Face the Nation - Yikes, I’ll pass
ABC could be good this week - usually don’t watch it but I might this week, if I get back from my sister’s in time.
Morning AB, All.
Thank you yon readers for your input on this thread and thank you muchly AB for your devotion to this post every week.
Goodness, two of mine congress people on Face the Nation….Chris Coons….heh, from Delaware and Elijah Cummings from Merryland.
Happy New Year to all, may 2015 be better than 2014.
Got up at 4:30 am in the morning Friday night. Seems my Muncheussen daughter called 911 and had them take her to the emergency room. This is the THIRD week in a row. But goodness, ER’s are wonderful things and she loves to spend the night there.
ONLY THEY KICKED HER OUT!
God I don’t want to laugh but she went because she had a headache, I am not making this up. They said she was dehydrated and rehydrated her. She fell asleep because she adores the emergency room and just wanted to sleep there for the night. They woke her up and told her she can catch a shuttle bus but it was time to go home.
She had no choice but to call me and I hated it, hated it, hated it. I am retired, in my 60’s. I thought my old age would be spent at home, especially in the middle of the night, safe. I despised opening up that creaky garage door so early in the am, driving to the emergency room in the dark and chill wet rain. But I couldn’t just leave her there.
She was mortified, as well she should have been.
2015 is the year I do something, something BIG, about this. There’s a whole huge community of people doing this stuff and watch 60 Minutes or Dr. Phil.
Cause I got some legal people and shrink people working with me on this and I’m going to blow it wide open.
Anyway….it’s a good story but I’d rather be reading about it than living it.
Making roasted garlic today….my favorite.
Oh, and I decided to make my annual contribution to FreeRepublic because you never get a virus on FreeRepublic, it’s easy to follow, it’s really nice not to be attacked by ads everytime you just want to see what’s in the news.
re. Corker
Former ‘Car Czar’ Rattner agrees: Now is the perfect time to raise gas tax
Steven Rattner @SteveRattner · Jan 2
Now is exactly the time to raise the gasoline tax. @SenBobCorker should be commended for his
stance http://nyti.ms/1xnVqxa
EXCERPTS
“If something like this is going to be done, now is the time to do it,” said Bob Corker, a Republican senator, who noted that gas prices in his home state of Tennessee fell below $2 a gallon this month. Senator Corker and Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, unveiled a proposal in June to raise the gas tax by 12 cents a gallon over the next two years and then index further increases to inflation.
(snip)
Senator Corker, who has tried to appease deficit hawks by proposing to reduce other taxes in exchange for a rise in the gas tax, said his plan would probably get caught up in negotiations about broader tax reform when the Republicans take control of both houses.
“The leadership is going to want the finance committee to come up with a larger package,” he said, adding that he was open to all sorts of options except a short-term fix. “The one thing I’m going to rail against is to kick the can down the road.”
Thine: why not give the transportation back to the states? No new gas taxes, Corker, you dumb ass!!!
An All-Dem love-fest! Unless Schieffer slips in a tough question.... But what are the odds of that?
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn
Klobuchar “compromise” [so now Republicans must go along with the Democrat’s legislative fraud when there was no compromise]
Klobuchar “...unemployment better” [doesn’t want to address the labor participation rate or the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing-printing $80 billion a month to buy bonds from the private sector(inflation)]
Panel Guest “permanent war” [bad judgement and poor decisions have not improved National Security]
MEET THE PRESS report “no strategy” [remember when ‘winning’ was the strategy-Bush had a successful Surge and many citizen of other Nations in the middle east expressed the desire to vote?]
I wonder if Amy Klobuchar will comment on anything controversial. She’s a master of the ‘touchy-feely’ photographs at happy moments. Nothing ever on Benghazi, Obama’s scandals, etc.
Go Ducks!
Drove down to the Rose Bowl and enjoyed the best FB game in my life. One more for the Championship.
DUCKS
Liberal meme of the morning; “Will Republican ‘work’ with Obama? “
HOW COME THEY NEVER ASK IF DEMOCRATS WILL WORK WITH REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS?
My new Congresswoman was great on Fox News Sunday.