[Alas Babylon!]

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, obsevations and opinions!

[johniegrad]

What can Biden possibly have to say that he hasn't already stolen from someone else? Why would any program want him on it?

[SkyPilot]

Who wants to bet a FREE Diet Coke that Chuck "Shumucky" Schumer gets in a GUN CONTROL plug on Face the Nation?

I promise I'll pay up to the first one to find it!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Where are Gephardt and Daschle...weren't they whining all week that they don't get enough "face time"?

[richwolo]

WHERE IS HILARY!!!

[not-alone]

Condi Rice keeps saying Powell mission is to call all parties to account. American forces not on the table.Arafat should use what is in front of him to stop terrorism.

[Anamensis]

I'm watching CBS Sunday Morning and they just interviewed a female would-be suicide bomber. This ought to give America a face-full of the unreasoning hatred motivating the Palestinian intifada.

[flamefront]

I predict no one will dare express an opinion about the return of Maoist Chavez to power in Venezuela.

[CedarDave]

Brit starts off the roundtable by saying he's not sure whether he wants to see the current Powell mission succeed or not! He means that one part of him would like to see the Israeli's continue to rout out the terrorist to the end, rather than stop with a "cease fire". Cici (of the Compost) starts talking about Jenin camp and the "Israeli" atrocities. Barnes shuts her down. Juan goes off the reservation, talking about how Israel is being put down by the rest of the world for its actions. Brit says what's new? The rest of the world (except for the US) has never really supported it.

Brit hits it on the nail, by saying that this has hurt Bush badly, not by Israel's actions, but by his own reversal of his September anti-terrorist policy. Go Brit!!

[CedarDave]

Most all the panel (except Juan) dumping on Al Gore in his return-to-prominence speech last night in Florida. Cici says that his speech (where he talked about environmental polluters) would have been great in October 2000, but is irrelevant right now. Tony talks about how uncomfortable Gore is (hot arena, sweating) and then shows a clip of Gore working the rope line with the song "You Ain't seen nothing Yet". LOL

[yikes]

FWIW, I think Dr. Rice hit a home run this morning. Her continued emphasis on stating the obvious, that both sides should stop pointing fingers at the other side, step up to the plate and act like leaders was compelling. She also recognizes Israel's right to defend itself but also acknowledges the Palestinians' profound humanitarian crisis. As she says, this is a decades-long struggle, and it's not going to end overnight without some pain (?letting go of ego) on both sides.

Timmy looked embarrassed citing Republican criticism of Bush.

I am so happy I live in a republic and that how I feel at the moment is not important. I have been on an emotional roller coaster the past week and see first hand how a pure democracy could lead to chaos.

[Crawdad]

Why don't the Isrealis and the Palestinians take a page from the WWF and have a "Loser Leaves Town" Match?

[LisaFab]

Is anyone else watching the McLaughlin group this morning? I just cannot stomach Pat Buchanan any longer. The rate at which he purports to agree with Eleanor Clift is abominable.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Does Michael Kinsley (liberal hack on This Week) have AIDS? He's looking thinner than I'm used to seeing him, and he has the oft-used "skin covering" beard.

Just wondering.

[Brasil]

The FOXNEWS show after the Fox News Sunday show, had Dennis Ross and two other talkers. Dennis Ross said earlier this week that he has spent more time with Yasser than anyone and he is the sole reason that there has not been an agreement. He says that there will be no agreement until we can deal with more rational Palistinis.

[SkyPilot]

On Meet the Press, the Israeli spokesman, Dore Gold, was excellent. The Pali spokesman was, gee, I was going to say "horrible", but if you are a Clintonian Carvile-like Spinmaster observer, he was effective in that vein.

Dr. Gold told the truth: example

1. There were no airstrikes in Janine

2. The Pali's response was to talk over him, smile, interrupt, inject some other lie, etc. The Pali spokesman, Kidwa, spoke over, and over, and over again about War Crimes! and the like. He kept trying to bring in terms like International Law!, like his side is law abiding by having women detonate explosives on their backs to kill and maim Israeli infants.

In the movies, when the bad guys lie, it is obvious. Then the good guy breaks their head open (Braveheart). In real-life, when the bad guys lie, and we break for a commercial.

[stimulate]

Tony Snow reported that the Oregon Democrat Party has stated that it wants to BOYCOTT the Rush Limbaugh show because it is so sucessful! A few weeks ago,Michael Medved, reported the same boycott threat for his show. The Oregon Democrats are asking that listeners flood subscribers with demands to stop advertising on the radio show. 'Okay listeners I know you love the Rush Limbaugh show,but the exchange of free ideas can be so unfair to liberals!'

[RamsNo1]

The whole time that Bush went along with democrat issues so the democrats couldn't blast him well, I would say that democrats have tons of legitimate ammo now. We are witnessing of the self-destruction of the republican president. If I were a republican congressional candidate, I would drop out now.