We interrupt President Barack Obama news to bring you this update on "The Bachelor." OK, it was only the third episode, and the drama queen fervor is at a high pitch. Monday night's show could have been entitled: "Jason and the Catfighters."

I hate to use that chauvinistic term, but there's no other way to describe how awful almost everyone on this cycle has become. Jason looked lost and bewildered. He kicked out Natalie after realizing there wasn't much there (at least she got to wear $1 million in jewelry before getting dumped). He asked some of the contestants to rat out who's causing problems in the house. And he sucked face with nearly every woman at the party before the rose ceremony, which made him look like a playa.

And then there was the verbal catfight staged at the party for Jason's enlightenment that showed contestants in the worst light: clingy, wretched, self-involved and delusional. It's hard to believe that Jason thinks one of these women will make a good mother for his 3-year-old son, Ty. (And we do know that he is engaged to one of them.)

Inexplicably, Jason kept Megan (who's paranoid and gets bleeped all the time because of her foul language) and Shannon, the stalker. Could it not have been more clear last night how scary this woman is? She's so intense and nerve-wracked that she was throwing up ... which means the drama queen happenings are only going to escalate.