This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
March 4th, 2009
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 53:35
This Week's Topics:
--Kenneth Hahn, Executive Director of Global Routes, joins us live in studio.
--President Obama's plan to end the war, or is it?
--Robert Gates, George W Bush's carryover Defense Secretary to Barack Obama, addresses whether he thinks Obama's plan to leave Iraq is acceptable.
--We hear from Ann Coulter about sending more troops to Afghanistan.
--The CPAC Rush Limbaugh controversy, talk of Rush as the current leader of the Republican Party, and whether stressing that notion is a good plan for Democrats.
--Rush Limbaugh explains his comments about wanting Obama to fail, and says all Republicans want Obama to fail, but most just wont say it.
--A bizarre 13-year-old speaks at CPAC.
--Governor Bobby Jindal's made up story from his recent response to Barack Obama's national address.
--More from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, now recorvered from his TurboTax trouble, about this recession and health care, a topic not much discussed by the Obama administration until this week.
--Energy, including T Boone Pickens' latest, electric golf carts, and more.
--More suggestions that there isn't global warming as evidenced by a snow storm in the northeast this week.
--Much more.
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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 03-04-2009