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.
Right, and if we are able we will fight and scratch and crawl over the Rino's heads in a heartbeat to put the info out there to the American Public.
"In the 1996 election cycle, a Center for Responsive Politics report notes, Indian gaming interests gave over $1.5 million in soft money to national party committees. According to National Journal, six of the top 10 soft money donors among interest groups nationwide in 1999-2000 were Native American tribes. The No. 3-ranked Seminole Tribe of Florida donated $325,000, 85 percent of which went to the Democrats. After making the donations, the Seminoles gained approval for electronic gambling machines. The No. 5-ranked Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, operators of the gargantuan Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, donated $319,000, 83 percent to the Democrats.
Final tallies are not in yet, but analysts say the top individual recipient of Indian gaming money during election 2000 was none other than anti-soft money crusader Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who sits on the Senate Committee of Indian Affairs.
So why aren't Indian tribes raising hell over McCain's soft-money ban? The answer lies in an obscure ruling by the Federal Election Commission last year, which was overlooked by the mainstream press cheerleaders for campaign finance reform and downplayed on Capitol Hill for self-interested reasons.
Responding to a request by lobbyists for the Oneida Indian Nation, a Democrat-leaning tribe which owns and operates the profitable Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., the FEC ruled unanimously that Indian tribes are not subject to the aggregate limit on annual giving by "individuals." In one of those inexplicable Clintonesque legal interpretations, the FEC ruled that while a tribe is a "person" subject to individual limits on contributions to candidates, parties, and political action committees, it is not an "individual" subject to the current $25,000 limit on its annual total of contributions."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=461
And those are his GOOD points.
There have to be at least two hundred Posts and two dozen Sunday thread posters that will make the Pubbie/Conservative Talk Show People sound like Investigative Reporter Intellectuals. What a Monday this will be. Get out your tape recorders everyone this will be great....
Maybe if your head wasn't up there all the time DG, you would not GET Hemorrhoids.
What if he only stays til February 15? Then he goes to Minnesota until June when the Ice thaws. By foreigners, I assume you mean former Californians. LOL!
I actually like junior and think fairly highly of him as a congressman. I don't think there's anything that I would be likely to agree with him on, politically, but he does know how to do his job of representing his constituents and seeing that the bureaucrats don't screw them. My wife is a travel agent who arranges a lot of the stuff for his office and has direct knowledge of several times that he has intervened to rescue folks from the district who have fallen victim of foreign "hell holes," including some nasty incidents in places like Cancun.
As to Shelby County, if Ed Bryant is the GOP nominee (which I hope) he will even cut into Ford's power base (but not the black vote) there and I think he'll mop up the floor with him in the rest of the state.
I want Harold to stay in the House and take another run at Nancy Pelosi, like he did last time. He would be a formidable minority leader, but I think he would be someone that we could get things done with. Wow, what a novel concept.
Wasn't the first question when God asked Adam and Eve, "Where are you?" when they were hiding after eating the forbidden fruit?
Before that, didn't the snake ask Eve, "Did God tell you not to eat from that tree?"
Dean's way off. Maybe he's talking about the first question asked by Mankind? The first time, in other words, that Man mouthed off against God.
I think this info on Sandy Hume is totally false. I'm turning 50 this year, & my synapses don't function like they used to, but I remember the event. Sandy had been picked up by DC police for drunk driving. They put him in a cell, but forgot to take his shoe laces. He hanged himself, probably believing that he had totally humiliated himself & his family. A terrible event. I'll always remember how much grace Brit Hume had at the end of the show when he first came back to work (I think he was off at least a week from Special Report). I still get teary-eyed when I think about it.
It is such a pity about health being so important for a President because Dick Cheney would be a FABULOUS President.
Well I have to go back to work for a while, try to get you the top 10 list tomorrow but I work all day so it prob will not get to you until Tuesday
Go for it, sometimes getting out in the cold all bundled up will kill the germs and sweat out whatever fever/germs you have. It is the cooped up indoors crowd that get sick all the time. Too bad you cannot have a laptop that responds to voice commands and you could do both shooting at targets and shooting the s---. ROTFLMAO!
"Also note. Campaign finance restrictions do not apply to Indian tribes. They can give as much as they want to give.
What rationale went into making that regulation/law?"
Not sure it was exactly 'rantionale':
MEASURE ON ELECTION FUNDS TO BENEFIT TRIBES
By Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff
(Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company - The Boston Globe)
November 25, 2001, Sunday, THIRD EDITION - If the campaign finance bill championed by Senator John McCain becomes law, American Indian tribes stand to increase their influence in Washington.
And McCain may benefit as well.
Long before he took up campaign finance overhaul, the Arizona Republican had staked his ground as one of the Senate's most reliable friends to tribes. He stood up for Indians on a range of issues, from the sanctity of tribal sovereignty to the need for better social programs on reservations. Last year, McCain was the top recipient of political donations from Indians. His $42,900 in contributions from Indian tribes with casinos was almost double the amount received by the second-highest recipient of such funds.
Now, McCain's two signature issues have converged.
Last week, the senator acknowledged through an aide that Indian tribes may gain what McCain had described as an unintended advantage under the campaign finance bill he is cosponsoring. Even so, Mark Buse, the senator's top assistant on the bill, said McCain would not seek to rework the legislation.
To do so would be to endanger the greater goals of campaign finance changes by opening the bill up to what could become a fatal number of proposed amendments. Better to press for the bill as it is and make adjustments later, if necessary, he said.
"There may be flaws that need to be rectified, but they can be handled at a later time," Buse said.
A May 2000 advisory ruling by the Federal Election Commission held that a tribe may make aggregate campaign contributions of more than $500,000 a year, much larger than the $25,000 annual limit for almost everyone else.
That cap applies to "hard money," or donations directly to candidates. Those donations are different from 'soft money," which is given to the political parties, ostensibly for "party building" but which is in practice a way for donors to circumvent limits on hard-money donations.
If McCain's bill passes and all soft money is banned, Indian tribes, with their ability to give larger amounts of hard money, would presumably gain in influence over donors who face stricter limits on giving.
McCain's campaign finance bill narrowly passed in the Senate in April, but has been stalled in the House. By some counts, the fragile coalition of supporters in the House needs to gain just seven more representatives to its side for passage. But with legislative priorities shifting after Sept. 11, movement on the measure seems unlikely this session.
Asked last week about the legal wrinkle that benefits tribes, Senator Russell Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who is cosponsor of the bill, said in a written statement to the Globe: "As we stand on the verge of finally enacting a soft-money ban after six years of struggle, it will probably not be possible to deal at the last minute with the aggregate hard-money limits applicable to Indian tribes."
Feingold called the FEC's interpretation of the law defensible, but added, "I can also understand the concern that some have about it, given the tribes' significant gaming income. Further study of this issue is needed, and it can be addressed, if necessary, in future campaign finance legislation."
Barb Lindsay is executive director of United Property Owners, a California-based citizens lobby that tracks federal Indian policy. Among other concerns, the group generally opposes tribes' efforts to have private property taken into tribal control as reservation land.
Lindsay said she had met with a McCain staff assistant in Washington in May 2000 to express concern about the FEC ruling. She said a McCain assistant had not followed up with her.
Scott Seaborne, of the Minnesota-based Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, said he spoke to Feingold's staff on June 1 and was assured that the tribal-donation loophole was something the staff intended to correct with additional legislation following passage of the campaign finance measure.
Lindsay, Seaborne, and Edward Zuckerman, publisher of the Political Finance newsletter of Washington, said in interviews that, if the McCain-Feingold bill passes, tribes would be able to use their gambling profits to further raise their profile in Washington.
"This gives tribes too much power," Lindsay said. "Politicians could become beholden to them, just because they are a rich source for campaign dollars."
Mark Emery, spokesman for the Oneida Nation of New York, said the tribe wants to keep its options open to make multiple donations. Emery said the fact that the Oneida are from a large state led them to seek the FEC ruling.
"There are over 30 congressmen from New York, and the tribe may at some future date desire to donate to each one," he said. "The tribe just wanted to clarify the rules."
Tribes with casinos are among the top donors to politicians. They spent almost $40 million the past five years on contributions to Washington politicians and lobbyists.
Under the FEC ruling, each tribe is limited to a $1,000 contribution per candidate, but donors (tribes) can spread that $1,000 contribution to more than 500 candidates running for federal office - giving a tribe an aggregate limit of more than $500,000.
Other donors are limited to total annual contributions of $25,000 per year, with no more than $1,000 to any single candidate.
Lindsay said the country's 550 tribes could gain more collective clout by donating in concert to affect the outcome of a certain election or to influence a certain policy over which the tribes share a common position.
Political action committees, or PACs, are treated differently by the FEC in a way that gives tribes a distinct funding advantage.
PACs may be funded only with personal funds donated by individual members of a particular company or union associated with the PAC. Individual donations to PACs are limited to $5,000 a year, and must be publicly disclosed.
But an Indian tribe may tap the tribal treasury to fund political contributions. And the treasury is funded by business profits, most often from casinos that are not taxed by the federal government.
Sean P. Murphy can be reached at smurphy@globe.com.
http://www.fcpotawatomi.com/dec_15_01/state.html
No, but like money, oil is "fungible," meaning that once it's in the marketplace it moves around, and has affects, without regard to where it came from.
We don't buy anything from Iran, but if Iran's oil is taken out of the overall pool then those that do buy from them will be competing with us for the oil that is left and that will drive up the price. Thus we don't want Iran to start using their oil as a "tool of statecraft."
He had a very bad drinking problem years ago and was what led to the breakup with Julia Roberts and then when he made that cowboy movie(don't remember the name right now) he realized he was out of control, literally dropped out and came to AZ and became a real cowboy and got his act together... he did some small things, but 24 was his first foray back into the bigtime. For the past couple of years there's been stories about his antics in off season, but this is the first where there is a lot of stories on his hard partying during the season... If true (and there is enough to make you think there is some truth to it) I hope he gets his act back together before it's too late... Don Johnson was another who fell off the wagon and spiralled down as a result, alcoholics can't drink, period....
I think you're right on how I confused them.
Okay, that makes sense... AZ we have a primary by party and I think they still have the same thing in California, too.. every state has such different rules.
In my County in Florida they knocked off about 5 thousand from the voter rolls and there were a lot more Dems off than Pubbies so we are further ahead than we were before the purge. I like the fact that they are getting rid of the dead/dem voters and the ones that are registered in two or more counties in the State. In the next election in my County if you do not have valid Id and Registration, you will not be able to vote. It promises to be Hell,but should not be.
I try not to spam the forum with my summaries.
If you think I did one, just hit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=18066 and scroll back. If you go back back far enough, you'll find a Bill the cat-bat.
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