Posted on 05/17/2009 5:19:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rev. Richard McBrien, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame; Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Democratic National Committee chairman; Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Jim Webb, D-Va.; Republican strategist Liz Cheney, daughter to former Vice President Dick Cheney; Steve Schmidt, adviser to John McCain for the 2008 presidential election.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): White House Budget Director Peter Orszag; Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio; actress Mariel Hemingway; director Barry Levinson; Emily Toates, student at Notre Dame and member of "Right to Life" group.
That’s a great policy—if you’re an effective political leader, we don’t want you running for office.
Sure explains a lot of whom we’ve got in office!
(And no, Rush and Mark shouldn’t run for office—as WFB never should have. Nor should Miss Coulter. Those who are good raising the controversial points professionally, should continue to do so.)
Let Liz run against Limpsy Grahamnesty.
ditto the swoon...and George sat upright like the pimp he is
and to add, in a sea of 300million plus we both named less than 10 and in that group I include Liz for your other persons, cited reasons.
It’s not my criteria as you suggest, just my opinion of the resourse that is Liz Cheney
Contrast that to how many babies have been aborted, how many have survived the procedure, and what happened to them.
And, when the discussion turns to rendition, we have to go back and find out how many terror suspects were processed through rendition when Bill Clinton was President. Let's not forget that more Americans died in combat in Vietnam while Lyndon Johnson was President than while Richard Nixon was President. An inconvenient truth that doesn't come up very often.
Due to the way these shows run in south Florida, and somewhat from inertia, my lovely wife and I start watching 'Meet the Press' at 10, and then stay on that station for Chris Matthews show for the Democrat talking points.
I should say that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, while my wife has always been an 'independent'. (I should note she caught BDS in 2005 as a result of Bush/Cheney's politically stupid choice of VA Secretaries; I'm a 'Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veteran' and was royally screwed by their support of the 'Boots on the Ground' policy. My better half tends conservative, but takes things like that VERY personally!) But I digress...
MTP was a snoozer, Steel spent more time dancing through the minefield that making points, IMHO. What caught my attention was that of the 60 minutes the show ran, they spent less than 2 or 3 on Pelosi's disaster. BTW, was it just me, or is Peggy Noonan looking more and more like she's on some kind of pain-killers?
Chris Matthews spent essentially NO time on it; instead he spent the whole show complaining about how Dick Cheney was STILL controlling the levers of the government, months after leaving office. (Apparently, he and his cohorts disapprove.)
My point here is that, at least on NBC, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi basically poured gasoline over her head and set fire to herself on national TV, they have decided to rapidly turn her into an 'un-person' 'a la Trotsky. At this point, the only thing I wonder is if Panetta has the stones to put out the video of the briefing Nancy can't remember the details of ... I mean, you KNOW they have it stashed somewhere.
I was really expecting more 'leaks' by now.
Sigh...
Why..... thank you, 9YearLurker.
I think of the others as delightfully inflammatory but not really suited for office, whereas Liz is refreshingly a rarely muscular (or to use the preferred term for Mrs. Obama’s arms, ‘toned’) Republican. I’d love her to help show other Republican office-holders how it is done.
(And yes, we are united in complimenting her highly.)
Liz would be a great campaign chairman for Sarah Palin. Better yet, run on the ticket with her.
Dam good question, probably fear over just what is happening. It’s a miracle we were not attacked.Thanks God for GW.
Agreed.
Which then means reduction in services.
Sucks to be sick under Dem health care, huh?
We are in that position now with health care, with most every doctor visit, hospital stay, lab test and prescription filed to an insurance company, rather than patients and providers discussing health care costs together. Far too many physicians don't know what is charged for their services, and fewer know the costs of the ancillary tests they order. Hospitals are worse.
I am also in favor of sliding scale fees for services. Nobody should get free health care, and everyone shouldn't have to pay inflated fees for the deadbeats.
The double standard is alive and well on most any issue.
As you stated the rats are still setting and then trying to control the agenda. If we want to win we have to change as much of that as we can. Rush,talk radio is a start.
Too bad there is not a system that rewards those keeping costs down rather than pump them up for a bigger pay check from the insurance provider.
How big a cost are needles tests and malpractice insurance alone? We have doctors who were being charged 100,000 per year malpractice insurance to deliver babies, most opted out,some quit.
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