Posted on 05/14/2006 4:56:29 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 14th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Laura Bush; author Mary Cheney; columnist Art Buchwald.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former House speaker Newt Gingrich.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House national-security adviser Stephen Hadley; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.
THIS WEEK (ABC): First lady Laura Bush; Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Joe Biden, D-Del.; actress Reese Witherspoon.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Hadley; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Abdul-Illah al-Khatib, Jordanian foreign minister.
Sadly, you're right. We have to battle Republicans almost as often as we do Democrats and the media. The saving grace is, we know they are trying to divide conservatives and we can combat their efforts to a degree.
Have a great lunch! You have freep mail as well.
My understanding is Mary Cheney is not the bombastic flame thrower the left likes. True? The few times I've seen her on TV she's been pretty down to earth.
I wish they would do something with Wendall Goeler. He drives me nuts with his hem-hawing around. The guy can't speak a sentence without using "Uhhhhhh" every other word.
That oratorical style went out of fashion in 1945.
Wallace just mentioned a few Governors are not thrilled about putting the NG on the boarder .. no surprise there
Democrats make promises to get elected. Once it's too late they claim things have changed and they cannot do what they said they'd do. Clinton famously did it, Corzine in NJ did it, and even Ken Salazar in CO did it.
It's a pattern to get votes without having to be held accountable.
I agree with you 200%.
"Brian Wilson has been named the permanent anchor of Weekend Live."
Great! If we can't have Tony there, I'll take Brian - usually does a good job and has a good sense of humor (and easy on the eyes, too ;-)
True, but there's no question over the problems conservatives have trying to clean up these agencies. You can't just fire bad people and the left has entrenched themselves in a bunch of them. Energy and Justice come to mind as two of the worst, but CIA and FBI too.
Yep! Remeber how Mary Landrieu ran ads in Spanish about she wouldn't filibuster Miguel Estrada, then after the election claimed that was a (convenient) mistake by her campaign underlings?
==play the rats words back if we are attacked, pompass asses with not so golden words, awesome.
We all need to take a page from Mary Cheney's book and look a the big picture or we will really be in trouble.
Remarkable lack of seriousness in the political atmosphere of Washington, according to Britt Hume.
Great point but we still have to overcome the MSM and left to get the word out.
Brian Wilson is also the chairman of Radio & Television correspondents association [2000+ membership], if it 's of any interest.
I agree with the point about oversight, but I'm also a realist. They won in 94, took over the Congress in 95, but they have yet to "take over" the bureaucracy. Klinton was still in charge of the Executive branch so there was little they could do down in the guts of those organizations. Anyway, that takes a generation, since you can't fire most of these people.
Rummy has finally done a good job at the Pentagon, which is why political officers who owed their careers to Klinton have been attacking him. Powell failed miserably at state. Tenant never even tried since he was on the Klinton team. Goss made a good start at CIA, but it was probably the most dangerous snake pit to deal with (they actully kill people as part of their bag of tricks, so every tactic was on the table).
Bringing the Border Patrol up under DHS would offer a chance to fix that, but there have been and continue to be just a few higher priorities. That's one of the reasons why I'd like to see it moved over under the Coast Guard. There's an institution that has the "right stuff" to take on the job. The Coast Guard is already part of DHS, so it may even be an internal matter, not requiring legislation.
Could that be what Bush is going to suggest tomorrow? Use the NG as a bridge force until an expanded Coast Guard can take over? Yeah, that's it... Tony read my posts about this on FR and took the idea to the President when he moved into his new job. The President will mention "a poster on that great American resource, FreeRepublic, has given us this brilliant suggestion...."
Probably (!) not, but I can dream.... <g>
Not true...
What about Jim Angle? Is he still the FOX WH correspondent?
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