• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 9:35am ET / 6:35am PT to talk about the BP Oil Spill and other news of the day
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World
• Rich Galen, GOP Strategist and proprietor of Mullings.com, calls in at 10:35am ET / 7:35am PT to give the GOP perspective of the news of the day
• Engineers finally figured out how to siphon some of the oil that has been spewing into the Gulf for almost a month, but it could be too late to stop the ooze from reaching a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast. BP PLC crews on Sunday hooked up a mile-long tube to funnel the crude from a blown well into a tanker ship.
• Senate Republicans are unlikely to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, but they do plan to pepper her with tough questions about her legal positions, policies and practices during her upcoming confirmation hearings.
• People want Democrats to control Congress after this fall’s elections, a shift from April, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released Saturday. But the margin is thin and there’s a flashing yellow light for incumbents of both parties: Only about one-third want their own lawmakers re-elected.
