Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 2 December 2012

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

December 2nd, 2012

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Geithner; Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Geithner; Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Geithner; Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Geithner; Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.; Gov. Brian Schweitzer, D-Mont.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

SEE MY POST #63...

Yeesh...If WE need more information, its pathetic how little info the masses have. there are so many “hidden” things about “conservatives”. Its very difficult to stay to one’s principles and at the same time be politically effective.

[bray]

Typical cowardly Country Clubber. Throw the truth under the bus so the media will like us. The media’s job is to get liberals elected and to destroy the truth. How about you crawl under the bus with the rest of your commie friends.

Grow a spine and fight the media or get lost!

Pray for America

[rodguy911]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2963488/posts

This is very damning to Grover. Anythngto this?

[Cheerio]

Boehner sounded pretty damn serious and left the impression there will be no deal.

Oh yes, Bohner will make a deal. The GOP is more frightened of the Obama media than they are of terrorists. The establishment Republicans do NOT want to walk off the "Fiscal Cliff" so-called. Bohner will make a deal with his golfing buddie - you can take that to the bank. NOW whether the House can find the votes to pass it is another matter.

[kabar]

The GOP blew it big time in the lame duck session following the 2010 midterms. They could have made the Bush tax cuts permanent and we would have avoided the current "crisis." And the GOP never could get any real reductions in spending, which still goes up every year.

I do find it interesting that when the Bush tax cuts were passed, the Dems and some Reps (McCain) claimed that they were just for the wealthy. Now Obama wants to keep them for the middle class. If the Clinton tax rates were so great and contributed to a booming economy, why not go back to the Clinton tax rates for everyone?

[Bernard]

Between Evan Bayh on the FNS panel and Chris Von Hollen on the Meet The Press panel, it looked like auditions for a new Joe Isuzu character. It must be very difficult to negotiate with people like that, when you are constantly worried that they are picking your pocket. I can’t remember the last time I saw 2 people with such insincere smiles.

[maica]

Does anyone know when [cough, cough - excuse my spasms] so-called ‘budgeting’ was shifted to a ten year paradigm? I missed it. I always thought that the five year projection was a bad idea and all of a sudden we have ten-year fortune-telling numbers.

Politicians are by and large lawyers, word people - not mathemeticians. And they are bombarded with lobbyists for everything.

Fudging numbers has to be the number one industry in DC.

Billion, schmillion, what’s the difference to them?

[animal172]

Same one kabar. I should have been more clear.

[kabar]

NOW whether the House can find the votes to pass it is another matter.

All the Dems will vote for it and Boehner would need 25 to 30 Reps to go along with him.

[Bernard]

I have pointed that out to some of my employees, that their income tax bill will go up 2-3,000 per year under Clinton income tax rates, PLUS the FICA tax. Chris Von Hollen on MTP says that "we need another year of continued payroll tax holidays".

We are approaching the point where there is no point in having any tax collections at all. Turbo Tax Timmy and Berhnake can just print more money and have fun,fun fun until Daddy takes the T-Bird away.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Perhaps he can be our “useful idiot”...ha.ha.

[rodguy911]

Spending, Benghazi, over regulation, just a few of what was purposely ignored today Bernard.I don’t undersestimate what these commie-clowns are up to. It’s never any good.

[csmusaret]

If the Clinton tax rates were so great and contributed to a booming economy, why not go back to the Clinton tax rates for everyone?.....and Clinton era spending as well.

Here is a good take on the hole we are in....
http://www.infowars.com/27-things-that-every-american-should-know-about-the-national-debt/

[rodguy911]

Good catch kabar. Its often been pointed out that you can’t view the Clinton tax rates in a vaccuum. Manyh of us would gladly go back to those days of less regulation, no obmacare, etc., etc.no trillions in debt.

[skinkinthegrass]

thanks, for the Ping(s :)....
That's a great / "telling" graphic.

[MestaMachine]

Yep. Every bit of it. And then some.

[chiller]

It seems we could make a good case by joining with the Dems and demanding Clinton era financial policies. R's would be loathe to give so much credit to a Dem, but it's a very small price to pay.

How do Dems refute it ?

In actual fact, the .com boom of the mid 90's, lower spending, smaller social outlays (welfare) coupled with far fewer regulations enabled a pretty healthy economy. We'll have a similar energy boom to take the place of the .com activity.

It's a start, but still doesn't address entitlements.

[TomGuy]

that when the Bush tax cuts were passed, the Dems and some Reps (McCain) claimed that they were just for the wealthy.

Pre-election, the GREEDY were the top 1% who didn't want to share their wealth.

Post-election, the GREEDY are the top 2%.

Isn't it interesting how those subtle changes in rhetoric just seem to come in to the debate without much fanfare and notice.

[kabar]

Yep, the SS payroll tax holiday coupled with the fact that SS has been running in the red since 2010 costs us $160 billion a year from the General Fund—more than the $100 billion they are trying to cut due to sequestration.

[Son House]

Democrats know exactly what the Tax Revenue Inflow is, they just won't accommodate common sense budgeting. And they have no cares about the ill effect of paying back that debt.

Historical Amount of Revenue by Source
Receipts by Source: 1934-2017
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=203

Total Receipts (Millions of Dollars)

1999 $1,827,459
2000 $2,025,198
2001 $1,991,142
2002 $1,853,149
2003 $1,782,321
2004 $1,880,126
2005 $2,153,625
2006 $2,406,876
2007 $2,568,001
2008 $2,523,991
2009 $2,104,989
2010 $2,162,724
2011 $2,303,466
ESTIMATES
2012 $2,468,599