Posted on 11/12/2006 4:58:59 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean; presidential counselor Dan Bartlett.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; White House chief of staff Josh Bolten.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Joe Biden. D-Del., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Bolten.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Bolten; Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz; Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Well, the only thing different now is that NY will get that bridge instead of AK. It was a lot better having the Repubs spend the money instead of Dems.
Except for my man Imus and two or three episodes of Seinfeld in the evening, I'm 80-90% C-SPAN by default. Sometimes it's just background noise while on the web but I just have a difficult time with commercial interruptions anymore. Even these Sunday Morning Commercial talk shows are replayed without commercials on C-SPAN Radio starting at Noon ET.
Well stated, Fishtalk... As a former Delawarean (or is it Delaweenie? or Delawarite?), it's nice to know there are principled conservatives living in the Diamond State and standing up for conservative values and ideas.
I agree with pretty much all you said in your reply. It pains me to think of all the Republicans in Congress who let all of us conservatives down so badly over the past 6 years (prior to that, I'd say the Class of 1994 had a very good record of staying true to the CWA and other Reagan principles).
I was very uncomfortable with George W. Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism" as being too close to his father's "Kinder and Gentler America" ("Kinder and gentler than what?"). Still, compared to McCain's wishy-washy media-focused compromising, W looked like a statesman. And when 9/11 came along, I thanked God that our country had W instead of the other possibilities (McCain, Gore!). And I've defended W as being left too many time-bombs and other challenges from the Clinton Administration (recession; no preparedness for terrorist; N. Korea; slashed military; corporate corruption and bursting bubble stock market; very contentious judiciary and liberal bias supporting only liberals for judgeships).
Still, W went way too far in his "compassionate conservativism" embracing too much cr*p from Teddy Kennedy, the Clintons, etc. Reaching out to them is pure weakness and fruitless in the long run.
Now more briefly: while W has been a big disappointment, Congress has been even more disappointing. It just goes to show: you can never depart from First Principles without imperiling everything you stand for. That's what happened: with Tom DeLay, Foley, Hastert, Ney, Cunningham, etc. etc. (maybe even worse among the Senators). Republicans better figure this out or they may need to pack up the tent.
The encouraging thing is that we remain the party of Ideas and I suspect we'll see those ideas and ideals reasserted with even greater devotion and purity than in the past efforts. Unlike the WSJ, which mentioned "big government conservatism" as the product of 'think-tank Washington', the best GOP ideas have come out of the conservative think tanks in DC -- and the party better get back into embracing those first principles if it wants to get its majority back.
Re purchasing power of conservatives vs lefitsts
Many of the high income states are blue states. Lots of wealthy libs in the boomer generation are devoted to the issues they have loved since their glory days of the '60s-70s. The DBM has not told this realignment story. The Republican party is a much more middle ground wage-earner party.
In Maryland the farmers in the rural areas and Eastern Shore residents are Republicans, while the huge number of people on Federal paychecks are Dems. DC suburb counties [high median income], and Baltimore city [high dependency class] carry the vote for our extremely liberal vote totals. Many Catholics stay in the Dem fold because of "social justice" leanings - translated to mean virtual socialism - while averting their mind from other "social" issues - such as Right-to-Life.
Sponsors who ally with conservative media outlets expect to get treated like Dr Laura's sponsors were treated when she tried TV.
Our philosophy has been so demonized by DemMedia that changing the dynamic seems impossible to me. The dominant media treat us as Indians in cowboy country or Christians in China or....
Hi Peach,
I was just reading about Leaky Leahy and his wanting to undo Habeas Corpus for terrorists:
Leahy Aims At Restoring Habeas Corpus (for Terrorists)
United Press International ^ | November 11, 2006 | United Press International, Inc.
Posted on 11/12/2006 12:14:35 AM PST by Lancey Howard
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A battle is shaping up between Democrats and the White House over the Military Commissions Act, signed into law last month by President George W. Bush.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal reports that Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the new law in an effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737189/posts
There are so many reasons to not want Leaky as head of Judiciary (or even in the Senate), here are just a few:
Former special forces officer and columnist Geoff Metcalf provided a brief overview of Senator Leaky Leahy's record of divulging secrets:
* Senator Pat Leahy was annoyed with the Reagan administration's war on terrorism in the 1980s. At the time he was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Therefore, "Leaky Leahy," threatened to sabotage classified strategies he didn't like.
* Leahy "inadvertently" disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview. The intercept had made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizen. But Leahy's leak cost the life of at least one Egyptian "asset" involved in the operation.
* In July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi. US intelligence officials stated that Leahy sent a written threat to expose the operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey. Weeks later, news of the secret plan turned up in the Washington Post, causing it to be aborted.
* A year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter. The Vermont Democrat's Iran-Contra leak was considered to be one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in the committee's 28-year history. After Leahy's resignation, the Senate Intelligence Committee decided to restrict access to committee documents to a security-enhanced meeting room.
-----snip-----
So where did the big mouth go? To the Judiciary Committee where he still has access to classified information and documents.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736512/posts
Russert now again bringing up that 60% of people do not support war... Lieberman says we cannot conduct foreign policy by public opinion polls...
Good points, rodguy. All valid and things we have to keep in mind.
My contention remains that our responsibility is to keep educating people and pointing out the hypocrisies and blatant lies. From the media, yes, but also by everyone associated with putting them out. I have over two hundred articles in my Democrat in-box where they just keep saying these lies over and over. Almost every week for the past year I've been getting them sent to me. Well, now it's our turn to send criticisms back to them for the next two years.
To be beaten by a party that has no party platform and had to import 60 candidates that all think like us should send a message of sorts to our unity division of the Republican party.
How's Imus taking Kinky's defeat? Just wondering... don't watch or listen to the old goat anymore.
"She leaked some classified information to NYTimes."
Wow! That is bad. She might be in jail before January. I know that in the military if we would have a security breach that is almost if not worse than murder. She is toast!!!!
How would Timmy come up with public policy ideas without polls?????
LOL, if that ever happens to me, you might as well sic the Queer Eye show on me, it's all over.
Good point about the Clintons and product placement. They do seem to get odoriferous, er, omnifarious coverage.
I suspect maica is right about it being the result of their supporters being in those fields.
Imagine what we'd see if conservatives were in charge of the MSM...[insert dream sequence music]....
Russert asks what happened on Tuesday. Dowd responded that people are tired on belligerence in regards to the war.
I completely disagree. Yes, the MSM is nuts. But the Democrats just have a better PR spin machine. Driving home a few very few messages OVER and OVER to create the appearance of problems. Lame responses from Republicans showed there was no leadership.
It was obvious the gentlemanly PR campaign was broken with nothing happening to Sandy Burger, the President didn't say ANYTHING the day our contractors were burned on a bridge, the NYT was never called on their treasonous articles. The media didn't take advantage of the Plame and Abu Grabe, the Republican PR machine let them. No leadership.
McCain and crew really hurt the party. The White House NEVER has put a positive campaign our about the good the war in Iraq has accomplished. They were always responding to the bad.
Nah, the Republican Party, unlike the Democrats, never knew what message it was trying to send.
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