[Alas Babylon!]

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

[Alas Babylon!]

This is the Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread Ping List! If you want to be on it, reply to this post. If you want to be taken off, simply send me a FReepmail.

[animal172]

Morning All. See the usual suspects are making the rounds.

[From The Deer Stand]

Scratch Face The Nation and Meet The Press. Same old, same old!

[TomGuy]

MTP

Kerry and McCain?

I would have to be forced, with my eyelids glued open, and my seat superglued to the chair, to watch MTP and those two discuss anything.

FNS

Watchable, although Pawlenty is struggling in the single-digit percentages to even be noticed.

I look forward to hearing Ryan’s take on the S&P downgrade. Stuart Varney was on F&F this morning, saying that much of the ‘fault’ is laid at Obama’s door.

[Happy Rain]

MTP is so totally in the tank for the DNC that they have completely ignored the outstanding,entertaining and informational debate between Sen Rubio and Sen Kerry last week on the senate floor concerning the debt—where,so fun to watch,Marco cleaned the J effin Kerry clock!
No,instead they bring in McCain to play the typical you stroke mine and I'll stroke your’s RINO/Left game with J effin Kerry.
Marco scare ‘em so NBC,once again,have to sacrifice ratings,credibility and profit to toe the Leftist line.If GE wasn't an Obama porkulus financed satrap,their NBC would be bankrupt.

[jimjohn]

In other words:

There's always a few empty seats in church that need fillin'.

God, I miss Tim Russert!

Me, I gotta 7-hour drive to make for a Monday business meeting. Toodles.

[rodguy911]

Thanks for the thread AB as usual much appreciated.

C-spam has been going nuts this morning. Brian's lackeys just can't get enough third worlders on the air who can't speak English very well to support ozero and the wonderful job he has been doing.

I learned today that the S&P downgrade was in reality a conspiratorial plot to undermine the dear leader. Deaf, dumb and blind barky followers from all over the globe have called in to voice their disgust. Who would do such a thing! Must be the evil Bush!

You gotta wonder when Brian Lamb decided/defected or was told that he needed to be more pc or lose funding or just got old and tired of fighting the good fight. Either way it shows in his pathetic presentation most mornings.

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Other than Paul Ryan looks like a rather weak lineup. One "new duo" seldom seen on the main stage, Juan McCain and Linda Graham should be novel......some things never change.

[techno]

Robert Ford on ABC. Should have also invited Jesse James, Sandra Bullock’s ex to be on the same show.

[Reo]

Kerry, McCain, Greenspan, Graham, Dean, Steinem.....it looks like this Sunday’s guest list was booked 8 years ago or more. Bore-ring! Well, at least Ryan should be worth watching.

[Spirit of Liberty]

Gloria Steinem? I guess she’s going to talk about how these budget ‘cuts’ are going to hurt women?

[TomGuy]

Tel Aviv stock market down about 6%, ceased trading for a while.

[Where are all those who claimed ‘buying opportunity’ when dips happened during the Bush year?]

How low will stocks go -— Monday Monday Monday?

[TomGuy]

Programming Note:

Republican Debate - Thursday evening



August 11th, 2011

9pm EST on Fox News – Tickets – Rules Location: Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa Sponsor: Fox News, The Washington Examiner and the Republican Party of Iowa Participants: TBD

[The June debate was postponed indefinitely.]

[upchuck]

Mornin’ everybody.

Alas, thanks for taking the time, even when the lineup sucks.

WOW, this place is crawling with RATS this morning.

Same old, same o-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[TomGuy]

At least one person can take solace in the S&P downgrade:

Jimmah ‘I fought the killer rabbit and lived to tell the story’ Carter. He is no longer the worst president in US history.

[TomGuy]

FNS

Miller tries to downplay the significance of the S&P downgrade.

[He must have gotten an earful from the WH and Capitol Hill. He seems very wishy-washy in his responses.]

[Happy Rain]

Watching MTP now—it is all DNC Dave can do to keep John effin Kerry from ejaculating too early...

[Son House]

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Austan Goolsbee, former chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers

Quick reminder being the media hasn’t challenged it;

Goolsbee isn’t the only one saying more than 2 million private sector jobs added in the last 14 months;
May. 6, 2011
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110506/NEWS/110506010/Obama-want-energy-breakthroughs-Indiana?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com
“That means over the last 14 months,” Obama said, “we’ve added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector.”

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news/article_1637565.php/Hiring-picks-up-but-US-jobless-rate-up-to-9-per-cent
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney pointed out to reporters that April was the 14th consecutive month of growth in private sector employment, for a total of 2.1 million jobs

[TomGuy]

FNS

Wallace does his motor boat impression to interrupt Ryan: “but but but”

[altura]

No choice this morning. Fox sounds good but Meet the Press and Face the Nation are ... well, okay, who would want to watch Holder, McCain or his Lindsey friend.

thanks for posting, Alas, back after coffee.

[Son House]

Item for tax increase Democrats to dispute as they plan more damage to the private sector;

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks
By Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/dromer/papers/RomerandRomerAERJune2010.pdf

“Our baseline specification implies that an exogenous tax increase of 1% of GDP lowers real GDP by almost 3%”

[exogenous-means caused or produced externally(by Democrats and RINO’s)]