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Most elected Republicans and the base are moving in a different direction from the pro-Putin and anti-anti-Putin crowd. How far can Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn go without breaking the silo? Bill Kristol joins Charlie Sykes for this weekend’s podcast.

Is Elise Stefanik America First or is she just posing? At VDARE, poster Washington Watcher II wrote an interesting take on the new star within the GOP. Washington Watcher II notes that “Her aggressive questioning of witnesses during last month’s impeachment hearings made her a national figure and a prominent White House ally.” However, he points out that immigration patriots should be skeptical of Stefanik based on her track record. Ultimately, he believes that “apparent loyalty to the president matters far more than America First.”

Good Bye Mitt Romney. If you cannot do any better then this in the Midwest your candidacy is DOA. You may win in NH but your are DOA in the South and the Midwest. Save your money Mitt, it's over.

The Talk Shows Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Debate between Republican candidates for U.S. Senate: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine.THIS WEEK (ABC): White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.

The Talk Shows Sunday, April 4th, 2010 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Arlen Specter, D-Pa.; Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Journalists' roundtable (Nancy Cordes, CBS News Congressional Correspondent; Jan Crawford, CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent; Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University; Bob Orr, CBS News Justice Correspondent; and David Sanger, New York Times Chief...

The Talk Shows Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House press secretary Robert Gibbs; former adviser to President George W. Bush Karl Rove; Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House senior adviser David Axelrod; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Rove.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gibbs; Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans.THIS WEEK (ABC): Axelrod; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Axelrod; House...

The Talk Shows Sunday, April 11th, 2010 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent; Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican; Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Gates; Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vermont Democrat; Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Clinton; Defense Secretary Robert Gates.THIS WEEK (ABC): Clinton; Gates ; Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican; Sen. Chuck U. Schumer, New York Democrat. STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, chairman, Republican Governors Association.

The Talk Shows Sunday, March 21st, 2010 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.; Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Anita Dunn, former Obama White House communications director; Ed Gillespie, former Bush White House counselor.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Reps. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Sen....

The House and the Senate are no closer to agreement on immigration reform, but maybe we're making incremental progress on getting a little civility in the debate. Only a few days ago, anyone who wanted the president to enforce the law protecting the nation's borders was "a racist," "a bigot" or a "nativist." The president himself has sometimes thrown the word "nativist" around in the debate over immigration and, before that, in the controversy over outsourcing the security of the nation's ports to suspicious former enemies. "Nativist," like "Hitler," is the slur of the season when you're losing the argument....