The Sunday News shows all stayed to pretty much the same script. One exception was an interesting discussion on "To the Contrary" about how, while granting Muslims their full constitutional rights to practice their religion in our country, and respecting that right elsewhere, not accepting how they treat females in certain places and keep them down - way beyond how our society keeps women down. It really is one of the big problems in today's world. Kudos for Contrary for addressing the subject.

Of course, the main point of discussion is becoming the midterm elections. Most of the pundits are still saying that it is going to be a republican rout in November. A majority of these pundits seems now to think that the republicans will take control of the House and maybe even the Senate. Of course, in order to block Obama, the republicans only need to pick up a few seats in the Senate and they can block Obama pretty much all the way. They may regret it if they actually get at least one majority, because then they will be to blame. If they just pick enough a couple seats in the senate, the dems will still be stuck with a majority in both houses, but incapable of doing anything substantive. That's the tact that the dems played on the republicans at the end of the Bush administration. Not a bad place to be. May be better than actually becoming the majority, especially in both chambers where they would lose a lot of excuses for all the problems we all are facing.

Still, there are a couple pundits that are of the same mind as me - that the republican gains will not be as great as the worst predictions.

One of the ironies of the discussions is how the pundits to the person all bemoaned how the "press" had elevated the Florida Koran burning preacher to celebrity status even though he represents only a few folks and is clearly a fringe figure. While I guess it's true that you can't always be responsible for what your associates do, but you can't always just run away from the corporations that you work for and the results of what they do in the corporate name, and many of these major international news outlets were the very ones elevating the dude's message. But I didn't hear any of the pundits criticize their own networks, even though they all are guilty.