Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up

UPDATE: Listen to the Weekend Watchdog segment from yesterday's "Seder on Sundays" Air America Radio show.

Once again, the Sunday shows go 0 for 3 on our Weekend Watchdog questions.

On NBC's Meet The Press, die-hard Iraq war supporter Newt Gingrich was not asked about his 1999 speech that called for the "liberal political elite" to take "responsibility" for the "mess" in Kosovo that made America look like a "violent, helpless, pathetic country."

Not being pressed to take any responsibility for the mess in Iraq, he was able to articulate his flawed, dark view that we are currently in a "worldwide war" -- an attempt to set the stage for an expanded war beyond Iraq's borders -- without being challenged on his foreign policy inconsistencies.

On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was not asked if his belief that the immigration compromise will make America "competitive" means he believes the bill would maintain a steady flow of cheap labor.

Overall, the focus on the immigration bill was the nativist conservative criticism that granting a path to earned citizenship is "amnesty," with less attention of how the deal would impact those struggling to feed their families.

Though Katrina vanden Heuvel made the critical point during the ABC This Week pundit roundtable:

...there is no attention in this city or in this Congress to the root causes of immigration. They're about to pass a trade bill which is going to increase the flow of immigration to this country because there's no attention to economic development assistance to Mexico or Central America.

Finally, on CBS' Face The Nation, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was not asked if ousting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would "put this behind us" or would important questions about the Prosecutor Purge still need to be answered?

Though Face the Nation's other guest Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., seemed eager to have this be put behind us, speculating that Gonzales would resign if a Senate no-confidence vote was scheduled.