[Alas Babylon!]

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.

[Alas Babylon!]

Please check out Phsstpok’s EXCELLENT Sunday Talk Show PRE-Thread. It’s a great way to hear analysis on why the DBM picks the guests, what they’ll probably discuss, and other pertinent facts. Also, check out his blog!

[Chuck54]

The Sunday Talk Shows are generally miserable in their choice of guests.

This Sunday reaches a new low. And I thought that was impossible.

[anita]

Thanks, AB & Good Morning to EveryOne. Congrats to the Top posters last week. Sorry that I could not post my nuggets last week as I had to take care of my Parakeet which suddenly became ill. It is ok now. I am joining others with prayers to Phsstpok’s & snugs' family members.

It was nice watching Brian Kilmeade challenging Wallace about Gonzales Nontroversy.

[larryjohnson]

I returned to the USA friday after being subjected to BBC and CNN world news for a month.Am catching up on FR and Wash Times.
BUT I did not miss nor will I watch the Sunday talking heads.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Alright, what a minute AB
No Chucky today??

NO Chucky YEEEEEEEHAW
It has to be a great day

[Gritty]

[Gritty]

Linked below is a thread worthy of reading. In addition to being a terrific article, there are a lot of excellent comments.

Why do Democrats crave defeat?

[Pravious]

Uggggh. Is anyone else watching the parade of fired whiners on Russert?

The hypocrasy of the left has reached new bounds, even for that bunch of lying, delusional creeps.

[poinq]

CNN is the only channel that has a conservative on it. I hate when the conservative point of view is defended by the most liberal republicans.

[mountainfolk]

Sharon Eubanks, the fired attorney whom Chris Wallace interviewed this morning, showed what she was all about with her last remarks to Wallace. Said she was a 'career' employee and not a political appointee. Her seething arrogance was palpable. Chris pointed out that the judge hearing the case against the tobacco company said that the 120 million settlement Eubanks wanted wouldn't fly when Eubanks already could not even get the $10 mil the govt told her to settle for.
She epitomizes the bureaucratic minefield that the Bush administration deals with in implementing policy.

[MNJohnnie]

Here is the fundamental flaw in your argument. Like most Dinocons, you assume that if attacked, people rally to their Government. That is an assumption not provable by any data. The problem with this Dinocon dogma is you all keep hoping for some sort of magic bullet that some how if you hide your head in the sand long enough some magic event will take place and fix the problem so you don't have to get your hands dirty. You people are so busy continually taking counsel of your fears, you talk yourselves into doing NOTHING about anything.

Problem is that dogma of "Do Nothing" has never ever worked. It did not defeat the Soviets, has not solved the problem in Cuba with Castro, has not caused North Korea to be one bit less bellicose and dangerous, it will not fix the problem Iran poses to world peace.

We have been sitting on our hands for 30 years waiting for the Iranian people to rise up. They aren't going to do it.

NO authoritarian government has ever been over thrown without a credible external threat actively forcing the repressive Govt to change. Without a credible external threat, the authorization Govt has no reason to ever reform their system.

[Phsstpok]

Mark Kilmer posted his review of the shows earlier today over at RedState.COM.  Here is the header to that review:

Posted at 12:39pm on Mar. 25, 2007

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review

By Mark Kilmer

Sunday, March 25, 2007

We start the morning with NBC's Meet the Pres, on which host Tim Russert spoke to fired U.S. attorneys David Iglesias and John McKay. Russert, Iglesias, and McKay – seemingly in that ordered – are angry with the Bush Administration. Russert drew an outline for a case that they were illegally fired for political reasons and added little numbers to show which color of paint went where. McKay and Iglesias finished the paint-by-numbers. And there was the matter of Iglesias quoting the Old Testament book of Proverbs which Russert wanted to settle. Iglesias explained that he had used the wrong verse, and they dropped the matter.

On FNS, Diane Feinstein said that they needed to hold the hearings to determine if anything illegal had been done. Host Chris Wallace asked her if it was right to hold hearings when there's "no there there," and Feinstein shot back that the "there there, is why were they removed?" Senator Trent Lott held throughout that the President could remove these people for any reason.

We return to the Russert Zone, MTP, where Tim talked to Snarlin' Arlen Specter and famed Nazi hunter Dick Durbin. Durbin says that Gonzales has no "credibility. Specter argued that the President can "discharge a U.S. attorney for no reason, but they cannot be discharged for a bad reason." That's a contradiction, but Specter also thinks an accommodation can be reached between the Senate and the White House. He's working on that, and maybe it's why Schumer hasn't yet gotten the subpoenas.

On TW, Chuck Hagel said the usual Chuck Hagel things – it's in the show-by-show review – and announced that he will co-sponsor with Jim Webb amendments next week to the supplemental war spending bill. Asked what was contained in the bill, Hagel said that he didn't know because Webb hadn't written it yet.

On FTN, fired US attorney Bud Cummins stood by his assertion that he served at the pleasure of the President, but he takes major issue with the assertion that they were fired for performance reasons. He's also concerned that though they serve at the pleasure of the President but that the decisions had been delegated down to a "room of 35-year-old kids." Unlike the others, Cummins' gripe does not seem to be a part of the Democrats' political agenda; rather, he is angry that they tried to smear his professional reputation.

Next on FTN, host Bob Schieffer made the case that the White House was duplicitous; the host feels that because Rove talks about it in public speeches, he should testify before the Senate about it under oath. Pat Leahy agreed with Schieffer. Graham put up a defense, but Leahy declared that the White House was trying to hide behind the Constitution now when it suits them after having "ignored the Constitution for six years!"

On LE, Senator Orrin Hatch accused the Democrats of trying to micromanage the war and handcuff our troops. Senator Bill Nelson, smiling like an idiot, mumbled about the ISG, getting their timeline wrong if I heard correctly. On the matter of the U.S. attorneys, Nelson held that the Executive Privilege is "mumbo jumbo" which "shouldn't stand in the way of the truth."

Also on LE, John Bolton said that we were right to take out Saddam because his regime was the danger, and no one had said that the danger was imminent. He thinks the deal with North Korea "rewards bad behavior."

The Show-by-Show review is beneath the fold. ...

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More good stuff in the show by show review, as usual.