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.
The Dems control the agenda. They decide what will or will not be talked about or voted upon. You can bet that there will no votes on abortion, constitutional amendment on gay marriage, the pledge of alleigence, etc. You can bet that targetted tax cuts, education, AMT, the minimum wage, etc. will be on the docket. The Dems will investigate waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq. They will look into civil liberties abuses and Haliburton. The MSM will laud their efforts.
They will be gone in two years for the most part.
I seriously doubt that will happen. It took us 40 years to win control of the House and the Dems 12 years to regain it. The power of incumbency has many inherent advantages. We have to come up with new challengers. I doubt that we can use the defeated Rep incumbents. Moreover, the Dems will target some more seats that we narrowly held. The idea that you can flip a switch and reverse what just happened is not realistic. We just witnessed an historic moment similar to what happened in 1994.
The real conservative Dems will not like what Pelosi says,and they will probably buck her and hope that when they do they will not need her Money,they will get it from Home. It will be fun to watch....
The Dems will stay united when it comes to keeping power. We have plenty of RINOs who coexist with Conservatives. We are engaged in a long hard struggle. We also have to deal with changing demographics that lean in the Dems favor. The Dems are used to power. In the 62 year period 1933-95, the Dems held the House for 58 years and the Senate for 54 years, often with huge majorities. Our slim 12 year hold on the House is a mere blip historically. Don't depend on the Dems self-destructing. They won't. We will have to fight and scratch to take it away from them. It is not going to be easy.
Does Sean not know what he was saying on his own show???
YOu can only ignore a WOT for so long.
That's what makes me crazy about Savage. He has clarity maybe ten percent of the time. When he's actually teaching his audience about the history of Islam he IS worth listening to. When he is trashing other radio hosts like Rush, Hannity (both happen to be above him in the ratings) and starts rambling recipes and about his dog, I tune out.
Go down to the bottom ... there should be all the pg. #'s and next .. let me know if you're not seeing that.
I guess we need to be more vocal with FOX. We don't want to lose them totally to the left.
I am still trying to get up the urge to watch Fox again. They are in the timeout room in my house right now. I watch non-news channels right now, learning hobbies, etc.
One thing the dems learned from so many years of being in power, is how to cheat to keep the power. With Hillary desperate for the WH we will see their efforts redoubled.
I'm not so sure, MM. Jim is solid and workmanlike as a Senator, but he is a very lackluster campaigner and did not do a good job. Rush may have had an affect in bringing out the anti-A2 voter, which may have actually helped him some.
"The memory is the first thing to go..."
I thought it was the legs!
Oh, well. That was my attempt at a joke.
None of us know what the next two years are going to bring, but with words like those I just hope too many people don't have to die because a lot of people decided to stay home and teach the GOP a lesson.
I just happend to flip over in time to see Julie Banderas talking about this.
What I'd like to know, why hasn't justice investigated Soros? BTW -- another celebrity heard from: Elton John now wants all religion banned.
Please note that none of the people you blame were on the ballot, nor were Foley, Abramoff, Cunningham, Specter, Hagel, et al. But Santorum lost, punished for having supported a sitting Republican senator with seniority, but he was clearly one of the good guys, worth 100 of the list you mentioned. J.D. Hayworth may lose and if he does it's because he dared (dared) to accept campaign contributions from the Indian tribes who are his constituents and who he has supported on principle his entire career, all because those Indian tribes hired a lobbyist who is in jail for bilking the tribes out of money for work he didn't do (not, as the media says, for bribing anybody). But "purists" wanted to send a message about "corruption." Talent may well have lost in Missouri because a "Christian evangelist leader" in Colorado, who no one has ever heard of, turned out to be a junky and a pervert, so some Christian conservatives in Missouri stayed home. How does that make sense?
I would ask that all of the self appointed so called "principled conservative" purists who either stayed home this year or voted against the Republican candidate to "teach them a lesson" please ping me so that I can keep a list.
I want to send you one last message of thanks as we are being led off to the "reeducation" camps.
Well done. Truly marvelous outcome. Just like 1992. Congratulations to you all.
Very specific comment to this years protest voters (or non voters): I don't disagree with your complaints, by and large, about the Republican leadership. I do disagree vehemently with your actions this election day. The time to lodge this protest was in the primaries or, better yet, in the local organizing committees in the early stages of this election cycle, sometime in early 2005. That's the point when we need to make ourselves heard and our influence felt. Once the candidates are in place, with as closely divided a legislature as we have now, we have to look at the consequences of throwing away our votes in a "protest" and giving power to people like Nancy, Charlie, Alcee, Harry and Jack.
Don't blame me. I voted for Republicans, Corker and Blackburn. Blackburn would pass even the most ardent purists muster. Corker probably wouldn't, though that has yet to be proven (I wanted Bryant in the primaries, but he lost in a three way race with another good conservative splitting our votes). I decided I wanted a Republican to take Frist's seat instead of a Democrat liberal who voted for Nancy Pelosi for his leader in the House (albeit reluctantly) and would have voted for Harry Reid in the Senate.
Yes, Prince Alwaleed - the one who offered a large check to Mayor Giuliani at the time of the WTC bombing while saying that the US needs to change its foreign policy, and then Giuliani returned the check.
I remember reading about an incident on Fox News in which a reporter was reporting on something that the Prince thought cast a bad light on Saudi Arabia. He called up Murdoch and Murdoch put a stop to the report.
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