Running with the bulls**t?
Posted on 10/22/2006 3:36:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., John Warner, R-Va., Joe Biden, D-Del., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; business mogul Richard Branson.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C.
THIS WEEK (ABC): President George W. Bush; Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; professional bowler Kelly Kulick.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Thanks snugs.
I usually watch both - AM and PM. Now I just keep waiting for the panel.
Great summary YAYA. Thanks.
Obama and Julian Bond are both Oreos. They have more upper suburbia and preppie-ness in them than any blackness.
"The MSM is in full stampede and they want the American people to run with them."
IMHO, this election has less to do with the dims than it does with the MSM's hold on power in Washington.
The MSM has been losing circulation for the past fifteen years, they've come to the point that most of them are on the verge of extinction and they may very well see this election as their last chance to avoid that fate.
They haven't been much but pimps for the DNC since the 60's (and most likely before that), but gutting the war in Viet Nam was such a high for them that knocking off LBJ was acceptable collateral damage on their way to becoming the REAL political force in the country.
Now, they're on the verge of losing all that power, even in their own perception, and there is no tactic or slander the MSM won't pull out of the bag over the next two weeks to prevent it.
Even if every prediction they've made falls flat on its face, they'll be yapping about voting machines until the last subscriber cancels or the last viewer shuts off the channel.
Royalty don't like it when they get deposed.
It's all politics. For example, splitting Iraq into three regions was discussed four years ago. Now, that Biden is thinking of it, it's all of a sudden news to the MSM. Biden himself has few new ideas and just like every Democrat he is trying to run on differences, not his record or his ideas.
DO you ever wonder what would happen if the terrorists showed up en masse in America and started beheading people? Suppose they brought their Iraq tactics with them: blow up schools/churches, kill political leaders, destroy infrastructure. But more than anything, spread terror through mass beheadings and other atrocities.
What would Americans do? Would they fight? I'm not sure the majority would. Sadly, I think they'd cringe at the barbarism, try any appeasement just to get them to stop. I'm no longer even sure they'd fight for their children, telling them instead to just be nice to the enemy so they don't get blown up.
That's the beauty of being a vapid wordsmith bubble blower. He just blows champagne bubbles of meaningless diatribe into the air, and idiots like Russert get mesmerized into believing there is actual substance floating around.
After watching John Spencer kick Hillary's ample butt all over the stage the other night and wipe the floor with her cankles, it is pretty obvious she is not ready for prime-time, either. The only thing filling her empty suit is her fat a$$.
With Matthews and the others in the media increasingly falling all over themselves and swooning over Obama, she better watch out they don't pitch her overboard for another empty suit, but one which is photogenic, young, smooth as glass, and black - all of which Hillary is not.
With Liberals, one always assumes they are all empty suits, so they start off evenly matched in that category.
Running with the bulls**t?
Thanks for the nice summary. WH is providing Radio Talk Show hosts (about a dozen) booths from which they air their show for one day as they did during last cycle. They are doing terrific work in exposing MSM's lies, so it 's natural that WH honors them like this.
"and also there maybe a surprise in WV-1, Mollohan may have a race on his hands."
Mollohan has raised a lot more money, but, as of 9/30, it apppears that Wakim has a little more to spend. If Barron's theory is true, he may do ok. Election Projection 2006 indicated that it was a 'possible competitive race'.
Alan B. Mollohan (D)*
Raised: $1,172,541
Spent: $1,033,346
Cash on hand: $248,241
Last Report: 9/30/2006
PACs: $480,650 (41%)
Individuals: $685,947 (59%)
Candidate: $0 -
Other: $5,944 (1%)
Chris Wakim (R)
Raised: $585,356
Spent: $264,441
Cash on hand: $320,913
Last Report: 9/30/2006
PACs: $213,292 (36%)
Individuals: $285,172 (49%)
Candidate: $81,864 (14%)
Other: $5,028 (1%)
http://www.electionprojection.com/states06/westvirginia06.html
Rep. Alan Mollohan is the ranking member of the House Ethics committee, but that didn't stop him from having ethical problems of his own. In particular, he is accused of bringing home the bacon, which normally helps a Congressman, only in this case, it raised the value of his family's real estate a bit too crudely. Still, Mollohan and his Congressman father before him have ruled this district for 40 years, and it is hard to see how a litte graft is going to end that. But if corruption becomes the dominant issue, he could be in for a fight. Probably Democratic.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2006/Info/hothouse.html
Democrat Leaves Ethics Panel
Financial Reports' Accuracy at Issue
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 22, 2006; Page A01
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (W.Va.) stepped down temporarily from his post as ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, amid accusations that he used his congressional position to funnel money to his own home-state foundations, possibly enriching himself in the process.
As recently as Thursday, Mollohan, a 12-term lawmaker, had said he would not step aside, but he bowed to pressure yesterday from House Democratic leaders eager to pursue their campaign against what they call a "culture of corruption" in the Republican Party.
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In a 500-page complaint filed with a U.S. attorney in February, the conservative National Legal and Policy Center in Falls Church challenged the accuracy of Mollohan's financial disclosure forms and detailed a remarkable change in the lawmaker's personal fortune.
Mollohan's real estate holdings and other assets jumped in value from $562,000 in 2000 to at least $6.3 million in 2004, said Ken Boehm, chairman of the legal center.
During the same period, Mollohan used his position on the House Appropriations Committee to secure more than $150 million in appropriations for five nonprofit entities that he helped establish in his congressional district. One of the groups is headed by a former appropriations aide, Laura Kurtz Kuhns, with whom Mollohan bought $2 million worth of property on Bald Head Island, N.C.
Read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101376.html
He should be thinking of 2016 since there will be another Republican following President Bush.
1SY off your little attack there is somewhat childish 2nd off the Dem's are going to Sweep southern West Virginia the idots in my county will put elect Paige to the house they are always strong in summers county Mike Green Will beat Russ Weeks thats more two seats gain in the house they will keep there hold in the Coal Fields they only way they will make Gains is in the northern part which i don't think can happen given the fact that the northern part is Union Country and your also forgetting that that Joe Manchin has a 75% approvel rateing I think you should worry more about your little 2nd rate leftest state and let me worry about mine thank you very much
He thinks he's got the hot hand now and his fawning media are telling him the very same thing.
To: StoneWall BrigadeThe Dems and the MSM have set the bar so high that anything short of Pelosi becoming speaker will come as a big shock to the Dummies. When your fans expect you to win the World Series they won't be satisfied with just a playoff appearance.
And followed up with
To: StoneWall BrigadeAnd when that's the case usually the fans will demand a change of management. The question is which Dem will get the ax? Dean? If so will the moonbats support the move or is he still their guy?
I've been thinking about this possibility for quite a while. Ever since the DBM started their "it's inevitable that the dims will sweep" mantra. I'm basically a contrarian, so the more they tried to tell me that was foregone conclusion the more I resisted. I've been saying for a long time that I think we'll pick up seats, or at the worst lose only a few, but definitely not control of either house. I've added reasons other than just pure cussedness, such as the dims not having anything to run on except hatred for George Bush. The thing that really has me convinced that I'm on the right track is that the DBM has felt it necessary to grotesquely under sample Republicans in their polls and basically say to hell with logic in explaining that. And the trend is still against them, even in their own polls.
So, with that as my outlook, I've been wondering what will happen afterwards. First and foremost I think that the Democrat party as we know it will cease to exist. I don't think that Dean will so much be dismissed as that he'll break away and go out to set up the "real Democrat Party." Maybe the Social Democrats or Progressive Democrats, but something like that. He'll try and take all of the Soros money and all of those moonbats with him, as well. There'll be a problem there as a lot of those organizations are run by Hillary's people, so there will be a split there. The question is will Hillary go to the DLC types, who will likely gravitate to Joe Lieberman, or will she try to set up a rival "progressive" movement? Bill was the DLC guy, while Hillary has always been to the left of them. I don't know if they'll embrace her. She may try to salvage the existing Democrat party, maybe by putting Bill in charge, but I don't think that will work.
The ethnic parts of the coalition will likely go look elsewhere as well, and I don't think that the black and Hispanic groups will go somewhere together. There is growing animosity between the activists in both camps. There may be a new generation of black leaders emerge that splits off the growing black upper and middle class folks and the people that want to be in those ranks and they may move to the Republican party. This is more likely if Steele wins in Maryland. There's a lot of black leaders who have finally gotten the idea that the Democrats never have considered them equal. The really intense Hispanics will likely try to turn their own organizations into regional political powers, quite possibly with the aim of eventually dominating politically, primarily in the Southwest. That will have the eventual aim of trying to secede from the United States. Not likely to succeed, but it's a movement and it can generate a lot of power, perhaps dominant power, over a very large part of this nation.
There will also be a strong urge by the environmental wackos in the dims party to break away. They won't go with the moderates but will they go with the lib dims or straight to The Greens?
And the DBM will not escape the upheaval. Some of the less successful and more extreme voices will simply be let go. Matthews, Olberman, Cafferty and their ilk of demented partisans will likely be shown the door or relegated to demeaning work and little exposure. They certainly will be removed from their "star" positions and pay ranks. NBC specifically is going to gut their news operation as part of their cost cutting, probably starting with the high priced folks like Russert early. MTP may just close its doors as irrelevant. Face the Nation will likely simply fade away and Shieffer will retire and write books. Matthews, Russert, perhaps Stephanopolus and a few others who came from the Dhimmicrat power structure to their current positions may move back to try to grab some power as the party (or parties) get totally scrambled.
Print media will likely suffer the most. I expect the NY Times to be sold and Pinch to be thrown out unceremoniously. Look for witch hunts as folks look at Enron type games in the finances of all of these failing institutions. Some may see jail time.
Republicans won't escape entirely, either. Several RINOs may jump ship to one of the "moderate" middle break away groups. Could Lieberman and McCain try to start a "middle way" movement? I don't think that will get far, but it will add to the chaos. The next two years will be volatile if this plays out this way.
The worst part, for me, is that I fully expect a repeat of 2000 with the control of Congress being thrown into the courts and not decided until well after the start of the new year. You may see the Republicans try to convene based on the contested results, assuming that shows them winning, and move legislation to take the question out of the hands of the courts. We could be in for a Constitutional crisis of unprecedented proportions.
And Osama will laugh.
I am now watching FNSunday's panel. I'd like to reach through the screen and slap Kristol.
Their real high was taking down Nixon with Watergate. It was the apex of their power, which has slowly waned with the rise of the new Internet media and the expansion of cable news and programming and talk radio. The big three TV networks or the national news mediea no longer have a monopoly on where Americans get their information.
Now, they're on the verge of losing all that power, even in their own perception, and there is no tactic or slander the MSM won't pull out of the bag over the next two weeks to prevent it.
I agree with you that if the Reps hold on to both houses in the midterms, it will be devastating for them and their self-image. The worse thing that can happen to someone with a huge ego is to realize that he/she is irrelevant. Unfortunately, the folks inside the Beltway and in Congress still believe that they matter and will be the last to let go of that illusion.
LOL! Botox Babs and Dingy Harry have been pretty quiet, too. Though, I suspect Harry is hiding out for a couple of other 'little' reasons as well ;-) Haven't seen Rocky in a verrrrry long time either - - his back must be reallllllly bad.
Charlie (on MTP) dump the wig. You look ridiculous.
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