The cutting edge discussion that I watched on the Sunday News Shows was on "To the Contrary." They dedicated their entire half hour to world water issues, and the tilt of the discussion is that the usage pattern that's are occurring in the U.S. are not sustainable. This was significant and very relevant, considering that we are in "Earth Week." One of the most disturbing parts of this discussion was in the form of quotes from a PHD in water issues, who looked as if he was Indian-American, and had a name of such, which I can't recall exactly, who said that the water infrastructure in the U.S. needed to be redone. Included in that was "more storage." I can only interpret that "more storage" means more dams and reservoirs. So what are we going to dam that isn't already dammed?

There was some very interesting discussion that got rather terse between Colby King and Charles Krauthamer. King characterized the "Tea Party" movement as being equivalent to the followers of former Alabama governor George Wallace. In other words - that it was a race-based movement. That riled Krauthamer. And while King's statement may contain some hyperbole, I believe there is a fact component to it. And, if anyone has the right to make such a statement, it would be King.

Pat Buchanan is over-confident in still assuring us that the Republicans are in for a great big victory in November. The Republican's, ummmm...Mitch McConnell's strategy, of opposing everything of Obama's no matter what is starting to crumble. McConnell's attempt to put the Republican's in front of "too big to fail" bank reform as the "real" reformers is doomed to fail ultimately. Why? Because McConnell and the Republicans are on the same side as the big banks in opposing the legislation. Even the press can see through that one easily.

The Republicans have "peaked too soon." The Tea Party movement has a lot of obstacles to overcome to avoid what appears to be marginalization to an extent, due to ideology, race, and economic status. The real question as to whether or not Obama can pull a rabbit out of his hat in November will come down to whether or not he can mobilize the youth and minority communities to turn out and vote for the candidates he wants them to vote for. I'm not sure about that. Obama's challenge is that these are the folks who are the worst hit by the recession, and the furthest from relief. Obama simply has to come up with a believable plan that his actions are going to actually change something for the better when it comes to the lowest income folks. I don't doubt that Obama may want to do that, but whether he can get that done by November, I'm not sure.

One of the more interesting pieces on the shows was on McLaughlin Group about Robert Gibbs, Obama press secretary. McLaughlin's piece showed Gibbs to be arrogant, condescending, and speculated, probably correctly, that he is becoming increasingly disliked by the Washington White House press corps. McLaughlin wondered if Obama didn't give a darn about that, because they had Twitter, email, and the internet to communicate directly with people, and that the press corps is on edge anyway because they see their influence waning. I think there is some truth to that, but I do find Gibbs to be on the arrogant, flippant side. I do think that there has been a noticable gap between Obama's pledge to have an historically transparent administration and what is actually happening.

All in all, I thought the news shows that I saw today were above average. They had very pertinent, interesting, and controversial discussions. Keep it up!