Posted at 1:11pm on Jan. 28, 2007
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review
(In which Joe Biden saves the world.)
By Mark Kilmer
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Two of the 9 o'clock shows led with conservatives seeking the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. Mike Huckabee (MTP) is going to file papers on Monday. He said that his religion explains who he is, and that candidates who say that their religion won't influence their decision-making are saying that their beliefs are insignificant. Sam Brownback (FNS) would not answer the question of whether or not a Mormon is a true Christian; rather, he pointed out that this country has no religious test for office.Joe Lieberman told Wallace on FNS that he remains allied with the Democratic Party because they are progressive and strong on defense. Strong on defense? It sounds like they've changed from what Joe remembers, and is he trying to tell us something? Or to dangle a threat?
In the din which Russert called a discussion, Chuckie Schumer pointed out that 70% of Americans surveyed by someone oppose sending more troops to Iraq. He declared this "democracy," and I suppose he still doesn't understand why the United States is a republic. Schumer also said that the Democrats voted to approve General Petraeus while opposing his plan because they have no business interfering with the President's decisions on commanders. (I'm still shaking my head. I need a transcript.) He called the President's plan, "A Flop."
On TW, Dick Lugar said that the resolutions would not be helpful and we should give the President's plan a chance to succeed. Joe Biden said that merely by introducing his resolution, he's created great changes in the nature of the world and its condition, and that it is not important if his resolution ultimately fails. What is important is the debate he has started. He's going to announce for President on Wednesday and he can win because Jimmy Carter was an incompetent boob with no experience who got this country into trouble with foreign nations.
On FTN, Jim Webb says that in Iraq, we have a "five-sided problem." He could have been referring to the Pentagon, though he wasn't explicit. Same show, Arlen Specter said he opposes the surge and might like to see a cut in funding, along the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam model. (He named the countries as his precedent.) Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he doesn't see any of the proposed resolutions getting the 60 votes needed to pass.
On LE, Jay Rockefeller said that if we fail in Iraq, they'll just go on killing each other, Jon Kyl characterized the results of a failure in Iraq as much worse and left open that he might consider sending more than the initial 21,000 troops.
There's more. Read More for the show-by-show discussion.
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As always a very good review. Excellent show by show info at the link.
oh my GOD! A Senate Republican Leader with a spine! What an utter tragedy our 100%ers and Always Whining Caucus had to cut their noise off to spite their face just as we were FINALLY going to get a Republican Senate Leader with a spine! Now we will have to wait another 40 years before the idiots wake up.
jeeez, Specter actually used the Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam genocide as a GOOD thing for us to repeat????