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Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 31 July 2011
Various driveby media television networks ^ | 31 July 2011 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

Posted on 07/31/2011 5:13:39 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

The Talk Shows



July 31st, 2011

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.; Gene Sperling, director, National Economic Council.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House adviser David Plouffe; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., chair, Republican Policy Committee, Finance Committee; Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho; former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Sen. Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Plouffe; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): McConnell; Schumer; Gene Sperling, director, National Economic Council; Mark Zandi, chief economist, Moody's Analytics.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guests; lineup; sunday; talkshows
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To: Alas Babylon!
The dems don't want services cut. So they try everything to keep it going. Their solutions are untenable, unless they cut services and rein in spending.

Before they cut services and rein in spending, they will try to raise taxes and cut defense. They will fight tooth and nail to keep the system going. If history is any judge, in the battle between guns and butter, butter always wins. With 54 million on SS, 47 million on Medicare, 60 million on Medicaid, and 44 million on food stamps, there is a huge constituency to keep the gravy train going. Add Obamacare to the mix and the fact that by 2030 one in five Americans will be 65 and older, twice what it is now, and you have the ingredients for a crisis of epic proportions.

We are approaching the last crossroads. It is not with this debt ceiling battle, though. The crossroads we are coming to are November, 2012. If we continue on the same road then, we are doomed.

This latest smoke and mirrors exercise over the debt ceiling demonstrates that there is not the will among our political elites to make real spending cuts. Rather, both parties continue to play word games about "cuts" that are not reductions in spending but in the rate of the growth of spending. We will still continue to run trillion dollar annual deficits for years to come.

If/when interest rates reach historic norms, we will be paying close to a trillion dollars a year in just debt servicing costs within a decade. Imagine, when Obama took office the national debt was $10 trillion, it is now $14.3 trillion, and by the end of 2012 it will be close to $17 trillion. Alas Babylon!

161 posted on 07/31/2011 7:46:46 AM PDT by kabar
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To: chiller

Yeah, we had post by MM of how the dems spin words she was absolutely correct.


162 posted on 07/31/2011 7:47:08 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Just a guess,the big guy will have his say tomorrow.


163 posted on 07/31/2011 7:48:46 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Yeah, no problem, they will be making millions on the speaking circuit!

I'd be willing to throw in a really nice teleprompter setup if it would prompt him to exit the WH stat.

164 posted on 07/31/2011 7:49:34 AM PDT by NautiNurse (TSA Tit for Tat--Yukari Mihamae--thank you!)
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To: Roccus
GOP should help the Rats spend the entire 2.4 trillion by Sept. 1, 2012.....in for a penny, in for a pound.

lol....I'll take my cut now.

Bret on Fox asks Durbin why Senate hasn't passed a budget? Durbin - It's called 60 votes.
165 posted on 07/31/2011 7:50:26 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: eCSMaster
Paul Krugman is a flaming idiot!

Yes, he is.
166 posted on 07/31/2011 7:54:16 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: kabar

With 54 million on SS, 47 million on Medicare, 60 million on Medicaid, and 44 million on food stamps, there is a huge constituency to keep the gravy train going.

*****

Important numbers!
I dream of a discussion with people marginally interested in economics, where I present the scenario of a community deciding how to spend a pool of community funds. How many security people, gardeners, cleaners, etc can we afford to pay? How much insurance, building fund, contingency, office, etc is mandatory?

Should every member of the community pay the same into the pool of money, should there be categories of contributors?

I would hope to illustrate that for every person not putting into the pool of money, someone else has to put in more.

Hoping to joggle a few brain cells...


167 posted on 07/31/2011 7:55:45 AM PDT by maica ( Multiculturalism is the smiley face of totalitarianism.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
I’m going to go out on a limb and perhaps anger some of my fellow FReepers by advocating the RINO side for a moment.

Spot. On.

Let the Wookie's husband win and then watch what happens. The Republicans are very good at walking into every trap that is set for them. Let's go ahead and try to develop some trapping skills of our own.

Great post, AB.

168 posted on 07/31/2011 7:56:09 AM PDT by don-o (Abolish FReepathons. Be a monthly donor.)
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To: rockinqsranch

Oh, yes, I agree, and damn fine point.

Now as to the rest of us, and especially the mushy middle who decide elections (given that diehards will ALWAYS vote thier party), what do THEY want?

To lose their economic status, to be ruined, to die? Because that’s what happens to the middle class in a communist/socialist takeover.

I don’t think they want that at all; it’s just that they don’t see what their own eyes are telling them and what their own ears are hearing. Voting for Balack Obama was an inspiring thing, especially with that mean ole’ war-monger Bush and the eevvvilll Republicans.

But now the rubber is hitting the road; hard. Where are the jobs? Unemployemnt in my state jumped up to 9.9 last month.

It’s one thing to listen to the constant propaganda and goe along with the flow... But reality is, well, reality. How’s that Hope and Change thing working out for y’all? The President “won” the budget battle in 2011, so now we’ll finally get the jobs back?

Nope.

Maybe, just maybe, they’ll begin to realize that the dems don’t want things to get better.... Woe to them when enough people start to understand that!


169 posted on 07/31/2011 7:56:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: altura

OOOOOO-RAH!!

Can’t we just get a collection and BUY them out of the WH???
ha.


170 posted on 07/31/2011 7:57:16 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: Alas Babylon!

A note to the folks who wish to continue living off the fruits of someone else’s labor: Socialism will NOT keep you in the style to which you’ve become accustomed.


171 posted on 07/31/2011 7:59:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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To: NautiNurse
Will do. Thanks NN. And thanks for all you do years after year tracking each and every storm or TD that appears on the horizon. Your work here is greatly appreciated................

Meanwhile I think we are getting hosed on the deficit deal since no one at all either on tv or on the web has mentioned how the debt ceiling will be handled. My bet is Boehner is giving it to zero all at once! Hope I am wrong.

This is the mo of the left. Ignore everything they want until they have it. They do it all the time. Midnight legislation.

172 posted on 07/31/2011 8:00:05 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: rodguy911; Alas Babylon!

This was the BEST sun AM show!

To watch Krugman was worth an ON DEMAND show I would pay to see! He was nervous, stupid and bumbling and actually at one point when asked a question, said, “Uh....”

Here comes Christeeeeen saying the texas terrorist guy “might’ be a radical Muslim, but in Norway “ there was a Right Wing Christian”..blah, blah...Now the conversation goes to discussing the Right wing terrorists!!!

Love it, “Unfair and Unbalanced.”...now bringing up a right wing terrorist -—ONE—in 2009.


173 posted on 07/31/2011 8:02:28 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: rodguy911

Granholm is campaigning for government spending into prosperity. No surprise!


174 posted on 07/31/2011 8:05:13 AM PDT by NautiNurse (TSA Tit for Tat--Yukari Mihamae--thank you!)
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To: Miss Didi

“Gretchen Carlson just grilled Garamendi (D-CA)”

Gretchen did an excellent job in her interview with Garamendi. I just wish that when the Dems start using their scare tactics about cutting Medicare, they and the public would be reminded that those who supported Obamacare have already consented to cutting half a trillion dollars in Medicare. It would be nice if the public heard this over and over until they understand just how disingenuous this argument is.


175 posted on 07/31/2011 8:06:24 AM PDT by sijay
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To: kabar

But we can’t. We just can’t. Eventually, we will run out of all and any other options or it goes completely belly up.

So my thinking is aligned with yours. We will not do what we have to, and we then will get what’s coming to us.

Hard, hard, hard.

I am personally trying to improve my finances by taking all kinds of odd jobs available to my profession. I am old and have an 11 and 15 year old at home. I am pissed at what life will be like for them, because of this ship of fools we are sailing with.

I have to have hope, God Bless us! What other nation, our Great Babylon, has so many Christians in it? Why would He forsake us? 2012 is the prayer now, and come, come sweet Jesus!


176 posted on 07/31/2011 8:06:42 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Can't wait until it comes on here.

Meanwhile Linda Graham almost grew a set. He said we are now going in the wrong direction only slower, Christiannee was agasp and Steffy was stunned.

Linda:are we gonna become Greece?

177 posted on 07/31/2011 8:07:29 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: All

Yesterday, I was reading up on Reid’s proposal. (I’m sure it has changed totally by now)....anyway....

The spending cuts in Reid’s plan were based on current law. The CBO deems the AMT fix is gone after 2011, Bush Tax cuts revert back, etc.. Republicans were estimating that the expired tax cuts would cost 3.8 Trillion in savings that Reid/dems were claiming.

The Joint Select Committee could then recommend legislative language on tax reform (read tax increases).

Has anyone heard whether this has changed?


178 posted on 07/31/2011 8:07:56 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: NautiNurse

She is a typical Socialist loser. No wonder there is such a mass exodus from Michigan.


179 posted on 07/31/2011 8:09:32 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: Girlene

OK, now the Bush tax cuts are withdrawn, and we all start paying more.

This is going to help the economy, how?

Crickets.

It will hurt it further. Obama said as much in December.

Their plans are just plain stupid. Their re-election hinges on things getting better. They WILL NOT. Ergo, dems lose.

Then Republicans have one chance to make things right, to reset us on the proper course. Do they? Who is our challenger?

2012 is indeed the end (or the beginning).


180 posted on 07/31/2011 8:14:25 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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