Hello, well just got here and got to rush out again in a minute. Holiday Weekends, short staffed and had a guy over sleep this morning. Then part way thru the day I bust the printer so now we are even more backed up. Pretty typical Holiday weekend here!
No top 10 thread tonight, will try to get it to your tomorrow if the work day goes better but prob will do it Tuesday morning.
The Sunday Show Review
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
Sunday, July 2, 2006Andrea Mitchell, who substituted for Tim Russert on Meet the Press this morning, is quite a character. She accused the President of "demonizing the New York Times" over their publication of national security secrets merely because it would look good politically for the midterms. Mitch McConnell told her that the paper is not responsible for our national security. Chuck Schumer maintained his determination to "hold the President's feet to the fire."
Lindsey Graham on FOX News Sunday suggested that Congress would rein the Geneva Convention in domestically. Appearing opposite, Jack Reed ('08?) did not seem very Presidential, but that didn't stop John Kerry in '04.
On ABC's This Week, John McCain laughed that his immigration bill, referred to by some as "McCain-Reed" [NOTE: Probably "McCain-Kennedy"], ought to be called by Republicans: "The Bush Bill." Later, Diane Feinstein gave us a civics lesson, telling us that the Press is an independent entity in our system of government.
On FTN, Arlen Specter declared that there was not enough evidence to try the detainees held at Gitmo in court martial. Same show, New York Times editor Bill Keller said that one of the reasons his paper published the banking story was that it had been so successful. The man is reaching far down, pulling up some significantly odiferous material. Same show, Arlen Specter said that there was not enough evidence to try some of the Gitmo detainees at court-martial, as McCain had earlier suggested.
Finally, on CNN's Late Edition, Pulitzer Prize laureate Sy Hersh told guest host John Roberts that the mullahs in Iran were not making nukes. Iraq's Industry Minister, Fawzi al-Hariri, told Roberts that instead of embolden the Iraqi insurgents, bin Laden's latest statement is an example of their desperation. Then Representative Peter King would not back away from his call to begin criminal proceedings against the New York Times and Barney Frank argued that some of the people captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay "have done nothing wrong."
The whole trial is out of order? Naaah, Barney as Pacino doesn't work.
Read on for the show-by-show summary...
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