Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 12 August 2012

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

August 12th, 2012

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Stephanie Cutter, deputy Obama campaign manager; Eric Fehrnstrom, adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Pawlenty, R-Minn.; David Axelrod, adviser to President Barack Obama's campaign.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Axelrod; Ed Gillespie, Romney campaign adviser; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.

[Fishtalk]

Busy day, AB.

Thank you for doing this thread. As always you do, dependably, sometimes being Solomon, sometimes being our Dads.

Lot happening this week besides the new VP slot. A pick which I heartily approve of, btw.

Going to wedding today, to a talk at my church tomorrow night by....TADA...Michael Novak. I’m psyched.

Got me a writing gig at a very popular local yokel Blog...called DELAWAREPOLITICS.NET...check it out sometime.

Going to rock their world. Those folks love my comments which are, you’ll find this hard to believe, acerbic, witty, no-nonsense, filled with common sense.

Only cause of upcoming elections am I doing this cause I hate to be edited. And when writing for another site, sooner or later you will be edited. I’m not talking grammar and such....like “maybe you shouldn’t put it that way” kind of editing.

Which makes me then quit cause I’m independent to a fault.

Anyway....accepting my position as Scribe of the Masses.

Heh.

Speaking of John McCain, if I can be forgiven for being on topic here....I got to wonder how proud this fool is of that big Campaign Finance Reform silliness he once spent such a huge amount of political capital for it.

I don’t believe for one second his effort was toward a greater America else he’d have focused on something more important to the masses, like Medicare, deficit....that sort of thing.

Instead he spends all his time recruiting votes on a silly campaign thing that most Americans cared less about.

It looked good, or so the wonderful John thought. To the plebes such as us, he looked like a noble politician, one who would put the lid of silly campaign differences, who would demand civility, who would sit on all of our first ammendment rights if need be because it was all about HIM.

Then John Edwards gets set free for what had to be the biggest abuse of campaign funds ever and now the Obamas have that horrible ad and it’s suppose to be illegal for the SuperPac’s to work with the candidate campaign.

Here there’s proof that the Obama campaign and that SuperPac broke the law but nothing will come of it.

You know it, and I know it.

Meanwhile, as McCain worked for his nothing-burger joke Campaign Finance law, the Dems were busy forcing banks to give mortgages to Crystal and her Pimp and he knew nothing?

Anyway....more later. Debbie Washerwoman on...husband wants me to tape her he loves her so much.

;)

[ROCKLOBSTER]

You know, some of us make fun of the way the Washrag looks. But she really is an attractive gal...on the outside...when her lips aren’t moving.

[From The Deer Stand]

Listening the Debbie W-S one would think Paul Ryan’s goal is to make life miserable for senior citizens and to provide a lousy health care system for them. But, Obama, thankfully, would make sure everyone lives happily ever after.

[bray]

Axle is throwing everything including Bush’s fault at the wall and nothing is sticking. Everybody’s fault except them and Rich against Middle Class right out of Marx’s book.

Pray for America

[txradioguy]

That’s what they actually believe...and that’s the really scary part.

[TomGuy]

MTP

Axelrod: VP selection is going to be hard for the mainstream Republicans. They will be getting richer at the expense of seniors.

yada yada yada.

Gregory: Republicans wanted to distance themselves from the Ryan plan.

Gregory says: Romney-Ryan are saying resolve the problems before they get worse.

Axelrod relies on the ole ‘Obama inherited all these problems’ and the Republicans are getting richer off of tax cuts and they want to kill seniors by cutting Medicare yada yada yada.

Gregory brings up the Obama/Superpac ‘wife with cancer’ ad, claims Romney says the ad is disrespective of the Office of the Presidency.

Axelrol: Romney loaded ‘that’ company with debt and walked away with their pockets full of cash. Romney’s running an ad about gutting ‘work for welfare’ that is FALSE and evil and wrong and EEEEVIL.

[Gregory was suprisingly or ‘unexpectedly’ rather harsh with Axelrod.]

[Son House]

You must mean the “payroll tax cut”, the one where a taxpayer could just raise his own personal exemptions(number of dependents) and have the same effect, pay less tax until you have to file your income tax. And Democrats will tell you that you pay less tax under Obama...without acknowledging that is until April 15...duh!

[kabar]

Going back and forth between Fox and MTP. I am yelling at Roberts and Gregory to ask the Dems what is their solution to fixing Medicare, which is unsustainable as currently structured. Instead, (as expected) they are allowing the Dems to make these false statements about the Ryan plan while not asking for the Dems plan.

[Fishtalk]

Absolutely.

I love her hair though Id style it different.

Her eyes are striking.

Husband says she looks like Medusa.

Heh.

But judging on looks alone, I think Washwoman is a stand out.

[beenaround]

In the end it is 100% about turnout and this will be determined by which Party constituency is more highly motivated. To that point the Republicans have received a shot in the arm and Ryan will be an asset to the ticket.

If the Obama team persists in their negative and personal attacks while Romney/Ryan preach the “Return of America” theme and do it effectively their message will be more favorably received.

[Son House]

Stephanie Cutter, my guess is she has to wait till she gets her own teleprompter before she can speak in public again.

[Sirius Lee]

"You go to war with the army you've got, not the army you wish you had!"

Alright! A big General St. Clair endorsement.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Gregory says: Romney-Ryan are saying...

Romney-Ryan = R. R.

[TomGuy]

Ryan was an excellent choice by Romney - shows he is a serious presidential candidate

I have posted this is other threads:

Romney has sort of been floundering around. But, some of the recent attack ads have hit close, so he seems to be upping the ante there.

Also, his daddy ran and didn't make it. I don't think he wants to just be another also ran and lost. So, I do hope we see more vigor and sting during/after the convention.

[Girlene]

Roundtable on ABC....LOLOLOL, it is hilarious hearing all the voices against Ryan...tells me he is the PERFECT choice.

oh my goodnesss they replayed the ad with granny being dumped off the cliff.

Peggy Noonan actually is positive - Romney has a real eye for talent like he did when he was with Bain.

Cokie Roberts, Howard Dean, and Gavin Newson just can’t believe this pick......ha!

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks for the link. Good article and a website that I was not familiar with. I’ll read it more often now that I know it’s there.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Unfortunately, this completely bears-out the old adage:

“You can’t judge a book by looking at the cover.”

[animal172]

I wish I could reach inside the TV and slap the snot out of Washerwoman Schultz. She makes my blood boil.

[kabar]

The 2% reduction in the SS tax just reduces the IOUs faster in the SSTF, which represents an unfunded liability. The SSTF ($2.6 trillion) is included in our $15.6 trillion national debt and held under "Intragovernmental Holdings." SS is a pay as you go system and has been in the red since 2010.

Source: CBO "Combined OASDI Trust Funds; January 2011 Baseline" 26 Jan 2011. Note: See "Primary Surplus" line (which is negative, indicating a deficit)

Matters are even worse than this chart shows. In December, Congress passed a Social Security tax reduction. Workers are temporarily paying 2 percentage points less, from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent, in Social Security payroll taxes this calendar year. Since the government is making up the shortfall out of general revenues, CBO’s deficit projections for the trust funds do not include that. But CBO’s figures predict that the "payroll tax holiday" will cost the government’s general fund $85 billion in this fiscal year and $29 billion in fiscal year 2012 (which starts Oct.1, 2011.) Since every dollar of that will have to be borrowed, the combined effect of the " tax holiday" and the annual deficits will amount to a $130 billion addition to the federal deficit in the current fiscal year, and $59 billion in fiscal 2012.

Social Security has passed a tipping point. For years it generated more revenue than it consumed, holding down the overall federal deficit and allowing Congress to spend more freely for other things. But those days are gone. Rather than lessening the federal deficit, Social Security has at last — as long predicted — become a drag on the government’s overall finances.

[Bernard]

I can’t answer that question. We will have to wait for Doris Kearns Goodwin to repeat a clever phrase to see how it plays.