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Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 5/27 - 5/28/06 (not the live thread)The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: The power of the MSM is unassailable!watch as they destroy the evil right wingers and crown the good progressives while blaming everything on the United States (It's what they do best) Topics: Reports of a massacre in Haditha, IraqThe immigration debate Guests Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. Duncan Hunter doesn't realize it yet, but he's...

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page Meme: The Republicans are doomed if they do and doomed if they don't on immigration Topics: The Republican brawl over immigration: An interview with pollster Matthew Dowd on the politics of reform (Opinion Journal web site)Journal editors handicap the showdown between President Bush and GOP restrictionists. (Opinion Journal web site)Immigration reform and the Hispanic vote: Are hard-line Republicans jeopardizing the GOP's future as a majority party for short-term gains this November? (FNC web site) Guests Matthew Dowd I used to work for George Bush, now I work the Ahnuld on his...

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page Meme: Fissures in the GOP - immigration Topics: "Are Republicans headed for a political meltdown over immigration?" (as per Opinion Journal web site)"Immigration reform controversy: We'll examine policies under consideration" (as per FNC show page)"Plus, what a hard line on immigration means for this year's midterm elections" (as per FNC show page) Guests Colorado Governor Bill Owens I have a plan, just like the plan that's failing the President Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review illegal immigration isn't really a problem, really Stephen Moore, Walls Street JournalJason Riley, Walls Street JournalPaul Gigot, Walls...

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E-mail Author Send to a Friend Version August 16, 2005, 8:24 a.m. Durbin, Again The Illinois Democrat makes another mess for himself. By Stephen Spruiell The story unfolding over George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley's dispute with Sen. Dick Durbin's office over John Robert's religious convictions took a new turn Monday when Charles Hurt of the Washington Times reported on a letter that Turley sent to Durbin's office in an effort to set the record straight. Last month, Turley wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in which he reported on a meeting that took place between...

Illinois' senior Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Assistant Democrat Leader in the U.S. Senate, has wasted little time in launching against Judge John Roberts, President Bush's choice for the Supreme Court slot being vacated by retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Durbin has said that the President's decision to put forward John Roberts, 50, who he termed a "controversial nominee" guarantees a "controversial nomination process." Durbin previously clashed with Roberts during the confirmation process for the federal judgeship he now holds. Durbin questioned Roberts characterization of the Rehnquist Court as not necessarily conservative, saying that the the record of the court...

(Here is the relevant passage. Other than Speaker Hastert, the Illinois Congressional delegation has been pretty quiet. Except for Evanston's Jan Schakowsky, a human-hangover from the 1960s.) REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY (D-9): "The Bush Administration and Republican leaders are engaged in a pathetic attempt to make Senator Dick Durbin's condemnation of the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay an issue. As a result of the revelations of conditions at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram prison in Afghanistan, the Republicans owe the American people, our soldiers and veterans an apology for undermining American values such as the Rule of Law, putting our...

Hold the Rice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 21, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The more I see and hear of Condoleezza Rice, the less I respect her. Don't get me wrong. I think it would be exciting to have a serious black candidate for president – one who understood freedom, the Constitution, individual rights, the American Dream. I would love to see a great woman – like Margaret Thatcher or Jeanne Kirkpatrick – make a serious bid for the presidency in my lifetime. It's just that Condoleezza Rice, unfortunately, is not that person. I'm sure her knowledge and insight...

Complaints about the U.S. military's treatment of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay were once again featured on all three broadcast network evening newscasts Wednesday. Full stories on ABC, CBS and NBC cast the military on the defensive at congressional hearings. CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer — who has likened Guantanamo to the "Hanoi Hilton," the infamous North Vietnamese prison camp — grumped that "Congress asked a lot of questions today" about Guantanamo, but "the problem is, they didn't get many answers." ABC followed up its story on yesterday's hearings with a second full report by ABC's Terry Moran, who zeroed...

“Comparison of U.S. Soldiers to the Nazis is irresponsible and dangerous” Washington, D.C. — Sparked by recent comments from Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), Congressman Steve Buyer (IN-04), Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, called on the Senator to apologize to U.S. servicemembers for comparing them to Nazis. The Associated Press reported, “During a speech Tuesday, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat quoted from an FBI agent’s report describing detainees at the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay… ‘You would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or...

Spurred on by the fact that the US mainstream media allows and even encourages the Democrats to be as outrageous as possible (after all---it’s the MSM’s Party too!), Senator Dick Durbin has decided to challenge Howard Dean and Ted “the swimmer” Kennedy for buffoon of the year; if not the decade. Not satisfied with only comparing conservatives to the evil ones, Durbin decided to compare member of our US Military to Nazis, Cambodia’s genocidal leader Pol Pot and, of course, the Soviet gulags . In fact, he said as part of his inordinately long and loathsome diatribe: “On one occasion,...

I have watched with great interest and sometimes shock the ever developing closeness between some of the most radical, liberal groups in the country and the Democratic Party Leadership. The Capitol Hill news publication "Roll Call" recently described the intimate collaborations that have occurred between the extreme liberal group "MoveOn.org" and the offices of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, and The Democratic National Party Chairman Howard Dean. The article described the frequent strategy sessions and conference calls between the Democratic Leadership offices and MoveOn.org. This is the same George Soros funded group that once opposed...

Kathy Kelly was arrested at Senator Richard Durbin’s office in Chicago, on April 5, along with three other anti-war activists.  The Senate Appropriations Committee is to consider a spending bill on April 6 to provide nearly $80 billion more to fund the war in Iraq.  They sought a pledge from Senator Durbin to vote against the bill. Kelly was informed that that Senator Durbin will vote for the supplemental spending bill.  Kelly and her group then disrupted the operations of the senator's office by reading the names of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians who have lost their lives in...

As the Senate moves closer to a vote on the Constitutional Option – a vote to end the filibusters against President Bush’s judicial nominees – Senate Democrats have ramped up their rhetoric in an effort to defeat the measure. But it was these very same filibustering Senators who once argued that judicial nominees deserved up-or-down votes on the Senate floor. Don’t take our word for it. Here they are, in their own words… Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) "What I am saying to my friend is that in addition to what I have just said, we now have 30 nominations...

Lawmakers: Writer May Have CIA Leak Info Thursday, February 24, 2005 WASHINGTON — Two lawmakers have sent a letter to the U.S. attorney saying a White House reporter who recently resigned following questions about his identity and background may have information vital to the investigation into who leaked a CIA operative's name to the press. Reps. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., and John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking Democrats on the House Rules Committee and House Judiciary Committee, respectively, wrote a letter to Patrick Fitzgerald (search), the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, saying the Chicago attorney's office may need to...

A shuffling of the Senate Democratic leadership means U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin could end up with a promotion affording him more visibility on the national level. Nevada Sen. Harry Reid had all but sewn up the post of Senate Democratic Leader Wednesday in the wake of current leader Sen. Tom Daschle's re-election defeat in South Dakota. That means Reid's position of second-in-command among Senate Democrats is open, and Springfield's Durbin, now an assistant leader, could position himself for that role. The normally loquacious Durbin wasn't commenting Wednesday. But if Durbin can persuade a majority of the other 43 Democratic senators...

State. Sen. Barack Obama is not the only senator from Illinois generously stumping for John Kerry's presidential campaign. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin has been flying to battleground states for months, defending the Kerry-Edwards ticket in press rooms and speaking on the party's behalf when Kerry is unable to attend functions. A snapshot of Durbin's schedule from August shows a day sliced into 30-minute intervals: Flight to O'Hare. Daily call with Kerry campaign. Flight to Oregon. News conference. Rally. Lunch. Radio interviews. News conference. Rally. Newspaper meeting. Union convention. Keynote address. Arrive at hotel. So what might Durbin get in return...

WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Dick Durbin, a Catholic stunned by a hometown priest's statement that he would refuse to administer Holy Communion to the Illinois Democrat over his support for abortion rights, released a scorecard Wednesday that shows him to be a supporter of the church on many other issues. With an overall score of 60.5 percent, Durbin ranked second highest among the Senate's 24 Catholics in support of issues of importance to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, according to the study prepared by his staff. Durbin said he has provided the study results to Illinois' bishops and cardinals, and...

On the official Kerry for President blog, supporters laud Sen. Richard Durbin for comparing the Bush campaign to communist snipers in Vietnam: "Over 35 years ago, John Kerry faced his enemies in Vietnam. There were enemies there who were involved in sniper fire against John Kerry, trying to take his life and kill him because he wore the uniform of the United States of America. Sadly, the Vietnam snipers are still trying to cause damage to John Kerry. The new Vietnam snipers come from the Bush-Cheney campaign...." If that's not enough, there's the responses. First up: "My senator from Illinois,...

From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk Published 2/20/2003 7:07 PM WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- This here's the 338th Report ta the Folks Back Home from the (More er Less) Honorable Billybob, cyberCongressman from Western Carolina. This week they's three subjecks, n a definition ov a local word. Plus, a touch ov song n dance, which yer Congresscritter only does on occasional karaoke nights (much ta his later embarrassment). So I'll turn this over ta ma able assistant, J. Armor, Esq. Buncombe Rides Again, and AgainThree things happened last week which seemingly have zero connection with each other: the...