Weekend Watchdog

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked.

And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air America Radio's "Seder on Sundays" program, where I'll offer the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up.

For former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn. (CBS' Face The Nation): In the last debate, you refused to answer when the field was asked, "How many of you believe global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?"

The Nobel Peace Prize just went to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which brought together several thousand scientists from across the globe, and found that the answer to that question was "Yes."

How can you succeed as president if you refuse to accept the conclusions of sound science, and base policy on objective facts?

For former Gov. Mitt Romney (NBC's Meet The Press): You claim you will "dramatically reduce our CO2 emissions" and tackle global warming by getting America "off of foreign oil."

But your energy plan includes a call for drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Since American oil creates just as much carbon pollution as foreign oil, won't your energy plan fail to stop global warming?

For Alan Greenspan (ABC's This Week): Salon.com's Andrew Leonard recently assessed your contribution to the current financial crisis, and said:

[Greenspan was] a cheerleader for ARMs [adjustable rate mortgages]. In a speech to the Credit Union National Conference in February 2004, he lavished praise on adjustable rate mortgages, and in effect told American consumers that they were being financially imprudent by not signing on the ARM dotted line.

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In the larger scheme of things, the praise for ARMs is small beans compared to Greenspan's support of the proliferation of complex structured financial products, which were supposed to stabilize the world's financial system by widely dispersing risk. That hasn't worked out too well either.

Greenspan is doing a lot of wriggling, but the longer the current crisis lasts and the deeper the damage wrought, the harder it will be for him to get off the hook. He was there at the creation, his rhetoric supported it, and he did nothing whatsoever to stop it.

Will you take responsibility for your role in creating the current crisis?

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