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I just got through listening to Fat Timmy, followed immediately by Mathews. I'm posting this in the blind, before my thoughts get muddied by reading other people's posts on this thread. My take is thus:
I'd heard good things about Allen, but I'd never heard him speak. After an hour of watching him do the waffle dance for fat Timmy, I don't see him as a candidate. Granted, I don't see ANY current Republican capable of topping George's act in the wings; heck, I don't see anyone who's half the man George is. We're gonna have a real problem finding a candidate who can step in George's boots.
Then, watching Chris Matthews and his crew of "journalists" anoint Clinton and McCain for '08, I decided that while I'm unsure who will win the nominations, I can't believe it will be those two; one a do nothing ostrich who didn't even show up at the fallen towers for months afterward, and the other a chameleon who changes his stripes whenever he sees and advantage no matter what the consequences to his party . . .
Well, I just can't see it.
Now I'll go contaminate my opinion with smarter people's posts.
Two of my favorite Senators...Not! I trust Ken Mehlman, so Ill go along with the need for the RINOS, for the sole purpose of keeping Congress. However, these folks along with a few others, are just not worth keeping in Congress. Warner and Graham, are openly defying the President on torture. It is my contention, as I posted yesterday, that any captured jihadists that trip a Geiger counter has time sensitive, vital info that must be obtained ASAP.(Make no mistake, all captured prisoners are scanned with a gieger) How could anyone not see that?
Posted at 1:43pm on Sep. 17, 2006
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - Review
Or "The Heads that Talk Predict the Imminent Dissolution of the GOP"
By Mark Kilmer
Sunday, September 17, 2006
On MTP, an uncomfortable Jim Webb commiserated about Iraq with Tim Russert. Allen defended himself and his policies comfortably. There wasn't much Virginia stuff here.On FNS, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte told host Chris Wallace that the Administration was not proposing to modify Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention but rather to apply it in a manner consistent with U.S. law. Next on FNS, House Majority Leader John Boehner warned that House Republicans will insist upon building a really big fence at our border before any other immigration matter can be discussed.
On TW, John McCain decided that the Geneva Convention is the "gold standard throughout the world" by which the treatment of prisoners is regulated. He wants us to pass a global test of sorts for the treatment of prisoners. Later on TW, National Security Advisor Steve Hadley remarked that this enemy does not capture prisoners on the battlefield. It kills them.
On FTN, Bob Schieffer noted that South Carolina was a conservative State which would punish Lindsey Graham for opposing the President. He predicted an opponent for Graham in South Carolina's primary. (It was held June 13, but...)
Hadley and Graham had a conversation in the FTN Green Room, and Schieffer seemed to think this might lead to a breakthrough.
On FTN, Arlen Specter announced that he wanted to preserve habeas corpus for jihadists, and Carl Levin put down the lemon he'd been sucking long enough to mouth off again.
On LE, Wolf Blitzer told Steven Hadley of John McCain's fears that "redefining" Common Article 3 would put our troops in jeopardy. (I'll take Ambiguous Treaties for $500, Alex.) Hadley said that they were not redefining Common Article 3 needs to be defined "because nobody knows what it means."
Read the show-by-show review beneath the fold:
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I love the line "I'll take Ambiguous Treaties for $500, Alex."
Much more beyond the Read More link
I thought Boehner did a great job. Almost as great as Delay! He sure didn't back down.