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Posted on 08/02/2009 5:03:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.; Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council.; former Reps. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn., and J.C. Watts, R-Okla.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Summers.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (Michelle Malkin on Roundtable).
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz; Christina Romer, head of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Americans suffering from this terrible healthcare system.
Republicans have no plan.
96% of small businesses not hit by tax.
High number of uninsured.
America only industrialized country without national health plan.
Rangle challenges DeMint to work with democrats on a plan.
Good only Charlie Rangel just can’t tax the “rich folks” enough. He wants Jim Demint to “work with” the Democrats, rather than the Democrats working with the Republicans.
David Gregory, the most incurious interviewer in the world, ever.
Allow interstate competition for health insurance.
Barney Frank clip stating the RAT plan is just another government takeover to slide into singlepayer.
“The president is very focused, very committed...” Blah, blah.
DeMint: Rangel knows the Republicans have a plan. Mentions fed fund to allow states to set up High Risk Pools.
Charlie Rangle says DeMint is afraid of a public option. LOL. Demint isn’t the only one.
DeMint calls the new plan, Fannie Med. Good one!
Larry Summers is an extremely weird person.
This segment of MTP is essentially worthless.
Everyone with a functioning brain knows that Porkulus was a giveaway to dem constituencies. It’s not a recovery plan.
Now he’s on to how we have to have a government takeover of health care to really get economic recovery.
Rangel stepped in it! He talked about the gov’t health plan not knocking out private insurance companies and providing competition between the gov’t and private plans but later said DeMint and the Republicans should put together their plan for “national health insurance.” Sorry, Charlie, the Republicans don’t want “national health insurance.” And because of that fact Rangel regards them as only being “critical” of the Rats socialistic plan.
Same people that created a program that went bankrupt in one week in the used car business want to run your healthcare system.
Summers is now into talking about paint chips falling off school walls.
Summers should not try to smile. It isn’t convincing and it makes him look even stranger.
Some areas of the country are giving 79 weeks of unemployment checks, and Congress wants to extend the payments even further. I say after 52 weeks if checks have to be sent, call it welfare, not unemployment.
My guess is the 79 weeks situation is in Michigan.
This MTP is the worst I have ever seen.
Gregory’s presence is irrelevant. He doesn’t need to be there at all.
What one might do while still holding out hope of a Fed chairmanship?
I agree. Lawrence Summers is just droning along with 6-7 minute answers to questions and in most cases he’s not even addressing the questions. Teacher jobs saved etc... um, how bout private sector jobs Gregory? You’re letting him slide far too easy.
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$12,000, per student, per year: How much does a gallon of Glidden cost?
No they don't, but there are some things that could happen at the federal level such as interstate purchasing of medical coverage, association health plans, and the banning some onerous regulations currently in place in certain stupid Northeastern states.
Guaranteed Issue and Community Rating have killed the health insurance market in several states, and essentially destroyed the friendly climate for small business development.
1) Will Michelle Malkin have to wear a George Will bow-tie so that liberals will know that she is a conservative?
2) Tax-cheat Timmy is on a show; early August is a little early for those segments that review changes in tax law and how to avoid paying. Is this a re-run from last year?
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