I should be blogging this; I can't type fst, but here's what I got:
Most Under-Reported Story:
Buchanan: Obama is from Chicago and Chicago is corrupt.
Eleanor: Financial
Monica: Iraq
Mort: Mexico's Drug Cartels
John: Obama, Chicago and Rezko
Most Over-Reported Story
Pat: Bristol Palin's Pregnancy
Eleanor: Rezko, and Palin's Shopping
Monica: FDR, Messiah and Obama Combined
Mort: (Missed it!)
John: China Will Pull World Through The Recession, But They Can't.
Worst Gov Expenditure
Pat: Fannie Freddie Bailout
Ellen: Iraq Reconstruction Boondoggle
Monica; TARP
Mort: Agriculture subsidies
John: Stimulus checks - people saved, didn't spend.
Best Spent:
Pat: CIA / FBI
Eleanor: AIDS Relief n Africa
Monica: Unmanned drones in Iraq
Mort: Patraeus' Salary
John: Stimulus Checks again - People were free to do what they chose with their $
Boldest Political Tactic"
Pat: Picking Palin
Ellen: Obama vs HRC blah blah blah
Monica: No public fi for Obama
Mort: Palin Pick
John: Obama appoints HRC despite her Iraq Vote
Best Idea -
Pat: Surge
Eleanor Obama and the internet campaign
Monica: Offshore drilling ban lift
Mort: TARP
John: Price Gouging via Fuel surcharges
Worst Idea
Pat: McCain Canceling Campaign
Eleanor: Bill CLinton to SC
Monica: Iranian Nuclear inaction
Mort: Buying stock early in the year
Sorry to see you go:
Pat: Russert
Eleanor:Chris Shays
Monica: Buckley
Mort: Newspapers
John: Capitalism
15 Min
Joe the Plumber
Eleanoe Joe The Plumber
Monica: Spitzer's Hooker
Mort Joe The Plumber
John: Ron Paul ("Sorry to see him go.") Yeah, me too.
Best Spin
Pat: "I can't betray my preacher, Rev Wright" just before ditching him.
Eleanor: Palin's "Russia from my porch" which Palin didn't actually even say.
Monica: "ACORN isn't fraudulently registering Obama voters"
Mort: Palin's Wardrobe Expense
John: Obama's Senate experience is adequate
Most Honest:
Pat: Ron Paul
Eleanor:
Monica: Patreaus
Mort: Bernanke, who called the financial crisis before anybody else !!!
Most overrated:
Missed it - fuming over Mort's Bernanke comment.
John: Greenspan
Most Underrated:
Pat: Howard Dean
Eleanor: Howard Dean 50 State Strategy benefitted Obama
Monica: Chinese President (sneakily allying with Cuba and Others)
Mort: American Voter For Voting For A Black Dude
John: CIA Foreign Intelligence, Keeping Us Safe
Macro-Prediction
Pat: Protectionism Will End Globalism
Eleanor: End of Ideology - Obama is bringing us a new age. Making us smarter. blah blah - other panelists LOL'd
Monica: Global Economics will spark spirituality
Mort: Deflation
John: Global economic crisis is a result of globalism