Posted on 12/27/2009 5:04:46 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.; Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Arlen Specter, D-Pa., Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House press secretary Robert Gibbs; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.; Gov. Deval Patrick, D-Mass.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gibbs; Reps. James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Peter King, R-N.Y.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Gibbs; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Andrew Card, former Bush White House chief of staff; John Podesta, former Clinton White House chief of staff and head of the Center for American Progress; Govs. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa.; George Evans, mayor of Selma, Ala.
Deval gets to the point. They want to manage your “health,” not just your health insurance.
Morning!
Wallace calls on Sphincter as a “legal expert” and asks him about the Constitutionality of mandating Americans to buy insurance.
Sphincter thinks there is no Consstitutional problem and it is modeled after the Massachusetts version.
Hey idiot...RomneyCare’s mandated coverage sucks!
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md om FNC essentially saying the House will rubberstamp the Senate bill, despite his protestations that this isn’t the case. He stresses that they agree on 90% of the issues.
Surprise from Bloomberg this morning. Says the bill doesn’t address tort reform or illegal immigration and that the “bend the cost curve” is just a flim flam.
Newt nods in agreement.
LOL. I didn’t know Bloomberg had it in him.
I stand by my sig line as to what the Democrats will end up with.
By the way, you should start planning now on a charter business, taking people to the Bahamas for medical treatments.
Deval Patrick is creepy and detached from reality.
The fact that the living lab experiment known as Romneycare has no effect on the vision of our ‘lawmakers’ proves that they are immune to logic and facts.
The only benefits to be seen in what Massachusetts evolved for health care payment coverage is how the Law of Unintended Consequences is still operable. Hoping for Change does not work. Human nature is a much more powerful and constant force.
FOX, Van Hollen, D-Maryland, - Clear effort on both sides, house/senate to not have public funds pay for abortion. He believes at the end of the day they will be able to accomplish this. He doesn’t say HOW they will do it, but it will be done. Maybe they need a magic wand.
The health care bill is “paid for”. LOLOL. We won’t have another 1994 type of election. Allrighty. He’s full of that “hope and change” hype.
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard “we have to pay for health outcomes” but no one ever challenges what that means.
If the patient dies, does the doctor not get paid?
Van Hollen is a typical creepy uberpartisan RAT.
Nice friendly facade/stab you in the back.
He’s like zero: affirmative action at work.
Newt is talking about how we avoid saying that it’s radical islam that is the problem. Andrea looks very uncomfortable.
Andrea says Ozero has united the world behind the US. LOL.
Another one out of touch with reality.
“the bill doesn’t address tort reform” - dems may try and use thing like this as token or gift to get pubs on board. Also: Mandate not really mandatory? http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2414854/posts?page=18#18
Laura Ingraham commenting on how easily terrorist got into the US, after his father warned officials and considering criticism of Bush admin of failure to “connect the dots”
Excellent point.
And notice where all the bad school systems are.
All they say they need is more money.
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Axelrod must be hiding today.
Sadly, just two of many.
Just saw Andrea say that. What a blithering idiot!
Either MM is a wimp, or not wanting to concede its passage before it is assured. Gingrich on MTP recommends nationalizing the mid-terms on a repeal the bill theme.
I don't want to concede passage either, because it will be damn difficult to undo it. Anger will lesson, Dems will play nice in '10, we're almost a super minority and we'd need a super majority to override Obie. Our gains will be large, but they'd need to be enormous to reach a super majority.
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