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation:

-- The president is grim but hopeful in his address to Congress, gets good marks. Less so for Bobby Jindal's GOP response.

-- A step closer to D.C. having a vote in Congress? (Our special guest this week is Del.Eleanor Holmes Norton (D).

-- Durbin suggests that Burris consider resigning. Prediction: Burris will leave ... in January of 2011.

-- Jim Bunning's prognosis for Justice Ginsburg. What's Bunning's prognosis for re-election?

-- A look ahead to this week's CPAC meeting in Washington.

Remember, the Political Junkie segment airs every Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Talk of the Nation, NPR's call-in program, where you can often, but not always, find interesting conversation, useless trivia questions and sparkling jokes.

And, speaking of sparkling jokes, there's this recent note from Cory Springhorn of Shoreview, Minn.:

I just listened to today's TOTN show. Your joke that Henry Clay later changed his name to Henry Ali is absolutely THE worst joke I've ever heard in all the time I've listened to you. Shame on you. Shame! Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame.

Neal Conan is off again this week; Joe Palca fills in as host.

And remember, if your local NPR station doesn't carry TOTN, you can hear the program on the Web or on HD Radio. And if you are a subscriber to XM/Sirius radio, you can find the show there as well (siriusly).

You can listen to last week's show -- with special guest Bruce Dold, editorial page editor for the Chicago Tribune -- here.

categories: On The Air

11:11 - February 25, 2009

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