Posted on 04/17/2016 4:27:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
April 17th, 2016
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gov. Pat McCrory, R-N.C.; Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee; Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, head of the Democratic National Committee
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Priebus; Democratic presidential candidate Sanders; Dr. Anthony Fauci
THIS WEEK (ABC): Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders; Paul Manafort, adviser to Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign; Ken Cuccinelli, adviser to Republican Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sanders; Republican presidential candidate John Kasich; Priebus.
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Matthew 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
Conservatism seems to been driven off the tracks by the Punditocracy. In the old days of the movement character and transparency was every bit as important as policy matters. How can you be a free country when your leaders are hiding everything from you and shading the truth? If they will hide the truth about little issues who says they will not hide it from big ones?
We have two choices now and in reality the election is over and Trump has won it is just by how much and is it enough to overcome the establishment, but it is still two men. In July when we had seventeen candidates and Jeb was the overwhelming favorite with Walker right behind, I predicted Trump and Cruz due to Trump’s wall and Cruz’s ground game. At that time I suggested they should be a team with Trump President and Cruz VP for four years while he was trained in executive skills. I was wrong.
My hesitation at the time with Ted was his question of being a Natural Born Canadian and Heidi Cruz working for Goldman Sachs and making $800K/yr. Both of those are still a problem if not much larger and there has been so much more piled on top without being in the least bit transparent. His campaign makes the old Clinton war room seem open and airy. If you dare ax the most basic question you get hit with a hammer and demeaned in the vilest attacks, but enough about his supporters.
I have no idea what the framers of this Country had in mind when they decided to have Presidents born in America or by military families stationed overseas, but it seems a good idea you be born here. That said, the troubling part of the birther issue is his refusal to be transparent. Why does he seal all of his birth records and immigration documents to keep his citizenship hidden? Lay everything on the table and get it behind you rather than covering it up like Benghazi, this makes no sense.
Goldman Sachs is the bigger issue of the two and lends itself to his lack of character which has revealed itself over and over. If you have a company supporting your family which is the author of ever bad economic policy in America, how can you claim to be a defender of Conservatism? Nobody is asking you to take a vow of poverty and quite the opposite, but this is profiting on all of those years in the Bush Administration writing all of those free trade agreements. Free for the other Countries while putting chains on America. Goldman Sachs is the very last bank any Conservative would work for if they were who they say they are. How would he balance her making over a million a year if he were President or VP if he had to rule against them and for America?
Then there is the campaign, from Iowa to Colorado there is a pattern of behavior that is very troubling for a Christian Conservative. Whether we like it or not, Christians are held to a higher standard which none of us can attain, but at least make an attempt. He has a habit of taking the shortcut and then blaming someone else for his decision. The buck never stops at his desk and that is a problem.
Whenever he has an issue where he is obviously lying like claiming Carson was dropping out in Iowa, he claims ignorance while saying he is the smartest man in the room. The one he really cannot deny or explain is the half a million his Pac gave to the Carley Pac. Now he will claim he cannot communicate with his PAC and if you believe that there is a bridge in Brooklyn you may want to jump off. How was his campaign manager able to buy the partially nude picture of Trump’s wife and turn that over the PAC if there is not communication?
Why would any campaign which is continually short on cash give a rival campaign running for the same office and roughly the same polling position be given such a large sum of money? If there is any explanation give it, since the appearance is this was hush money to cover-up an affair with Carley’s campaign manager.
In the old days of Conservatism, the appearance of corruption was corruption however today it is until proven beyond a shadow of a doubt so you stall. The same old Carvile tactic. Why did the PAC give a half million and what did Carley get for that? Both PACs should tell the truth if either one of them is honest.
Then we move to Whisky Creek and Colorado with his cozy relationship with the establishment. I remember when Conservatives would vomit if they were supported by Linseed Graham, John InSain, Jeb, Georgie Will, Kraut, National Review, WaPo, Reid and the entire GOP establishment but they ignore that to promote their version of conservatism. These people are the problem and will only make our issues worse, yet they claim it will be different this time.
After Colorado when there was not a single vote cast with Cruz taking all of the delegates we heard rules, regulations and the need to educate yourselves. Having been in one of those GOP selection caucuses here is how they work. Everyone knows exactly who they are voting for before they arrive since they have been given slates of names who to vote for of which delegates will vote for Cruz.
The ones who arrive with an open mind or intend on voting for someone else are outvoted by the slate. You vote down the slate so every chosen delegate gets the same overwhelming votes, it is pure corruption. It is all carefully choreographed and has absolutely nothing to do with the people they supposedly represent, only the kingmakers who demand their voices heard.
The one I was at was ambushed by the Paulbots who got around half the delegates even though he received 4% of the Primary vote. These charades are more like the Soviet Union than America. You can bet none of those slate delegates are under seventy or been with the Party less than forty years.
Cruz of course comes out of the Colorado fiasco blaming someone else as it is never his fault. In reality his team organized all of those slates and made sure of the outcome days before they met. You can claim they had the better ground game, but that way of selecting bound delegates has nothing to do with the voice of the people and more to do with the dictates of the Party.
There is a pattern with Ted Cruz which is very disturbing. He continually will take the shortcut on the truth and openness and then blame someone else after he gets caught. It seems we have had enough politicians who fit that mold and we really do not need more of them and especially as President. If we are going to turn America around we need to begin with honor and transparency which is lacking with Ted. This is not an indictment on Cruz as much as the conservative establishment, but some questions need open answers and apparently never will. It is time for a new direction for Conservatism, it is time to Trump the entire District of Corruption.
Pray America wakes
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Got my TV today just don’t have my computer have to do what I can do on this silly phone.
Excellent as always.
Headed to church. Take good notes of the morning shows!
C-SPAN loaded with black callers this morning all defending zero and the hildabeast. They even lie better than Hillary
And then of course the big one The Big Shoe that’s waiting to be dropped how many gal Pals has Dirty Teddy really had??
one day we will find out just not yet.
Ted Cruz: "I am the king of voterless states!"™
That’s as potent and precisely accurate as an emptied magazine 3” grouping with my newest Sig Sauer. I selfishly need the gif of the guy clapping in the audience. One of Bray’s best...and, follows Jim’s posting from yesterday to boot.
Many lawyers are criminals now you see why
Good morning AB, All
As always, thank you AB for reliably putting up this thread every Sunday including all holidays, God bless.
Thank you yon commenters for your input that gives me breadth to my opinions. Thank you Bray for you serious and thoughtful essays.
But of course this week I have some big drama but know now that I DO NOT WANT MORE DRAMA. Two items this week, one kind of bittersweet funny, one perfectly horrible.
Y’all might know about my Munchausen afflicted daughter, who puts ticks on herself that she may get Lyme disease, who got a restraining order against ME and her husband. Who lost her daughter’s custody, probably forever. Who ruthlessly gave away her daughter’s young pup but for a while kept the mama dog.
Daughter lives across the street from me for in a moment of insanity I actually bought her a house. No, I have not spoken to her in almost a year, as per her wishes.
Last Tuesday she went into the loony bin….AGAIN for the SEVENTH TIME IN ONE YEAR DOES NO ONE ELSE SEE THIS?
Which is nothing new, as y’all know. But this time, as I practically sob typing this, she left her dog alone and locked into the house. Nobody could get to the dog for as it turned out, my keys, which once worked, did NOT.
Yesterday, thank God, my son-in-law, who has custody of my granddaughter, came down from Baltimore and he had to break into the house to get to the dog. Dog had food and water but never mind, you don’t get to leave a dog alone in a locked house for weeks at a time…..NO.
Yes I was going to call animal control, in fact….this is a criminal charge and a felony. Also, in this county, that individual abusing a dog like this can never again own a dog. BY LAW. Which , of course, she should not.
Did y’all watch that CBS 48 hours episode on Munchausen by proxy? Soninlaw telling me that he watched it with granddaughter and she, 12 years old and lost her mother, began to sob. Because that could have been her.
That smug asshole of a woman that brutally poisoned that little boy to death with salt….she could have been my daughter with that arrogance. No, my daughter did not, technically, abuse her child but….well yeah she did. Someday we’ll have this story because while I already wrote one book about it, I’m about to write another. Kaitlyn will never be allowed to live with her mother again.
Anyway, we got the dog and I got to fix the door Mike had to break. This summer, somehow, some way I will sell that house and hope that I never see my daughter again. Sorry if this is painful to read but it’s an awful story.
Second drama-mama and also involves the firing of the choir director which I mentioned last week.
This is nothing big deal I suppose but our choir director, hand to God people, has Munchausen and I’ve suspected it for years. So guess where choir director went last week? INTO THE HOSPITAL! THREE TIMES!!!
Some boob in the choir takes up a petition to ask Father Thomas Flowers to please reconsider firing Todd. Do y’all remember Sister Pat? I know some of you do.
It was at a talent show put on, by of all people, the church Trustee. He asked Todd for help and Todd told him no cause Todd has had an attitude that nobody has liked, for the last twelve years. Kind of like a Munchusen (now called Factitious Disorder) now that I think of it.
Which was why I ended up being Sister Pat and assisting in the talent show and Todd not only refused to help, he told us in the choir to not let the talent show interfere with choir.
Understand here that this was for a money-raising event FOR THE CHURCH!
Father Tom has been at our church for almost a year now. He gave it his best with Todd, I know he did. And the problems with Todd spread across the church campus, from that trustee through to the co-workers of Todd’s in the church office.
So a choir member takes up this petition, handing it to us in the dark of the choir loft. I pretended to sign it but did not.
Now Todd goes into the hospital this past week for three times already and finally the church had to hire a separate organist for ALL of this weekend’s masses, not to mention cancelling choir singing.
But guess what? From his hospital bed Todd manages to email out a copy of that petition done by the choir member and it’s a PDF file. So everyone can see who signed it.
Which does NOT include me.
See what I’m saying here? Father Tom gave Todd until the end of June and I love Father Tom and he meant well, but when you fire people, you FIRE THEM IMMEDIATELY!
Now Todd has many weeks to torment this church with all this crap.
Thanks for indulging me and finally, this Wednesday, Father Tom is having a….eh…well Town Hall I guess you’d call it, about the music ministry. All the choir members who want to keep Todd plan to show up.
I do not plan to be there but hey, does anybody think I’ll stay home?
Anyway, again, thanks for indulging me, especially with the daughter story. If you didn’t watch that show on 48 hours about Munchusen try to find it. That horrible woman, you will hate her…..and let me whisper this gently in yon readers’ ears what with my choir director also a bit nuts….there’s probably people in your life with Munchausen and you don’t even know it. As I go through life I meet plenty of people like me, dealing with a nut job and not understanding it.
Going to church this morning with Diane Feinstein, who inexplicably signed the petition to keep Todd but she regrets it. Not singing in the choir cause did I mention? Choir director is in the hospital.
So what else is new?
I had the Mexicans out yesterday and got the yard tidied up.
I been working with this guy....I call him Beelow cause that’s what he says his name is. He drives around in a truck towing big carts and stuff like the landscapers do.
Don’t tell me I don’t know about illegal immigrants. Beelow is about....maybe thirty years old....tops. Maybe younger. He doesn’t speak English well but he reads it good and hey, I text message him and it works.
I admire Beelow. He works hard and does a wonderful job. No he’s not cheap but you got to bargain with him.
But here’s a guy, came to America (really he’s from Ecuador....they all are around here but we call them Mexicans) and is building a very good business for himself. When I first met him he only had a lawn mower. When he pulled in yesterday his truck and all the tow stuff filled my driveway!
He does not have a driver’s license....dear Lord...what a mess this country’s immigration system is. In Beelow I see it very clear.
I mention the Beelow story as it is quite germane to this election. What is Beelow’s story? Did he come here with his parents?
I, for one, would vote to keep Beelow here. In fact, I’d keep Beelow and send my daughter back to Ecuador.
I don’t have all the answers but I’ve been exposed to the problems quite well thank you.
I wonder what's up with Dr. Anthony Fauci appearing on two programs. Light fluff for allergy easeon and allergy sufferers?
Prolly zika virus
Here’s the problem as I see it.
there are 7 billion people in the world.
probably half of them when they come to the u.s.
who do we let in who do we keep out?
Looks like Priebus is going out there in full damage control over Colorado and the delegate machinations perpetuated by Ted Cruz and the GOPe.
Trump is being proven right every week. There is a conspiracy against America and that conspiracy comes from within.
He calls them stupid politicians, the lying media. Sometime he calls them inept politician, every once in a while he alludes to another reason. The conspiracy against American from within.
Our mosquito control district hear in the keys is taking a lot of flack for doing a study using GMO Skeeters.
Problem is we have studied the problem extensively and are pretty sure it will reduce the mosquito population.
The process has to be done exactly right.
I know most of the guys on the commission and they are smart guys doing the right thing.
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