Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 9 October 2005

Various big media television networks ^ | 9 October 2005 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Texas Supreme Court Judge Nathan Hecht; Gary Bauer, president of the American Values Coalition; Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief surgeon with the National Institutes of Health.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pat Buchanan, former presidential candidate; Richard Land, president, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ranking Democrat of the committee; Mike Leavitt, secretary, Health and Human Services.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraqi national security adviser; the Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition; Dr. David Nabarro, U.N. bird flu envoy.

[chiller]

Freeh probably agreed to debut on 60 minutes, and honored that agreement. He can do the shows next week after it all spills out.

[MrNatural]

..Bauer says Mier is ... a pig in a poke. Wants a known commodity. Wants reassurance ..

Bauer has an inflated idea of his own importance in the Grand Scheme of Things.

[Mister Baredog]

After all, the Pubbies do have the votes;

If you consider the RINOS and the gang of 14 I'm not so sure they do have the votes. The WH supposidly spoke with 80 senators. I can easily see at least 4 0r 5 RINOS not willing to go along with the "big fight".

[cake_crumb]

"I also feel there may well be a fight to get her confirmed."

A huge one ;-)

[Miss Marple]

I notice that the democrats are busy trying to keep the GOP dissension pot stirred.

Any statements by people like Mikulski, Reid, or Leahy should simply be ignored.

And now that we have heard from all the pundits, what is their excuse for still appearing and griping? Apparently some of them (Frum, Kristol, and Krauthammer) want to force the withdrawal of this nomination. That would be very bad.

And if Bill Kristol thinks that the White House is going to dance to his tune, he is really living in a dream world. I imagine that these pundits are unaware that President Bush has a long memory, and does not appreciate insults to his friends. He specifically asked for a dignified nomination process, and people who are supposed to be on our side are doing their best to make the entire party look like fools.

They have expressed their displeasure. It is time to be quiet and wait for the hearings.

[HapaxLegamenon]

Who exactly are the Conservatives who are praising the Miers selection?

[unsycophant]

Brit Hume has class and common sense, a great combination. He doesn't play to the crowd with theatrical over-the-top statements and always seems very well-informed.

I have admired him for years and it's lucky for us he's around to balance the hysteria the punditocracy is caught up in right now.

[snugs]

Definitely stick to my weather, yes I get rain and cold weather but do not have to worry about mosquito's and those we do get a very small and certainly pose no health problem.

[altura]

That is the standard response to any of us who stick up for the President.

Usually it takes the form of calling us Bushbots. The remark to you about worship and God was beyond the pale.

It is a shallow and tacky argument.

[Morgan in Denver]

Juan Williams is talking from Democrat talking points, where race trumps rational thinking. But, race is a red herring since a black or Hispanic conservative is not acceptalbe to them.

[Dane]

Before these Sunday morning dog & pony shows are over Harriet Miers will probably wish she had bird flu

I disagree, she and GW are probably getting quite a chuckle from the temper tantrums of the DC beltway silver spoon right wing media.

[H.Akston]

"(Frum, Kristol, and Krauthammer) want to force the withdrawal "


Sounds like they're a bunch of cut-and-runners to me.

[Republic]

Thanks for one good post! I know exactly what your speaking of...and I bet it did feel like a kick in the ass.

That kind of racial pandering and projection just does not cut it....ANYWHERE. It is insulting, demeaning and revolting.

[syriacus]

Liasson was just saying, before the break, that stalwart Bush supporters [paraphrased] like Bill Kristol, are speaking from the heart about their objections to Miers.

I might be wrong, but didn't Bill Kristol support someone other than Bush during one of the last two presidential elections?

If so, I wouldn't call Bill Kristol a stalwart Bush supporter.

[snugs]

Good old Brit have to watch this later

[olde north church]

Sometimes it takes a brick to the head but Berger and a driving incident? Perhaps he was able to avoid an auto "Arkancide"?

[Dane]

I might be wrong, but didn't Bill Kristol support someone other than Bush during one of the last two presidential elections?

kristol was a mccainiac in 2000.

[Iwo Jima]

So when do we ever nominate a strong constitutionalist to the Supreme Court? If now is not the time, what will make it so at any later time?

My concern is that President Bush has decided that Ms. Miers is as strong as any nominee will ever be. It only goes downhill from here. No one with a paper trail need apply. And just how strong is Bush's bench of stealth candidates who he just happens to know their hearts and minds?

If not now, when? If not us, who?

This is not a question of winning without a fight. To those of us who have waited a lifetime for a properly constituted court, this is losing without a fight. And pacifism in defense of the Constitution is not an attractive quality.

[Miss Marple]

Oh, that's enough!!!! I am going to go find my discussion of Bill Kristol's long history of causing trouble for Republicans and post it here! Stalwart supporter indeed!

Back in a minute!!

[rodguy911]

Great catch Ernest!!

This is indeed a brilliant thread and a format for every country in the world that has the problem of terrorism.

Here is a quote I really liked.

"Another important matter in defeating terrorism is to give every Iraqi a stake in the country."

This is brilliant way to establish a new country by the new leaders in Iraq.

Those who say this war is a mistake need to read this thread.