Posted on 05/28/2006 5:08:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 28th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Staff Sgt. Alfred Lanier, head honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; singer Tony Orlando.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Barham Salih, Iraqi deputy prime minister; Prince Hassan of Jordan; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert.
Me too, but we do have almost six months to make the issue of immigration important to politicians. That, I intend to do and have been doing.
I'm also having fun asking candidates IF they have read our STATE constitution? Amazing how some will look at you before responding. LOL
Every time we see a pundit quote a bad poll number for President Bush, we should ask them what is the poll rating of congress, or specific congressmen. During the Gingrich years, all we ever heard were the bad poll numbers for congress, Americans are disappointed with Congress, etc etc. Pundits use poll numbers like artists use paints. They pick and choose the "news" they want to use.
It's a well-known fact that only the Federal Government of the USA has the time, money and hubris to calculate exactly what it doesn't know.
To the third decimal point.
I think Rush was trying to persuade Tony that the mindset of not shoring up the border all the way, not in patches, and then dealing with the illegals later is rather short sided but he did not get anywhere at all.
Snow had major "talking points" and was more than ready. It was all done in a grown up and non-hate filled manner although rush did get a bit flustered several times but my guess is they will go at it again. Snow knew not to leave until Rush was through with him he many never get a chance at a 15 million audience of mostly conservatives again. It's an opportunity not to be squandered.
If nothing else Snow is super-persuasive if not slick.
Shooting BACK is not morally equivalent to shooting first. If you don't like the responses your side is getting, persuade it to change it's tactics. Pronouncing anathema on anyone with even the slightest difference of opinion on the Anti Immigration Gospel is a sure pathway to political irrelevance.
Political dogmatic purity may make the true believes feel good, it does nothing to get laws enacted. For that you need votes. Your side is pretty much alienating any one who MIGHT listen but is not convinced. Preaching endlessly to the choir does ONE thing for the Antis, wears out their voices.
Please don't take this wrong, but Frist is working as the Senate leader and not an advocate on this. His job is to keep consensus as much as possible while Sessions, Kyl, Cronyn, Vitter or Grassley don't have that responsibility.
Compared to the logical counterpart, Senator Reid, Frist did really well today. Frist avoided the issues he knew were still trouble and he tried to steer the conversation to those he wanted to discuss. In that way, he's under the gun and limited as to what he's able to accomplish.
I'm NOT a Frist fan but he gets maligned over things contrary to what he's supposed to be doing.
I just saw the rerun of Fox News Sunday and Bill Kristol's comments come off meaner and more arrogant than the first time that I saw them. Saying that Christopher Shay's questions on the immigration bill was in support of his rich constituency to have cheap servants went too far. That is Democrat rhetoric. Democrats are always the ones engaging in class warfare.Of course he is in support of a Republican minority and a Democrat majority in the Senate and the only defense that he has is to break out the Demcocrat boilerplate defenses. I doubt if there are very many on this forum subscribing to some rag call the Weekly Standard, but if they are they ought to think twice about maintaining their subscripton with two emasculated Washington elite snobs like Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol filling its pages.
We must not falter now just because the political track has gotten a little rough.
Haven't heard the term "slick" since BJ?? Are you calling Tony Snow, slick? The truth is not slick.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
"It's a well-known fact that only the Federal Government of the USA has the time, money and hubris to calculate exactly what it doesn't know."
What you describe is a "win-win" for both Tony Snow and Rush Limbaugh. Frankly, I hope we hear a bunch of that, over and over.
I take your point, but let's be honest here... how many of us ALWAYS drive speed limit or below?
Newt's phrase when he discussed this was "Americans look at the speed limit as a benchmark of opportunity."
We are law abiding... to a point...
The side of the LAW. How awful of me to EXPECT our government to ENFORCE THE LAW. /sarcasm
You mentioned Vitter...he has REALLY impressed me.
He doesn't act like a newbie, does he??
I know that Mark Levin was speaking none too kindly about Tony that night...
http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/05/28/murtha-tw-haditha/
Sorry again it took so long to get back to you I had to work.
Lou Dobbs is not a person I would trust with the Family Fortune.
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