Posted on 05/28/2006 5:08:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 28th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Staff Sgt. Alfred Lanier, head honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; singer Tony Orlando.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Barham Salih, Iraqi deputy prime minister; Prince Hassan of Jordan; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert.
WOW...I am so glad I went to the start of this thread...your post is awesome.
You put a lot of work into that...I really enjoyed it, thank you.
Ah that right, the Judiciary and the Executive do that for We, the People. Checks and Balances? Anyone?
Congress is the servant, not the Master, of the people.
Absolutely PerConPat.
I hate to say it, but there's probably some truth to the charge. I grew up in the NY suburbs (Westchester County) right next door to the area Shays represents and it would certainly have been true of the folks where I came from, Republican or Democrat. Other parts of Connecticut may be different, but the wealthy and influential folks from the NY border up through Fairfield, which is the folks Shays caters too, are truly "that type."
OH you liked the 12 million gardeners quote,thanks samantha.
I actually heard a couple of TV "pundits" say that the press conference with Blair and Bush the other night...
was two "lame duck" leaders who are trying to convince the public that they are still relevant...so their history's, went written, won't be as bad as it looks like right now...
Blech
It's easy to lose sight of that with some of them that have held on to power and abused it for so long, but then that's what elections are for.
I disagree. The system works just fine. What has happened is the People are not yet mobilized. The system works, those hired to do the business of Govt for us currently are not up to the job. We need to be more careful in who we hire for Congress, our State Legislaturers etc.
He does.
The ability (and willingness) to destroy something is the power to control it. The Democrats are willing to destroy our government if they're not in charge. Frist isn't willing to let that happen, therefore he is hamstrung. His biggest weapon was the "nuclear option" and John McCain and the 6 other RINOs took that away from him. It's kinda hard to lead a movement when you're constantly being stabbed in the back.
Now, Mitch McConnel is the type who might just turn around and kill a few of his more mutinous troops were he Majority Leader, as a kind of example, if you get the drift. It's not in Frist's nature to do that, which is why he never should have been Majority Leader.
John Gibson was having a great time the other night on his radio show, RE: the Lay and Skilling verdicts.
He kept getting lib callers saying, "See, Bush's culture of corruption"..blah, blah..
And John would just laugh and say," NO, this was Clinton's culture of corruption"..that Bush has cleaned up", he then said, "Bush has spent his whole presidency cleaning up Clinton's messes, like dealing with Bin Ladin, social security,..etc".
BTW...I am replying as I read, so hopefully I am not confusing you...lol
You have my sympathy. One of my very best friends is one of "them". Great guy in all other respects.
When our one and only daughter moved to NYC, from the deep south, over 3 years ago I was afraid she would meet and possibly marry one of "them", since "they" are so numerous.
She met and began to date this guy and overheard one of his friends ask "is she one of "us?", meaning conservatives. The conservatives are like a secret society in NYC. She is and her boyfriend, now fiance', are one of "us". They plan to marry in May '05. Her Mom and I feel so lucky she fell in love with a conservative, and a super wonderful guy also.
conservatives make a mistake by thinking that just because the Person is with you on one subject you can ignore the other 5000
Would the mistake that your'e talking about be the same mistake Bush has made twice with Teddy Kennedy, first on education and now on immigration?
Blech is right. I'll add mine to yours.
I know some of you feverishly wish to believe the propaganda that has been screamed at you because it validates your own feelings. Good for you, but stop ranting at people who actually KNOW it is NONSENSE. If you CANNOT quantify for me the exact size of the illegal population, all your data is based on ASSUMPTIONS and GUESSES. Making qua-native statements of "Fact" when you do NOT have NO way to quantify the data is PROPAGANDA, not fact.
In my area I am friends with a local businessman who has a window resotration business, mainly for historic and government buildings. He has his restored windows done in Peru and shipped back here. Most of crew installing the windows here are from El Salvador.
So off shoring is NOW a "good thing"? Better then immigration? Economically that is a nonsense argument. You do not want to reduce your level of economic activity you want to increase it. The more increase the better.
You offshore what makes sense. We now have skilled and high tech jobs being offshored. X-RAYs are being sent electronically to Indian radiologists. Indian software firms are being contracted for services along with call answering etc. If I have a problem with my AOL software or want to file a claim against Travelocity, I have someone from India handling my inquiry.
Immigration increases economic activity for a society, off shoring decreases it by moving the activity to a different society. In this case the suggest "cure" really is worse then the disease.
If that were the case, let's just open the borders up and let everyone come in, no restriction on numbers. Of course there has to be limits. There is also a cost factor for immigrants, especially the poor and undeducated. It is ILLEGAL immigration that is the problem. It represents unfair competition and skews the marketplace.
The Antis can rant all they want but the post WW2 generations simply do not want to work that hard. They see manual labor as a step down, not a step up. Really funny considering some of the best paid people in our society do Construction work.
These generalizations are nonsense. Americans work harder than most of the world's workers and are the most productive. You can work hard without doing manual labor. And most of the manual labor in America is being done by American citizens. The idea that America can't exist without the explotation of poor, undeducated illegal immigrants is a lie foisted on us by the Chamber of Commerce.
I await the day when we start importing large supplies of skilled labor. The bleating we hear about raising the H1B visa cap from 65,000 to 115,000 under the Senate bill will be nothing once our elites decide that we should get most of our scientists, computer technicians, doctors, nurses, etc. from abroad.
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