Who needs Fox "news" when you've got the pundits on ABC concern trolling for Republicans with the best of them? I don't know what got into This Week guest host Martha Raddatz this Sunday, but she decided it was her job to literally badger House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about why she was being too mean to her Republican counterparts in the House when they decided to shut down the government and hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage for a couple of weeks.

She's lucky she didn't have someone like me on there with her instead of Pelosi, because I'd have told her the mild things she quoted here about these economic terrorists are probably the nicest thing that could be said about them. They deserve a whole lot harsher criticism than what Pelosi gave them.

This seems to be a running theme among the Villagers this week. Now that the immediate crisis is over, it's damage control time for the GOP and time to badger the Democrats about the sudden need for "bipartisanship" and "civility." She reminds me of someone asking an abused spouse why they're not ready to forgive their husband right after they got out of the hospital. "He said he won't do it again. Why don't you want to forgive him and move back in together?"

If Raddatz wants to go work for Fox, I'd say she just did a fine job auditioning here: