Notes on last Sunday's morning news shows

1)  The consensus of virtually everyone on the shows is that President Obama isn't leading strongly on this whole budget cutting mess.  It's apparently at least Washington's opinion.  I have to say, leaving it up to Congress can't be called leading, that's for sure while cutting energy assistance for the poor in his own budget seems a very real betrayal;

2)  Only 3 people on any of the programs I saw seemed to address the fact that political leaders seem to be making clear that they want to balance their books and cut their spending on the backs of the middle- and lower-classes while letting the wealthy and the crooks in the banking industry that nearly wrecked the American and world economies off the hook entirely.  Matt Taibbi and Bill Maher on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO and Donna Brazile on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" on ABC were those people;

3)  Our US State Department now has a Twitter account, I hear, to counter any viewpoints not truly our own, according to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton;

4)   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn't look well.