Posted on 02/21/2010 4:55:00 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Govs. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.; Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Govs. Jim Douglas, R-Vt., and Deval Patrick, D-Mass.; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Rep. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y.; former Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.
The Demonrats control the House, the Senate, and the White House, and even Biden says that Washington is broken. The American people are saying “Duh!”
Spector will lose to Toomey, Lautenburg and Byrd take the big dirt nap, the GOP takes the Senate.
Not having a family of 4 I don’t know how we compare. There was a study last year outlining the various state costs and that was what I was drawing from.
-19?!!!
GOBAMA!!
Good morning, rodguy. With all due respect, Here is the greatest speech ever given at CPAC,
I spent the last three days at CPAC. We had a booth and sponorsed a panel on immigration, the best ever assembled on the subject at CPAC: Robert Rector, Mark Krikorian, Prof James Gimpel, and Rep. Steve King (IA-5).
Cap and Trade will destroy business in this country. I read the entire House bill when it was posted on line. I could do pages about all of the requirements, including cash for clunker refrigerators and home inspectors.
Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is a moron.
Illinois Senator Barack ØBama “I want you to argue with them and get in their face”
Beck is dangerous because he sows discontent with republicans.
Who does he think will stop Obamacare? Cap and tax?
Who will make sure our troops are adequately funded.
Oh, I forgot Beck doesn’t support our missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I caught that too. I was surprised he puts the blame on zero and not Republicans. He’ll get into trouble with that one, I think.
Sounds like a Hammond B3 or the C Series. Piece of cake to move those with 4 people.
If too big, don't hire an outside company. Rent something like a JLG lift for a half day. They also have high lift fork lifts. Don't forget to rent heavy duty straps.
Recruit some people, tell them this will guarantee their entry into heaven, save money and have fun.
I have moved hundreds of large organs.
BTW, your priest sounds pretty cool.
Van Hollen has that perpetual punk smirk - reminds me of Terry McAuliffe.
I worked for a labor union for 16 years. When I started, the Regional Director I worked for was a fine man and sensible.
During the ensuing years, the mandate for affirmative action hiring seriously affected the quality of the staff members.
Sorry, but that is true.
Now, the leadership is corrupt and stupid.
They don’t seem to realize that the democrat party is NOT GOOD for them. If the government does everything, why do people need a union? They won’t.
And before that, they supported dems even though dems never came through for them. NAFTA for example.
A lot of things that were good and needed when they started are no longer either good nor needed.
Beck loves to do that. He thinks it makes him seem all sensible and righteous... and not a kook like some of us.
Limbaugh did a great impersonation of O’Reilly letting Socialist ideas past, and then say he’s ‘looking out for the people’
Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday, arguing that the $787 billion spending bill passed a year ago saved some jobs -- government ones.
Comparing the golfer and former presidential candidate, who both suffered public scandals in 2009, to the recovery bill, McConnell, R-Ky., said the legislation was sold on the claim that unemployment wouldn't go above 8 percent. Unemployment peaked late last year at 10.2 percent and now is 9.7 percent.
McConnell said the stimulus bill has done "little or nothing" to stimulate the private sector.
"It probably did save a lot of state government jobs, and I'm sure the governors were grateful to have it. They don't have the luxury we have of borrowing money from future generations to deal with short- term emergencies," he said.
But Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, said the stimulus has created short- and long-term investment that has helped the auto industry in her state invest in the electric vehicle, creating a whole new sector for the economy.
Granholm said 15 companies in Michigan, where unemployment is 14.6 percent, are working on electric vehicles and the stimulus bill saved 42,000 jobs there. She added that it also has helped people with unemployment benefits.
'If we'd not seen the aggressive action ... millions more people would've been out of work," she told "Fox News Sunday. "It hasn't fixed the problem, nobody's going to say that, but it has slowed the trajectory of job loss."
In Mississippi, where unemployment is 10.6 percent, the state has taken $370 million in stimulus funds, but Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, said he was "flabbergasted" by a report on his state that said the stimulus package created 500 jobs for a cost of $350 million.
"That's $700,000 a job," he said. "The first stimulus package was twice as much money as was needed and they could've created twice as much jobs at half the cost."
Barbour said better ideas would be a payroll tax holiday or freeing up credit for small businesses.
"A lot of those jobs that are quote 'saved' are state government jobs. It's no question state government has benefited," he said.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said infrastructure spending will put a huge number of people to work and that will save the economy.
"Now we're kind of like only spending 2.5 percent of our GDP on infrastructure," not the 5 percent that was spent during infrastructure expansion in the 1950s and '60s.
"I don't think that we need another stimulus as much as what we need is just to do what we have been talking about over the last two years, and that is rebuild America, because that will create jobs," he said.
"We could fill up every baseball stadium in this country, Terry, with people who got jobs or whose job was saved by the stimulus," added Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who appeared with Schwarzenegger.
"There's no ifs, ands or butts about it. Pennsylvania's budget is a little under $28 billion. We get almost $3 billion this year from stimulus. Take that $3 billion away, we've cut most of our program grants to the bone. You'd have to lay off -- I'd have to lay off 37,000 state workers to balance the budget. We have 76,000 state workers," he said.
Did you hear his comments about Obama and how can we think that one president can turn this country into a socialist state? What a total fool or liar.
You talking Christy?
I like what I hear. All eyes are upon him.
Incorrect. Those are two unrelated issues.
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