Stephen Colbert slammed Bill O’Reilly last week over an O’Reilly column from earlier this month titled, “Keep Christ in Unemployment.” In it, O’Reilly warned of “a capacity problem for every noble intent.” Colbert fired back by mocking what he called the “complete factual inaccuracy.” Tonight, O’Reilly responded to “wise guy” Colbert…and brought along Ann Coulter to do it.

At a White House event in support of extending unemployment benefits for those who have lost their jobs recently, President Obama was joined by several Americans who would potentially benefit from the measure after recently losing their jobs. Among them was Leslie Macko, a woman who had lost her job as an aesthetician in a spa. Except Macko hadn’t lost her job precisely because of the economy; she had pleaded guilty to felony charges.

It seems that every time Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson takes the podium in the House, he makes a headline. Today he spoke in favor of extending unemployment benefits, but instead of trying to persuade Republicans that this was the right course of action, he argued that the GOP is actively “trying to revive” the America of the Great Depression, and mocked them for their yachts and art collections.

On Fox News Sunday yesterday Chris Wallace demonstrated once again that is not willing to jump on board the Republican talking points wagon all willy nilly. Wallace pressed Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) yesterday on why the GOP seems so adamant about keeping President Obama from extending unemployment benefits without being able to pay for it first, but they want to extend the Bush tax cuts for free, as it were.

With record numbers of unemployed Americans, the federal benefits for those looking for work have become somewhat of a hot topic of late. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz recently made some news when he claimed that America was likely destined to become a “third world country” if Congress didn’t extend unemployment efforts. The other side of the absurd version of this debate? Brian Kilmeade posting that the unemployed need to get off the benefits so they can “sober up and take a job.” Huh?

February’s numbers for unemployment in New York State saw them actually decreasing .2 percent from January, which is a good thing, right? New York is also one of nearly half the states in America that is currently adding jobs, though Florida remains the only state that was able to employ over 6,000 new workers. So what’s the bad news?

Ah, the oldest argument in the book: If we extend unemployment benefits to those out of work, then what incentive is there for people to find a new job? That’s what Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl was arguing tonight on the floor, and we feel like we’ve heard it before…

At today’s White House briefing, the subject of Senator Jim Bunning‘s obstruction of an extension of unemployment and COBRA benefits came up several times. Bunning held up the bill despite the fact that his own leadership doesn’t support his objection, and when a Democratic Senator implored him to drop it, replied “Tough shit.”