Posted on 03/05/2006 5:16:49 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Michael Brown, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; National Weather Service Director David Johnson.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pace; former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., co-chairmen of the Council on Foreign Relations' task force on U.S. policy toward Russia.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; retired Gen. Wesley Clark; comedian Stephen Colbert.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Gen. James Jones, NATO supreme Allied commander; Iraqi Parliament member Adnan Pachachi.
I fear you will not need a very large sheet of paper
The absurdity of the left. They demand the President deal with our allies, then when we deals with India and Pakistan they have a conniption fit.
One index card.
Hurt feelings, territorial scuffling, IOW, a pissing match that resulted in harming the President for NO reason at all.
The blame lies entirely with the elected officials in Louisiana.
Gen. Pace is positive, positive, positive. His soft-spoken voice is amusing for a 4-star Marine - very smart man. ;^)
Oh for sure. The alignment of FEMA with DHS was not thought through by those charged with, well, thinking things through.
The truth of the matter is the Bush admiin totally dropped the ball on Katrina. Totally.
For now Katrina will always be considered a stain on the Bush administration when no such thing is even remotely deserved. The whole Katrina mess was orchestrated by the opposition party with a little help from the opposition party that totally dropped the ball in New Orleans.
For instance, why, during one of the daily press briefings later in the week last week, didn't McClellan or whoever's running the show, make a big damn deal about the breaching versus topping thing?
Bush lets them get away with it too often and at some point not the general populace, not FreeRepublic, not Rush Limbaugh, can carry Bush's water for him.
I suppose there's too many things Bush feels he can't say. Like the re-organization, indeed the very creation of, this Department of Homeland Security is unwieldy and nought but another political ploy by congress critters for, not the greater good, but for retention of their own power. I suppose Bush doesn't want to say the locals during Katrina failed miserably.
It's like Weapons of Mass Destruction. The admin let them get away with it and now it's accepted as final.
I'm so weary of it all and can't fight the battles that at times, only the Man speaking from the bully pulpit can do.
That fear was well justified but it cost people their lives. Tragedy compounded by the corruption of the powers that be in Louisiana.
Others stayed TO LOOT.
Juan really said that? Huh???????????????? He's tired of all the Bush bashing?????????????
Heard Kemp on with Larry Kudlow yesterday afternoon. He was quite harsh with regard to Bartlett and very supportive of the President.
Heard Kemp on with Larry Kudlow yesterday afternoon. He was quite harsh with regard to Bartlett and very supportive of the President.
He really said it
Scholars say it is too soon to begin closing the books on Mr. Bush's legacy. ....... After all, he has engineered the Supreme Court nominations of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ......... The president is using his power to influence many issues, from school vouchers to energy policy to abortion.
TAX CUTS At first, it might appear that Mr. Bush's tax-cutting effort is all but dead. But the tax cuts are far from dead. Democrats know that many are broadly popular, and Congress has voted repeatedly to extend the tax cuts on the verge of expiring.
VOUCHERS No Child Left Behind, vouchers have not disappeared. Three years ago, they resurfaced, in the form of an Opportunity Scholarship Program. ........... Also, Congress passed another voucher program of nearly $500 million for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed schools and displaced millions; it pays for 385,000 students to attend private schools.
MEDICAID President Bush won a big victory on Medicaid last month, with a law that gives states vast power to reconfigure benefits, charge premiums and raise co-payments for health care and prescription drugs.
ABORTION Abortion politics takes place on the grand stage, like the Supreme Court, but also behind closed doors.
ENERGY EXPLORATION At the Bureau of Land Management, the question used to be whether to approve a company's application to drill for oil or gas on public lands. Now, as prices for natural gas explode, the question is how quickly, cheaply and efficiently the bureau can make the application decisions, which means, generally, approving them.
Is that why MSM keeps beating on the President? At least explains how our President pushes his agenda below the radar.
Did the Fox panel even mention the India-Pakistan trip? I must have been distracted reading this thread, 'cuz I don't recall any comments on that topic.
I won't call Rich Lowry names. I agree that he's lost credibility in recent months.
I still enjoy reading Jonah Goldberg*, Jay Nordlinger, Victor Davis Hanson, Michael Ledeen, Byron York, Kate O'Beirne, Cathy Seipp, Denis Boyles (I miss his columns), Myrna Blyth, etc.
*Jonah's columns in the LA Times are printed a day or two earlier than in NRO. They are timelier and usually funnier :-)
Excellent point, we have recognized over the last few years and particularly in the last 16 months since the 2004 Election the MSM has gone quite "bonkers". If you are strong enough to stomach listening to the left wing "hate Bush/Republican Radio", you will notice that the MSM are sounding more and more like that ilk, and less and less like real Newsmen. It is no wonder that the Left wing Radio is having a really serious problem trying to stay afloat. When you have the Left wing MSM sounding as nasty, rotten, negative,biased and making up things as they go along,why would you tune in to Left wing talk Radio? Just watch any of the Network Programs of the Alphabet Networks, and listen to NPR. By the same token, the left wing Radio guys that sound like DUmmies wrote their scripts are taking away from the MSM because they are Competition. It really becomes comical watching how much farther they will go before the men in the white coats take them away while they are frothing at the mouth.
I watched all I can take. I'll read the thread later today. Off to Mass.
Yep, I've seen that too.
I can only thing that smart people within the party and in the administration (Rove), feel that it actually benefits at election time.
Rational conservatives, being pragmatic at election time countering the 'percieved' weakness combined with increased turnout... might as well let the media have their fantasy.
Reminds me of the 'quiet glee' coming from our side I felt/saw watching Dean before the scream.
Morning OldFriend,
You're right, as usual. Brown could have done some things better, but that happens in every situation. Brown certainly did not have the problems with other states, compared to Louisiana, so one has to logically make the assumption the ultimate problem was with the state and not FEMA.
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