Posted on 07/10/2011 5:21:46 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
July 10th, 2011
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a GOP presidential candidate.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Geithner; Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla.
THIS WEEK (ABC): President Obama's chief of staff, Bill Daley; Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Reps. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a GOP presidential candidate; NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; NASA scientist James Garvin.
Who’s side is McConnell on?
Sarah's so precious.
She's right....they keep using smoke and mirrors and act like we were born at night....LAST NIGHT!
More DEM commercials from Gregory....and lies that Reps are AT FAULT! Wow, can these scum LIE!!
The Libs talk about Bush and the past when they want to defend Obama, then when Pawlenty answers that, Gregory says we ‘don’t want to talk about the past.”
Pawlenty is doing great! Even though Gregory is playing games, going left, right, changing topics, switching gears.
One word summary: BOHICA...
HA! Good one Hoss!
Aren't sand burrs and dandelions perennials?
Resting up for a whole new set of spin strategies.
Not to worry, they'll be baaaaaak.
McConnell is on his side. He’s become part of the “ruling class” and is now an inside the beltway Rino. When he leaves the Senate he’s going to be a K-street lobbyist.
Gregory tries it all...and Pawlenty keeps hitting back!
Gosh is Gregory a nasty POS!
I am now all riled up at the Lib lies, distortion tactics and changing the subject....Good Lord, help us with this crap for the next year.
Pawlenty will need a shower and dispose of his clothes after that “interview”.
Smack, bang, pow. Thanks for that link. I missed her FB post, and may have to get an account just to keep up with HER.
“McConnell has no sense”
You could have stopped right there.
DeMint just said that they are “willing to give the President his increase in the debt ceiling” in exchange for states voting on a balance budget amendment vote, etc.
Then DeMint says we’ve given Obama the debt ceiling increase 3x before and he hasn’t done anything in exchange.
I can’t see why this time will be any different.
What radical regime has ever been stopped by compromisers?
With voters who reason like the Casey Anthony jury, we are in serious trouble.
SS is a pay as you program. It is running in the red now, i.e., it is paying out more than it is taking in. In order to make up the shortfall, SS cashes in its IOUs from the SSTF. Thus, the General Fund must come up with the money now to pay those benefits. So SS is in fact contributing to our current deficit problems. Baird missed the opportunity to nail Becerra by asking him if the SSTF is filled with real assets, why is the $2.3 trillion SSTF included in the $14.3 trillion national debt.
Becerra also lied when he compared the T-bills held by China to those in the SSTF. The SSTF holds non-market T-bills that can only be redeemed by the USG. We can't sell them to China or anyone else.
I’m inclined to give Michele her due and grant that she should be in a leadership position in the House.
But I think she’d be a total disaster as a presidential candidate beyond serving her Rovian duty of making life easier for Mitt by splitting Palin’s vote. Her bargain in this race IMO is much more Faustian than simply hiring Rollins. The Establishment GOP, Dems and/or the MSM could rip her to shreds the minute they wanted to. You see a few fringe media types nibbling on her now, but mostly they’re still pushing her. (Chris Matthews’s newest best friend?)
Palin has a genuine leadership record as well as an economy and core issues first record that makes her much more viable for independents, moderates and libertarian types. Though Palin is principled and unbending in her social conservatism, she doesn’t come off as disrespectful or hatefully intolerant of those she disagrees with. Michele and Marcus are both big, fat, novice-level targets in that regard, however.
I’m coming to believe that Perry is the Establishment’s next best hope, however. He clearly plays the globalist game and can be bought, and everyone is fearful that Mitt is still to stiff and awkward a campaigner to pull off the nomination. With Perry I think they hope to offer someone with more of a conservative patina to him, who like some thought TPaw might successfully be positioned to do, could pull votes from both sides of the GOP.
But Perry would be at least as bad in the general as Romney, and Obama could hardly be happier to face a less smooth, more fundamentalist caricature of W in 2012.
More and more, I am convinced that if Palin isn’t our candidate, we’ve got four more years of Obama. And truthfully, that may not be worse for us than four years of a compromised and compromising RINO president whom the Dems could roll to a record degree, just as the Democrats in the MA legislature when they had the good fortune of Romney as their governor.
No amnesty ever.
All of this talk of raising the debt ceiling and budget cuts have just gotten ridiculous. There are no real cuts. Haven’t been and most likely never will be. They are talking about a cut in the rate of increase. What a crock. Can anyone remember the last time our budget was actually smaller than the previous year?
First the government creates a crisis, “can't pay on our debts,” then presents a solution “raise the debt limit.”
That's the solution, give the drug addict one more pill before he gets serious about kicking the habit!
Sheeeesh, they must really think we are all stupid enough to believe the lies that spew from their mouths!
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