Posted on 01/15/2006 5:23:01 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Reps. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., John Boehner, R-Ohio, and John Shadegg, R-Ariz., candidates in the upcoming House majority leader race; Harry Johnson, president, Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Paul Bremer, former U.S. administrator in Iraq; Taylor Branch, civil rights author and historian; Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow John McWhorter; Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Gov. Mark Warner, D-Va.; actor Anthony Hopkins.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Trent Lott, R-Miss.; Gene Sperling, White House economic adviser under President Clinton; publisher Steve Forbes; Faisal al-Istrabadi, Iraq's deputy ambassador to the United Nations.
Dr.Martin Luther King's niece Alveda King spoke on Justice Sunday event in support of Alito.
From watching FNS.
Well. Blount may be too close to the Abramoff problems. Boehner saw fit to invoke Ronald Reagan, which is usually a point when candidates feel threatened. For someone I am not familiar with, Shadegg did the best job of addressing the problems in DC and portraying our beliefs of smaller government and lower taxes, etc.
Juan Williams seems to be getting it, finally. From his comments, Juan Williams and the left is realizing they are losing their liberal court mandating liberal social positions. The anticipated Brit Hume smack down was really more of an educating-Juan moment this morning. What Juan Williams and the left sees as losing power, Brit Hume and the right explains is stopping invented rights in the constitution and judicial activism that promotes the lefts agenda. (No camera shot of Juan during the Hume comment, which I would have enjoyed seeing.) The Brit Hume comment was really good. Hope someone will have it on FR at some point. And, Hume reiterated the Scalia criticism of Bryer using an obscure African case to justify his position.
More. I believe Brit Hume totally nailed the current US position on Iran, along with verification of Europe's inability to do anything about Iran either. Juan Williams did the typical illogical thinking of "yes, of course the US has to be able to step in" BUT " we don't actually believe the US would or should do that." (symbolism over substance)
Tedward Kennedy proved that even a dull mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Hmm, so that's what she REALLY meant by "it takes a village"
I just skimmed this now and will read in full later. In my quick skim, unfortunately, it looks like some of this is already taken place. a couple of examples:
kids can threaten their parents w calling the police if they discipline them (don't get me wrong, I do not at all believe in child abuse - but, IMHO there is a difference between an occasional little spanking and abuse).
Dims not wanting parents to be notified if a child has an abortion.
Dims thinking that they know what is best to teach the children and that certain topics are their responsibility, not the parents, regardless of the parent's belief on a subject (e.g., gay relationships, sex ed, revisionist history, the Iraq war, Republicans, etc.).
Then why do Conservative MPs not do better in the elections when the Beeb reports that their poll shows that most Britons find them more trustworthy?
Thanks for the update. Brit Hume is currently the best in the business.
Re Abramoff
Hugh Hewitt posts this questionnaire developed and tallied by NZBear
http://hughhewitt.com/archives/2006/01/15-week/index.php#a001039
On Tuesday morning, I am calling our Senator's offices to make sure the staff knows. (Monday is a holiday).
AMEN - Bring it ON!
The Conservative party has been destroyed attacking Blair from the right - Ian Duncan Smith, William Hague and Michael Howard. Now they're trying it the other way, with a fresh face.
I'm just saying Cameron's philosophy as articulated is Specter-Pataki-Lowell Weicker Republicanism.
We had the same reaction to Delay's comment.
Ahem. Maybe because the editor of the paper says so? Maybe because if you read the actual article, it's obvious.
PS I did not mean to have my post read as support for Cameron as support for some kind of change in the Conservative Party. I don't want them to lose, but I don't want them to win for the wrong reasons.
I think they are still studying what their DemonRAT values are going to be for the upcoming election cycle. They have to do this is private because no one really knows what values the DemonRATs stand for.
:-) My posts are not caught up with yours yet, but I think that we will get there.
One other point. I am sure the majority of all senators and representatives received Abramoff money in one way or another. Democrats are portraying this as a Republican scandal but their hands are not clean on this because Abramoff was lining his pockets while donating to both parties. He simple put the money where he thought it would do the most good.
Blunt, Boehner and Shadegg all used "the light of day" to suggest full disclosure of donations. This will probably be the terminology used by numerous congress-critters from now on. It's right too, IMHO. Disclosure is the best campaign reform, not some artificial limits or helping hide donations and supporters.
On last 3 days, ie., Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Brit's Special Report became No.2 show i ratings beating Hannity and next to O'Reilly.
I agree, but I think that Donna and I would make that statement for very different reasons.
I believe that it's also one of the "rules for radicals" preached to Hillary and her leftist ilk in the 60s by folks like Saul Alinsky. Though not one of Alinsky's 13 classic rules I think I've seen it as a standard tactic from the literature of the time. It certainly is what the dims have been doing the last several years, with a vengance.
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