Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 7 May 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 7 May 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Washington Nationals co-owner Mark Lerner.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Bush impersonator Steve Bridges.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.; Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; outgoing White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt; Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin.

[samantha]

or Booze....

[maica]

And if they are not sufficiently pure and do exactly what you demand, are you going to sit on your ass and let Pelosi and Reid run the Congress?

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Sorry, you misinterpreted my remarks, or I posted an incomplete thought. I meant that WE supporters of a Republican majority have six months to encourage those seeking re-election to show some backbone so that THEY will get all of the dispirited or disgruntled conservative voters to show up at the polls - and thus keep their seats.

[rodguy911]

Yes I did it was awesome,righton track just like him, we need to her more from him.

[Bahbah]

Perfect description of those two prissymouths.

[Seattle Conservative]

" forced myself to watch Nancy Pelosi tapdance around a moderately tough interview with Tim Russert. She was pretty funny, promising to restore civility to politics. Hmmm, I asked myself, why do you have to wait until you're in power to become civil? She wouldn't know civility if it bit her on the ass. GW tried to be civil to this lot and got smacked around for six years for his troubles. If these nincompoops get into power, they can expect their adversaries to return the favor."

Good catch and great point Inkie.
Brian Wilson on FNC was just reading some email. One guy (who sounds like a FReeper)wrote the following:
"I'll vote for anyone who is running against Pelosi. She has too much mouth and not enough IQ" ROFLOL!

[generationfixit]

"Did anyone else hear the woman's distinct tone of desire to be the next...the latest and greatest....Speaker of the House?"

All the Republicans have to do is make this interview a commercial and the Democrats will not win anything ever.

What this interview proved is what we all know. They have no ideas. Heck their main thrust of their " Plan" is to raise the minimum wage!?!!?!???? Oh my gosh talk about intellectual laziness.

I loved the part when Timmy asked her about the NSA program and he asked her " would you scrap the plan then " and she said no. The mental gymnastics she must have been doing to try to play to all sides had to be demanding for this dim bulb!

[maica]

Apparently, the "accepted wisdom" for Goss is that he was fired. I have heard snippets of all the Sunday shows, and they all seem to be saying the same thing. Media folks do not care a bit about truth, and reality is in the mind of the beholder in DC.

[MNJohnnie]

Not only that, the currently booming economy is going to HELP meet that goal since tax revenues are significantly higher then expected right now. You do not tax your way out of deficits, you GROW your way out of them. This will depend on IF President Bush discovers the Veto pen. Given the gutless behavior of the Congressional Republicans the President should just start vetoing anything non Defense spending related that hits his desk.

[rodguy911]

Thanks EC much appreciated.

[STARWISE]

Kudlow is a fantastic and enlightened man .. did you know that he converted to Catholicism in his later life? After his successful detox and "road" trip to recovery, he met Fr. McCloskey in DC .. who has also influential in the the conversions of Sen. Brownback and Novack.

"In late July, a tiny item in the Washington Post announced some surprising news: Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican and former United Methodist best known for his opposition to cloning, converted to Catholicism on June 27. But just as notable as Brownback's conversion was the man who performed it, the Rev. John McCloskey. Brownback is the third political celebrity to convert to Catholicism under McCloskey's guidance--the other two were journalist Robert Novak and economist-commentator Lawrence Kudlow. The priest, who operates out of Washington's Catholic Information Center a couple of blocks from the White House..."

"From: Father John McCloskey, book review of American Abundance (written by Lawrence Kudlow, published by American Heritage, l997); review posted on 15 April 2004 on The National Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood website (http://www.jknirp.com/paul.htm; viewed 24 October 2005):

Lawrence Kudlow is one of our leading political economists...

Perhaps it would be fairer and more accurate to say that there are increasingly two Americas. One group in America is made up of Bible Christians and faithful Catholics who possess standards and convictions based on the natural law, the Bible, and the teaching authority of the Catholic Church and strive to live accordingly.

The other group in America, whatever its religious affiliation, does not believe in a normative moral truth or in a God to whom they are accountable in this life and in the next according to their actions here. These are cultures in irreconcilable conflict, the culture of life and truth versus the culture of death. One claims the truth; the other claims there is no truth. Over time, one or the other must prevail. As Whittaker Chambers put it, "Economics is not the central problem of our age, Faith is."

...Kudlow has a varied background in government, Wall Street, and political journalism. He was under-secretary of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, one of the original supply-siders of the Eighties. After completing his time in Washington he was the chief economist for the powerhouse financial firm of Bear, Stearns on Wall Street, and then became the economic editor for the leading conservative bi-weekly National Review.

Presently he is chief economist for the American Skandia Company in Connecticut. Kudlow had a well-publicized bout with cocaine addiction for which he takes full responsibility in a scorchingly honest lengthy preface.

He acknowledges his dependence on God and his many loyal friends for his continuing recovery from the depths of a near death experience. His writings reflect a person who believes deeply in the possibility of reform and, indeed, resurrection.

Kudlow has a prose style that makes his writing accessible to the layman and shows a deep knowledge of history that reminds one of the greatest economic writer of all, the nineteenth-century Englishman Walter Bagehot.

Combined with his inside knowledge of how the economic and political world works, he provides an unmatched insight into current economic events. Old economic news is rarely interesting, but Kudlow makes it so. He is an increasingly important economic voice who effortlessly switches back and forth from the field of policy making to print and visual journalism.

In the future he may well be an important moral voice. Kudlow is a recent Catholic convert who no doubt is deepening his study of the social teachings of the Church. I hope that in the future his thought may reflect the insights of Leo XIII and John Paul II as well as Adam Smith, Hayek, and Schumpeter."

[MNJohnnie]

Besides, then MN Johnnie could go deep sea fishing and see how he likes it compared to his usual ice fishing

I might never come back. Beach bum sound pretty good right about now give the utter insanity in the Political world.

[LADY J]

"Asked a few questions and within ten minutes at the most I was signed up. They took care of the paperwork. $4.43 comes out of my social security check. It was $250 deductible and if I needed any meds I would pay 25% of the cost."

That's pretty cheap compared to what some are paying. Do they pick when and where you see a doctor or a specialist? Do you get to have YOUR choice of doctors or do you have to pick one from THEIR list?

I'm asking because my neighbor has it and I don't think it would be my choice. Some things are worth what it costs to have them.

[generationfixit]

By the way...

Did anyone notice the really hard push on the conservatives " driving down the presidents poll numbers"?

Now for some reason the MSM is trumpeting this like it helps the Democrats. How can that be? The conservatives are certainly not going to vote for an out and out liberal just because they are a little disenchanted with Bush. They really have no clue in Washington do they. The libs are so eager to " get Bush" that they will create an alliance with absolutely anyone that says they even mildly disagree with the man....they are insane.

[Seattle Conservative]

"I want to know who all has been playing poker with Porter."

Here's one story. I'm rather skeptical of it for 2 reasons: 1) It's the NY Daily News; 2) it has quotes from the traitor, Larry Johnson

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.

Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, the No. 3 official at the CIA, could soon be indicted in a widening FBI investigation of the parties thrown by defense contractor Brent Wilkes, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the bribery conviction of former Rep. Randall (Duke) Cunningham, law enforcement sources said.

A CIA spokeswoman said Foggo went to the lavish weekly hospitality-suite parties at the Watergate and Westin Grand hotels but "just for poker."

Intelligence and law enforcement sources said solid evidence had yet to emerge that Goss also went to the parties, but Goss and Foggo share a fondness for poker and expensive cigars, and the FBI investigation was continuing.

Larry Johnson, a former CIA operative and a Bush administration critic, said Goss "had a relationship with Dusty and with Brent Wilkes that's now coming under greater scrutiny."

Johnson vouched for the integrity of Foggo and Goss but said, "Dusty was a big poker player, and it's my understanding that Porter Goss was also there \[at Wilkes' parties\] for poker. It's going to be guilt by association."

"It's all about the Duke Cunningham scandal," a senior law enforcement official told the Daily News in reference to Goss' resignation. Duke, a California Republican, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty in November to taking $2.4 million in homes, yachts and other bribes in exchange for steering government contracts.

Goss' inability to handle the allegations swirling around Foggo prompted John Negroponte, the director of National Intelligence, who oversees all of the nation's spy agencies, to press for the CIA chief's ouster, the senior official said. The official said Goss is not an FBI target but "there is an impending indictment" of Foggo for steering defense contracts to his poker buddies.

One subject of the FBI investigation is a $3 million CIA contract that went to Wilkes to supply bottled water and other goods to CIA operatives in Iraq and Afghanistan, sources said.

In a hastily arranged Oval Office announcement that stunned official Washington, neither President Bush nor Goss offered a substantive reason for why the head of the spy agency was leaving after only a year on the job.

"He has led ably" in an era of CIA transition, Bush said with Goss seated at his side. "He has a five-year plan to increase the analysts and operatives."

Goss said the trust Bush placed in him "is something I could never have imagined." "I believe the agency is on a very even keel, sailing well," he said.

The official Bush administration spin that emerged later was that Goss lost out in a turf battle with Negroponte, but Goss' tenure was marked by the resignations of several veteran operatives who viewed him as an amateur out of his depth.

White House officials said Bush would announce early next week his choice to succeed Goss. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, Negroponte's top deputy, heads the list of potential replacements, with White House counterterror chief Fran Townsend also on the short list.

Negroponte "apparently had no confidence" in Goss, and Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board was also "very alarmed by problems at the CIA," said a congressional source involved in oversight of U.S. spy agencies.

"Supposedly the \[Cunningham\] scandal was the last straw," the source said. "This administration may be on the verge of a major scandal."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html

[rodguy911]

Great catch on the Mr. Bush stuff.

I too cringe eveytime someone I like uses it. The rats we expect, but not Larry with Kudlow I doubt it's derogatory.

[OldFriend]

This is for the RX program. Part D

Medicare does not choose the doctor. I choose a doctor if I would need one.

There seems to be some confusion on your neighbor's part.

[Seattle Conservative]

"Ooow...Elanore Clift suggesting Porter Goss is connected to the Cunningham scandal
Tony criticizes her innuendo."


See my post 694 on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628139/posts?page=694#694

[johnny7]

��5{���������he eight, stinking years-of-the-rapist... THAT attitude gave us Carter, the fall of Saigon... Pol Pot, the gutting of our military, the hostages in Iran, the loss of the Panama Canal and the REAL, worst economy since the Great Depression.

[samantha]

I am afraid you may have hit the nail on the head. Hillary is terrified of failure, and it may have come from her Father's strict guidance early. Her brother's lives and lifestyles are not anything to cheer about either.

[defconw]

You're right it's a stretch and no one talked about it today, except a brief reference on Matthews? I forget, but they did not seem to think it was a big deal. No "there,there".