Posted on 07/01/2012 4:55:51 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
July 1st, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House chief of staff Jack Lew; Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former Gov. Howard Dean, D-Vt.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; Sens. Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; Govs. Martin O'Malley, D-Md.; and Scott Walker, R-Wis.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Lew; Vicki Kennedy, widow of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Lew; Gov. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.
You'll be saving on sunscreen by sticking your head in the sand.
I never thought I wouold be so cynical that these ideas seem possible now.
Yet another week that few if any are talking about hopelessly being in debt up to our shoulders rapidly approaching 16 trillion about a third due to the current regime. Why does no one talk about this?
If Mitch McConnell can’t express ideas about better reform, then better just wrap it up. It was disappointing to see him trotting out the old talking points and expressing them unemotionally to Chris Wallace.
ALERT!!!ALERT!!!WARNING!!!
DO NOT EAT BREAKFAST BEFORE YOU WATCH STEPHY’S SHOW!!
I almost lost my breakfast watching Teddy’s widow...Vickie Kennedy.
Good Lord, thank God I am not diabetic, or I would go into a sugar coma. Nancy Pelosi called her and said,”Now Teddy can rest.”
AUUUGH.
So ... we have to elect congresscritters who WILL stick to their convictions & when they don’t, send them home. Pronto. No re-election for 30 years or whatever some of these guys have been getting.
The country as set up by our Founders is “BY the people, & for the people”. It has been perverted to ‘by the politicians and for the politicians’. The country should be like a manual shift car .... requires constant work/attention to drive it. We’ve let it morph into an ‘automatic’ .... we elect whomever wants to run, send them to DC & let them do as they please. We should get involved at the grass roots level and rigorously VET candidates there ... then if elected, they should get CONSTANT feedback and instructions from their constituents at home. If they are not responsive, they lose the next election.
This is how it ‘should’ work. We’ve gotten soft & lazy. The founders, who set this up, pledged their lives, fortunes & sacred honor & many paid up on that pledge. I don’t think they envisioned what we have now .... folks who wouldn’t be engaged at all. The Army ad is “An Army of One”. We can only for sure make sure that we as individuals step up & do what we can do. We can ‘for sure’ try to influence others to do the same. On another thread, ‘freedommom’ was talking about her dad who was on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor .... his comment on how he survived that experience was “everyone did whatever they were big enough to do......” If we want to survive as a country, we need to follow his advice.
Because your ACA tax increase is, let’s say, $12,000.
Do not worry-you are in line for a $4,000 tax credit.
...Wait, it’s not a tax
could someone PLEASE explain to me why the Reps continue to argue about insuring everyone or not...Why are they not just hammering the idea...It doesn’t matter if everyone is insured if you don’t have the doctors, hosptials, nurses, etc to provide care???
why are they not starting off by defining the DIFFERENCE between health insurance and healthcare?
I just don’t get why they aren’t doing this??romney’s not doing this either.
Krauthammer makes the case that the Supreme Court, Congress and everyone is protected by Roberts by the way he finessed obamcare into a tax. I’m not buying it.His comments are here at Hot Air for those who really care,usually I do. NOt buying it this time.
As much as I dislike Justice Roberts’ vote, it is consistent with the idea of calling balls and strikes. The Supreme Court does not have to agree with the law or the tax, or even if the law or tax is a good idea or a bad idea; all they are supposed to do is decide if what Congress does is constitutional or not. In that sense, what Roberts did makes sense. We would like it better if we agreed with the outcome.
I think any time you are dealing with the Chicago mob its hard not to bring up intimidation. Its who and what they are.Nothing happens without it they are almost always on the wrong side of events.It will ultimately be what dooms the Demoncrat party. You can’t be wrong all the time and still win elections.
ok, watching Nancy Pelosi and I must tell my Nancy Pelosi story.
For I knew Nancy when she was but a young adolescent wearing the perfectly pleated skirts of a Catholic high school.
I know Palin called Pelosi and idiot but it’s deeper.
Pelosi is the daughter of Mayor Tommy D’Alesandro, former and very corrupt Mayor of Baltimore. The D’Alesandros ruled Baltimore, easily, and the D’Alesandros did what they do.
My father was a shop steward in Baltimore local Carpenters union 101. As such he got the job of remodeling the D’Alesandros Little Italy home. I went with my Dad to help him sometimes and Nancy would come home from school.
D’Alesandro was a great fan of the Baltimore construction unions and no wonder. Come election day, the union guys, especially the electricians, would go to the voting place and somehow would zap all the voting machines to make them read whatever D’Alesandro wanted them to read.
Nancy was a spoiled brat child. I’d watch her throw stuff across the room when her mother told her no for something. She’d go pout to her father who always gave her her way. I was only about 11-12 years old but I despised her, thought she was nothing but a brat. Heaven forbid I should ever talk to her, which I had to once in a while, because she’d lift up her nose and act all snooty.
The voting machines were old-fashioned things, I don’t know how they worked, but the union guys always made them read the way that would keep the D’Alesandros in power. Nancy’s brother was also very active in Baltimore politics in the day.
Pelosi’s not an idiot. She’s used to getting her way and she moved cross country to be somewhere else where she could rule and ignore to suit her, her children, all the D’Alesandros....and if the little guy benefits, well so okay but Pelosi could care less about that.
The idiots in the Pelosi story are those who voted for her. She’s just enjoying the benefits is all.
Ryan is AWESOME!
so articulate, yet can put it all in simple words that anyone can understand!
RG...all Roberts had to do was repeal the damn thing.
It’s old and boring to try and figure his logic.
Allow me to tell you his logic....
HE WAS SCARED TO TAKE A STAND!
If he’d done his job all this nonsense would be over with.
We have a Supreme Court so they will take a stand.
And Roberts, worst of all, did not.
I have NO respect now, possibly ever now that Roberts has shown us how NOT to be a Supreme Court Chief Justice,for the concept of a Supreme Court.
Exactly, when are our spokesmen talk about independence and freedom from gummit rather than we can build gummit better than they can. Yes there will be uninsured and poverty, just like there is now and has been since the beginning of time.
You want to see real poverty, go to a communist dictatorship; that’s where you will find the worst poverty and oppression. Why do we want to bring it here?
McConnell wants to dodge every question and just say it’s a tax.
Did her reflections show up in a mirror and did she come out to play in the day time with other kids? Two surefire signs of one's heritage!
Disagree, Justice Roberts added a term (tax) to make his call.
Watching ABC.
Has Roberts created a new tension between the Feds and States?
The Feds collect the new Taxes and have the cash.
The States can refuse the expansion of Federal programs, in this case Medicaid, and the States are solely responsible for delivering Medical care.
The Feds cannot push on that rope and force States to bankrupt themselves via Medicaid.
Can progressives fight 50 wars to force Rommnycare onto all 50 States?
Rich Lawry on MTP - he’s not the 101st senator, it’s not Roberts’ job to rewrite this law.
Finally!
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