Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 17 October 2010

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 17 October 2010 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Carly Fiorina, Republican Senate nominee in California.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs; the Colorado Senate nominees, Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Ken Buck.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean; Republican strategist Liz Cheney; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

THIS WEEK (ABC): The Delaware Senate nominees, Democrat Chris Coons and Republican Christine O'Donnell; California first lady Maria Shriver.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): White House senior adviser David Axelrod.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Wallace is pressing Fiorina about where she is going to cut to make up the $4 trillion that extending the tax cuts to the rich will entail.

Well, let's see, how about:

* Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
* Administration for Native Americans
* Administration on Aging (AoA)
* Administration on Developmental Disabilities
* Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
* Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
* African Development Foundation
* Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
* Agency for International Development
* Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
* Agricultural Marketing Service
* Agricultural Research Service
* Agriculture Department (USDA)
* Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau (Justice)
* Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (Treasury)
* AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
* Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
* Appalachian Regional Commission
* Architect of the Capitol
* Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)
* Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
* Arctic Research Commission
* Arms Control and International Security
* Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee
* Botanic Garden
* Broadcasting Board of Governors (Voice of America, Radio|TV Marti and more)
* Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (Justice)
* Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade (Treasury)
* Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS)
* Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
* Bureau of Engraving and Printing
* Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
* Bureau of Industry and Security (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration)
* Bureau of International Labor Affairs
* Bureau of Justice Statistics
* Bureau of Labor Statistics
* Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
* Bureau of Prisons
* Bureau of Public Debt
* Bureau of Reclamation
* Bureau of the Census
* Bureau of Transportation Statistics
* Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
* Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration)
* Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
* Chief Acquisition Officers Council
* Chief Financial Officers Council
* Chief Human Capital Officers Council
* Chief Information Officers Council
* Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
* Citizenship and Immigration Services Bureau (formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service)
* Commerce Department
* Commission of Fine Arts
* Commission on Civil Rights
* Commission on International Religious Freedom
* Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
* Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
* Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
* Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States
* Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
* Community Planning and Development
* Comptroller of the Currency Office
* Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT)
* Congress
* Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
* Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
* Corporation for National and Community Service
* Council of Economic Advisers
* Council on Environmental Quality
* County and City Governments
* National Institute of Food and Agriculture
* Denali Commission
* Department of Agriculture (USDA)
* Department of Commerce (DOC)
* Department of Education (ED)
* Department of Energy (DOE)
* Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
* Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
* Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
* Department of Labor (DOL)
* Department of the Interior (DOI)
* Department of Transportation (DOT)
* Disability Employment Policy Office
* Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

....ETC thru "Z"! I think we get the picture.

Any GOP candidate should prepare a list like this an just start rattling off these potential cuts until the moderator begs them to stop.

[Son House]

As uninformed as Meghan McCain is, it would seem she is only Republican because of her father. The perfect guest for LAME(Liberal Activist Media Establishment)

[mathluv]

Fish, you are correct. A lib former classmate of mine started the diatribe about those opposed to Medicare should not take it. I responded with I had paid for it, so I was not unhappy with it. DC has wasted the money that was supposed to go to it and to SS. I DO have a problem with Medicaid. Our church helps those in our area who need help. I DO have a problem with those who think they are 'entitled' to the government 'caring' for them. Why does no one ask where DC gets the money to 'care' for others?

Another thing that my lib friend complains about is insurance companies. No one mentions that they are HMOs - which are the result of DC getting involved in the 70s.

[bray]

Thought Wallace was a jerk and wouldn’t let her answer. She was giving excellent answers and he wanted her to say she was going to starve Grandma. It was pure DC pukefest.

She was right, you have to get to waste and corruption in all areas including Medicare and Medicade/SSI but that will be a commercial of Grandma losing her SSI. He knew that.

Pray for America

[DollyCali]

:-)

that is what I thought also

[Son House]

Democrats thought making private sector jobs was easy, but even with the Bush tax cuts, it still is not even near what Democrats promised from their Stimulus bill.(Clue for Clueless)

[Friendofgeorge]

I watched Fox and then I actually watched ABC This Week(only the outrages panel)

For Fox all I can say for the 10th time is this...Chris Wallace is not up to the job, he is an obnoxious unintelligent uninformed guy and should be replaced ASAP. The guy is a POS...pardon my french.

Yep, Britt and Bill were very good as usual, but Cris has to go!!!

Yes I turned in to ABC and almost had a stroke! Meagan McCain is a Whore, yes it`s finally appropriate to use the W word, it fits here nicely.

I hope every member of that panel comes to a bad end, thinking bus/concrete or something. No I am not a fan of George Will, if he had any good in him, he would have walked off the show.

ABC This Week has sunk to a new low that even Stephanopolis never reached. George Will should just say, I can no longer be part of that joke of a program another moment.

George Will is and has been a joke for a very long time, so I do not see that happening.

It was a total embarrassment.

[kabar]

The problem is that entitlements plus the debt servicing costs on the national debt are more than 50% of the budget. And that percentage will grow as America ages. By 2030 one in five Americans will be 65 or older, twice what it is now. We can never get the budget under control without reforming entitlements.

[Kahuna]

All I needed to know and feel shame free while I watch the NFL Network instead.

[Girlene]

Even NPR has over 80 in play and growing.

Wow.

Watching the Buck (TPC) vs. Bennett (D, incumbent) debate on MTP for the Colorado Senate seat, Gregory asks Buck about a comment he made about not having friends when he goes to DC. Bennett says he'll still be his friend. Buck responds, the problem is, you won't be in Washington. LOL!

[PaleoBob]

I don’t hink Levin is jealous. I think Levin takes meaningful and substantial difference with Beck as a guy who audaciously titled his book Common Sense, as if he is some sort of peer (or intellectual descendant-) of Thomas Paine.

Beck also mixes religious activism into his politics and a lot of emotionalism in a way that can be legitimately questioned and that paleocons might not be comfortable with.

I’m not opposed to Beck but I appreciate the problems Levin has with Beck’s approach to things. There are tactics, message and belief disparities separating a guy like Beck, who comes out of the vapor, from a guy like Levin who dates all the way back to the Reagan write-in campaign of 76. Such “disputes” are legitimate. I happen to think there is a place for both but for us oldsters Beck is a lot like kale—an acquired taste and some might never acquire it.

And, frankly, Beck’s intense emotionalism makes him a little bit untrustworthy—we’ve seen people of his personality type renounce conservatism and jump to the Left in the past.

[kabar]

Gregory is now trying to smear the Tea Party movement and link Buck to it. This program is all about smearing the Tea Party movment and so called Tea Party candidates like Buck, Angle, and Rand Paul.

[rodguy911]

Secretaries of State are yet another huge problem since Soros figured out a few years ago that with less than a million bucks he could buy and bunch of them and he did.

Fraud could be huge, I hope our side is on top of it.

[Luke21]

Fox is just MSM. They only claim otherwise. Their radio news is just as Democrat smooching as the rest. I turn it off as fast as ABC when listening to talk radio.

[bray]

I thought Wolfie was going to hit her w/his purse he was getting so flummoxed.

Pray for America

[rodguy911]

True, but his blame the GOP/TEA Party/GW for all ills wears thin after a while.

[sijay]

“I am taping Face the Nation”

You’ll like the exchange between Liz Cheney and Howard Dean.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The problem is that entitlements plus the debt servicing costs on the national debt are more than 50% of the budget.

Understood, and there is an answer to that issue, which could be given after backing down a snarky adversarial moderator (like Wallace) with the endless list of holes in the federal budget bucket.

[PaleoBob]

Gregory is now trying to smear the Tea Party movement and link Buck to it. This program is all about smearing the Tea Party movment and so called Tea Party candidates like Buck, Angle, and Rand Paul.

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I don’t see how the new owner Comcast can keep this up with NBC—which really oughta just move their HQ into the White House while Obama is the occupant. I tried to watch it today but it is unwatchable. In the first 15 seconds Gibbs blamed it all on Bush and I was outta there. You mighta been the last person watching. Ever.

[9YearLurker]

What’s that rule of thumb in a ‘wave election’, that 70% go to the gaining party? 70% of 90 would of course be 63 seats.