Thanks a bunch, your reportage makes this thread great!
Posted on 08/02/2009 5:03:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.; Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council.; former Reps. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn., and J.C. Watts, R-Okla.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Summers.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (Michelle Malkin on Roundtable).
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz; Christina Romer, head of the Council of Economic Advisers.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "Late Edition"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
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(Michelle Malkin on Roundtable)
MICHELL MALKIN ON ROUNDTABLE!!!
This should be killer. What time, I'm there.
Good morning, Alas!
Why can’t McCain just go away and leave us alone.
Well with this lineup of geniuses all our problems will be solved by this afternoon. Happy Days are here again!
McCain has threatened to filibuster any new funds for clunkers.
Me too!
He needs a job.
Tokenism.
We have 38 million plus illegals in the country,11-15% unemployment, MS13 now running the drug cartels and controlling the border,an illegal President,all out attack on capitalism and you wanna filibuster the clunker problem. With leaders like this......
She is very good, but it shocks me that ABC is giving her the supposed credibility of participating in the roundtable. Maybe somebody actually does care about ratings.
The rampant socialism afoot is much more dangerous to our nation than any of the problems you cited.
In that the Cash For Clunkers Program is a sop to the unions which now own the car companies and is also an attempt by the Socialists to use tax dollars to show a (phony) rise in auto sales (thus, further legitimizing socialism), I’m glad McCain is wading in.
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The rate at which we’re losing jobs is slowing down so, for Larry Summers, things are looking up.
OMG, he actually says things are better because of the “policies that were put in place.”
The direction to Gregory from the wh this morning was just let Summers talk. Interrupt as infrequently as possible while he gets in all of the talking points.
Summers hasn’t made any sense since the day he was appointed.
Americans suffering from this terrible healthcare system.
Republicans have no plan.
96% of small businesses not hit by tax.
High number of uninsured.
America only industrialized country without national health plan.
Rangle challenges DeMint to work with democrats on a plan.
Good only Charlie Rangel just can’t tax the “rich folks” enough. He wants Jim Demint to “work with” the Democrats, rather than the Democrats working with the Republicans.
David Gregory, the most incurious interviewer in the world, ever.
Allow interstate competition for health insurance.
Barney Frank clip stating the RAT plan is just another government takeover to slide into singlepayer.
“The president is very focused, very committed...” Blah, blah.
DeMint: Rangel knows the Republicans have a plan. Mentions fed fund to allow states to set up High Risk Pools.
Charlie Rangle says DeMint is afraid of a public option. LOL. Demint isn’t the only one.
DeMint calls the new plan, Fannie Med. Good one!
Larry Summers is an extremely weird person.
This segment of MTP is essentially worthless.
Everyone with a functioning brain knows that Porkulus was a giveaway to dem constituencies. It’s not a recovery plan.
Now he’s on to how we have to have a government takeover of health care to really get economic recovery.
Rangel stepped in it! He talked about the gov’t health plan not knocking out private insurance companies and providing competition between the gov’t and private plans but later said DeMint and the Republicans should put together their plan for “national health insurance.” Sorry, Charlie, the Republicans don’t want “national health insurance.” And because of that fact Rangel regards them as only being “critical” of the Rats socialistic plan.
Same people that created a program that went bankrupt in one week in the used car business want to run your healthcare system.
Summers is now into talking about paint chips falling off school walls.
Summers should not try to smile. It isn’t convincing and it makes him look even stranger.
Some areas of the country are giving 79 weeks of unemployment checks, and Congress wants to extend the payments even further. I say after 52 weeks if checks have to be sent, call it welfare, not unemployment.
My guess is the 79 weeks situation is in Michigan.
This MTP is the worst I have ever seen.
Gregory’s presence is irrelevant. He doesn’t need to be there at all.
What one might do while still holding out hope of a Fed chairmanship?
I agree. Lawrence Summers is just droning along with 6-7 minute answers to questions and in most cases he’s not even addressing the questions. Teacher jobs saved etc... um, how bout private sector jobs Gregory? You’re letting him slide far too easy.
Thanks a bunch, your reportage makes this thread great!
$12,000, per student, per year: How much does a gallon of Glidden cost?
No they don't, but there are some things that could happen at the federal level such as interstate purchasing of medical coverage, association health plans, and the banning some onerous regulations currently in place in certain stupid Northeastern states.
Guaranteed Issue and Community Rating have killed the health insurance market in several states, and essentially destroyed the friendly climate for small business development.
1) Will Michelle Malkin have to wear a George Will bow-tie so that liberals will know that she is a conservative?
2) Tax-cheat Timmy is on a show; early August is a little early for those segments that review changes in tax law and how to avoid paying. Is this a re-run from last year?
“$12,000, per student, per year: How much does a gallon of Glidden cost?”
And how much does it cost to hold a paint your school day for the students & teachers?
It actually got people into showrooms and buying cars; people have to be able to afford a loan or write a check to buy a new car, so it's not like this is another hand-out to non tax-payers; and it has only cost a few billion and produced sales revenue, sales tax revenue, and business activity. No wonder career elitist politicians don't like it.
Good interview with Mike Pence. Solid conservative. Talked about a constituent in Indiana (who’d just lost his job) that thanked him last year for his vote against the bailouts. He told Pence that he can get another job, but he can’t get another country. Good point!
I had a friend - 2nd grade teacher who had to buy the paint and spend her summer painting her room because her principal was not in the ‘right’ group for the administration.
That answer by Summers was very telling. He makes the argument that teacher jobs are being saved with the Stimulus and then follows that up with the imaginary paint chips falling off the school walls. Stimulus for teachers no stimulus for painters and paint manufacturers.
2. Give the former and once again hyper-active kids paint brushes: The whole school get painted in an hour!
What it is is a transfer of cash from lower-income Americans who depend upon having modestly-priced used cars available to purchase and drive to higher-income Americans who can use such a subsidy to trade in a perfectly fine used car for a new one, as well, of course, as a propping up of the auto unions and the supposed economic performance of Car Czar Obama. Were those higher-income Americans not so incentivized to buy a new car, their dollars would either be spent on something else in the economy or stored up as savings in a bank or elsewhere in what would provide capital for business expansion.
I don’t see a smidgeon or good or fairness in the program.
I like how the producer keeps showing Kristol’s facial expressions as Wan speaks.
Fox played a sound bite from a Republican Rep. on the Cash for Clunkers program. The dude said, “Maybe we should make a Cash for Cluckers” program and pay people to eat chickens.”
LOL.
Like most Gov’t programs this creates winners and losers. Why am I punished because I bought a high mileage car several years ago? Why are you rewarded because you bought a gas guzzler? Why do the Feds have the right to take $4,500 out of my wallet at the point of a gun and give it to someone else? How deserted are the auto showrooms going to be when this boondoggle ends? Where are the working poor going to find an affordable used car after the Feds destroy a million serviceable cars? Why is this Gov’t Charlie Foxtrot better than letting working Americans keep more of their hard earned dollars? How is the economy stimulated when the Feds suck a trillion dollars out of it? I have many more questions, but these will give you something to consider?
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