Posted on 02/21/2016 4:58:28 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
February 21st, 2016
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump; Tad Devine, adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Trump; Sanders; Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and John Kasich;Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Trump, Sanders, Rubio; Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz; Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure A sobering investigation into the cost of medical services, where the difference can be THOUSANDS for the EXACT SAME PROCEDURE! How can they vary so widely, even within the same city?
I pretty much agree with all you said.
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thanks for that link and honest commentary Rod
I do agree with you. If he becomes President, Cruz will do so.
But I do not think he will become president. He has too many vulnerabilities the press and the democrats will use against him.
And you would think the same would apply against Trump, but Trump is not an easy target for the press, and has actually bested them on several occasions, and when Hillary tried to use “The War on Women” and roll out ole’ Bill, well, Trump burst that like a over-inflated balloon! Slick headed fo’ the tall grass in a Chappaqua New York minute!
With Hillary’s treasonous classified email scandal, Ben Ghazi, and corrupt Clinton Foundation funding, along with Trump’s rambunctiousness, grasp of the press and all those other things, plus the fact that no black man is running and voters are weary of the democrats much like voters were weary of the Republicans eight years ago, I do believe he wins.
Will Trump cut the federal monster as good as Cruz would? I don’t think so, but if I win the Powerball lottery, I KNOW I’d spend it better than others would. Problem is, I’m not going to win the Powerball.
I gotta admit dan you are persistently ...wrong.
When Ted Cruz claims that Trump is for obamacare when Trump has said he will get rid of it so many times I can’t count don’t know what you call it but I call it a blatant lie.
Cruz just on with Stuffy Stephy lying his foreign ass off about the Donald. Yeah the Donalds for o-care,welfare for this for that,same ol’ lies just trying to get a little attention. Even negative attention from Donald.Sick puppy.
The big question now is if Cruz can tear down Trump enough to give the nom to Rubio, IMO. Career politican Cruz back to batting for team GOPe. He’s got no hope of winning after SC showed he simply has no path to the nom let alone a general election victory.
Thanks SC.
I don’t think this is over.
Sure no problem,just got lucky and found it turfing around.
Trump's position paper on immigration provides the perfect rejoinder to Kookie Robert's analysis. The Democrats will have to defend why we continue to bring in more foreign workers during a time when we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. Minorities, the Dem base, have been the hardest hit by immigration. Hillary's "inclusive message" will be a liability, not a strength provided Trump stays on message with his own position paper and adopts Jeff Sessions brilliant template for victory written two years ago, Becoming the Party of Work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself.
So far, Trump has been following the Sessions template. Trump is appealing to the 75% of Americans who are not college graduates. They are the ones most affected by immigration that is taking their jobs and depressing their wages. Trump thru his nationalistic policies on immigration and trade is creating a new constituency that cuts across partisan lines. It will become more powerful as it is contrasted against the Dems policies. Sessions says:
According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, seven in ten voters believe that the Republican party is “out of touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today.â€
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform†that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost. Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.
Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.
But the immigration “principles†offered by House GOP leaders imply that record immigration levels must be increased further to meet “the needs of employers.†One such GOP proposal — to provide the food industry with half a million low-skilled workers each year — was polled by Rasmussen. Nearly 70 percent of independent voters opposed it.
“Most business leaders have long favored more open immigration. Different businesses want different kinds of people,†a prominent GOP fundraiser declared on TV. “A restaurant may want waiters and cooks; a hospital wants nurses and doctors; a university wants physicists; a business like Exelon needs more engineers.†Asked by the interviewer about hiring U.S. workers for open jobs, he replied that many of those now unemployed are “unable to compete for them.â€
Is that the message of a winning party? It might win a majority of votes at a dinner party in a gated community in Bel Air, but it is an act of profound delusion to think that plan can form the basis of a nationwide Republican resurgence.
Democrats in Washington have already cast their lot. A recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that all net employment gains from 2000 to 2013 — a period of record legal immigration — went to immigrant workers, and yet the immigration plan championed by the White House and congressional Democrats would triple the number of immigrants given permanent legal status over the next decade, and it would double the annual flow of guest workers to compete for jobs in every sector of the U.S. economy. The Democrats’ plan delivers for international corporations, open-borders groups, and even workers now living in other countries — all at the expense of American workers.
So Republicans have a choice. They can either join the Democrats as the second political party in Washington advocating uncontrolled immigration, or they can offer the public a principled alternative and represent the American workers Democrats have jettisoned. Republicans can either help the White House enact an immigration plan that will hollow out the American middle class, or they can finally expose the truth about the White House plan and detail the enormous harm it will inflict.
I wonder if the commie propaganda machine is starting to establish talking points now and use them as established facts later in the election cycle. Similar to what they did to Romney
The Senate has a Constitutional DUTY—Advise and Consent.
Sandra is wrong once again, and she is wrong on this Constitutional point, once again.
Consent means you agree. If you do not agree, you should not give your consent. Appointment is the prerogative of the President, and consent is the prerogative of the Senate. Consent is NOT a rubber stamp.
Let Obama nominate Kermit the Frog for all I care.
That doesn’t mean every senator should consent to it.
Vote whoever Obama nominates down if he/she would/will not adhere to the Constitution. There is no other position that should honestly be taken.
Someone call Linda Graham and tell him he’s wrong, too.
Specifically, WHOSE VAT Tax? Sanders? Not Cruz?
On another front yet another top flight terrorist one of the biggest of the big was assassinated over .......yeah rightttt....
I will agree to disagree with you on The Donald. Time will tell and I may be proven wrong
Agree 100%.
Wonderful post all of it but yes I have found the intensity against Trump maybe not all in a mean way from Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Ben Shapiro, Allisia Kraus,Mark Levin, I haven't really listened to Rush (really don't want to dislike the original).
I call them the pimps of punditry.
Levin tries to undermine the whole purity thing you mention by mocking playing the martyr with all sorts of straw man rhetoricals.
I'm going with Phyllis Schafley get it done type of conservative. This make tons of money off of me while I listen to the same crappy commericals has gotten tiresome.
The comments at the end of articles we all spend way more time than we dare admit has largely replaced talk radio.
Promote a book, join my web site, come on my cruise, subscibe to my news letter and I'll give the inside scope and show what it is to be conservative.
Memo to the pimps many of us loyal listeners on the best nation on God's green earth from sea to shining sea aren't letting their hearts be troubled anymore, we are turning off the radio/shutting down the connection with our leader in some bunker.
We are done with the talkers- the phony thought leaders
We want action. We want Trump
Turn off your radio go outside and make America great again
Once again great post. Keep up the wonderful freepage!
I’m so tired of these idiots confusing legal immigration with ILLEGAL immigration!
Actually, they’re not confused. They know just what they’re doing. America is made up of immigrants, so calling someone “Anti-immigration” is just as bad as calling them haters of mom and Apple Pie. They KNOW this.
They just want to confuse OTHERS with this word charade.
EVERYTIME they say so and so is anti-immigration, EVERYONE needs to immediately jump in a say, “No Anti-ILLEGAL-immigration. There’s a HUGE difference!”
Still disagree. For many people there is no “old system”. It’s gone. You think employers that gleefully dumped their employees onto the obamacare exchange are going to pick up the health insurance tab again? No chance. Same goes for the preexisting condition buffet. Those folks are getting “insurance” for treatment. You can’t “high risk pool” that. It’s welfare, basically.
When you consider this Administration's Chicago roots and past MO, calling anyone for wearing Tinfoil is (please pardon the stone lack of tact) damn silliness.
I grew up around Chicago.
My first thought when I saw that bulletin about Scalia was that it was the Chicago Way in action and I haven't seen a thing since that does anything but reinforce that opinion.
...and I don't bother with Tinfoil, 'cause what I really want for headgear lately is more along the lines of Kevlar.
GRANHOLM: You know, give us any of them. But Donald Trump -- which is such a great contrast with what happened yesterday in Nevada on the Democratic -- Donald Trump being anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-science, and Hillary Clinton putting together this coalition that looks like America, it's an -- it will be an incredible contrast.He is now the face of the Republican Party. I hear these guys, desperately hoping that that's not going to be the case. But Donald Trump is now the face of the Republican Party. They have made their bed. They've got to lie in it.
'This Week' Transcript: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump - ABC News - Feb 21, 2016>
Doesn't make your observation any less valid! Our generous immigration policies (including a deliberate blind eye to illegal entry and stay) are hurting the nation and its people.
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