Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 19 March 2017

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 19 March 2017 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Mar 19th, 2017

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House intelligence committee.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House budget director Mick Mulvaney; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House intelligence committee.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Mulvaney; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Reps. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, and Will Hurd, R-Texas.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Price; Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

[kabar]

I agree it should be easy to trace. However, we don’t know who is on the distribution of the transcripts or notes. No doubt the intel community and the State Department would be on the list because of the foreign policy implications. And if there are actual recordings of the conversations, WHCA would be involved. The bottom line is that there could be a wider distribution than we know and some of the recipients could either be Obama appointee holdovers or partisan career bureaucrats.

[rodguy911]

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/04/trump-reportedly-went-ballistic-over-sessions-recusal-amid-rus/21873527/
Trump was pissed at both of them,Pence and Bannon and told them they had to work that weekend and could not go with him to Florida.
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President Donald Trump was outraged Friday over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, according to media reports.

Trump hauled his key advisors into the Oval Office on Friday afternoon before he departed for Palm Beach, Florida, and went “ballistic” over Sessions’ recusal, ABC News reported, citing senior White House sources.

Sessions held a press conference the previous day to announce his recusal, acquiescing to growing, bipartisan calls to do so following revelations that he had not disclosed during his confirmation process that he had met with the Russian ambassador twice last year during Trump’s election campaign.

Sessions said he had not met with Russian operatives to discuss Trump’s campaign, and said he could not remember much of what he had discussed with the ambassador.

Trump was “fuming” about the news on Friday, telling his aides Sessions shouldn’t

[rodguy911]

THanks,I gotta tell ya when I saw it just could not believe it was going down like that.

[Steven Tyler]

Nobody has any evidence, because the investigation is starting Monday, March 20

[rodguy911]

I’m not really up on it. Most of that stuff comes in by mini-subs these days or occasionally by go-fasts that try and avoid radar,using ships bigger boats,is just dumb.

[chiller]

Ahhh yes. That dust up !. I don't recall Pence or Bannon being complicit in that. I walked away thinking Sessions acted prematurely and should have checked in with da Boss.

I can imagine Pence playing by Queensberry rules and agreeing with Session's decision, but not Bannon.

[rodguy911]

I think we are in an era of a media war that will go on for at least the next eight years.Fortunately the drivebys are headed south.

[rodguy911]

You are right,the fact that the country could vote for a known commie twice based on his ability to play the race card is unforgivable.As for the rest we need to do a much better job of primarrying these rino clowns or continue to suffer the consequences.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

This health care plan is communism.

Think I am crazy? I am not. Go look up communism.

Communism is opposite of free world capitalism.

[rodguy911]

The problem is that Congress will not take the needed actions to confront an out of control judiciary.

All that means is that we need to light a fire under their butts. one that won't let them sit down.How do we go about it? What do we need to claim they are not doing.?

[chiller]

IMHO, it seems Ryan's healthcare bill continues to lose support. Primarily because it does not reduce premiums adequately.....deep enough, or soon enough.

I pray they'll just adopt the coulter plan...it seems they're getting closer to less government interference.

[rodguy911]

So then it’s even worse? What was she doing with a lap top in the car?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Obamacare forced everyone to buy essentially one plan.

Actually that came way before Obamacare, and regarding premium increase...it's insignificant.

Single men had to purchase plans with maternity benefits. Tailoring each plan to the needs of the individual should increase the number of insured and lower costs.

It keeps costs down in two ways:

All the "mandated-coverage premiums" are lessened because more people are paying into all of them them.

Using the "Keep it simple stupid" principle, one simple policy form (and including the final review) is way cheaper to process, than millions of types of policies. (cafeteria care).

I suppose both could be offered, but the cross-subsidized model is way less complicated in underwriting, and hence faster to issue. Counterbalanced by a lower policy fee....it a wash.

The subsequent and insignificant premium increase of 1 to 3 percent is peanuts, compared to the hundreds of percent of increase caused by throwing known AIDS and terminal cancer patients into the "young/healthy" standard risk pool.

[wardamneagle]

Pelosi interview just finished on Face the Nation. What a stupid chit. Couldn’t answer any of the softball uninterrupted questions Dickerson asked. Dems are clueless on healthcare. Let it implode on Dems.

[kabar]

A Trump reelection in 2020 is not a sure thing. The demographics of this country continue to change apace.

[Fishtalk]

I’ll not argue your point about communism.

I am just wondering what you know about “this” health care plan that is just plain eluding me.

I hear it is the “Ryan” plan, or perhaps “Obamacarelite”....

So I am paying attention to Mick Mulvaney on Face the Nation, just to be relevant here. He says that the plan is to have “tax credits”, the plan will include “HSA”’s, which I know means “health savings account”, then sell across state lines, legal reforms.....

It’s all gobbly gook to me although I do kind of remember different parts of these terms.

Mulvaney says the new plan will not be forced upon a consumer.

Whew.

These tax credits, what are they? My daughter and husband used to get “earned income credits” which was actual “reverse income tax” in the form of a check.

So same scenario, daughter and husband get a check or some “credit” that will be tracked I must suppose, to use for health care only?

I understand the across state lines part. This is a test of the GOPe because out across the fruited plains there are fifty health care fiefdoms giving Governors and state lawmakers powers to better control us. The GOPe has to “fire” all those people but they should. This goes on right in front of our lying eyes and let’s stop talking about it and put an end to it.

My conclusion, at this time, is that the final bill is not quite complete because Florida needs this and Nevada needs that. Legislating is wheeling and dealing. Fortunately this time we do have somebody looking out for the people.

[Morgan in Denver]

So, the media is repeating the denials that Trump was wiretapped, or other form of getting intelligence. Sounds familiar to me.

The names Sharrell Attkisson, James Rosen, Dennis Kusinich and Michael Flynn all come to mind as our intelligence agencies all initially denied there was any wiretapping going on.

And, I’m reminded that Wikileaks has never had to admit to making anything up. Love him or hate him, the information Wikileaks has been reporting has been the truth. That’s more than I can say over the various intelligence heads testifying before congress.