Posted on 03/11/2007 5:25:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.; Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.; former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.; singer Loretta Lynn.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Dole; former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala; Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center.
Russians tried your style Counter Insurgency doctrine in Afghanistan. The Nazis tried it during WW 2 in Eastern Europe. How did that work out for them?
Counter Insurgency is not Total War. Most of the troops who are doing the bulk of the fighting and dying on ourside are Muslims. Practicing this sort of "kill them all" doctrine would make all those allies enemies instead.
This is the sort of trash talking from the pseudo "tough guy" never been anything Talk Radio Hosts that might make for good Talk Radio sound bites, in real life it is prescription for guaranteed failure.
I don't believe a man and his family should be left twisting in the wind from a witch hunt simply because the MSM gets their kicks from it.
Ugh...Sheila Jackson Leigh...don't get me started!! LOL
More importantly, her appearance today, in advance of the debate on Iraq this week on the HIll, shows just how badly fragmented the Dems are, and that Pelosi can't control the Out of Iraq caucus. Usually, appearances on the Sunday shows are carefully controlled by the Dem leadership, to make sure that the message gets out. However, the Dems have NO clear message on Iraq. It's going to be a circus, er..zoo next week..
Check your fmail when you have a break... nothing important.
It all comes down to politics which is hard dirty game and Libby knew this all to well when he was appointed as the VP's chief of staff.
However loyal the White House are, can or should be to Libby they also have 2008 elections to think of and the Republican Party will not want anything that a liberal media can use against any Republican. In the MSM a Republican is a Republican.
Oh I think I get it-- a pardon basically submits that yes, Libby was guilty but he shouldn't be punished. Look what it did to Gerald Ford and to Richard Nixon, although Nixon being a liberal (remember wage and price controls?) was able to rehabilitate his reputation substantially before he died.
I read an account after President Ford died that Nixon had to consider whether to accept the pardon, as by doing so he was accepting guilt. He had many flaws, but he accepted the pardon at his own perceived loss because he thought it was better for the country and the party.
LOL...I know who Jim Boeheim is...and what he looks like.
Now I have a visual!
"Which Jim Webb are you voting for"?
:-) Thanks, Fishtalk.
Paula Deen's son was asked what food his mother liked best. Without missing a beat, he said "fried butter".
LOL
I like this, from January:
Last week I said that it seemed to me that we ought to support the plan for the additional troops (which, incidentally, would bring the troops up to a number that is still less than the number of troops we have had there in the past) because the consequences of an American defeat in Iraq are so great. Understandably people have strong feelings on both sides of this debate. I read this week in The Economist magazine, which openly dislikes President Bush, that they agree with the president’s plan as our last best chance to prevail there. But I can see the arguments for the other side. I can even understand a vote to cut off funds for the war effort if one believes that we have clearly already lost the war and is prepared to accept the consequences of that loss. What I can’t see is this nonbinding resolution of opposition. Is it really in our country’s best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesn’t such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is “on his own”? Stomachless Senate, 9 January 2007 Radio CommentaryA genuine, determined will to win is my minimum requirement.
The Dems and MSM would go bonkers attacking the corruption of the WH and its disregard of the law and the justice system. Reid and Pelosi have already fired warning shots across the bow. I am sure that the WH would rather have good relations with the Dem controlled Congress so it can pass comprehensive immigration reform and a fix for SS. Moreover, there is still the funding of the war in Iraq that remains a Dem target. Pardoning Libby will give some backbone to wavering Dems in Congress. It will be played that the Libby conviction was really part of the WH coverup about the lies it used to get us into the War in Iraq, i.e., using the famous 16 words in the STOU. There may even be a greater clamor from the kook Left to impeach Bush.
There is a reason why Presidents usually wait until the end of their terms to grant most of their pardons. Certainly, the highly charged political show trial of Libby would act as a lightening rod should a pardon be granted now. And Fitzgerald is still out there waiting to pounce.
What are the politicial advantages to pardoning Libby now?
au contraire...a WH pardon for Libby is the worst possible scenario for Hillary. Look, assume that by next February she's wrapped up the nomination, or is close to doing so. Now, Bush pardons Libby, and the left/lib/MSM/blogosphere goes collectively apes**t...well, then, let's have the discussion of how the Clintons in 2000, sold pardons to convicted felons., like Marc Rich...including several who were "clients" of Hillary's brothers..the Rodham boys. It woun't be good for her..
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The Left and the DBM have seized on ONE BUILDING that is part of Walter Reed Hospital and is in the process of making it sound to everyone like the ENTIRE facility is one big roach motel.
Bullsh*t.
The place is a world class hospital bar none.
The advances made in treating wounded soldiers on the battlefield and once they return stateside couldn not IMHO have been made anywhere else but maybe Bethesda.
Something the media is NOT telling you is that Walter Reed is scheduled to be closed within the next two years...everything moved to Bethesda and a new hospital built here at Ft. Belvoir to augment Bethesda.
This was all public knowlege in the last round of BRAC hearings.
But lets look at what I see is the real reasons behind the "problems" at WRACH.
To me it goes back to the gutting of the military from 1993 - 2001. When we went from 17 down to active combat divisions...400 THOUSAND military members shown the door. Back when Soldiers were applying for food stamps and welfare...readiness levels for divisions falling below 75%
Budget cuts don't just affect the beans and bullets...it hits places like WRACH too. They have to do the best thay can with the money allotted to them in the defense budget. If you need 4 doctors to fully staff a floor but the budget only allows you to pay for two...what do you do?
But you won't hear any of this from the Congress Critters decrying the deplorable conditions at Walter Reed.
Why incriminate yourself in the alleged conditions of the place when it's far easier and expedient to bash President Bush?
We started the WoT with a $56 billion dollar shortfall in equipment thanks to the prior administration...the shortfall in healthcare for the soldiers was just as great...only we don't find out about it until something like Iraq and Afghanistan popped up.
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