Posted on 09/09/2012 4:59:39 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
September 9th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Glenn Hubbard, economic adviser to the Romney campaign; Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Mayor Mia Love of Saratoga Springs, Utah.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan; President Barack Obama; White House adviser David Plouffe.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Thanks for posting this-huge fan of this man.
All that comes later Tom.It’s called the war on Rinos. It never ends until the last one is out.
I agree, Pat. That’s why I posted it. Republicans across the country need to learn from each other better than has been done up until now.
So Steph is going with the new Bill Clinton assumption- no president could have done better than Obama..”economists agree...”
we are moving forward on this...we need MR in there for four years so we can keep the momentum, while holding off more damage to our country in the interim.
ABC with George S. - showed Gabby Giffords leading the pledge (that and the prayer by the Cardinal at the end were the only worthwhile parts of this convention, IMO)
George Will - everyone except the State Dept knows the capitol of Israel is Jerusalem.
Gokie - job numbers don’t mean anything this election. The DNC focussed on women, minorities, gays, immigration, etc. (their base) Republicans have made a tremondous mistake by focusing on the economy. (??????)
does admit this convention was over the top focussing on abortion.
Rand Paul - images worth a thousand words - images of booing God were worth a lot.
Cory Booker - God/Jerusalem it was just a little bit of the platform (lol) Tries to claim it was an error of ommission. obama saved the day demanding they be put back in. Cory says DNC wasn’t all about abortion (he didn’t talk about it), it was about family planning.
Thank you!!!
This is a great article. I wonder how long it will take before Americans wake up to what 0bama and the Democrats really stand for and desire.
It may be off topic but it sure is relevant to what’s going on here.
ABC, Cokie - in response to a Romney ad on the economy says Ohio is actually better off economically now. Says Republicans have made a huge mistake again ith immigration and voting rights because they have lost Republicans for a generation.
George Will somewhat agrees that Hispanics sense hostility from Repubs because they have focussed so much on immigration/fence/etc.
ABC, Rand Paul says we have given up on cerain parts of the country. Suggests more libertarian candidates in states like California, east coast, should be an option.
Paul says we’ve given up 150 votes before we’ve even started.
Those murdering Corvairs...almost as bad as the SUVs, which are destroying the planet.
The Corvair was GM's answer to the Beetle.
I’m REALLY confused. Maybe someone here at the reliable Sunday Talk Show thread can help me.
Friday it was reported that about 96,000 “new jobs” were added, lower than “expected.” It was also reported that about 400,000 people “dropped out of the workforce.” Thus, while fewer people went to work, the “unemployment rate” improved by .2 points. Wow.
First: what is a “new job?” Is it something that didn’t exist, like the 13th job at a company that formerly only had 12—Or is it that Joe down the street, who was out of work, finally found a job?
But if it’s job #13 does it have to be filled yet to count in the stats? Or can it just exist as an unfilled want-ad, “Desperately Seeking Susan” or like that?
What is a new job? Who has one? Does anyone HAVE to have it? (Could maybe I still get it?)
O.K. Let’s move on to the REALLY MYSTERIOUS thing here.
It seems that every month hundreds of thousands of Americans “drop out of the workforce.” I think I heard that 4 million have done it since whenever.
But what does this actually mean? Who are these people, where are they, what do they do now. I have many questions about those who “drop out of the workforce.”
1. Were these people in the “workforce” because they were working? Don’t their employers need to replace them? If a guy is managing a parking garage and one night says, “The hell with this, I’m dropping out of the workforce,” doesn’t his employer need to replace him? If he replaces him, why does any of it count one way or the other in the “unemployment rate.” Somebody else gets a job if someone “drops out of workforce,” right? Or do they just not hire another manager at all and let everyone park for free at the garage because Bill “dropped out of the workforce?”
2. Can you be in the workforce but not have a job? If you don’t have a job, what makes you part of the “workforce” in the first place? If you already don’t have a job, what difference does it make that you have “dropped out of the workforce?” You weren’t really working in the workforce anyway.
3. Has the media ever identified a person who “dropped out of the workforce?” (Would there be a better chance of such a person being found by the media if Romney was elected? Like how all the “homeless” showed up the minute after Reagan swore the oath.)
Again—there are something like 4 million people who have “dropped out of the workforce.” How many have the media found? Are they all camera shy?
Do you personally know anyone who “dropped out of the workforce?” Was there cake and ice cream to celebrate? Do you get a gold watch that doesn’t run for “dropping out of the workforce?”
4. Um.... I dunno. I’m not even sure I know what the “workforce” is. And that makes me wonder what it is that people do when they “drop out” of it. As near as I can tell, they disappear — like people did back in the Soviet Union. Poof! There one minute, gone the next.
5. What about the raw numbers here? The media says that 96,000 new jobs created by the African-American president is still nonetheless a good thing. That’s about 2,000 jobs per state if you think of all the states equally (no one does that anymore because the states are just basically racist entities that don’t matter in comparison to what Van Jones thinks but I digress).
Anyway these numbers seem to mean that something like 9,000 people just dropped out of the workforce in the same state where 2,000 new jobs were added. The media doesn’t seem to think 9,000 is MORE THAN 2,000, because these “dropouts” are...I dunno...not important enough to even GO FIND THEM.
And if 9 people are dropping out for every 2 new jobs, how is anyone getting employed at all?
OK Well... If one thing is clear here, it is that I’m utterly confused about all this. If anyone can help me, I’d appreciate. If I’ve made someone else so exasperated that I compelled them to drop out of the Sunday thread I’m really sorry about that but don’t expect the media to come looking for you in any case.
Like Timothy Leary once said, “Tune in, turn on, drop out, vanish altogether.”
Before THE COCK CROWED!
ABC, talking about whether the conventions should continue. are they necessary anymore. Paul Krugman says yes, informative.
Will - get rid of govt funding.
Rand Paul - agrees with Will, we should get rid of public funding of campaign conventions - also suggests that Congress should hold a debate once a week; make it mandatory so that a real exchange of ideas occurs vs. individual speakers getting up and stating their positions.
lol, that was exactly what I thought when it happened.
Hear, HEAR!!! I should have added that.
According to FOX Obummer got a bump in the polls and it looks like the same with Rasmussan. How pathetic is that?
Pray for America
Of what, Eastern European Socialist Economics? The smarmy lying creep made my skin crawl...just like the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
If a safe was to fall from the sky, scoring a direct hit...I wouldn't shed a tear.
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