Posted on 05/28/2006 5:08:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 28th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Staff Sgt. Alfred Lanier, head honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; singer Tony Orlando.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Barham Salih, Iraqi deputy prime minister; Prince Hassan of Jordan; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert.
How about A$$ Katie? Face the A$$? After all, she's famous for exposing her lower intestines and hind regions on national television.....
You mean like this?
I love the way the Antis
Pot meet Kettle.
Above should be "A$$ the Nation"....
Sounds like the program I saw a couple of weeks ago. Basically interviews with Rummy some good shots of him in his official car.
Thanks for the rant. Lot here I did not know, or at least realized.
I DO agree with you on Durbin misunderstanding the mood of voters, along with most Democrats. They got people mad at Bush and think the reason is what they have been saying, but they are missing the signs.
A voter mad at President Bush is NOT going to vote Democrat because of a promise to cut and run from Iraq NOR the promise of national Hillary-care. The heck with illegal immigration, the Democrats wanting to give illegal aliens the right to vote is not going to attract many supporters.
Off to watch some TV now - freep me details of the awards.
Thanks
Eleanor
Same program. Repeated but I missed part of it originally.
He was speaking for the WH, but he also said that this was his position before taking the job. He has always been for securing the borders and against deportation.
Rush became argumentative after he found that there was no penealty other than a misdemeanor for crossing the border. It took away his enforce the law argument, how do you enforce something that has no penalty?
I have always thought Rush was fair and objective on every issue he has seen but with Tony he didn't come across that way. He was more us against them along with saying that you are a Rockefeller Republican if you aren't for deportation is a stretch.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I don't know, I saw it straight off of CBS this morning.
OK, I disagree, but I certainly understand... and appreciate... the cynicism
I can just see the 12 Million gardeners lined up cutting the hedges at Diane Feinstein's palatial estate one leaf at a time LOL!
Man, MNJohnnie relax -- you'll hurt yourself. My post was not about getting even with anybody. It was really a rather dispassionate statement about commodity markets, mechanization and labor economics.
I was just pointing out that the labor market is distorted by a nearby government 'exporting' its labor and that it distorts many aspects of our society. Very dispassionately now. I am a onion farmer and lets say I'm a mediocre one. I hire illegals to keep my costs low so that MNJohnnie has cheap onions. Now the situation changes and I can't get illegals to pick my onions so I have to hire Americans. I try to charge more for my onions, but because my onions now cost MNJohnnie decides to buy onions from a farmer closer Minnesota who uses a new cheaper onion growing method perhaps a mechanized one that has created jobs in the agricultural machinery industry. Or MNJohnnie decides to use peppers instead. But if MNJohnnie really wants my onions, he'll pay more for them.
Are you saying that our economic growth is only due to the presence of 10 percent of the former Mexican population here within our borders? It has nothing to do with tax cuts or productivity increases? Do you have any analysis that supports that?
I've read that we have enough restaurant seating for every man woman and child in the country to sit down and be served at the same time. Is this the way it really needs to be or does cheap 'illegal' labor distort the market? We kept discussing a coming catastrophic housing bubble. When I lived in Texas we discussed the 30 percent discount that we saw in housing due to illegal labor. Did that feed the 'bubble'? Would people have stopped buying homes if the prices went up a few percent?
I am not sure I understand your point about Europe. They have tried to solve their problems with legal/illegal immigration too. It just doesn't work. My understanding is their economies drag because of a bloated entitlement/welfare environment and an inflexible workforce.
Mmmm Almond fed pork, the other white meat!
Let me be perfectly clear, I'm not saying that everyone, or even the majority of people in that part of CT (or NY) are guilty of the "we need our illegals so we can pay them sub-standard wages" mind set. I am saying that a significant number of the "rich and influential" who live there ARE like that. Further I'm saying that those are the people that Shay's pays attention to.
I drove an ambulance for a living covering the area from the New Jersey side of the Hudson right across Westchester and all the way over to the Connecticut shore and down to NY City. I know the working class types that populate that world, particularly the ones that worked in emergency services. I also did things on that job like delivering oxygen to the Rockefeller estate over in Terrytown (one of the older brothers had emphezyma). I saw plenty of folks on both sides of the economic divide. Without doubt the rich ones who populated that area were "that type." There were also a fair number of yahoos in the other socio-economic ranks, if you know what I mean, but there were more than enough good folks to make up for it. Just like anywhere.
I agree with everything you said (as usual)..even though we know Tony is a good guy, and we are Bush fans, it still makes one cringe to hear the "talking points"..doesn' it?
I just finished watching Frist's performance on Fox...yikes!
Interesting, wasn't it. In order to be focused and steady and clear, you have to actually believe in something. I think that is why Norwood and Sensenbrenner have done so well. They are sticking with the truth and do not engage in smoke and mirrors or spin. The same goes for Senators Sessions, Kyl, Cornyn, Vitter and Grassley, none of whom are being invited to speak on this topic.
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