Open Thread: The Sunday Shows
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I am not covering them this morning, as I'm taking a breather on this last week of August which is an archetypical doldrum (singular), but that does not mean that they cannot be discussed. Warner on MTP talking about backing the President but troops stretched thin, Mitch McConnell on FNS talking about a change of plans in September, Jack Reed sniveling…
Have you seen anything interesting this morning?
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"Have you seen anything interesting this morning?"
I'll say. Check this one out.
Things have gotten so bad for the loonie left that despite a half-century of anti-military-everything, someone is now pleading for General Pace to lead a coup d'état against President Bush!
Anti-Bush derangement syndrome has gotten so bad that they now want the military to help them. Yikes!
You have idiots like this one putting you up for the front man in Coup detat. Everyone around him must be certain that he had nothing to do with the idiot or his ideas but its presence will still be felt.
Once again at what point is legal action taken against people advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government ?
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
General Pace is no doubt doing what the rest of the sane world has done all along: ignoring every word from those warped little freaks.
It's a game. Get the mindless masses angry and frothing. Dissolve all thought and hand out the pitchforks.
NRO and Ace of Spades both link to a USNews note about Chertoff supposedly a possibility to replace Gonzales.
As Ace's blogger notes, this is the guy who gushed about Teddy Kennedy, "He's awesome."
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
He's paying a Washington PR firm to be appointed a military prime minister, if such a thing exists, so I guess he is, for late August anyway.
"Wolf, I want to save Iraq. I want to save the mission of the United States."
He's going to make himself news.
"Listen to this" over Tim's procedure for getting pols to respond to NYT editorials.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
Blitzer comes at it from more a reportorial angle than that of a host or a celebrity. He seems to seek information more than gotcha.
That being said, Russert's style is why his show is so much fun, often enough.
At the end of FNS, Chris highlighted one letter, Moron Moyer's.
Moyers took exception to Rove's comment last week about Moyers doing drive by smears.
Chris took him apart and then said that Moyers should not let a good story get in the way of the facts. And intimated that Moyers go back to Journalism 101.
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. -A. Einstein
Chris Wallace was dead on! Only on Fox do you hear a big time Liberal like Moyers called out, about time!
Best line paraphrased, If you had bothered to ask him about his religion instead of making it up to fit your liberal smear.
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Chris Wallace's direct rebuke of Moyers was especially noteworthy, IMO, in that I have rarely, if ever, seen him inject himself into an argument so forcefully. He is always playing the 'neutral broker' - asking reasonable, effective questions with no apparent agenda or partisan edge.
This was the first time I can remember, though there may be other examples, where he did something like this. I thought it was fantastic, and I was surprised to hear him do it.
Let's spend public money in proportion to the numbers killed. Let's take money from AIDS research and put it in cancer research. I suspect that, unlike in the 80s, the pro cancer research crowd will not demonize the pro AIDs crowd like the AIDS zealots did.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
That's a political winner.
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.”
-Ronald Reagan
match the threat. One in Three die of Cancer. Also good politics.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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www.theminorityreportblog.com
"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
Weres my self driving car ? Not only do you have more deaths on the highways than we have had in all of our wars, think of the wasted lifespan spent in traffic.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
www.race42008.com
www.hinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
one to tackle also. It just seems natural that people would be interested in cutting down death and accidents on the highways, since most people are not really into suicide. Yet day after day, goes by and nothing constructive is done. We can't even find out the totals for killed and injured for months and months; but if the military doesn't release every detail about the death or injuries suffered in Afghanistan and Iraq within minutes after the incident occurred the press screams coverup.
Why couldn't we have daily headlines, showing the number of Americans killed or injured on our highways every day. It's certainly not a secret of any kind.
If depressing numbers are what the press thinks America wants,
the number of Americans killed by Americans, on American highways ought to be a best seller.
in the Boston/NY/DC corridor and uses public trans?
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
proportion to what the Constitution says we should spend on medical research... like NOTHING.
Raise private money.
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Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
I just cannot believe he is siding with the dem's on the Iraq war withdrawal issue.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/senator_...
"Sen. Warner is only looking at part of the picture - what I'd call the "Green Zone view." He's got target-lock on the Baghdad government's failings, and, a titan of government himself, he can't get beyond the perfidy, greed and sectarian viciousness of Iraq's politicians.
But the future of Iraq's government is, frankly, less than half of the equation at this point. Whatever may have been the situation is 2003, today Iraq is the main front in the war against Islamist terror and fanaticism. Our enemies have made it so.
Of the two simultaneous missions under way - maturing a responsible government and advancing our own strategic interests - the latter is far more important. In fact, it's vital. And on that track, we're making stunning progress."
About "Warner the wonderful statesman"for what it is, just stroking the back before inserting the knife. However, I've about had it with miserable US politicians saying how miserable Iraqi politicians are. Obviously, Maliki, the Shiite, dances with the guys who brung him. What politician doesn't? But, if I remember right, his open dalliance with Iran began after Murtha et al began talking about backing out of the "civil war" and leaving Iraqi Shiites to the tender mercies of the Sunni and AQI. (Is Maliki the only one who remembers what happened to the Shiites who counted on us back in '91?) When a politician's prime supporters begin to look shakey, he looks around for new support.
We talk about how the left has been undermining the morale of our troops. Is it not obvious that they have the same effect on the Iraqis? Now the softies in the GOP chime in with: "You will either shape up and act like a good little puppet, or we, too, will pull the rug out from under you." How to encourage our friends to believe that, in spite of our history, they can count on our support this time. NOT!!
I don't doubt Warner's sincerity, but this is not the first time he has visibly strayed from a mainstream conservative approach on a major issue - Bork being another notable example. He knows he will be hailed in the MSM when he does this, and he gets his best "stentorian" voice warmed up - like he is auditioning to play a United States Senator in a movie.
No doubt we will have to listen to any number of Dems and leftist commentators start off their little riffs by noting that a "respected Republican Senator - - blah, blah, blah". The real damage will come if weak kneed Republicans - i.e. Snowe, Smith, etc. decide they can hide under his skirts and undermine the fine work of our military and the strong character of the President of the United States. Let's hope not.
"Then as now, the anti-war debate is conducted as if it's only about the place you're fighting in: Vietnam is a quagmire, Iraq is a quagmire, so get out of the quagmire. Wrong. The "Vietnam war" was about Vietnam, if you had the misfortune to live in Saigon.
But if you lived in Damascus and Moscow and Havana, the Vietnam war was about America: American credibility, American purpose, American will. For our enemies today, it still is. Osama bin Laden made a bet – that, notwithstanding the T-shirt slogan, "These Colors Do Run": They ran from Vietnam, and they ran from the helicopters in the desert, and from Lebanon and Somalia – and they will run from Iraq and Afghanistan, because that is the nature of a soft, plump ersatz-superpower that coils up in the fetal position if you prick its toe. Even Republicans like Sen. John Warner seem peculiarly anxious to confirm the bin Laden characterization."
Webb attacked a soldier's TV ad backing the surge with a snide: "Iraq didn't attack us." And then said since al qaida came to Iraq after we attacked Iraq, that we didn't need to keep killing them.
So let me get this straight. Iraq was in Florida before 911, but not Iraq? And it only helps America if we kill al Qaida in Afghanistan?
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson


the heart of the motives of democrats. Her analysis of Hillary as letting her guard down was right on, as was her critiques of Edwards and the timid Obama backpedals in their attacks on Hillary. Rush will be proud.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
www.race42008.com
www.hinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson