Posted on 09/21/2008 4:57:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chair of the American Red Cross.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Paulson; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Paulson; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Paulson; Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Douglas Holtz Eakin, adviser to John McCain; Austan Goolsbee, adviser to Barack Obama; former Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.; Gene Sperling, former Clinton administration economic adviser; Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas.
I suppose he is not in a position to call out Democrats because he needs their votes for the bailout.
Georgie said it is the Treasury Dept. at fault for the problems.
Do tell! I always rely upon and enjoy your reports.
Further no one in the media even many of the so called conserative or Republican leaning members will openingly give that much credit to the current President it is not cool.
Sad but they are part of the problem and in fact add to and and fuel the fire of BDS
Hi Snugs!
Good to see you, too! Hope all is well w you! Besides the stimulating conversation, great insight, and informative articles and discussions on this thread, I’ve missed the great pictures of your Sunday dinners (YUM!)
Best,
SC
Good assessment and the same is true for Britain in fact our banks were in a way even more greedy as they lapped up the bad debts from the US.
Sparse posting from me this morning; I hurt my back yesterday and can’t sit too long at my computer! :-(
Since your fate is in my hands, all you can do is quake in fear, hoping it won't come to that.
I got into with the Mods in the Religion Threads - so I have to give them a warm fuzzy now and then.
re your comments on the media (old media) losing influence.
I do think we are making inroads, but their influence is pervasive ... it’s not just on their news shows but on so-called comedy shows and in their entertainment shows.
Since my antennae are way out for it, I see liberal bias slipped into many drama shows... Law & Order is bad about it ... had to give that show up ...
I've got a pain, too, but it's a bit lower.
“Sounds good, but what happens to the money once it hits back in the Treasury? ‘
Goes into the general fund.
Watch though. Now that the Feds are proposing a more systematic way to deal with the illiquid synthetics and MBOs the AIG share holders will raise the bitching. I heard some last week. I bet the insurance properties of AIG will bring far in excess of $85B. Plus I bet the Treasury will be able to sell the 12% notes way over what they paid for them. What would you pay for a 12% Federally backed note? What does TIB give you on deposits? I appreciate the moral hazard of having the Feds own even for a short time AIG. But the transaction is one that Romney would have been delighted to do at Bain. And those guys are the masters of this kind of stuff.
My name’s aligncare for a reason.
Ice the painful point in your low back for 30 minuets on / one hour off, 3 or 4 times today. Stay in a position of relief as long as you can. Use a support if you must move around. OTC pain relieves should be used regularly for 3 to 5 days, not sporadically taken.
Good luck.
Morning, AB, All....
Had to sing in the choir this morning.
Seems some of the church folk didn’t like that the choir only sang at the Sunday 10AM mass so now we are singing at ALL masses, sometimes in the middle of the damn night, like this morning.
So there’s this local yokel guy who ran for MY district’s councilman. He ran last time, two years ago, against a Democrat and lost by THREE VOTES.
So I liked him and put his sign on my lawn.
Then he gets this idea that the county should HIRE two attorneys instead of using outside law firms.
He (name is Judson Bennett) even used that notion as part of his campaign commercial so this was evidently some kind of big deal to him.
So on this little Delaware Blog I like to frequent various of us kept asking...WHY hire lawyers to work for the county? Remembering please that we have Fannie Mac and Freddie Mae, two fine, fine government run enterprises in a business gubmint has no business being in.
His answer is that by hiring our own lawyers we would avoid the “appearance of impropriety” and still I have no idea what this means.
So I didn’t vote for the guy, go to hell. This was a primary and his Republican opponent won the nod for the GOP and I’m fine with this.
Hire lawyers to work for the county? Delaware has the most powerful public employees union on this planet, hand to God, and now we would have lawyers in the union and we can’t fire them unless hassle with the union! We wanted to know what’s this about “impropriety” and to please explain.
Bennett did not. So he lost.
So RINOS in Delaware get on this Blog and sniff into the air and tell Judson he would have won, yes he would, if only the people who could not vote for him...COULD HAVE!
In other words those conservative fools who kept demanding answers of this candidate just weren’t smart enough.
I mean...if Germans could vote for Obama...hey, maybe he’d win. Damn the electorate so stupid as to not see the wisdom of this genius. Myself, I just wanted answers. Judson Bennett never gave me answers, silly me. He wanted to expand government and my vow to myself is, at the grass roots level, to fight against everything against conservative principals cause you elect these guys and next thing you got ...well Fannie Mae. Evidently a bunch of other voters agreed with me...silly fools we are who didn’t like this idea and demanded more information.
So one guy on this Blog puts up that sap about the pathetics Bennett had voting for him and if only he was running in, say, Wilmington, where all are wise and knowing, then Judson would have won.
Well I took this as an insult and guess what? I can write a word or two given a chance.
So I posted a comment about the insult this writer made against the voters of my councilmatic district, declaring that Judson just had the wrong voters is all. I was a bit snarky about it although I know you find it hard to believe.
So the guy answers me. He calls me names, casts aspersions on my parents’ marital status and says I am the biggest child to cross his Blogging path. I had called the notion of having the “wrong” voters as the problem to be a bit childish and I stand by this assertion.
I am going to win, damn it. I bear my bruises proudly.
Bloomberg on MTP complaining that Congress protected jobs and industries that should have been allowed to fail and now is in favor of protecting the buggy-whip NYC bulge-bracket BDs.
BrokeJaw has no clue.
Thanks aligncare. I’m doing the OTC stuff but hadn’t thought about icing it. Will do — in fact off to do it now. Appreciate the advice.
It is interesting how the non-US exchanges tended to react more strongly—good and bad—to our problems this week than ours did. Supports Murdoch’s observation on Neil Cavuto’s show this week that Obama’s economic policies would hurt and anger the rest of the world, rather than befriend them, as he expects.
Watching Paulson now...he was weak and ineffective with Wallace. Hope he is better at fixing this mess than he is in explaining it! (eye roll)
He failed to mention that Bush tried to fix this stuff in 2003 and McCain tried to fix it in 2005. If he didn’t want to appear partisan, he simply could have said the Administration had tried several times to bring this looming problem to the attention of Congress, but that the congress had blocked it. He could have said that some ‘members of Congress’ had tried in 2005 to pass legislation, but that it was also blocked.
Schumer up now to provide cover for the rats...(eye roll).
Bush Administration already provided mortgage relief for ‘home buyers’ a few months ago!! Why are the dems demanding more be done for the ‘home owners’ now?
Dodd on This Week says the problem is foreclosures. He’s not thinking of what caused them, just wanting to address the symptom.
A solution is to address the causes, as well as the results. But if these guys cannot understand the underlying reasons for the failures, there is no way they can pass what’s needed to resolve the real problem.
I’d say Kill the Lawyers but that would wipe out all the leadership of the Democrat Party.
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