This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:21

This Week's Topics:

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--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia comments about the 2000 Bush/Gore election controversy and says he thinks the Supreme Court made the right decision.

--Howard Dean wants superdelegates to decide who they will support at the Democratic National Convention by June.

--The Reverend Wright controversy reaches new levels, with Wright lashing out against Barack Obama, and Obama more directly denouncing Wright.

--Which pundit suggested Obama pick a Jewish running mate simply for "ethnic balance?"

--Could the Democrats stand to lose more than they would gain if they can't fix the Bush administration's problems by the end of the next Presidential term and then everything could be blamed on them?

--John McCain's recent speech about health care, where he seemed to pick out the problems just fine, but doesn't seem to have realistic solutions.

--Elizabeth Edwards' response to the McCain health care speech.

--Craig Ferguson commenting on the "liberal media" at the White House correspondents' dinner.

--Tom Tancredo suggests putting up a fence between Texas and Mexico, but he wants to leave an American town on the south side of that fence.

--A candidate for Congress in 2008 stumps at an Adolf Hitler birthday ceremony.

--George W. Bush's recent comments on the environment, drilling at ANWR, and more, including bringing up making the tax cuts permanent in almost any context, and not needing to use the word "recession."

--President Bush gets agitated with Martha Raddatz during a press conference.

--Helen Thomas' recent run-in with White House Press Secretary Dana Perino on the issue of torture.

--Much more...

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