[Phsstpok]

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.

• Meme:
  • So, Congressman Davis, as a corrupt gay bashing homo loving child molesting Republican, will you kill yourself now or must we vote you all out of office first?
  • So, Congressman LaHood, we've handed you the election on a silver platter and it's a forgone conclusion that you'll sweep back to power and all will be right with the world, so how long before peace breaks out all over the planet and everyone loves us again?
  • So, Dan, the WaPo plan for giving the election back to the Democrats, as God intended, appears to be working, so how do you feel now?
• Topics:
  • The Congressional Page Scandal And The Midterm Elections
• Guests
  • Representative Tom Davis, Republican - Virginia
    • House web site | Bio
    • Is Allen an Albatross? (Burke Connection, VA - Oct 5, 2006)
    • Success not measured in dollar signs alone (Salem News, Ohio - Oct 5, 2006)
    • Shell says talks on US oil royalties partly done (Reuters - Oct 6, 2006)
    • Thanks to War, Business Is Booming (Burke Connection, VA - Oct 5, 2006)
    • DNC: GOP Implodes Over Foley Scandal (All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - Oct 5, 2006)
  • Representative Ray LaHood, Republican - Illinois
    • House web site | Bio
    • Another page comes forward in the Foley scandal (WREG, TN - Oct 5, 2006)
    • Page uproar reverberates in Illinois (Chicago Tribune - Oct 6, 2006)
    • Rosa Brooks: Grand Old Party of Child Endangerment (Los Angeles Times, CA - Oct 6, 2006)
    • LaHood's plan criticized (Springfield State Journal Register, IL - Oct 6, 2006)
    • Page Scandal Political Dynamite In House Races (CBS2 Chicago, IL - Oct 5, 2006)
  • Dan Balz
    • National Political Correspondent, The Washington Post
    • Foleygate Mushrooms (RealClearPolitics Blog - Oct 3, 2006)
    • Voter reaction may hand majority to Democrats (San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Oct 3, 2006)
    • Anger grows over e-mail scandal (The Herald, WA - Oct 3, 2006)
    • After Foley, new fears for GOP (MSNBC - Oct 2, 2006)
    • Keep Cash Coming, Steele Tells The GOP (Washington Post - Sep 28, 2006)
    • '08 Scrutiny Shines Unkind Light on Allen (Washington Post - Sep 30, 2006)
    • Bill Clinton's 60th birthday benefit blowout (China Post, Taiwan - Sep 28, 2006)
    • Oil Politics (Washington Post - Oct 1, 2006)
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

[kristinn]

Your meme for Face the Nation is incorrect. For some reason you got it in your head LaHood is a Rat. He's a Pubbie.

I like reading your weekly previews, BTW.