Posted on 01/08/2006 5:44:19 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman and ranking Democrat, respectively, of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat; Specter and Leahy.
Thanks. I've been collecting this stuff.
Would Clinton still be alive if they were fake?
Have to ask. Is Chuck Schumer a metrosexual?
I have seen the picture of his marching in some homosexual parade, I've heard his opinions on abortion and other social issues. I know he supported Bill Clinton's behavior in the Oval Office, and he's chummy with Hillary. I presume he is also buddy-buddy with both Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry as well as Chris Dodd. And, now you tell me he's for lowering the age of concent and prostitution!!!
So, I just have to ask. We don't get many people like this in Denver so he's an kind an unknown species around here.
His name is pronounced like is is spelled Bayner, and he has been in the background much of the past few years, but is a good conservative. He looks like he has a permanent tan, and is nice looking fella from Ohio. He can be tough and of all the Reps so far named he would be my choice. I get tired of these People that keep pushing Spence for everything because they like his stance on two or three issues, we need a Conservative that can withstand the slings and arrows from his own party and the dirty dems,and still not look like he is a right wing wacko. I also want someone that is seasoned and has been around to see all the shenanigans that the Dirty Dims have pulled. He has a lot of experience in that aspect as he was part of the Taped telephone Republican Conference call that he was on with Newt Gingrich many years ago. The one that the Democrat activist couple from Florida illegally taped and ended up with Mcdermott gving the tape to the NewYork Slimes.He has been in litigation with McDermott about this and has won a few times through appeals,etc.
It would be funny were it not so sad. Every election cycle the Democrats bring out the same fear mongering issues. And every election it works less and less well.
Because one end is usually stuck up the other end, he needs to have a window installed where his navel is so he can see where he's going.
Good Morning, Bah....I just got here...Kailey spent the night..
So...I will go back over thread..but it looks like a lively one..so it will take time...
I see by the line-up, that you and I could probably have written the script for all of the shows today, huh?
Well the one with the rainbow flag is photoshopped, so that's not fair to him (darn). I am not informed as to whether he did or didn't march in a gay pride parade, but if he did, he wouldn't be the first Dem to do so.
He does look odd sometimes -- like he is wearing eyeliner and mascara, but I am sure that he doesn't
WOW! Thank you so much! I had no clue on him! He is tan- LOL! and attractive....
thanks for clearing up the name thing too...
You make a GREAT case on his behalf....you got me convinced!
LOL!
Good Morning...my Colo friend...
Like I told Bahbah, I think our Sunday thread participants could have written the scripts for these shows...blech
I am gonna read the thread..because, as usual, the freepers provide more timely information than the panelists do.
Just a pause for the cause....
DON'T FORGET IT'S FREEPATHON TIME!!!!!
What would any of us do on Sunday without this thread to release our frustrations on??? I shudder to think!!!
A couple of links re: NSA "stuff":
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/m010506.pdf <- CRS analysis (6 Jan 2006)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181012,00.html <- Harman Interview
Some disjointed excerpts from the transcript ...
HARMAN: The program we were briefed on ... was basically a foreign collection program. I still support that program. And I think the leak of that program to The New York Times and maybe elsewhere compromises national security. ...But it was made clear to me that conversations between Americans in America were not part of the program and require -- and I think they do -- a court warrant in order to eavesdrop on them.
And that's been a point of confusion, because some of the press articles allege that this is a so-called, as you said, domestic surveillance program. That's not what I believe it is. ...
And I believe that that is what the law requires. I also believe that members of Congress should exercise oversight over programs like this. And there are questions about whether this program complies with the domestic laws we have. And if it doesn't, either it should be changed or they should be changed. ...
HUME: And let me ask your view on this. Let's assume we're talking here about a program that is as you originally described it or it was originally briefed to you -- that is, foreign individuals under surveillance, conversations to the United States or from the United States to them.
The Congressional Research Service -- a couple of researchers, really -- has come out and said that Congress -- just in a couple of quotes from their report which was issued a couple of days ago -- quote, "Congress does not appear to have authorized or acquiesced in such surveillance." [This is the CRS report linked above]
Later, "No legal precedent appears to have been presented that would support the president's authority to bypass the statutory route when legislation is required."
Question to you: Do agree with that assessment as to the program that you were originally briefed about?
HARMAN: [after a side discussion, concludes she neither agrees or disagrees - not enough facts to reach a conclusion] Now, the people writing these opinions don't know the specifics of the program, but they know enough about how the FISA court works and how criminal wiretap law works, so that they can opine about this. ...
HUME: Now, having said all that, does anything you know about this program, whether from being briefed about it or not, raise a question with you about whether this surveillance should have been undertaken? In other words, was this a necessary thing.
HARMAN: My answer to that is basically it is a necessary thing. We absolutely do want to know the plans and intentions of Al Qaedaand these copycat terrorist cells before they're able to attack us. It's a dangerous world. I think that the notion -- and by the way, you don't need a court warrant to do this -- that we are listening to Al Qaeda operatives abroad and trying to understand what they're planning to do is totally valid.
HUME: So if you're listening in on an Al Qaeda suspect overseas, and you're listening to all of his or her, as the case maybe, phone conversations, and suddenly he's on the phone to someone in the United States, or he's in the United States and you're listening, and he's talking to somebody in the United States, do you believe that you need, then, to shut the surveillance down and go to the FISA court to get it authorized, or to go there later, or what?
HARMAN: Well, I think that in the -- those conversations in the United States would be a perfect basis to get court approval. And there is a 72-hour delay mechanism in the FISA statute. So my answer to you is, number one, it is very important to learn the plans and intentions of our enemies.
And number two, we can do that within a legal framework that would give Americans comfort and actually give our court system comfort that the Fourth Amendment is being observed and that our system of laws that Congress has passed, including FISA, which was supposed to be the exclusive way to do electronic surveillance on Americans in America, are being observed.
My assumption is that they end up in biohazard bins and end up being incinerated.
I thought I heard Rush utter "Coward" Dean several times the other day, may have been Thursday. I think the freepers have been saying that for weeks,but Rush put it "out there", and that handle is bound to stick because it fits him like a surgical glove.
Hello I wondered where you were as you can see I got FNS and Face the Nation guests muddled last night - sorry.
Risen and his ilk only need to answer 2 questions: Cigarette? Blindfold?
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Thanks! I didn't know about the photoshopped photo. I assumed it was accurate. Oops... As Rush says, good humor has some truth to it to make it believable and funny. I guess this is one of those.
LOL...I think I did earlier in the week...but, different show, same stupid rhetoric, right??
:-) I'm pretty sure that it was.
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