Posted on 06/10/2012 4:32:11 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
June 10th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind.; Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association; Thea Lee, AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pre-empted by the French Open.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.; Govs. Scott Walker, R-Wis., and Martin O'Malley, D-Md.; AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Govs. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., and Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): David Axelrod, adviser to President Obama's re-election campaign.; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Reps. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.
I think it is better to point out that there are simply not enough rich people to pay for the gravy train and thus the money has to come from the taxpaying middle class.
A good example is the new CAFE standards that will raise the price of new cars $2,000. That is how this social engineering fascist stuff will get paid for and every taxpayer will tax a hit.
Barack Kardashien! Yes, that caught on big time and it really infuriated Obama and the left. yet it is so true.
Obama tried to say that most of his contributions come from ‘little people,’ and are small in amount.
I do not believe that for one minute. Most of the little people who like him want him to give them money. It wouldn’t occur to them to give him money.
He just garnered a huge amount from a George Clooney fund raiser.
The domestic partner was appalled at learning this because he really liked George Clooney in Michael Clayton. So did I, but in George’s case, one needs to remove the C from his last name.
And if the legislation had been anti-union, as the media portrays it, the same thing would have happened in the private sector unions.
Yeah for sure I just can’t stop using it! You gotta wonder how he keeps coming up with such great stuff.
The chart clearly shows increases in government spending are associated with fewer jobs, not more. The data for the past hundred years shows the same negative relationship between the growth in government and the number of jobs. It is no coincidence that European and other countries with larger governments almost always have lower labor-force participation rates.
There is absolutely no correlation between money spent on education and results. Some of the poorest funded schools have the best results and vice versa.
If Mitch Daniels WAS doing a veep audition, he kinda failed that part because when Wallace brought up Romney and said something like, “Romney needs to run on a program better than just Not Obama,” Mitch lost an opportunity.
He agreed with that statement, and left it there. I think he should and could have said Romney is running on a program far beyond the Not Obama and then listed the things Romney has proposed.
I know Scott Walker is going to be on a show later but I may have missed it. He has to be feeling pretty good.
CAFE standards are also responsible in part for high gas prices. Regulations vary widely from state to state about the acceptable mix for gasoline, making it much more expensive to process.
Off topic, but the Dallas Morning News had an editorial yesterday condemning California voters for rejecting the increase in cigarette tax. The DMN claimed that Cal voters are killing people by this vote.
Could they be more ignorant? If they really think cigarettes are that dangerous, make them illegal. It would save me a lot of money, and create a profitable new industry — black market cigarettes.
Meanwhile, over on ABC Stuffy Stephy had his hands full trying to paint over the latest weekly demise of regime. Evidently, the bent axel is having hard time getting voters to believe that Romney is the devil and everything he wants to do is bad for the country while everything the regime suggests is the only path.
I wondered what axels reference to "what a great panel stuffy had coming up" meant until I see now that commie van jones is part of the melee. Just too good.
Axel spent most of his interview time trying in vain to explain to stuffy why Romney's plans are all wrong for America and how they ultimately create wealth at the expense of workersif only Rush will run with this phrase tomorrow!! We have the communist manifesto on board with the regime just too good!!
Creating wealth at the expense of workers is just too good. Typically you never hear such a screw up by the head of the campaign but it may show just how desperate they are getting,how the wheels are coming off the bus, that they are unable to stop Romney no matter what they do. The fact that commie propaganda was allowed out on national tv is an unforgivable sin to the left. It always has to be mentioned in secret,couched very carefully in any open discussion never in public. Sorry boys not today.
axel goes on to say how wonderful zero is and how the leaks could "never have come from the White House" even though even stephy showed how they had to have come from a close knit group very close to the White House,just too good.
All in all its the same game. Go after Romney defend against anything that happens and never ever mention debt or the huge cliff where the country is headed.
Both the panel and axel tried their best to blame pubbies for not allowing unlimited cops,teachers and other govt. employees at anytime regardless of whether or not there was any money to pay for them. Matter of fact even our side was too lame to bring up no money top pay for cops or teachers.
Face The Nation going all out to remind us rubes that Nixon and Watergate comprised the “worst, most illegal administration the country has ever known”.
Yawn.
O'Malley keeps repeating the comment that Scott Walker has not been indicted yet. Does O'Malley know something that he is hiding, or is he just a sleazy dirtball professional lifer politician who gets a pass because is a D?
Trumka delivered a non-performance, but he can repeat talking points well and does not stutter, stammer or say, "Uh", "Eh", or "Um". Back to Mitch Daniels, he did a lot more of that than I expected. He needs to improve in that area or he will remind voters of Barry Obama, the "Eh, Uh, Um" King of the Podium. (Or does the teleprompter say, "Eh, Uh, Um"?)
They stopped paying union dues.
This should be the standard answer each and every time.
You’re right. They are good babysitters.
Granddaughter’s father, with whom I have issues, but give him credit, he monitors his child’s life closely.
He gets annoyed cause when teacher is gone and substitute takes over, they show Spongebob Squarepants shows.
Well of course the kids love this.
And get this....I like to fall over about this....daughter tells me that the other day KAITLYN’S TEACHER CAME TO THEIR APARTMENT!
Daughter says she was flabberghasted. She just happened to be outside on the apt. playground at the time and she sure didn’t want to let the teacher in the apt. Daughter says it was “dirty” though I dunno, daughter’s apt. is kept fairly nice as I consider with my experience. But I can understand not wanting to have your child’s teacher come in suddenly and unannounced, worrying about what might be laying about.
Point being, since when do teachers COME TO THEIR STUDENTS’ HOUSES?
It was couched, as my daughter tells me, that the teachers (it was a couple of them came along, daughter’s apt complex housing a lot of that school’s students) that they were just riding around or something innocuous.
This spooks the hell outta me and I’m not sure I buy that bit about this visit being all innocent.
I didn’t notice what Daniels was wearing, the “unfortunate attire” as you phrase it. I was busy cooking or some such but I heard him.
Snort.
What with me being a world-famous fashion model, just what was he wearing that was so unfortunate?
Heh.
I didn’t notice what Daniels was wearing, the “unfortunate attire” as you phrase it. I was busy cooking or some such but I heard him.
Snort.
What with me being a world-famous fashion model, just what was he wearing that was so unfortunate?
Heh.
First thing I noticed about Woodward/Bernstein: Bernstein kept talking about the larger conspiracy of the Nixon administration, but never the actual results; Nixon won 49 states in the 1972 election. Without all the valuable secrets secured by the Watergate break-in, Nixon may have only won 48, or maybe 45 states.
And nobody died as a result of Watergate. On the other hand the Gulf of Tonkin incident and resolution led to how many American deaths? Not a word about that from Carl B.
But Carl did talk about Johnson anyway; he said that one of the tapes Nixon talked about doing another break-in and stealing some tapes that would incriminate Lyndon Johnson about something. What, we will apparently never know, because Bernstein, Woodard and everybody else just never bothered to look. Maybe some day Geraldo will look into it, after he gets over the Capone vault thing.
Unfortunately, the bent axel got away with demanding more govt. spending on cops and teachers even though there is nooooo money. Even our side forgot to call him on that one.
The most glaring mistake was the failure of Huckabee and Coulter to mention that the Dems stuffed Obamacare down our throats without a single Rep vote and the stimulus with just one or two Reps. So much for Obama trying to be bipartisan. Huckabee and Coulter missed a huge softball down the middle of the plate.
Huckabee and Coulter also did a poor job on the leaks. The NYT article by Sanger quotes members of Obama's NSC team who were in the room when these decisions were made. Liz Cheney on Fox made the most cogent comments on the situation and didn't rule out Obama's involvement like Huckabee did. Huckabee called it absurd that Obama would be involved. Nonsense. This is the most political WH ever. National security be damned if it stands in the way of Obama being reelected.
Agree with you on the observation about teachers, fireman, and policemen. The Dems always trot these out when they want the Feds to bail out the states. The fact is that most state and local employees are not those three. And the states must balance the budget. They can't print money. So the federal government, which borrows 42 cents of every federal dollar spent, must bail out the states? Where is the money coming from? China? And it is a temporary fix as the Porkulus bill proved.
The federal government is bankrupt. The entitlement programs will eventually consume every federal dollar if they are not reformed. As Liz Cheney mentioned, "If more government spending is the solution, then Greece should be experiencing a new Golden Age."
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