The question du jour that I thought was more than trivial which was discussed in about all of the shows was what side of the aisle in the Senate Charlie Crist would sit on in the U.S. Senate if he is elected as an independent. He would answer the question directly. Most of the pundits said they thought he would caucus with the republicans. I think he's much more of a political animal than that. He's going to wait to see how the senate majority swings before he makes his decision. I bet that if the dems maintain a sizable majority, that may very well sit on the dem side of the aisle. After all, the republicans have been coming down pretty hard on him. But he has absolutely nothing to gain by saying now what he might do when he knows he may change his mind, just as he did with whether or not he would run as an independent. At least he's showed that he can learn.

The rest of the subjects were handled in a very blase' manner. They were whether or not the administration had responded quickly enough in dealing with the Louisiana oil spill, and the Arizona immigration bill's aftermath. There was an interesting discussion on Too the Contrary as to whether, if a woman is to be nominated for the vacant Supreme Court decision, it matters whether or not she is a mother. Of course we need another female on the court. If Obama doesn't nominate one, then something is wrong.

Meet the Press had an interview with Hillary Clinton. My comment to Kristi was that I'm sure there are a lot of times when Hillary wipes her brow, says "whew" and thanks the gods that she isn't president. One tidbit that she gave of which I wasn't aware was that Ahmadinajad is coming to the U.S. in the very near future to attend a nuclear non-proliferation conference that is part of Obama's ongoing efforts to try and bring some attention to loose nukes around the world. Clinton admitted that it appeared that the Iranians were going to attend, but said that she didn't know what they were up to, but that they wouldn't be allowed to "change the subject." My guess is that means that Iran is going to try to bring up, as more and more Arab countries in the middle east are bringing up, and which is clearly relevant, that if there is going to be an accounting of nuclear materials and weapons around the world, that Israel's has to be part of the counting. That's going to be a hot topic. Netanyahu didn't even attend Obama's opening conference on the subject several weeks ago to avoid having to answer questions. But it's time that Israel answered them.