Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 17 March 2013

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[Alas Babylon!]

p>The Talk Shows

March 17th, 2013

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN); Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks; Steve LaTourette, president of the Republican Main Street Partnership.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reps. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.; Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman.

THIS WEEK (ABC): House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio., and Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.; Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union.

[Son House]

March 08, 2013
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2013-03-08/commentary/37555437_1_job-numbers-establishment-survey-jobs-report

...According to the household survey (on which the unemployment rate is based), the economy added a healthy 170,000 jobs. The survey also shows a tremendous increase of 446,000 part-time jobs.

...What this means is that the economy actually shed 276,000 full-time jobs.

[Alas Babylon!]

I don’t know, Rod...

I realize that Boehner is trying to be polite. He probably even thinks he’s the Speaker of all the House, rather than the head of the Republican coalition in the House. Still....

Did Nancy Pelosi ever say she “trusts” George W. Bush?

The democrats and their media are skilled at messaging people, smearing opponents and fighting nasty. The GOP plays by the rules and gets slaughtered.

I’d rather hear Boehner talk about how he opposes Obama and why (that is, Obama is wrong and hurting the country). Never let up on this message.

[rodguy911]

We know what we have to do at the polls and we have been moderately successful. We advocate conservative candidates and help them all the way.

It's harder to deal with the likes of a Boehner who can only be removed by a small number of voters in his particular district in Ohio a year from this coming November.

Until then I don't see any alternative than trying to deal with him. What am I missing there? If we still have to deal with him,and I still don't see an alternative,all I can think to do is to advocate things that will help his decision making on such issues as the debt ceiling. That comes up in a few weeks by the way.

Perhaps we would be better off suggesting moves he can make. Demands we can make from the regime before we sign on to any debt increase. Let's give him some ammo and then hope he uses it.

Other than that I don't know how to approach the problem. If you have any other ideas....

[Alas Babylon!]

Too right.

Hearing this made me seriously face-palm...

[kabar]

Just the thought that so many of our side sat at home last time gives me hope that they will come to their senses this time.2014 my be very telling. We shall see.

I hear that stay home myth coming from a lot of people including Rush. The fact is that Romney received a million votes more in 2012 than McCain did in 2008. Romney also did better in almost all of the swing states than did McCain or candidates like Akin and Mourdock. He also did much better among non-Hispanic white voters including those 18-29.

Romney received 60,932,176 votes compared to McCain's 59,950,323. It was Obama's voters that stayed home as he received about 4 million less votes in 2012 than in 2008, i.e. 65 million in 2012 versus 69 million in 2008.

I hope 2014 turns out well, but Obama's organization is strong and well-funded. They will pull out all the stops, including fraud, to take over the House. Obama knows that once he has the House, he can truly transform America.

Our only hope is that as the pain of the implementation Obamacare begins to hit the voters, they will move away from Obama. But then the Stupid Party may help Obama by mitigating the pain by agreeing to changes in Obamacare. They will mend it, not end it. The tax on medical equipment will be one of the first to go.

[Cheerio]

They should be pushing for lower legal immigration numbers, the primary reason for our rapidly changing demography. Instead, they will seek to increase the numbers while 23 million Americans look for full-time employment. The GOP has a death wish

BINGO - the RAT party has been very patient in their goal of ridding themselves of their GOP competition. The RAT party has been working at changing the demographics for decades, and it is now starting to pay off. Zero's biggest historic legacy will be to have 30+ million newly documented illegal aliens listed as RATS on the registries all across the nation, but in particular the southern and southwest states, where they practically have taken over while the old white people flee these 3rd world neighborhoods. I REFUSE TO LEAVE MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND AM GOING TO TOUGH IT OUT TO THE VERY LAST SECOND OF MY LIFE.

[rodguy911]

It's even worse now that zero had to send specialized troops,(ready to move into Syria and protect the security of these wmds in a moments time), to Turkey to stand guard on all the wmds that now reside in Syria.These wmd's were flown into Syria from Iraq.

We constantly let the left lie about the truth on any and all situations.

It's almost bizarre at times.

[rodguy911]

Its biazarre to me that anyone could vote for a democrat.I guess we shall see in 2014.

[rodguy911]

Maybe our side is starting to get it, lets hope so.

[Alas Babylon!]

It would be more of a miracle if it said:

So, this Irishman walks PAST a bar...

[kabar]

Limited gov’t & lower taxes may not resonate, but young men hanging around, unemployed with no prospects, living in dilapidated housing in Detroit, compared to a bustling Dallas where there are good jobs with prospects for a good life WOULD resonate. You show them the difference, then you explain why. I think it can be done in a fairly concise ad, ending with “What kind of life to YOU want?”

Blacks and Hispanics have the highest unemployment rates now. Do you think that ads are going to change their voting behavior? Voting is almost like religion. You inherit it and it is very difficult to change especially when all of your peers are of one mind. Our first black (and minority) President will not lose their support due to an ad.

And if prosperity, employment, and education were factors that are so powerful, why did Asians vote 73% for Obama topping even Hispanics at 71%? They are among the most successful group in this country in terms of education and income. Moreover they have an even lower unemployment rate than non-Hispanic whites.

[Bernard]

ABC Talk Show:

Xavier Becerra made a comment that the biggest spending item to control is the tax breaks in the Internal Revenue Code; a $1 Trillion giveaway, something like that.

Does anybody here know if Mr. Becerra's comment includes the Earned Income Credit? Just think, if we eliminated EIC, a significant number of people who DON'T pay any federal income tax would start paying it. That could take the 47% down a lot.

Then Matthew Dowd made some comment about the need to stop running CPAC and start a new conservative gathering, because "CPAC has become irrelevant." An ironic comment coming from a guy who makes regular appearances on a Sunday morning political talk show.

[rodguy911]

Let's hope the nanny state begins to aggravate enough people that they get mad and vote for freedom.
I'll be surprised if the left does not begin to disintegrate and start self-destructing.Its their mo. Always happens.

[9YearLurker]

Palin is the one with executive experience, Cruz is new to politics. Palin/Cruz, however, would be perfect.

[9YearLurker]

It’s not just border security! Ann Coulter is the only one I heard speak out against the amnesty that the GOPe is plotting to use to snuff out its own viability.

(And Rubio is absolutely out for his pro-amnesty bill and position, IMO.)

[Alas Babylon!]

Oh really?

Please explain.

And by the way, welcome to Free Republic and the Sunday thread! :-)

[rodguy911]

The problem is everything we know that needs to be done from closing the border to eliminating the free welfare lines takes guts to do. We need strong majorities in both Houses of Congress and the Presidency or strong leaders willing to go down for their beliefs. We have some not enough.

[Alas Babylon!]

Who is Marketwatch anyway? CBS? One of the propaganda organs of the Left in any case...

So, just to educate the low information votes...

170,000 jobs is anemic; not healthy. Healthy is a lie, and rather bald-faced. We need 300,000 plus jobs a week for many months to bring back the economy to 2006 levels at least.

[kabar]

If the vote for the Speaker was a secret vote rather than being made publicly, Boehner would have been gone. When you control the assignments to committees, you have a lot of leverage over the folks in your caucus. Boehner has been ruthless in that regard.

Gingrich was pushed out of his position. It will take some behind the scenes courage to move against Boehner. If he continues to ignore the Hastert rule, he will hurt Reps in their reelection in 2014. He is forcing them to be on the record on issues that their opponents will seize upon whether it is amnesty or gun control or tax increases. If the majority of your own party is against something, why do you help the Dems pass it? A small minority of Reps with the Dems are now running the show in the House. It undermines any rationale for a Rep-controlled House.

[rodguy911]

Brilliant post and we can do it with our own media and not pretend that we will get a fair shake with the old/DBM media.
We have the potential to make our own future using our own media.