Topic: Tim Pawlenty

President Barack Obama delivered a comedy set that the hosts believe was written by Saturday Night Live staff. Obama mocked potential Republican rivals Michelle Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty, making a play on Pawlenty's middle name and Hosni Mubarak. The hosts find it unusual and potentially inappropriate for a sitting president to use the platform to humiliate political competitors.

The hosts analyze a Sean Hannity segment featuring Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. They discuss the potential for a Palin-Bachmann ticket in 2012 and the internal friction between the two figures. The conversation concludes that the Republican Party's "checklist" ideology is making it difficult for them to challenge Obama effectively.