I watched a bunch of news shows today. I think they were all pretaped. A bunch of them were filmed on Friday. Thus, they weren't aware of the fact that the Senate had passed the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, thus having it clear both houses and on the way to Obama for signature. All of a sudden, the republicans were joining to help Obama. I guess they are feeling guilty about how they have treated him in the last 2 years. Definitely some of them, like Susan Collins, should feel guilty.

I liked a political cartoon that ran in the USA Today friday- it showed Obama playing poker with McConnell and Boehner. Obama was saying, "I fold" and Boehner was responding by saying, "But he hasn't even finished dealing yet." That was all the talk last week, but this week it was Obama on the upswing. I have no idea what is going on. None of it makes much sense to me.

Biden was on Meet the Press. Gregory seems very anxious about "making some news" and NBC is trying to squeeze some news out of the fact that Biden says that we will be out of Afghanistan by 2014 no matter what. I don't think it's much news.

McLaughlin wasn't even above average. And McLaughlin had Mort Zuckerman, who isn't one of my favorites. And Inside Washington had that Evan Thomas guy, at least I think that's what his name is. He's not one of my favorites either. About the only thing that was a little exciting was his getting on Krauthamer for his saying in a comment that Nancy Pelosi was as popular with the US people as the Taliban. I think that Krauthamer was off the wall for saying it, and I'm glad that Shields got down on him. I don't necessarily like everything that Pelosi has ever done, and I've written about it. But she deserves a lot of credit for what she has done, and does not deserve the way she has been dragged through the mud. I think history will atone her work, and it won't take long. And she may not be finished yet.

I think that what the republicans have done with blowing the momentum that they had coming out of the elections is akin to a football player having run 90 yards toward the winning touchdown, about to go into the endzone, waving to the crowd, slipping, losing the football, the other team catching it and turning around and running for the winning touchdown. It's amazing.

When the new congress takes over in January, it's going to be interesting times. For example, NPR had a long interview this afternoon with Ron Paul, who is going to chair a subcommittee that oversees the federal reserve. That, as well as many other things, are going to be very interesting. Stay tuned.