Posted on 12/31/2006 5:10:46 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; former Gov. Tom Vilsack, D-Iowa, presidential candidate.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw; journalist Bob Woodward.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Alexander Haig, former Ford White House chief of staff; journalists Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post and Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News; Gerald Ford biographer James Cannon.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., presidential candidate; wife, Elizabeth Edwards.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Feisal al-Istrabadi, Iraq's deputy ambassador to the United Nations; Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.
Miss Marple had added the bit in parenthesis to the end of her post #30 and included a 3rd person reference to herself, the way Bob Dole always used to. He'd go around saying "Bob Dole doesn't do that. Bob Dole doesn't like broccoli. Bob Dole will do this or that." It got to be a running joke.
Is that what you were asking? Or were you asking what I thought was brilliant? If that's the case, it's the bit at the end of her post about not taking Congress seriously.
Have you heard the old joke "if pro is the opposite of con, what's the opposite of progress?"
Lugar is playing the part of a doddering old fool quite well.
Wait........I don't think he's playing a part, that's really him. Jeez.
Same to you as well snugs!!
It is amazing how the MSM has now finally finished with their "President Ford was a bipartisan" back handed bash of GWBush.
Lets not forget in 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus on Fords watch. If he had stepped aside in 1976 we might have had a Reagan four years earlier.
Interesting to compare how subsequent republican presidents responded to threats. (Grenada, Panema, Kuwait)
We just should keep in mind that when the MSM praises are republican for bein bipartisan it is really praise for being politically weak.
Vilsac has a list of "talking points" and is repeating them quite well.
I think you could just wind him up, stick him on any other talk show, and he would spout the same sentences.
Manchurian candidate?
LOL. I was about to say that myself. How many times will he say "at the end of the day?" It's three so far. He just strings together sentences empty of substance.
Wow. Vilsack really *is* a RINO, ain't he?
First time I've seen him, much less paid attention to him.
Gag me with a spoon...
Back in 1989, after the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was given the Mussolini treatment there wasn't the same kind of hand wringing or finger pointing. The people had grabbed him (and his wife), put them up against a wall and shot them. Not pretty. Not to be celebrated. But it was over. There are times when that type of direct action is necessary.
Not desirable, but necessary.
One interesting comment from Robinson, imho; he acknowledged that the Powell Doctrine of 'overwhelming force' has been ignored, and almost seemed to say it should be an option. His implication caught me off guard, coming from a lefty. Nonetheless, he as much as admits we're fighting a PC war.
Kind of makes one wonder about these self important presstitutes, Reliving the Nixon downfall with relish and completely ignoring the many years of klinton giving away all of America's military secrets to the chinese.
Apparently, Krauthammer feels that the trial of Saddam should have been trials and should have been used to chronicle his many wrongs and we should have heard more about those wrongs.
Well, Charles, the media didn't want to report those "wrongs." They just wanted to show Saddam haranguing the court.
LOL. I agree with Juan. Saddam looked like a loon.
I think John Edwards said Kerry was dead wrong about Iraq
He was Minority leader in the House, a largely honorific title with little or no power when it came to doing anything significant in the Dem controlled House, which they controlled during the 62 year period 1933-95 for 58 years including 40 years straight.
If he had stepped aside in 1976 we might have had a Reagan four years earlier.
I doubt if Reagan could have won in 1976 given the mood of the country and his political philosophy, which the country was not ready for given the Goldwater experience. It is was far better in the long term for Carter to fail and be the measure for comparison.
Lets not forget in 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus on Fords watch.
Turkey invaded Cyprus in two waves on 20 July and 14 August, 1974. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, the same day that Nixon resigned. What precisely did you expect Ford to do?
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