Posted on 08/05/2007 4:53:29 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican presidential candidates Sam Brownback, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo and Tommy Thompson debate.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Afghan President Hamid Karzai; former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
No winners have been posted from last week’s thread, so Snugs, when you’re notified, please post the graphics here directly, if you please.
Has the makings of a pretty good morning.
That’s ok, Fat Timmy Russert has his scowly game face all set for Gates today.
And Bob “Purple-faced Rage” Schieffer has Rahm Emanuel on last to ensure Condie’s replies are properly rebuted even if he has to make stuff up.
Good Morning All
I wonder if Rahm Emanuel will be asked why he, Reid and Pelosi bailed out on the Kos Konvention yesterday
Well naturally. The libs must always have the last word.
Sec.Def. Gates might be interesting today, as Hillary Clinton & MSM thus far led us to believe that Sec.Def. Gates was apologetic to Hillary Clinton for his deputy's letter to her.
Here 's Gates' letter to Hillary Clinton and decide for yourself:
I agree with you that the planning concerning the future of U.S. forces in Iraq – including the draw down of those forces at the right time – is not only appropriate, but essential. Under Secretary Edelman, along with the Department of Defense’s senior civilian and military leadership, shares my views on these matters.
Specifically, I emphatically assure you we do not claim, suggest, or otherwise believe that congressional oversight emboldens our enemies, nor do we question anyone’s motives in this regard. My statements to this effect have been frequent and unambiguous. That said,we all recognize that there are multiple audiences for what we say, and need to be careful not to undermine the morale of our troops or encourage our enemies – the point I think Ambassador Edelman was trying to make in his letter.
With respect to your specific request, the Department’s policy is to share appropriate information regarding policies, posture, and administrative plans with appropriate Congressional oversight committees. But as Under Secretary Edelman and officials from many previous Administrations have stated, it is also the Department’s long-standing practice and policy spanning decades and multiple administrations that operational policy plans, including contingency plans, are not routinely shared with Congress (or with other departments of the Executive Branch).
There are a number of time-proven reasons for this policy, including considerations of operational security, the fact that plans are continuously modified as required by changing security conditions, and the need to protect the operational commander's ability to implement the plan as flexibly as the situation warrants...
Finally, I want to close by expressing my continued strong support for Ambassador Edelman. Dr. Edelman is a valued member of the Department of Defense team and his wise counsel and years of experience are critically important to the many pressing policy issues facing the military and our nation. Eric Edelman is a career foreign service officer who received his first senior Presidential appointment in 1998 as United States Ambassador to Finland. He has served our nation with distinction through multiple administrations and I rely on his able assistance in addressing the many challenges facing the Department in the months ahead.
A certain silencing of a Soldier or the challenge from a "lame duck" President?
BTTT
I’ve cleaned up my cable digital recorder to make tons of room.
That and how Kos himself was bragging about them getting democrats elected in 06 .. while on his website the kooks were ripping about those exact democrats apart
This collapsed bridge is a very teachable moment if Conservatives have the guts to grasp it. This is a very good example of possible consequences when existing transportation dollars are repeatedly been misapplied by both the State, and the Federal, Govt.
The problem here is not that Government, at all levels, lacks the money to spend on infrastructure repair, the problem is the Govt, at all levels, repeatedly misspends the funds it does have.
This bridge was determined structurally deficient in 1990. It was build using 1960s engineering norms that were now out of date.
Maybe during the 1990s the State of Minnesota diverted over a billion dollars of State, and Federal, infrastructure dollars into an eco-freak boondoggle light rail project between down town Minneapolis and the Minneapolis airport. The prject was called the "Hiawatha Light Rail Corridor". Maybe Minnesota politicians should of been tending to their existing infrastructure instead of wasting our money for political “legacy building” and “prestige” projects.
Using the currently stated cost for rebuilding the bridge at $250 million, for the cost of the light rail project this bridge could of been completely rebuilt from scratch 5 or 6 times during the 1990s.
This “Hiawatha Light Rail”project was largely the brain child of the Metropolitan Council . Either as the head of the council, or one of its most politically connected members, at the time was former VP Walter Mondale’s son Ted Mondale.
The sadly ironic thing here is the terminal for this billion dollar waste of state and Federal transportation dollars is about 1 mile from the bridge that collapsed.
Here is the link to the the website about the line. The bridge that collapsed is the one on the map where 35W crosses the blue line of the Mississippi River in the upper right of the map.
http://www.metrocouncil.org/transportation/lrt/lrt.htm
Additional information
see what Zogby, no friend of President Bush finds in his poll -> just 3% of Americans approve of how Congress is handling the war in Iraq,
People have 8 TIMES MORE CONFIDENCE in President's handling.
All absolute FACTs. If only ANY of the MSM host or reporter do this research & report truthfully!
I hope Steffie in the Republican Debate asks the hard questions, like the Youtubers did, so we can get answers:
Who was your favorite teacher?
What was your favorite subject in high school?
At what age did you go on your first date?
What is your favorite book?
What is your favorite movie?
Who is your favorite actor?
Who is your favorite actress?
What is your favorite color?
Boxers or briefs?
Add an external hard drive to your recorder. I added a 300GB and I never worry about "room to record" anymore. They are relatively inexpensive these days.
My DVR has an internal 80GB and I was always having to delete stuff to make sure I had room to record.
Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #4 – Des Moines, IA 08/05/07 - Official Discussion Thread
Uh, speaking of the vote fraud as opposed to the normal, everyday debacle/frauds.
“need to be careful not to undermine the morale of our troops or encourage our enemies”
Wow, Hillary slapped down twice..
With those relative numbers, Ann Compton who does most of the ABC radio newscasts, had the nerve to say the other day: Congress’ approval in the polls rivals the President’s.
I gagged when I heard that.
I have a link I got from Ali Veritas that is must read.
This is a smoking gun about AP bias that talk radio could have a lot of fun if done right and it is so night and day you really won’t believe it, you just have to read it.
It’s a gateway pundit take on the Iraq soccer victory followed by an AP take,the two are light years away and it exposes the msm/dbm like nothing I have every seen before.
Here is thelink:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Scroll down to Iraqi soccer Players sob at homecoming celebration.Read all that and then go to the end of the piece where it says...
Note, a couple of captions.....the AP’s sad political commentary, click on that for the surprise of your life, its unreal.
That Billion dollar project was the brain child of Mondale's kid??
I had not known that
They always try to diminish the President in any way. Just that they conveniently forget their own approval rating (half of Prez’s) and “journalist” job is the least favored by the public next to used car salesman.
Will do - Rod have you any details?
Looks like the Minnesotans were just copying the European model for rail since they guide all elite L/W wackos.
bump
Mine does not have a hard drive so I just buy DVR-Rs you can get 100 relatively cheap these days.
Timmy: we can’t have any success in Iraq unless there’s reconciliation.
Gates brings up the flip of locals in Anbar. Shifts the focus from where Timmy wants it.
By the way, our central government is pretty disappointing right now.
I wonder if Howie will take it on his CNN show.
Timmy has his frowny face on. “There have been some serious misjudgements made.”
Okay then, Timmy, let’s just throw in the towel.
That should work just as well. My DVR is a Motorola Moxi, supplied by my cable company, and it has the minimal hard drive. It will not burn to DVD.
I just “knew” when recording on that 80GB with HD TV it would not be sufficient. I was correct.
Hope all is well in your corner of the world.
THanks Chuck
FNS and Chris Wallace are brow beating Condi. Chris has joined the MSM with the mantra about the Iraqi government taking the vacation. Blah, blah, blah.
You would think Chris would have an original thought just once in a great while. Nah, probably not. I just remembered his gene pool.
Timmy is using everything he can to nail down that no political progress in Iraq means we get out.
Gates isn’t buying it and focuses on the turn at the local level. Big change in circumstances means he would not necessarily have gone along with some of the Surrender Group’s conclusions.
Timmy says wouldn’t the President have brought us together by adopting the recommendations?
Gates says he did a lot of them. But he’s not going to outsource foreign policy to a group of outsiders.
Gates, happily, is NOT bailing on us.
The same can be said about Timmy
Gates is extremely blunt about not liking the Iraqi month off. Says we buy every day of it with American blood.
Timmy is trying very hard to get a timetable for withdrawal. He is relentless.
About Plame? Is that why Campbell Brown refused to renew her contract & went to CNN?
Check this out from WaPo:
Timmy moves to the Clinton/DOD dustup.
How dare we question Hillary!
Gates supports Edelman as talented and professional. He agress with the VP that we’re not going to share contingency planning, the plans change all the time and besides they are leaked.
He agrees with the VP entirely. This will make Timmy very upset.
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