Of course, the Sunday news shows were abuzz with the Ft. Hood shootings. I was happy to hear many of the pundits suggest that the military was overstressed and that it was an individual act of craziness and not part of some kind of organized infiltration of our military by Muslim extremist groups. And then there is Monica Crowley, on McLaughlin. She seemed to be war mongering by suggesting that it was connected to other acts of violence by “Muslims” within the military.

In addition, Kristi asked me to include this, which I also think is very important. Many pundits put some of the Muslim fundamentalists down because of their treatment of women. But, according to discussion “To the Contrary,” the one all women’s news show that tries to stick to women’s issues, 1/3 of women in OUR military have been sexually harassed, and there is still a glass ceiling. In fact, one of the women in the panel spoke of having to dress very male like - with hair pulled back and non-feminine dress in order to keep from being sexually harassed. Perhaps we need a look in the mirror before we go criticizing others.

But I have to admit that the statement of the day goes to Colby King, on Inside Washington, who said, in reference to Senate majority leader Harry Reid’s many contradictory statements on the health care legislation, that Reid was the “worst” majority leader in the Senate. He said that Reid’s flip flopping and lack of resolve was being ruled by Reid’s reelection politics. (he is up for reelection this year, and the polls aren’t that good for him in Nevada.) I don’t know the history of that many majority leaders, but I think Reid is weak and wavering, and isn’t serving the Democrats and Obama that well. I think the Dems would be better swerved by getting Durbin in there. He’s much more to the left of the Reid, a close friend of Obama’s from the same state, and more aggressive in his resolve to push the Democratic agenda.

There was a number of discussions about the elections last week, but they were stale discussions, as all of that had been mulled over the day after. I thought all in all the news shows were mundane today - they did not rise to the occasion. Sure there was some interesting discussion, but it’s so orchestrated and narrow that there were few if any new ideas.