I already had written about the McLaughlin Group on Friday evening, when I first saw it. I watched it again today. I did note that the reporter from the Financial Times name was Krishna, and McLaughlin pandered to him a bit. I still think he came off as arrogant.

The number one thing that I remember from the shows that I watched was a hatchet interview done by Maria Bartiromo of Joey Scarborough. Scarborough took the role not of a journalist, but of the political hack that lies just beneath, if at all, beneath his surface personna as a journalist.

Scarborough made outrageous comments such as something like, "no one in this administration has any experience in private business, and therefore the administration doesn't know anything about running a business." Bartiromo did no cross examination at all - basically said, "That's interesting, Joe, thanks."

On Inside Washington, Krauthamer, usually a reliable arch conservative, keeps pushing for a federal law allowing insurance companies to sell health insurance across state lines. Not that I think it's an outrageous idea, I basically think it is a good idea. But, it does go against the grain of the typical arch conservative, which chooses state's rights over federal laws whenever possible. In this case, asking for reverse federalism legislation is not befitting of the typical Krauthamer rhetoric.

There was some talk about women's issues, in the wake of the Shiver report on the state of women in California. One of the findings of the report that I thought was a bit surprising was that children were having their upbringing degraded by families with both parents working. If we had a decent day care system, that wouldn't be a problem.

There was also some talk about Afghanistan. There were two tidbits that I found interesting. One was from Nina Totenberg, who pointed out that Gen. McChrystal's original request to Obama was for 80,000 more troops into Afghanistan. Krauthamer pointed out that if Obama does not give McChrystal at least 40,000 troops, that he will be forced to resign, because how could he send troops into a situation that he has said isn't safe without additional men? That would create an interesting scenario, and how Obama views that will say a lot about whether he truly represents change.