Posted on 01/29/2006 5:01:14 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 29nd, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; former Commerce Secretary Don Evans.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): President Bush.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House counselor Dan Bartlett; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; former President Carter; former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
That is a great idea...because they sure do have a CYA attitude when the Media is the story...like at New Orleans last year...
Let me echo those that applaud your phrasing of the "poison pill" analogy. Some politician has GOT to be smart enough to steal that. Let's just hope it's one of ours. I'd suggest that you find some way to trademark or copyright it so that you can control it's use. ;^>
You wrote:
A direct contribution in the sunlight is how the system works best-- Jack Abramoff is not a special interest group. He has a plethora of clients. A direct contribution from him couldn't possibly be for a vote on an issue or bill. Funneling money from a lobbyist's clients to politicians strikes me as being potentially more sleazy. There is no "sleaze-free zone" when it comes to dirty money. I get the sense that Democrats are celebrating their good character because they took something akin to laundered Abramoff money.
There's an extended scandal here that is being obscured by the ways the dims and MSM are reporting this. It's the Indian Tribe money and I think it could actually end up being a weapon that would be a direct threat to McLame, particularly if he emerges as the Republican candidate in 2008. The so called campaign finance reform legislation, AKA McCain/Feingold, has a loophole that you could sail an aircraft carrier through, thanks to the wording and an FEC ruling (encouraged by McCain). CFR limits contributions from everyone, but the tribes have been ruled exempt from many of CFR and even earlier restrictions (I forget the specific logic). I read that this has had the effect of turning the tribes into giant funnels for all sorts of money, dirty and otherwise. Once money is given to a tribe, for whatever purpose, the tribe can turn around and give it in virtually unlimited, incompletely disclosed and virtually untraceable amounts to a politician. And this includes taxpayer money. The tribes can even get a "finders fee" for laundering the money in many cases.
The dirty money is most specifically not the money Abramoff gave personally to campaigns of people he agreed with politically. By law that must be, and was, disclosed openly. The dirty money is what was laundered through the tribes, which isn't fully traceable or even regularly reported. And McLame and the FEC made it possible. How much of it did HE get?
McCain is doing the Trianglulation plan. He cannot win the base so he's trying to put together enough in the middle and left to help his candidacy.
Do you know anyone that might help make that happen? ;^>
I'd love the opportunity.
Al Gore, Bill Clinton and the Hollywood Elite and the MSM Elite... trouble is when they get articles in Science Magazine "normal" people start to worry about it and when you have Gore/Clinton saying over and over it's Bush's fault because he didn't sign Kyoto -- well there you have it...
Samantha...please don't hold your breath for that to happen anytime soon...because we LOVE your posts...
and I am afraid you would succumb much faster than the dems.
Have you, or anyone here...ever watched the new Connie Chung and husband show on MSNBC???
Does anyone even know when it is on??
Don't forget they are actually paying some stations to carry the show instead of vis-versa... something unheard of in radio.
Yes .. but look back at their speeches and lectures and it will haunt their talking points of today
Add me to the weekly newswatch list, but I have to tell you I have come to dispise Neal Gabler over the past couple of months, he has become more and more dispicable.
Thanks. I guess I was hoping people on this board might send it around if they think it is a legitimate analogy.
Great point....I have watched is pompous posturing on the Senate floor JUST as they are getting ready for a FINAL vote on a spending bill...
and he calls out OTHER Senators...and derides their pork--state by state...
BUT...then he votes FOR the spending bill...
Why doesn't he do something BEFORE the bill gets to the final voting stage...and why doesn't he vote against it???
You are correct, so many conservatives and freepers judge the president by themselves. I personally would not want to spend a nano second with any of the Democrats except Zell Miller, they are just too mean,nasty,crazy, and backstabbing Communists. I can be that way because I am not President of all the People, GWB is and if he is to lead all the people fairly he must make a good effort to be decent. Freepers and Conservatives do not have that burden, and they should stop trying to make him President of the Republican/Conservative States of America. I believe he is doing the very best he can most of the time to be President of all the People while still being Conservative, but we agree on this matter.
I agree with you snugs. McCain is the MSM darling, for now, and as long as he's dividing the Republican base. Were he ever actually nominated, the MSM could tear him apart.
in post 461 Cboldt says that he/she has the count for cloture (and no f-buster) up to 62.
As of the other day, those voicing their opinion (not votes) on Alito were as follows (I've updated a couple of items on BigSky Freepers list and did a summary). We have at least 53, which is enough to confirm. Some on the news have said they think he will get 55-60 votes.
No = 38 (all Dims)
Yes = 53
Pubbies = 50
Dims = 3
Undecided
Pubbies (4)
Chafee
Collins
Snowe
Stevens
Dims (10)
Bayh (IN)
Cantwell (WA)
Conrad (ND)
Dayton (MN)
Dorgan (ND)
Landrieu (LA)
Lautenberg (NJ)
Menendez (NJ)
Rockefeller (WV)
Sarbanes (MD)
Republicans Vote
Alexander (TN) Y
Allard (CO) Y
Allen (VA) Y
Bennett (UT) Y
Bond (MO) Y
Brownback (KS) Y
Bunning (KY) Y
Burns (MT) Y
Burr (NC) Y
Chafee (RI) 0
Chambliss (GA) Y
Coburn (OK) Y
Cochran (MS) Y
Coleman (MN) Y
Collins (ME) 0
Cornyn (TX) Y
Craig (ID) Y
Crapo (ID) Y
DeMint (SC) Y
DeWine (OH) Y
Dole (NC) Y
Domenici (NM) Y
Ensign (NV) Y
Enzi (WY) Y
Frist (TN) Y
Graham (SC) Y
Grassley (IA) Y
Gregg (NH) Y
Hagel (NE) Y
Hatch (UT) Y
Hutchison (TX) Y
Inhofe (OK) Y
Isakson (GA) Y
Kyl (AZ) Y
Lott (MS) Y
Lugar (IN) Y
Martinez (FL) Y
McCain (AZ) Y
McConnell (KY) Y
Murkowski (AK) Y
Roberts (KS) Y
Santorum (PA) Y
Sessions (AL) Y
Shelby (AL) Y
Smith (OR) Y
Snowe (ME) 0
Specter (PA) Y
Stevens (AK) 0
Sununu (NH) Y
Talent (MO) Y
Thomas (WY) Y
Thune (SD) Y
Vitter (LA) Y
Voinovich (OH) Y
Warner (VA) Y
Democrats Vote
Akaka (HI) N
Baucus (MT) N
Bayh (IN) 0
Biden (DE) N
Bingaman (NM) N
Boxer (CA) N
Byrd (WV) Y
Cantwell (WA) 0
Carper (DE) N
Clinton (NY) N
Conrad (ND) 0
Dayton (MN) 0
Dodd (CT) N
Dorgan (ND) 0
Durbin (IL) N
Feingold (WI) N
Feinstein (CA) N
Harkin (IA) N
Inouye (HI) N
Johnson (SD) Y
Kennedy (MA) N
Kerry (MA) N
Kohl (WI) N
Landrieu (LA) 0
Lautenberg (NJ) 0
Leahy (VT) N
Levin (MI) N
Lieberman (CT) N
Lincoln (AR) N
Menendez (NJ) 0
Mikulski (MD) N
Murray (WA) N
Nelson, Ben (NE) Y
Nelson, Bill (FL) N
Obama (IL) N
Pryor (AR) N
Reed, J. (RI) N
Reid, H. (NV) N
Rockefeller (WV) 0
Salazar (CO) N
Sarbanes (MD) 0
Schumer (NY) N
Stabenow (MI) N
Wyden (OR) N
Independent
Jeffords (VT) N
LOL
McCain and Hillary are both suffering from the same syndrome... trying to capture that chunk of voters in the middle while trying to hang on to the base of their parties and in the end could cost both of them the nomination because McCain (for one) isn't going to carry the GOP Primary by pandering to the dems.
Bush to Cheney: That Bubba is a real Clymer
Cheney to Bush: Yea, BIG TIME
;-)
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