Thursday night, Jon Stewart put his jovial stamp of approval on Harry Reid's recent political ploy to steer public attention away from Obamacare's failure by allowing a 51-vote simple majority to appoint Presidential nominations, nine votes less than the previous 60-vote super majority required. This "Nuclear Option" will effectively eliminate any and all leverage from the minority party by stripping their ability to filibuster.

In a bit titled "Dem Nukem", Stewart first mocked those panic-stricken by Harry Reid's decision.

So deciding to allow majority rules to incrementally increase government efficiency is so unthinkably extreme it's the...'Nuclear Option'! it's just like the Hiroshima...of voting. How will Minority Leader Mitch McConnell counter?

Stewart then plays a brief clip of Mitch McConnell warning Democrats the "Nuclear Option" could have severe ramifications for them in the future.

I realize this sort of wishful thinking might appeal to the uninitiated newcomers in the Democratic conference that served exactly zero days in the minority, but the rest of the guys in the conference should know better...Those of you who've been in the minority before, should know better.

The clip cuts, and Stewart mocks McConnell with the following impression:

Mark my words! One day you Democrats will be obstructionist assholes, making a mockery of our system of government, and who will be laughing then?

One of Jon Stewart's favorite tricks, and indeed his funniest, is when he underlines a politicians hypocrisy by juxtaposing their present statements with past ones, typically resulting in statements diametrically opposed. None of that took place last night. If he had done so, then his puppet audiences laughter might have been less uproarious as they would've seen Republicans flirting with the "Nuclear Option" back in 2005, and both Senator Harry Reid and President Obama, then Senator, protested its implementation on the very same basis.

Jon Stewart has still mentioned absolutely nothing about Martin Bashir's despicable rant towards Sarah Palin. He did not afford the same courtesy towards Don Imus in 2007 when he called the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team "nappy-headed hos", or Rush Limbaugh when he called Sandra Fluke a "slut" during election season 2012.