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.
GREAT POST...and of course you are very correct.
My husband's best friend is from Mexico...and he was in Vietnam, the same time as my husband was...he has two grown children...
He has never become a citizen...has his "green card"...but, he just says he never got around to it...his children are Americans...he speaks perfect English, talking to him on the phone, one wouldn't even know he was Mexican.
I am sure there are a LOT of immigrants just like him.
A Clinton signed bill requiring good moral character. I could cry..
Excellent post, SC, as always..
I watched it this morning, I thought she did very well.
You have earned my vote! Nothing but common sense here, and all of it attainable. Bravo!
Sadly it is all true, and the Media ignored it then and now.
We MUST have the transcript of that for 2008.
Chris Wallace is either a very good newsperson or he isn't his father's son.
Mary's mannerisms are very much like her dad's. Wow.
LOL, he looks like his dad but takes after mother? LOL
I try not to use Buchananite as an insult to anyone, but I believe it is appropriate used in a general term. It describes a lot of posters political orientation.
I wish Bushbot was the worst I have been called.... I understand your point though. FR has been divided badly since Meirs, and there is a portion on each side that goes too far.
I certainly don't want to turn this thread into an immigration one.
How do we get hundreds of millions to pay taxes and put license plates on their cars? With enforcement and with incentives.
How did Mexico export all of these people? With incentives - bad incentives.
There were incentives that brought the population that is now here. We have to change those incentives. It won't work overnight, but we organize our society with incentives this is one more area where we need to agree to modify the incentives to more appropriately meet the needs of (Primarily) our fellow American citizens (especially the poorly educated and low skilled who are losing jobs to illegal aliens and those who are victims of crimes by violent immigrants), (Secondarily) those who seek to immigrate to America but are held back by bad laws and bureaucratic indifference and hostility, and (Thirdly) the illegal immigrants themselves who are risking their lives in a desert crossing and being exploited here.
With the subtle actions of incentives, the will of the majority (not "the ACLU, La Raza, the Catholic church, the Dems, and the illegals who will demonstrate in even greater numbers") can be enacted.
It seems that no matter where you go these days it is the topic of coversation. I haven't seen anything divide the country like this since Nixon or the Vietnam war.
Amen..
There are, millions of them in addition to the 12 million illegal. Many are no less an American than I am.
Love the description. Great images to enjoy this evening.
The media is stuck on stupid. Yeah that's getting old, but true. The media still has the mindset from after Vietnam when Democrats ruled the earth. It's just taking a long time to convert or replace them. As new reporters are hired, and with Republicans holding the House and Senate, it will get easier every year. I believe this is why they are so unglued and crazy today. The media and the Democrats know each year Republicans control the agenda and government, they become more and more irrelevant.
Somehow I think working to become a citizen -- like learning English, waiting your turn, etc. -- is much more valuable in the end than sneaking in the dead of night. If you or I wanted to move to Australia, wouldn't we have to prove we would be worthy of becoming a citizen of that country? Heck, if one of us wanted to move to Mexico, legally we have to prove we are self sustaining.
That and the embedded reporters growing up to be anchors. They have seen how it really is, and will be more objective than a Gregory, Rather, or Couric..
I have seen a lot of reasonable people dig in....I have gotten angry and said things I really didn't mean.
The debate is so polarizing you find yourself defending things you really don't want to defend, just because of the heat of the argument.
Isn't Democracy grand!!
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