There are two things that seem to be worthy of comment on the Sunday News Shows that I saw. The main one that I want to talk about is how the Democrats will fare in the midterm elections. I have already written about that. In the piece that wrote for the Washington Post's pundit contest, which of course, should have won, I wrote that I thought the Dems will do better than the average pundits expect. While I think the Dems seem to be working against that, I am going to stick with that.

Harry Reidl has his own problems. And while his problems may be shared by a lot of white people, it doesn't make it easier at all for Dems. Just the opposite. It isn't that he actually said those things, which unfortunately are probably true, it is that he is majority leader of the senate and should have known better.

Nevertheless, many of the pundits seem too eager to turn the elections late next year over to the republicans. I can't buy it yet.

One last comment. The conservative pundits consistently criticized Obama for taking the Christmas Day failed airline bomber and prosecuting him in the US judicial branch. Some of the pundits, such as Monica Crowley on McLaughlin, said he should have been tortured and that would have produced more intelligence. Of course, Crowley provides no evidence to prove her ravings.

I do agree with the general observation that the unemployment figure in the months before the election will have the most to do with how the Dems do. But I'm not ready to write them off against a party that is running on doing nothing.