Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 26 November 2006

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., Barney Frank, D-Mass., and John Dingell, D-Mich.; Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss.; Joseph E. Robert Jr., chairman of Fight for Children.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger; Reps. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Ike Skelton, D-Mo., retired Gens. Wayne Downing and Barry McCaffrey.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens.-elect Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Jordan's King Abdullah II; Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; supermodel Maggie Rizer.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : I Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; Maryland Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele; Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.

[Txsleuth]

okay...that last post of mine was childish..and I apologize.

However, I had to sit there and listen to Kristol, Trent Lott and 3 damn dems just negative, negative...and then Mara, bless her heart tries to say something that makes sense.

Juan was abnormally less gleeful at President Bush's problems tonight..

BUT, when Kristol and Chris Wallace made a bid nasty deal about VP Cheney going to Saudi Arabia, and President Bush going to Jordan...like they are a couple of desparate buffoons trying to impress their base...

I was ready for Brit to slam back at them....that Abizaid and others were saying that Washington is the ones that are in despair over the war...not the miltary that are THERE.

But, Nnnnnnnooo...he just kinda goes along with the crowd.

Now..you say that I took out of context what he said about President Bush not having anything to lose..

I don't know how? Unless you think he meant because he doesn't have to run for election again.

But, any other scenario...the national security of this country, his "plans" for fighting Islamofacism, the impeachment hearings that will be coming ....I think ALL of those really will be affected if we lose the war....or especially if we lose by cutting and running.

IMaybe all of this is out of context...I would have to watchi it again...I think it comes on again at 9:00 tonight mmy time....I will watch and see how I heard wrong.

[aligncare]

Sorta illustrates the phase "two sides of the same coin", doesn't it?

[samantha]

Back on the thread after dinner. I think that is commendable of you, and you are right this is all about our Fighting men and women and how they sacrifice while the cut and runners act like crybabies, and cowards. If we do not back our Military and their struggles and battles what in the Hell are we as a Country? If the same Cut and running pukes were around before WWI and WWII, we would be speaking German or Japanese.

[Cindy]

Thank you Rodguy911.

[aligncare]

...okay, so Brit wasn't at his best today...We all have off days ;-)

[Morgan in Denver]

NO offense taken. All I can say is we have to take Brit Hume's comments seriously and thoughtfully because he has information we don't have.

[PerConPat]

It has to be considered or we hide our heads in the sand...

I detest having to post that possibility. But I spent too many years working for a realist who ruthlessly demanded that possible scenarios had to be constructed from actual trends and not from longings of the heart. How can the majority of a country who amass public and private debt at a totally reckless pace be expected to make the proper decisions as to their national security when it involves tough choices?

I have supported and will continue to support the current effort in Iraq etc.; but on Nov. 7th, this country showed me its lack of fiber to do the hard work now in order to avoid a disaster later- too many houses, figuratively speaking, may be built of straw.

[aligncare]

...But, I do understand your point. And when I saw FNS this morning, and heard Brit's comment I was a bit perplexed myself...

[rodguy911]

Excellent post.
It makes it much harder to stay vigilant, but as samantha just said if we don't support our fighting men and women what kind of country are we.

[rodguy911]

You are more than welcome Cindy! Thanks for your hard work here.

[samantha]

Hagel has a split personality, and he also is stricken with delusions of grandeur. He will go absolutely nowhere higher, he will probably lose in the Primary because he did not draw many Veterans at any of his appearances, and has done more than any other Republican Senator besides Mccain to destroy the Majority that the Republicans had. I believe that Hagel is either a really stupid person or is clueless to such a degree that someone might need to help to show him who the real enemy is, because unfortunately he thinks it is GWB and all the those that work in the White House. Mccain is behaving very strangely now, and I suspect he finally understands what damage he has done for his ego and trying to show his Father and Grandfather that he was not a failure at anything they did not have an influence on. The Democrats do not need him unless the Republicans make everything have to pass by a Fillibuster proof percentage. Collins,Snowe,Spincter are worse than MCcain by a long shot,but I don't think that they are nuts like him. I could be wrong, Spincter may be sane in Scotland only. LOL!

[snugs]

The final and only 3 star award from rodguy911 today

[txrangerette]

Hey bff...if Duncan Hunter got the nomination for President, have you given a thought to who you'd like to see as VP on that ticket?? Cast the net WIDE. Include people currently in or out of Gov., older, younger, male, female etc. Anyone come to your mind? Not a "dream" ticket (one that can't come true) but a realistic one...

[Alas Babylon!]

The expression down here is "The Lord done called 'em Home." Perhaps the Lord is calling even now....

[bybybill]

Dingell is the most dangerous, he`s just as looney as the rest (except on guns) but he knows how to twist aems ans get things done.

[bybybill]

Loyalty at FREE REPUBLIC, that`s funny.

[Phsstpok]

Mark Kilmer has posted his review over at RedState. Here's the header:

Posted at 1:31pm on Nov. 26, 2006

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review

Only 35 more shopping days 'til Cut-and-Run

By Mark Kilmer

Sunday, November 26, 2006

On FNS, Chuck Rangel did not address the Heritage Foundation's report indicating the contrary but insisted that today's U.S. military is comprised do dumb, poor kids because that's how it was when he dropped out of high school to sign up to go to Korea in '48. Barney Frank accused Chris Wallace of not being balanced because he asked controversial questions not ones about positive agendas. John Dingell wants to hold hearings into Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force, the one which met in the opening months of 2001.

On MTP, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did not rule out running against Barbara Boxer in 2010 and told Russert, in response to a question about quitting his political party, that of course he was a Republican and would remain one in perpetuity.

On FNS, Trent Lott declared that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has to take control of his own country or we should leave.

On TW, Jordan's Hashemite Royal Excellent Majesty King Abdullah II said Iraq was a problem, so was Lebanon, cry me a river. The real problem, he said, was the plight of the Palestinians. On the same show, Durbin urged the President not to nominate extremists judges like John Roberts and Sam Alito. He spoke in favor of Reed-Levin. Steph hassled Sam Brownback about a Judge Janet Neff who is being blocked, Brownback insisted, until he knows where she stands on the issues surrounding gay marriages. (She spoke at a lesbian wedding in Massachusetts.)

On FTN, incoming Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker indicated that he is looking toward Baker-Hamilton for a way out of Iraq. Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill said that Congress cannot change Iraq policy, as it's all the President's fault. She and Sherrod Brown of Ohio agreed with guest host Gloria Borger that the last election was a repudiation of President Bush, and Borger asked Corker how he was going to "pay for" extending the President's tax cuts.

On LE, Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffak al-Rubaie told Wolf Blitzer that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki would meet with President Bush next week despite Moqtada al-Sadr's threats to pack up his toys and leave the government if he does. He said that the government enjoys broad support and that a few people leaving won't matter. Without missing a beat, he then said that al-Sadr's delegation to the parliament was the largest.

Read More for the show-by-show review.

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[Freee-dame]

A wapo to wapo interview doesn't have much credibility in my opinion.

There is now a very powerful WaPo radio station in DC. They interview each other.

[Txsleuth]

ROFLMAO....his post-show takes were very clever today..and very sarcastically true...ugh.

BTW...as I pointed out earlier...no one commented today on the Face the Nation....I just on here read that Corker is looking to Baker-Hamilton as "a way out of Iraq"???

aw jeez Edith....we elected an idiot???

[Txsleuth]

Guess what my friend???

I forgot to watch the repeat of the Fox Sunday show!!!

yikes...I was on the phone, and watching football.

I am sorry....so, I will concede that I may have heard what I think I heard...out of context to what was said.

That may have not made sense...but, I have been thinking about this all evening...an I guess I will give Brit the benefit of the doubt..and you also...since I may have taken him out of context.

I am sorry if I overreacted today also...I have spent way too much time on the flame war threads the last few days...and I think I am just more defensive than usual about any negativity towards Pres. Bush...I have seen way more than I like on this site this weekend.