Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 18 September 2005

Various big media television networks ^ | 18 September 2005 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Russian President Vladimir Putin; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former President Bill Clinton; Allen.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Allen.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Clinton; Sen. David Vitter, R-La.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Caroline Kennedy, editor, "A Family of Poems."

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.; Allen; Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Miami Mayor Manuel Diaz.

[samantha]

Ruh Roh! That does not sound good. If they want to improve Schools, if there is nothing but Casino's and tourists who is going to go to the schools?

[MNJohnnie]

What 7 seats do you think we will lose? I see us picking up a Senate Seat here. Other then that we will not lose or gain here. MN is at the balance point. Half secure Dem seats, half secure Repb seats. I do not see the Dems picking up anything anywhere. You actually have to run on an agenda. They have none. The leadership wants to run Republican Lite candidates, Dem base is mad because they feel the Dem leadership is "not taking on Bush enough". Basically the civil war in the Republican party is mirrored with the Civil war in the Dems party. I suspect any "Conventional wisdom" being made 14 months before the election is just so much hot air. Conisdering how much is likely to happen. I suspect we WILL have some immigration legislation between now and then. I suspect Gas Prices will have sunk back down to a faily stable $2.20 point. All this rollercoast ride in oil is bringin a lot of new production on line, that is going to help stabelize the market. I don't see the Dems making any effort to appeal to Red State Voters. So which 7 seats do you see us losing?

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks, but this is what you and others have been saying as well all morning. Morning? Yikes, it's afternoon and getting later!

[Cboldt]

We were in a PR loser position after 9-11 when there was all this pressure to "Get along". By making this partisan from the word go, the Dems have done us a favor.

Some of the "more government" we got as a result of 9/11 is good, IMO. But not all of it. I think many aspects of TSA are a farce, and some serious airport security holes go ignored while the government works on the visible part. It's a charade to impress the voters.

I also think, when it comes to disaster planning, "more government" is not the solution. I've told my Senators (both after 9/11 and now again after Katrina), that a better strategy for making a strong society is to tell the people that government is a resource of last resort. It is bureaucratic and inefficient. Better to have people deveop the ability to care for themselves and their neighbors, than to expect/rely on the FedGov.

I also think that security should never be a partisan matter. We're all in the life-or-death stuff together.

I do think that the failure of Great Society will not be pointed out. Had the thugs been stopped cold, if we'd talk about the thugs, we'd confront a different ailment in our society. We are too soft on violent criminals. Priorities are all mixed up. Local and state governments have time to make smoking bans, but can't plan a disaster response or thug response. I see no change coming in that regard.

[Arizona Carolyn]

What was Clinton thinking giving Al Gore a forum at the summit?

[ElPatriota]

What the f@*$! is this picture about? Is this some kind of a "photoshop" trick? L0L - It has to be... Tell it is. What is it with Bush lately... he is about to adopt brother "Bill," into the family!!... and now Mrs Blanco? LOL

[MNJohnnie]

write e-mails, and phone Washington on a regular basis..but do you know what? I sometimes even write and call to PRAISE them when they do something I like...

Yep and I have actually gone and talked to my US Senator and Congress people at their town halls, party events and public appearances. I regularly call and write all my congress critters and my local media and talk radio hosts. In fact, one of my pre-hurricane projects was writing to every Repub Senator telling them it would be BETTER for the party and for them to bring up legislation on Immigration, Spending Cuts, Energy Independence etc and LOSE then to continue on this path of "Get alongism". That is creating the impression that the Repub leaders are DOING nothing.

And yes, I work a full time job that has nothing to do with politics and actually have a busy NON Free Republic social life! See there is about 10% of us that actually DO make the Country work so the rest of them can sit on their butts and whine about "the Govt". What those of us pulling the wagon are asking for is some of those who are so vigorous in WHINING get out of the wagon and help PUSH.

[Arizona Carolyn]

$300 billion number must be in the latest Democratic talking points. Was thrown out by a couple of Dem operative on FOX this morning... first time we heard it my husband and I both looked at each other and asked where in the world THAT number came from.

[snugs]

That is an actual photo where she cried all over him when he went down to the region on the 2nd despite the rhetoric before and after about him he still had the human compassion to comfort her.

[hoosiermama]

I've made a couple of copies...Lots of laughs so far.

[Miss Marple]

Put up what? I'm not the POTUS, Bush is. That's what we have Bush and the GOP Congress for. To analyze, evaluate and make decisions. Bush won the election, he gets to set policy. The feds make the decisions, we either agree or disagree. That's the way it works in America. I've sent quite a few emails to the WH over the last few years about no vetoes from the President on spending legislation. I contact my Congressman and my Senators too. That's how our representative consstitutional republic works.

So, your solution is to carp about spending. The President gets to make the decisions, and if you don't like them, you gripe? And you refuse to offer an alternative solution?

Do you not understand that the program relies heavily on the private sector? That the President is REQUIRED BY LAW to initiate federal help for this area? That he has said he will not raise taxes, and that offsets will have to be made? That the money is going to be closely watched?

This is NOT "throwing money" at the problem. It is wise stewardship of funds that he is REQUIRED to spend.

And I see that really, you don't have a solution. No amount of calling me a Bush cheerleader (which I am quite frankly proud to be) changes the fact that you have NO alternative solution.

[Reagan Man]

Anytime the federal government gets involved in spending more of the taxpayers money, I know that level of funding approved will increase at an unacceptable rate. That's what government does best. Spent taxpayer money.

>>>>Are you equating the devastation in the Gulf with welfare programs that have been around since, when, Carter was POTUS??

PresBush in his speech clearly made the case for expansive big government, cradle to grave nannyism.

>>>>I don't think even YOU would say that right after 9/11, President Bush handled his presidency like he would have prior to 9/11....and I think this hurricane was just the same...I don't think we can look at any fed spending in this case, like we would your welfare and entitlements of decades and administrations past.

The events of 9-11 came about when terrorists invaded America and killed over 3000 people and destroyed billions of dolloars of infrastructure. The Katrina afetrmath and the 9-11 attacks are completely different events. One, an act of war. The other, an act of nature. That doesn't mean we get all touchy feely liberal and hand out money, like candy to kids.

I'm hearing some good things about Mike Pence. His idea to put off the PDP for a year or so, is something I would support wholeheartedly.

[snugs]

Really off now things to do see you later

[Bassfire]

Great! :-)

[MNJohnnie]

Priorities are all mixed up. Local and state governments have time to make smoking bans, but can't plan a disaster response or thug response

Yep and all ready the Hennipen County smoking ban is being reconsidered because of the amount of revenue lost it is causing to the clubs and businesses in Minneapolis. The solution however, is not to throw up our hands and give up before the battle is joined. Here is what I did. I voted with my feet. I worked about 80 hours a week at 2 jobs for 5 years. Saved and skrimed, and Saved and SAVED until I could move OUT of the Leftist hell hole and into a place run by people who THINK like me. I know it sound strange, but do a little research on voting habits with your state office that oversees elections and you can probably find a place near by where the good old fashion "Reagan" Repubs run local Govt. Funny thing too, it is actually cheaper to live out here and DRIVE 30 minutes to work then live in one of their Socialists Democrat Urban "planed "utopias"

[maica]

Honore turns to the reporter and asks him how many people HE saved.

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I would like every reporter who was in New Orleans Parish before the evacuation tell me how many bottles of water, how many pounds of food, how many blocks of ice they brought in their vehicles. How many were shared with the people that they were hyping as starving? How many people they fitted into their vans as they drove away from the highways each evening?

I was very pleased with Gen Honore's question to the reporter.

The fact that they helped no one puts them in the category of Al jazeera "journalists" who "happen" to be available at EID detonations.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>We do not go off on a DU type unsubstantiated tangent.

This makes no sense whatsoever.

I oppose throwing money at problems. The Katrina aftermath is the current case in point. Liberals love throwing money at probelms. They've been doing it for 40 years or more. Liberals like those at DU support an ever expanding government bureaucracy, with welfare and entitlement handouts front and center.

As a conservative, my objective is to advance the conservative agenda and limit the size and scope of the federal government and stop out of control spending.

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for posting that quote by General Honore. I have been watching my grandkids a lot and don't get to see as much TV as I used to.

I like Honore, and think that Scott McClellan should take some lessons from him.

[MNJohnnie]

human compassion to comfort her

Human decency I would think. Just because our political foes behave like scum is no reason for us to. One thing I regularly hear from people who do NOT agree with my politics, is how they respect Bush basic decency as a person. I find it frustrating too some times because the desire to hit back at the scum is so strong but then I just ask myself "Just how many national elections have YOU won Johnnie?" which reminds me that Bush may know quite a bit more about how to act as President then I ever will.

[MNJohnnie]

As a conservative, my objective is to advance the conservative agenda and limit the size and scope of the federal government and stop out of control spending.

Nice slogans. What are the SOLUTIONS? What should Bush and Republican Congress be doing about Hurricane Recovery?

What is the "conservative" agenda you wish to advance?