Posted on 11/13/2005 5:20:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): King Abdullah II of Jordan; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Democratic Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., chairwoman, National Republican Senatorial Committee; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., chairman, National Republican Congressional Committee; Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chairman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi; Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher; Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa; Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas.
We got to get a TV show just so you can moderate. Welcome to Meet The Freepers, here is our host eeeevil Conservative.
Nor did I mean new congressmen would keep staff from the other party.
As I understand it, some staff will remain, even if temporarily, to help with transition. Some of those will be retained if they impress the new guy and others will be brought in as needed or desired.
New congressmen will also have 'suggested' staff by various interest groups who have a presence in DC.
thanks snugs, great ribbons.
Well you know what they say. If you cannot win with wit, simply exhaust them with verbiage instead. :-)
Just consider it my Freeper Fillibuster.
Retention of the low level staff may be a possibility if their predecessor is from the same party, but they certainly change the Chief of Staff and the substantive folks in the office.
Agreed, that is the way it works. It is up to the Pary leadership to make whatever changes are deemed necessary. Some of these careerists use their staff positions to get other jobs, e.g., George Tenet.
Nor did I intend to mean keeping a chief of staff. Low level people for sure, and others too as I mentioned before.
Although, I DO remember more than a few "secretaries" who were proported to NOT being able to type being hired.
For the sake of argument, I wish every Freeper would write the RNC and Ken Mehlman asking for more Republican senators to start speaking out and going on the various talk shows more often.
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One of our problems is that McCain, Hagel, & Spector are counted as Republicans when they go on the Sunday shows.
Pressure? Stuff! Merely giving Feepers the proper forum for all to shine thru in their unaffected natural glory and with no unnatural fixations on silly numbers like, 800. If ALL the Sunday Morning Freepers were not inheritable superior intellects whose opinions and thought were not valuable in and of themselves, they would not be HERE
They would be at Democrat Underground with all the other 2 digit IQs :-)
Well I look forward to next week. This swapping top 10 duty is a great idea. Really ready for the fray this week. If the rumors about the Bush counter offensive are true. Going to be a fun week to be a Freeper. To misquote the Bard "And now is the winter of our discontents made GLORIOUS Summer, but THIS son of Bush"!
I didn't watch any of the morning shows but did see wolf interviewing Roberts and Leakey Leheay (misspelled?) and at the end of the interview wolf said and a special thanks to Sen Leheay and then (according to my dad since I was gagging at the time and not paying attention) shook Leheay's hand and NOT Sentator Roberts....I HATE CNN!!!!
Republicans period. Got lots of smart Congresscritters like Mike Pence and ? King (R-NY) who can demolish them. Really, really like to see George Allen more too. Great idea Maica!
I understood some research staff is kept as well, in individual offices. Is that not right?
Oops sorry meant Levin....the little jerk with the glasses perpetually perched on the end of his nose!!!! Ya think he neds them??
Yeah, there is a certain, supposedly apolitical, core staff in every part of Govt. including Congress. However, as we have seen, Democrats corrupt everything they touch.
Understood. I still have to believe pressure on Mehlman would help stimulate other senators to appear.
A new Congressman appoints his own staff and very few if any holdovers are retained and that would only be the case if he/she were from the same party. The holdovers would be low-level clerical staff. Thus, you can't make the case that the staff remains and controls policy by controlling the information.
Senate and House committee staffs remain in place longer and have less turnover because they are appointed by the party leadership.
Sorry Johnnie. Based on the posting rate, I doubt we'll hit your magical 1000 today.
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