lol, it WAS effective. Didn't notice it from any other Repub congressmen on the other programs, though.
Bye the way, what is a Grand Bargain Barry? Is the Dairy Queen Bacon cheeseburger combo a Grand Bargin?
Here's one idea.............
Posted on 07/17/2011 5:30:36 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
July 17th, 2011
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Herman Cain, GOP presidential candidate; Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Jack Lew, head of the White House budget office; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio; David Cote, CEO of Honeywell International and member of the president’s deficit commission.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Durbin and Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Lew; Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Lew; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
LOL! Thank our lucky stars!
It might actually be fun to watch the Mahers and Matthews and Maddows, et al, try to tear them apart. Meanwhile Palin and Rubio would get to address voters directly through their campaign appearances.
What a contrast!
Palin/Rubio would certainly be a dream team....
Why Rubio & Kasich? Because the media, little by little is getting the POTUS Obama reality. Obama is a massive POTUS failure by any measurement and the Obama spin media has realized Obama is toast in November, 2012. Hence, you will see more and more of the Rubio, Kasich dudes, rather then the McCain, Graham and McConnell RINOs. With gas prices headed up again, the Goldman Sachs economy & jobs projection being dismal, the Obama low polling numbers, etc., the “Media” is slowly but surely brooming Obama down into the flushing toilet where he rightfully belongs!!!
The Republican who appeared on FNS with Van Hollen showed remarkable restraint in not grabbing Van Hollen’s finger and twisting it. If I had a wasel constantly trying to poke me in the arm with a finger I would have reacted less pleasantly. Van Hollen seems like a weasly little creep; is he a Anthony Weiner fan?
Bray for America.
*dryly*....
Why?
Yes, He IS...they're ALL Fans of His.
Has Rubio held any jobs that weren’t political, i.e. the private sector?
Notice the deficit was declining each year after 04 until the Dems were in control of Congress. Yet Podesta insists the reason we have a deficit at all is because of the Bush tax cuts, Medicare Part D, and two wars. The Dems repeat that mantra over and over, and the Pubbies never dispute it. No Republican should be allowed to leave home without several copies of your chart to shove in the faces of Democrats.
Van hollen is Dingy Harry on crack,he’s the pitts.
Victor David Hanson nailed O again today with St. Obama and the Debt Dragon
Failure, Failure Everywhere
In 2009, newly arrived Obama was convinced of redistributive Keynesian postmodern economics, a sort of updated fable that borrowed money would spawn more money, or at least would not have to be paid back, or could be excused along the lines: “If a Republican Bush borrowed nearly $5 trillion in eight years, then, dammit, why cannot a liberal Democrat be allowed to borrow more than $5 trillion in three?” And if Reagan gave us “starve the beast” (cutting taxes would cut revenue that would force smaller government), Obama could console himself with “gorge the beast” (growing government in extraordinary fashion would force higher taxes that in turn would redistribute income from those who “didn’t need it” to those who work for or receive from the government and who most certainly did need it).
The architects of his economic policies — Austan Goolsbee, Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers — did not even last three years. All now are either back in tenured academia, making millions in the revolving door that Obama once blasted, or writing op-eds why following their former advice is leading to insolvency, or all three combined. None are making the argument any more that we need more of their stimuli or ObamaCare will save us billions and create “400,000 new jobs.”
Their borrowing did not stop unemployment from plateauing at 9.1% or prevent the housing market from getting worse, or growth from stalling, or gas from soaring, or the beginnings of a new inflation. In the meantime, the model of Obamism (e.g., Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Ireland) in Europe of high taxes, redistributive government, astronomical debt, and unsustainable pensions has crashed. So Obamism did not work, and now is the politically opportune time, before the 2012 election, to follow the famed Obama reinvention stratagem: Cite straw men and extremists on both sides, and put St. Obama plop in the middle as the sober, great dragon slayer, who blames both his contemporaries and his predecessor. Hard to do, I know, when you wasted $5 trillion, but do it nonetheless he has. In the word of Obama, wasted borrowed money is “stimulus,” not so shovel ready jobs are “investments,” and hiking taxes on someone else is “revenue enhancement.”
Hanson concludes,
So what is the status of the debt limit crisis now? The annual deficit and the aggregate debts are so massive that all the talk of a few billion cuts here and there, or even a trillion or so, means little. To save us, we would have to slash two or three entire departments (e.g., perhaps energy, education, agriculture, etc.), end all agriculture subsidies, raise the retirement age, freeze cost of living raises for Social Security, clamp down on food stamp and entitlement abuses (almost 50 million now receive them), and do far, far more — while encouraging the private sector to drill, mine, grow food at unprecedented rates, as government trimmed regulations and revised the tax code to encourage wealth creation.
Van Hollen looks like Terry McCauliffe’s little brother.
I believe Rubio was in real estate before he was in the Florida state congress in 2000. So, I do believe he knows how the private sector works.
Rubio went to Sante Fe Jr. college— a preparatory for the UF where he graduated. Then got his law degree at the UM—Univ. of Miami. He was listed as an “of counsel” at Broad/Cassell Law Firm in Miami specializing in land use, zoning, procurement and adm. law. Don’t know if he is still listed there on not.
“Weren’t Mcain and Lindsey available?”
One out of two. Grahamnesty was on State of the Union.
that's the great thing about, the graphs....
solid facts, on understandable graphics.and yes, Every Conservative should have these graphs printed on 3X5 cards asking, "You better off today than '07-08"
VDH is a brilliant guy, he realizes that even after zeros reign is through its gonna be tough sledding so much damage has been done.
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