Posted on 08/26/2012 5:11:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
August 26th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Republican former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus; Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Republican former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, chairman of the Republican Platform Committee; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, chairman of the Democratic National Convention.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Priebus; Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.
JimRob made it clear that he would not engage in fooling himself or anyone about who and what Romney is, just because he was supporting him as an alternative to Obama.
Thanks AB for the Sunday thread. Great work as usual. Got to feel sorry for MTP. They got stuck with John McLame.
Candy Crowley is plain nasty this morning trying to convince herself Ohbummer is going to win. Every phony poll under the sun to show how women and Mexicans are going to vote for her Party. Pure attack mode.
Strangely this wasn't reported....
Stay safe!!!!!
I get This’s Weak and FNS at the same time. I discovered that it is pretty easy to toggle back and forth during the panels whenever a lib starts out.
Since we already know the RATaganda talking points, the only advantage to listening to them is to see how artful and skilled they are at delivering them without sounding like a “Chatty Cathy” pull-string doll.
Right now Marco Rubio up with incontinent Bob.
And, who are you pulling for? You never cease to amaze me with your BS comments. C’mon! Is that you Bowbama?
Democrats don’t seem to get it. In poll after poll the data indicates that Romney/Ryan are a lot closer to the mainstream on Abortion then the extremist positions being staked out by the Obama/Biden Democrats.
If you think Romney is going to win the woman or Hispanic vote, I'll be happy to bet you a large sum of money that you're wrong. That's just reality.
Just so I am thinking right, our side has a senate candidate who misspoke and their side has a president who supports gay marriage and killing babies after they have been born.
Somehow I don’t see the equivalence.
I sorta like Jan Brewer, but that woman can’t talk her way out of a wet paper bag. She sounds like she has a mouth full of peanuts. I can’t stand Wasserman Schultz but she can talk circles around Brewer.
I continue to shake my head at your idiocy!
Doubt if anywhere near that amount was paid. If it wqs Medicare they pay what they pay and it isn't close to what is billed. My wife ws tripped up by our dog and fell, hit her head and was taken to ER as a precaution. After an MRI and treatment for bruising she was relesed after about 3 hours, no damage except bruising. Bill came to about $7000. Medicare paid and the Hospital accepted less then $400. We paid $65.00 and would have pd zero had I not switched to a Medicare Advantage plan. However by switching from my GAP coverage to Advantage I saved between the both of us about $3500.00 annually.
Its like always John the rats think they can lie their way out of anything. And as you say does not always work that way.
We already have such a system in place. The problem is that we can't afford it. We have 60 million on Medicaid (including those on the the CHIPS program) and Obamacare will add another 18 million to the rolls. The states pick up half the costs. Obamacare will provide taxpayer subsidies to those earning up to $80,000 a year for a family of four.
We have 47 million on Medicare and those numbers will double in the next 20 years as the baby boomers age. By 2030 one in five will be 65 or older and we will only have 2 workers for every retiree.
We will have to reduce costs for these programs or they will bankrupt us. Everyone seems to agree that there should be some sort of safety net, but the question is what are the criteria for who should receive assistance. We have 46 million on food stamps, up 13 million since Obama took office. Unemployment benefits have been extended up to 99 weeks. Work requirements for welfare are being relaxed.
Who will pay for free health care and welfare benefits is the right question, but more importantly, who should receive them? All of these programs are wealth redistribution. Government takes the money from one group in the form of taxes and gives it to another group in the form of benefits. To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, eventually you run out of other people's money. We borrow 42 cents of every federal dollar spent, which means that we are borrowing money to pay for SS, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc. We owe $16 trillion and the amount of debt is increasing by about $4 billion A DAY!!
Health care will have to be rationed. The only question is by whom. The government (IPAB), the insurance companies, or the individual. In designing our new health care model I favor the individual. They should be empowered with the dollars to make their own decisions and force the market place to be more competitive.
Not to mention the healthcare people have gone wild on their costs. Come on...my husband had a leg bypass....get this, it costs $260,000!
Why do you think health care costs are rising faster than inflation? There are lots of reasons. Hospitals have to absorb the costs of the uninsured. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates don't cover costs. Legal liability and insurance costs are enormous. New life saving technology is very expensive. And there other reasons why our costs are going up. Obamacare will more than likely force the closure of 2,200 hospitals due to reduced reimbursement rates.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Unfortunately, reality intrudes. Affordability is the main criterion. We just cannot afford the welfare state. Benefits will have to be cut and priorities set. We cannot turn things around without making some very painful decisions. The politicians might have you believe otherwise, but that is how we got into this mess in the first place--government promises that can't be kept.
Don’t you understand, if you are a Repub bashing another Repub you are a thoughtful Repub and will be loved by the obamedia. Go on attack and talk about choosing a boy by aborting girls is part of the DNC Platform.
Pray for America
I’m not an expert on Mo. politics. I readily admit. But, if Palin thinks she can run Steelman and win it certainly sounds good to me.
Thanks for that we are obviously getting no national shows today down here its all local storm-talk.
Brilliant point!
Yeah, how much of that do you see in the Congressional races? That's where the action is.
As far as Romney is concerned, you go to war with the military you got.
Ryan is the counterweight.
Incontinent Bob in Tampa with Prebius, Blackburn and others discussing the hurricane's effect on convention activities.
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