Archive for October 13th, 2007

Saturday, October 13th

Sunday Talk & TV Alerts

Sunday Talk Show Line Up

MTP: Bill Cosby & Alvin F. Poussaint, MD (co-authors, “Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors”)
FTN: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Politico’s Jim VandeHei
This Week: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) & Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Congress’s performance thus far; roundtable of Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and George Will; actor Peter Sarsgaard on his new film Rendition
FNS: Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)
Late Edition: ex-Pres Jimmy Carter; Pakistani PM Shaukat Aziz; Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); a roundtable with Jessica Yellin, Joe Johns, and Ed Henry

TV Alerts

Leno: CBS News’ Lara Logan 10/15; Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on 10/17
Tavis Smiley (PBS): Michael Otterman on American Torture on 10/16; Vincente Fox 10/17
Charlie Rose (PBS): Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince 10/15;
Political Capital w/ Al Hunt (Bloomberg, repeats throughout weekends): Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) on the nomination of Michael Mukasey to be the next attorney general, congressional action on wiretapping, and politics
Chris Matthews 10/13-10/14: David Yepsen, Anne Kornblut, John Heilemann, Elisabeth Bumiller discuss “Who will win Iowa and New Hampshire? Will Al Gore run, and if not, who will he endorse?” Quotes here.
Newsmakers (C-SPAN, 10am, Sunday): Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) interviewed by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert and The Hill’s Jackie Kucinich
60 Minutes (CBS, Sun): Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince; inside “Supermax” prison; preacher Joel Osteen; the country of Dubai
The Daily Show: Tony Snow 10/15; Meryl Streep 10/16; Jake Gyllenhaal 10/17; Ben Affleck 10/18
The Colbert Report: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) 10/15; Paul Glastris 10/15; Bob Drogin 10/16; Garry Kasparov 10/17; Craig Newmark 10/18
The View: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on 10/15
Conan O’Brien: Anderson Cooper on 10/15
Matt Lauer Reports (10/16, 8pm): Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) and his wife Suzanne Craig
Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson (CBS): ex-Pres. of Mexico Vincente Fox 10/16
Today Show: Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) 10/17


Reaganomics

Reagan

When the tax burden on the upper income brackets is lifted, the rich and not-rich alike all benefit… eventually.

-Arthur Laffer, former member of Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board.



Frank Kellener, a Hazelwood, MO car-wash attendant, is pleasantly surprised to find that Ronald Reagan’s controversial trickle-down theory actually works!


Club Blue

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Tab Benoit
“Garbage Man Blues”


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She Must Be Ill

Interesting Condoleezza Rice quotes from her visit with the Russian government. Way out of character for her. I mean, she doesn’t want that stuff HERE!

Condi Rice

The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow’s commitment to democracy.
In any country, if you don’t have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.
I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma (Russian parliament).
[I] hope the efforts of rights activists would promote universal values of “the rights of individuals to liberty and freedom, the right to worship as you please, and the right to assembly, the right to not have to deal with the arbitrary power of the state.
-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Lust Of Power

While the politicians espouse a rhetoric designed to preserve their reputations and their political power, our soldiers die.

-Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez

How’s that for telling it like it is?! Of course these are the reasons. It’s common knowledge that this war will continue on past the ‘08 elections. Little Georgie refuses to admit to making mistakes (at the continued rise of troop deaths in Iraq), and plans on handing the whole mess over to the next administration (alarmingly similar to his pre-presidential business affairs). And seeing as how that will most likely be a democratic administration, all the better!

These people, and the people who voted them in, sicken me.

Sanchez: Iraq war ‘a nightmare with no end in sight’

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez
Sanchez: No concerted effort in U.S. to devise a strategy to win the war in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – A former commander of coalition forces in Iraq issued a harsh assessment of U.S. management of the war, saying that American political leaders cost American lives on the battlefield with their “lust for power.”

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, coalition commander in 2003 and 2004, called the Iraq war “a nightmare with no end in sight,” for which he said the Bush administration, the State Department and Congress all share blame.

Sanchez told a group of military reporters in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday that such dereliction of duty by a military officer would mean immediate dismissal or court martial, but the politicians have not been held accountable.

He said the Iraq war plan from the start was “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic,” and the administration has not provided the resources necessary for victory, which he said the military could never achieve on its own.

Still, he said, the U.S. cannot pull out of Iraq without causing chaos that would have global implications.

“After more than four years of fighting, America continues its desperate struggle in Iraq without any concerted effort to devise a strategy that will achieve victory in that war torn country or in the greater conflict against extremism,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez pointed to what he said was “neglect and incompetence at the National Security Council level” which has put the U.S. military into “an intractable situation” in Iraq.

CNN

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NSC spokeswoman Kate Starr issued this response:

We appreciate his service to the country. As General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker said, there’s more work to be done but progress is being made in Iraq. And that’s what we’re focused on now.

I wonder if Kate really believes the crap she spews? Simpletons usually are gullible.



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