Posted on 11/20/2005 5:33:06 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt; Dr. Julie Gerberding, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Dr. Mike Ryan, director, Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response Department of the World Health Organization.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Wallace keeps repeating Murtha's quote to "pull troops out of Iraq", but somehow fails to mention how he voted on Friday.
Wallace is the reason I won't watch FNS again.
No doubt. Doing dishes (which I HATE doing) is so much more constructive than listening to Murtha's BS. It's all so predictable.
Murtha said that the military leadership in Iraq told him things were going well, but that he, Murtha, knows what they really think...
Timmy did let him lie on and on about there being no progress in Iraq and even helped heap it on with the crap about only 750 Iraqis actually ready to fight on their own.
No offense to Hastert, but the vote would not have happened without JD Haywroth. JD was the one who brought it up and there was so much support that Hastert probably had no choice in the matter. Hastert has not been as strong in areas like this in the past.
"Interesting how only three socialists/commies in the house had the guts to vote down freedom for Iraq."
I found that interesting, too. I was especially surprised when Bagdad Jim McDermott, one of the biggest socialist/commies in the house (wish voters in Seattle would wake up and vote someone else in) only had the backbone to vote 'present'.
What is the point of this hysterical analysis of the Avian Flu on MTP? How will this be twisted to a Bush's fault scenario? Otherwise, what is the point.
The real political schism is not pro or antiwar but pro or antiwar in the RAT party. They are terrified and they need to do everything possible to make sure Iraq is a losing proposition. Unless they can, no sane person is going to trust them with national defense again.
The same thing happened during Viet Nam. Everyone forgets but Nixon pulled the combat troops out in '71 and then went on to a blow out victory. Only Watergate stopped the Pubbies from going on to victory after victory.
The RATS want a defeat. You can see it in the way Stephanopolous interviewed Rummy. The whole idea was to make Rummy say something that could be construed as "we lost."
Pathetic cowards all including odious Odom.
Wallace is 2nd tier.
The vote Friday sure has the Dems in a jam. A lot of their base is wondering why exactly their reps didn't vote for immediate withdrawal.
This tactic was a smooth one for JD Hayworth. The democrats just couldn't hitch thier wagon to Murtha, but the looneys aren't going to accept that as an excuse, when the Dems have been screaming for withdrawal for the last two months.
Gingrey said Murtha's comments about immediate withdrawal of troops was like 'putting lipstick on a pig'.
I did watch the whole thing. Russert prefaced the interview with earlier statements from Murtha about how wrong it would be to leave prematurely. Murtha just used a lot of the sound bites he used in the debate the other night. What he failed to do was to adequately explain his transition to cut and run.
But I don't see him as suffering from any kind of dementia. I see this whole thing as a well orchestrated Democrat plan to take credit for any troop reduction that will almost surely take place after the election in December. Now the Democrats are on record in both houses to use a withdrawal in 2006 to benefit them in the congressional election next year. Murtha is simply their front man.
Murtha is stating the obvious. We could very well have fewer troops in Iraq by election time. It's planned anyway, IMHO.
They feel important thinking they can scare everybody I guess. And the MSM will probably be very disappointed if half the planet isn't wiped out by the bird flu.
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