Because of fund raisers on KET, where we get access to most of our Sunday News Shows, and, they stupidly preempt them for shows about Frank Sinatra and the like during fundraiser, and because of the change over to digital TV, and the only network station we an get is WPSD, NBC, the only Sunday News Shows I got to see today were Maria Bartiromo and Meet the Press.

Bartiromo's show was a bit less caustic than usual - not nearly as much crying in the beer over how hard all the super rich have it because of Obama. But for the most part, I'm just not that impressed by her show. She bases her whole perspective on economics on the richest = the most powerful and influential. That's an unproven theory, to say the least.

But Meet the Press had both Eric Cantor, majority leader of the house, and Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on one on one interviews with David Gregory. Cantor said that the issue over contraception isn't about women - it's about religious freedom.

Wasserman - Schultz said that it was about more than contraception - that it was about whether or not an employee could use religion as a way to avoid providing health care to workers - and in the case of women, birth control.

With all the bad publicity that the republicans got when they had the all male hearing on contraception a couple weeks, disallowing the young woman that Limbaugh has gotten in trouble for calling her a "slut" to testify, you'd think that they would learn and put a woman on when that subject is going to be front and center. But no, you still had a white male, who basically was taking the posture that the republicans hadn't done anything substantially wrong, except that Limbaugh had gone too far.

When cast against Wasserman - Shultz on this issue, Cantor came off a big loser. The republicans are failing to stay focused on the economy. Gingrich, with his promise of $2.50 gasoline, is about as good as they get, and who really believes that he can deliver that? Can anyone say zilch? Paul Krugman, nobel prize winning economist, continues to tear the republican candidates tax plans to shreds by exposing that they will result in worse deficits than what Obama is running.

Obama must play the middle east and the oil prices correctly to seal the deal on a second term. We'll see if he can do it. But the republicans keep handing him favors in the way of botched strategy. If he blows it, he has no one to blame but himself.