Posted on 07/13/2014 4:58:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
July 13th, 2014
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas; Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif; Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Joaquin Castro, D-Texas; former U.S. special Mideast envoy Martin Indyk.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestinian envoy in Washington; Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas; Reps. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Lamar Smith, R-Texas.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Attorney General Eric Holder.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Netanyahu; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Donna Edwards, D-Md., Aaron Schock, R-Ill., and Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas; Chris Cabrera, Border Patrol agent in Texas.
Well, you make some good points.
I think we would need a ground swell of citizens, including Dems, to turn this around. Perhaps the risk of their entitlements being cut, if that happens, due to illegal imiigrants, might turn people around. THAT’s what the Blacks were screaming about this week. That and taking their low pay jobs.
No!... Constitution Party, Taxpayer Party, Conservative Party VOTERS!
Join the County and then State Republican Committee, change things there.
You did ask a question...I answered it.
Maybe you did, and maybe you didn't. It's going to be a very expensive proposition finding out.
Oh, please!
It’s not about party but rather the positions they advocate.
Can you name me one thing I should agree with any single democrat’s position on?
I cannot think of one.
And, all hyperbole aside, I vote TEA party in every primary. The GOPe doesn’t get my vote just because they are GOP. The TEA guy/gal gets my vote because of what they stand for.
Now if the TEA guy/gal isn’t on the ballot, then yes, honestly, sometimes I HAVE to vote AGAINST what someone is for; say the democrat.
Simple formula:
For or Against?
Taxes (raising or lowering)
Amnesty
Homosexuals
Obamacare
Global Warming
Drilling for oil
Less government
Freedom of the people to worship their religion without being forced to be officially atheists
Oh, the list is endless, and really illustrates the differences that I happen to vote on. Sometimes, the candidate I eventually vote for will actually be for or against an issue or two that I’m the opposite on, but only when his/her opponent is for/against even more that I am for/against.
Crappy decisions I agree but I’m still going to make them.
Yes, its layers upon layers. I just don’t want the politicians or us for that matter to forget that the human suffering is not just immigrants. The degradation of our fellow citizens and nation is an issue as well
Whatever...that's the system and how it works.
What's expensive is not fighting back. (See:Obama, RATs)
Are you sure the "system" isn't to convince people that as a voter you can't do anything but go along with the status quo?
Do you have open primaries in your state?
Are you with me?
Yes, that's pretty much what I'm telling you.
I'm assuming that you know how to drive a car, use the telephone and computer. The fact that you are unaware of and unwilling to work our political system makes you a political Luddite.
Do you have open primaries in your state?
What if you're wrong? What if voting third party or just letting them take the loss will finally get their attention?
How do you know that there is no other answer except yours?
Larri...? (banging head against wall) sometimes ya gotta wonder why ya bother gettin’ up in the mornin’.
You seein’ this Larri?
What’s upsetting is 0bama exacerbated the problem and took a 2008 law that was intended for one thing and expanded it to include masses of children. In other words, 0bama created the problem for political reasons.
I would guess nothing being done before the election except this may be large enough of a problem that congress will actually do something now even if it’s the wrong thing to do.
The bottom line? 0bama creates the problem and then offers a solution for the problem he created and there’s no guarantee 0bama will spend the money for what 0bama said was needed to be done. And, no matter what happens, when it gets worse the blame is on Republicans.
For one thing, we should only have a closed primary system where only Republicans are allowed to vote.
I'm from Boston, and in my lifetime (I'm 68) the local Dems used to be socially conservative at least -- the Republicans never were, and fiscally were always the crony capitalist, big business (not small business) types. Frankly, here in MA we never get a chance to vote conservative. If a conservative actually has the temerity to run, the MA GOP will recruit (and support) a liberal to run against him in the primary. That seems to be what happened to Sean Bielat: the first time he ran, they didn't bother figuring he had no chance against Barney Frank. The second time, when it was for an open seat, they recruited some woman -- Elizabeth something -- to run in the primary. Also, I'm firmly convinced (admittedly without proof) that they also put up that Fall River dentist who nobody ever heard of but who claimed to be a real conservative in order to split the conservative vote.
“And not only that...I can flip things in a skillet.”
I want proof. are you on YouTube? :)
“ain’t seen nothing yet” is right!
Imagine thousands of Czars all like Van Jones, all U.S. Attorneys like Holder, all judicial appointees like Bill Ayers...
It could get a lot worse. Perpetual. There is no shortage of campus radical and their ilk, clones, and spawn.
Jeff Kuhner on wRKO Boston related a delightful tidbit a while back: seems someone was interviewing Alan Dershowitz and asked whether Obama had taken any of his courses while at Harvard. Dershowitz said no, he had tried a couple of times to sign up for one, but "he didn't have the grades."
No, lots of people can flip, it’s easy especially with a ceramic skillet. It’s not the flipping that takes skill...just like piloting, it’s the landing that counts.
I just flipped a 3-egg omelet, then, of course, I ate it.
You’re absolutely right that GOPe is a collection of loosely formed INDIVIDUALS. They are cowards when they attack TEA party and conservatives but as they “win” they become more bold. As they fail, they break ranks and run (ala Cantor).
A guy like Rove came up through the organized GOP structure being an in-house weenie nerd on state level and then national. He was discovered by Bushes as a good pollster, which helped Dubya become Governor of Texas. He has morphed into a bigger than life “architect” and “brain”. He is way above his competence.(Peter Principle).
We need to pressure RINOs and beat them one by one and quit giving money to organizations like Rove’s Crossroads.
We can right this ship.
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