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(A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE BEST POINTS OF 3HRS. OF SUNDAY MORNING POLITICAL SHOWS)
(I woke up to half-way through the Chris Wallace show of Juan Williams saying "What's the outcry?!" I would certainly say that if this was an issue of Juan Williams ' civil rights being violated, he'd be P.O.'ed too, like me. If Juan Williams was arrested, never read his Miranda rights until after he was questioned, and then if Juan Williams was sent to a county jail where inmates are treated far worse than they are at Guantanamo Bay, maybe he'd change his remarks on "What's the outcry?!" and instead, join the fray! Allow me to answer you, Juan Williams , since you have gone so far as to become Obama's myna bird, maybe this will wake you up to journalism well avoided: )
Kristol: says that maybe Palin will run in 2012, in a smirking manner.
(I smirk with Kristol this time, and laughs quietly watching from home...)
(Of course, if Obama keeps insisting on bucking the Constitution, then may we first start by nailing a copy to his office door, circle the part where it says you must be a legal U.S. citizen with a big red circle and LEAVE! marked on the page.... do you think that he'd comprehend the message??)
Wallace: says that Palin is now getting emails on domestic affairs.
Wallace: people don't want Obama's agenda, though.
The mainstream media hates the Tea Party, and they hate Sarah Palin garnering support of Repubs!
(That is, unless you're partial to Jose Jalapeno, like me, who sees the argument but looks at immigrants as imposing by just not paying their due share of taxes.... which is exactly what GA candidate Ray McBerry is against, as he wants to cuff all illegal immigrants to the wrought iron fence on the White House lawn! Personally, I think McBerry has the right idea, but the wrong application: we should be cuffing AIG staff and fat cat bankers to the fence and everyone who works at CAIR until they come clean about the terrorists and terroristic agendas that they've been supporting! We can have a 'rattlesnake' roundup, and we can ride around and place people under citizen's arrest, and cuff them to the fence until Obama really decides what he's going to do with all of these people who funded his campaign and voted for him!!)
Kristol: in IL, the Tea Party candidates showing promise... TN and the Tea Party Movement, they feel so alienated from WA politics, that they want to shake things up!
WALLACE: What's the goal of the movement in 2010?
CLIP FROM VIDEO: GETTING PEOPLE IN OFFICE THAT WILL CHANGE THE TENOR, FIND THEM, RECRUIT THEM, AND VOTE THEM IN...
1 vote changed entire tenor of WA: we want lower taxes, less government, assurance of our states' rights, and national security, of course!
Repubs are coming to the Tea Party, not wanting a 3rd Party, technology has changed, voters have changed, and the issues have changed. The primary process is our election strategy, and there's "no one leader".
(catch more of the panel on Foxnewssunday.com)
"MEET THE PRESS" WITH DAVID GREGORY
RECESSION AND TERRORISM: WHERE ARE THE JOBS? PALIN AT THE TEA PARTY PODIUM... THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT!
Brennan on terrorism: Obama speaking at the C.I.A . venue is poignant, particularly concerning the war in Afghanistan. The purpose of this war is to take away Al Qaida's ability to train operatives.
Feinstein clip: asks about the the possibility of an attack on U.S. soil being high or low? Everyone agrees that it is certain.
Brennan: says that Al Qaida has been doing everything that they can to carry out an attack here, and so far, we've been able to thwart their plans.
Gregory: so what do you say to Feinstein and everyone's concerns?
Brennan: says that we must stay one step ahead and used body cameras.
(Intelligence question of the week: will the use of current body cameras that see through clothing be able to detect HOO-HAA bombs without body cavity searches from female officers?? Anyone??)
Gregory: is there a Superbowl threat?
Brennan: says, seemingly annoyed, people are comfortable with the Superbowl screening!
Gregory: What about the underwear bomber??
Brennan: There will be continued pressure on Al Qaida.
Gregory: What about sleeper cells?
Brennan: Over 100 people are on the terrorism task force, and F.B.I. and local law enforcement are communicating now -- (NOW)
SCOTT BROWN CLIP: TERRORISTS NEED TO KNOW THAT WE'LL USE WEAPONS TO STOP THEM, NOT GIVE LAWYERS TO DEFEND THEM!
Gregory: Why was he treated like an ordinary citizen??
Brennan: The underwear bomber was read his Miranda rights, brought into custody, all under F.B.I. guidelines. Attorney General Casey adopted these guidelines in 2008, this protocol, and Obama has simply said that we can strengthen this, and he's tired of the media and politicians using this for political football.
Gregory: The Obama Administration is responsible for leaking intelligence information to the Press!
Brennan: Senator Bond was given intelligence reports and the Press was on it! The facts got put out there.
Gregory: do we have enough information about how to handle him?
Brennan: we are getting enough information out of the underwear bomber to handle future attacks.
Gregory: are Repubs on board with this?
Brennan: I don't get why the F.B.I. formalities controversy and the Mirandaized outcries have emerged, especially given that this isn't the first time political football has been played on the issue of terrorism. Dems at one point were speaking too much on the progress of Iraq, trying to use a 500 mile screwdriver to drive their political notions from one side of the world to the other.
Gregory: on Al Qaida and Yemen??
Brennan: the focus was on the Yemen attack, because of Al Qaida's focus on Saudi Arabia, and now Al Qaida is focusing on the West.
Gregory: will the underwear bomber have a civilian trial??
Brennan: the priority is to bring murderers to justice. I'm working with those in Congress to ensure this.
(To us, it's really much more simple: POW! One bullet, and someone whose life was so miserable to put a bomb in their underwear now no longer has to torture the rest of us along with blowing himself up.)
Gregory: Attorney General says that failure isn't an option, so does this mean execution for the underwear bomber??
Brennan: We're able to handle this, we won't give them jurisprudence, confident it will happen.
Gregory: what about China's espionage program?
Brennan: says that this is a cyber Pearl Harbor , and that this is serious and significant espionage, product and secret stealing.
(Truthfully, the only thing that has happened: Bangkok Mafia Wars is now out, ripping up peoples' hard drives!! Someone I know started playing it, and now he has had to wipe his computer clean three times and reinstall everything! Then after playing Bangkok Mafia Wars, he wakes up the next day to an empty blue screen, with no instructions on which file corrupted the system. China's hackers are using this social networking program to hack into Facebook or MySpace interface, and then they're disabling individual's computers. Kinda like "Under Seige 2", where Steven Seagal is on a train hijacked by terrorists who attempt to shutdown every government system's computers. The government would do wise to realize that once the hackers successfully practice taking down home computers on a small scale model, they may hijack IP addresses to smoke screen their behavior and blame it on Russians or someone else by re-routing the IP address to some masking IP. Not all Chinese are hackers, and not all hackers are Chinese, so we have quite the potential here for something that could take out more than Mafia Wars and someone's home computer. In Mafia Wars, you get to pretend to be a gangster, even if you're just an IT professional!)
Gregory: asks if national security is at risk?
Brennan: the private sector has to secure the internet.
(Who would've thought it would be your Constitutional duty as a citizen to report Mafia Wars for site errors???!!!)
David Gregory interviews Greenspan and Paulson on unemployment and jobs and everything in between....
Gregory: 9.7% unemployment, is it a turnaround??
Greenspan: it's turned, but it's not aggressive.
Gregory: What about the 8.4 million in job loss??
Paulson: says that the economy is clearly recovering, eventually job creation follows, but there is more certainty of how to do this out of WA with regulatory financial reform.
Gregory: What about brining jobs back?
Greenspan: economic activity has something to do with cutting taxes on small businesses, and these businesses won't hire anyone though if they don't have the business, so we have to create a demand for labor.
Paulson: eventually jobs will be back, the private sector will eventually hire, part of this is due to confidence and psychology of the future economy: certain areas and certain businesses.
(The "Henry Daily Herald", a County publication, put out an awesome article about job creation and an Arts District in Henry County, GA last Thursday, who sees the arts industry creating jobs and economic growth in areas around art hubs, revitalizing older areas of cities/towns.)
Gregory asks: when is the Recession over??
Greenspan: the Recession has been over since last year, but this economic recovery isn't as strong as I'd hoped for, even inventory has been scaled back, but this is still slow-trudging, the moving forward comes with innovation, and is not quite sure how it will, but that it will go forward.
Gregory: the stock market has been down 6% since January, so is this a warning sign??
Greenspan: stocks have a profound impact on economic activity!
Paulson: I don't pay attention to stocks over a couple of weeks time...
Gregory: asks about Obama's economic policy.
Paulson: says that economic programs are continued, a logical extension of these programs prevented collapse of 25% unemployment, and the money is coming back with interest, and both McCain and Obama supported TARP, though Paulson won't admit who he voted for...
(I presume that Paulson voted for Obama and now regrets it!! Yellow-belly Paulson won't say who he voted for, so I find it hard to support his synopses of the economy, when in actuality, we do have 25% unemployed when you count the unemployed, underemployed, government unions and military. This is why the 60% who pay taxes are so upset when these 25% of people that we pay, who don't listen to our advice excluding our military, and instead listen to the 15% rich or the minority voice on welfare.)
Paulson: admits that McCain could've played the populist card on TARP, and if he had we could've been defenseless!
(Another thing, I don't think Paulson or Democrats give McCain or the American people enough credit for being smart enough to realize the difference between playing politics, or as they like to say 'populism', and then plain, old, just doing the right right thing... I think that's why it's so easy to spot a liar, this incessant twitch that Obama has or the head movement from side-to-side as feigned confidence, even across a television to the keen observer, nothing escapes the eyes of the American public, or this deficit hawk here! It's hard not to miss Obama, really!)
(So much so, that I had to break down and write a separate letter to CA this week, regarding the incidence of 3700 cases of sexually transmitted diseases at just 1 clinic, but yet Pelosi seems to know what's best for the sex lives of all Americans, and she's still not willing to relinquish that since the "Dems won, that they're going to write all the bills, and do it their way," even though Public Option as written is a dead and stinking horse:)
(I can't help but think this is because the Democrats are still privately sqwaking about Public Option, rather than worrying about putting people back to work to pay for their own health care programs!! I mean, we have free college tuition, welfare, food stamps, and now we have to give away free health care?! This makes no sense! You don't bankrupt the middle class in order to push your agenda, and then think they won't notice when they lose their jobs nearing the billion mark!!)
Gregory: what about poisoned mortgages? What about the 'maximum vulnerability' and what happens if we have another meltdown??
Paulson: this wouldn't be good, as government has got to develop a program to keep people in their homes, as when this meltdown happened initially no one foresaw housing as a problem... a decline in housing destroys health and changes the entire spending behavior of people. When a home is worth less than the mortgage, it's hard to see what it is that you're paying so much money for!!
(This is why I know for a fact Paulson didn't vote for McCain! Paulson voted Obama, as McCain during his campaign, revived the bribe and $10,000 kickback Obama took from the Black Caucus to endorse Fannie Mae, and so did Palin, but Paulson was hypnotized by Obama instead of hearing the facts that this would derail our economy! Clinton's economic success was riding the coat tails of George Bush Sr., as all of the legislation that Bush Sr. put in place set the stage for what looked like Clinton financial wizardry! Nothing could've been further from the truth, and Clinton passed this ticking time bomb onto Bush Jr., and the funny thing was that it actually made itself back to the hands of the rightfully destructive owner -- OBAMA!! )
Greenspan: in 2005/2006, 8 million mortgages had the 20% down payment, which is now gone for homeowners who are on the edge of tipping down into that category described by Paulson, and I give a foreclosure millstone warning!!
Gregory: with the deficit only going down $4 billion in 10yrs., we have some serious issues with fiscal responsibility and how do we tackle this?
Paulson: this is a serious, long-term challenge, and the deficit is now a generational issue, so we must reform entitlement programs and this doesn't have to be a crisis, though when I wrote my book, this hit me right between the eyes: WA doesn't move on something unless it's a crisis!
Gregory: says that the U.S. is the biggest borrower....
(I just want to know: I look at the debt clock and the deficit, and I see that my share of the deficit is $40,000+. I'm 29, I've never owned a home, never had children of my own, I have credit card debt under $10,000, I don't owe any outstanding medical bills, I don't have a car loan or any other loans in my name that I haven't paid, or any student loans as I paid for my education with scholarships that I earned or performed work in order to be credited to my tuition costs, AND I OWE THE GOVERNMENT NO BACK TAXES AFTER PAYING REGULARLY FOR OVER 10YRS.+ NOW! Please tell me, where is my property and $40,000 house if the government is saying that I owe them 40 GRAND?!!!)
Greenspan: gives it to us straight, he says that if the U.S. continues to borrow, we are hindered and we have no capital cushion like we used to have, our major economic power is diminished and these fiscal problems that we have stopped our dominance.
Gregory: the Bush Jr. tax cuts are expiring, is this a bad idea??
Paulson: we need broad-based tax reform, and tax increase is bad, so it will be questioned, and we need to focus on taxes and housing.
Greenspan: agrees with Paulson, that last week's discussion/Congressional meeting on Social Security that 90 votes were taken to table talking about it, and if we don't talk about it, this entails ending up having to raise taxes to close the deficit!
Gregory: are y'all frustrated by WALL STREET?
Paulson: compensation is definitely out-of-whack, and he understands why Americans are upset, but they need to channel their anger into regulatory reform measures, so that there's a strong resolution authority for liquidation, so that the taxpayer doesn't have to bailout anyone anymore.
David Gregory interviews Gillespie and Dee Dee: on the Tea Party in TN, where is Palin going?
Gillespie: she's connecting with people, so he doesn't understand why people have this consternation with Palin.
Gregory: does Palin have a role in the Repub Party?
Dee Dee: this didn't stop Palin, her husband isn't a Repub, and everyone should re-examine the 3rd Party.
Gregory: a USA TODAY editorial says that partisanship is a recipe for debt...
Dee Dee: it's hard to run as a 3rd Party candidate, look at how well Ross Perot did though on his platform against fiscal irresponsibility!
Dee Dee: we'll see if Obama has a surplus like Clinton, she blames Bush Jr.
Gillespie: spars with Dee Dee over this issue.
(Trust me, some Americans aren't asleep at the wheel. We're not going to be lured into Clinton's surplus theory of Obama needing to stay another 3yrs. to duplicate something that surely came from Clinton resting on the laurels of Bush Sr., I know, I read Bush Sr.'s exit legislation. While Bush Jr. bankrupted in the oil business and couldn't duplicate his father's fiscal responsibility, Obama has done us NO FAVORS pacifying FAT CAT BANKERS WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS!!)
Gregory: says that Obama isn't turning his back on health care, but he's certainly not talking about it, so what is the 'new' normal in WA?
(Obama approves CHIP, but the new battle is Medicare/Medicaid reform.)
Gillespie: liability reform on insurance companies and pre-existing conditions are common ground to merge health care, but Obama's burned a year on this, and the economy and job market is suffering as a result.
Dee Dee: bipartisan jobs bill is what they're focusing on now, and jobs is #1 (NOW), jobs bill will come first and then health care, but then what does this say about the liability to govern?
(Dee Dee was Slick Willy's fast talker, she talked so fast as to make up with what Dems haven't been focusing on all year: JOBS!)
(WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM GOVERNING!! THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS!! AS THEY'RE THE LIABILITY!!)
Gillespie: backs up Gregory, he cites the rejection of Joe Biden 's bid for a Senate seat, as even more proof that Democrats are even divided on their own agenda!
Gregory ends by talking hockey and saying: GO SAINTS!!
"THIS WEEK" WITH JAKE TAPPER interviews Geithner
(oh I could barely sit through this one, as Geithner is Obama's Keebler Gnome on financial stuff, and I guess since I watched Harry Potter last night, I couldn't help but fixate on Geithner's ears, as if he is one of the little banker elves from "GRINGOTT'S WIZARD BANK" from Harry Potter....)
(This is the guy who Geithner favors, so if you watched the interview you'd know what I meant about how Geithner does this thing with his mouth too, JUST LIKE THE GOBLIN!!)
JAKE TAPPER BEGINS WITH THE ECONOMIC FIGURES: 14.8 MILLION TOTAL UNEMPLOYED, 6.3 MILLION OUT OF WORK FOR 6 MONTHS OR MORE, 7.4 MILLION JOBS LOST ALL AT ONCE, WITH THAT RISING TO 8.4 MILLION WITH THE ECONOMY STILL SHEDDING JOBS!!
Geithner: still believes that the economy will grow jobs by Spring, (please no one tell him that while they have 3ft. of snow this weekend that here in the South it's 50 degrees with the first buds of Spring on the trees, so he's already behind the curve!!), sees encouraging signs of economic growth by (tenths of points, though he calls it modest) modest reduction in unemployment, and shows the most rapid rate of healing that he's seen thus far.
Tapper: asks are you doing enough?? The budget is still predicting unemployment?!
Geithner: is working with Congress on incentives, infrastructure, federal aid to state governments (GA doesn't want anymore handouts or to be told what to do on health care because of financial handouts, and many other states feel the same way and have said so!!)
Tapper: on MA, the stimulus didn't create not one job!
Geithner: there's no basis for that!
(I wanted to jump on a couch like Tom Cruise between them, and go: "WHERE'S THE MONEY??! SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!" I applaud Tapper for continuing the interview with grace, I would've surely snatched this weasel up by his tie and hissed in his face ---- Where's the stimulus money??? Where's the stimulus money that has been stolen from us with no accountability, ($6.4 billion for 440 fictional districts, $375 million to locations that don't exist), we as taxpayers aren't giving you a blank check: 1 in 6 Americans are STILL unemployed and 1 in 5 Americans are in danger of losing their homes. In addition to the $1.2 trillion in bailouts that Obama gave to "fat cat bankers", we're not interested in funding any legislation that Obama endorses or any legislation written by Reid, Pelosi, or Baucus that's not revised:
15.3 MILLION ARE OUT OF WORK
9.2 MILLION ARE WORKING ONLY PART TIME/NOT FULL TIME1.5 MILLION AREN'T EVEN LOOKING FOR A JOB
929,000 HAVE GIVEN UP
=26.9 MILLION PEOPLE OR 26,900,000 MILLION PEOPLE WHICH IS 17.3% OF THE
ENTIRE WORK FORCE OUT OF WORK!!)
Tapper: have there been programs that haven't worked??
Geithner: says it's magic!!
(Just like a good little gnome should, Obama's Keebler gnome of Harry Potter's bankers - it's magic!!)
Tapper: if we don't have our triple A bonding rating anymore, than this means that we won't be able to spend!
Geithner: we need to turn to fixing our long-term fiscal problems....
(SHEER GENIUS AT WORK, FOLKS !!)
Tapper: is this serious? The budget???!
Geithner: we made tough choices that are unpopular and we paid for new programs.
Tapper: but even if bipartisanship recommends cuts to this budget? Isn't government ineffective??
Geithner: bringing people together to solve problems with practical solutions....
Tapper: Repubs say this is a backdraft of tax increases!
Geithner: supplicates his well-memorized script of Democrats' rhetoric.
Tapper: cites the 'deficit of trust' debaucle, AIG, and where in all this Geithner do you bear responsibility???
Geithner: focuses on damage of what he thought would've happened (as if this isn't bad enough), he says that there's a lot more to be done, and he totally evades the question, never once taking any responsibility for his actions or for any action of Obama and the Democrats causing these unemployment numbers!
Tapper: confronts Geithner with only 66,000 people involved in the mortgage modification program, and you call this success?!
Geithner: says that 3/4 of Americans temporarily or permanently were helped (THIS IS A GOVERNMENT SCHEME!!)
Tapper: on attacking banks too big to fail, what are the concerns?
Geithner: the reform package puts it on the banks (I'll believe it when I see it!!), raises global standards, and much stronger ahead against risk-taking.
Tapper: you compared your job to diffusing 5 bombs simultaneously; i.e., Fannie, Freddie, so on... so even though you compared your job to "Hurt Locker", you really were diffusing theoretical bombs...
Geithner: this was catastrophic, the gravest financial moment ever seen (launches into the 'enormous care/force' script with 'long-term' and 'hard work' spiel that I've heard Obama and other Dems say repeatedly, followed by I'm proud to be and what I've done...)
Tapper: so it was nerve racking for you then Geithner?
(CAN I PUKE NOW?? IS THIS INTERVIEW OVER???!!!)
"THIS WEEK'S ROUND TABLE" Ruth, George, Poedesta, Al, and Peggy
George: businesses don't know what's happening with the government right now: is it energy, or is it health care reform? This has left the economy stagnant on hiring because businesses know that tax cuts are gone for their businesses, interest rates are going up, and that $.42 is borrowed on every dollar, and that every penny of the federal budget is already spent on approp. bill !!
Poedesta: 17% of it is eaten up by health care costs, so we may go with a Senate Bill version Public Option with amendments or some sort of substantial package for the uninsured, while focusing on breaking our 'addiction to oil', this economic process is like threading the eye of a needle!!
(SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT FOLKS... OUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING CONTROLLED BY A BUNCH OF MOLES WHO ARE SO NEAR-SIGHTED IN THEIR SPENDING SPREE THAT THEY CAN'T EVEN TAKE THE NEXT STEP TO SEW UP OUR RIPPED APART ECONOMY, BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO BLINDED BY SPENDING TO DO SO!!)
Ruth: disagrees with George, jobs are a small sliver of business, the fundamental short-term path of the economy is jobs, but it's a long slog in a trough uphill!
Peggy: businesses are too nervous to hire, because what Obama says to them sounds like a lot of "RA-RA AND GOBBLEDY-GOOK!!", and people look at Bush Jr. as breaking their Piggy Bank, but Obama as breaking the bank of the Federal Reserve!!
(Peggy truly captured what American's are feeling!!)
Tapper: turns to Al
Al: disagrees with Peggy and George, says it's just a psychological problem... we're not on the way back the way we thought we'd be, but there's a vivid picture of the fear.
George: acknowledges it.
Ruth: trivializes our concerns (NO, SHE REALLY DOES)
Al: enhanced interrogation methods were off the table/they have material evidence, the underwear if you will...
Poedesta: accuses Palin of huffing and puffing... (well, that's what a tea pot does, is make some noise!!)
Peggy: underwear bomber is singing like a canary!!
Poedesta: thinks that the F.B.I. is owed an apology (yeah, and I owe the underwear bomber a "Salute your Shorts!!")
Tapper: Miranda-ize or not? This was all over the place!
Poedesta: attacking the F.B.I. is wrong!
Tapper: Any hope of bipartisanship?
Al: not on terrorism issues.
Tapper: What about on small business tax cuts??
George: yes, on tax cuts, but Obama hasn't retreated from his aggressive agenda, and it's like he's asking Repubs to stop being Repubs!! And it's not going to happen!!
Peggy: it's easier to be that way now, with his numbers going down! Scott Brown, MA, are all against Obama's agenda!
George: says don't forget about Obama taking care of his unionized government employees!!
Tapper: On Palin?
Ruth: she makes running against the Tea Party easier! (LOL, so narrow minded!)
Peggy: says the Tea Party is leading, and they'll vote Republican!
Poedesta: says this is good for the Repub consulting committee, (LOL, such a sour puss!) Repub leaders are going to have to pay a price!
Al: says that this is the insurgent party, there's not litmus test for these people to determine if they're an asset, doesn't know what the Tea Party is...
(T.E.A. - taxed, enough, ALREADY! -- THERE YA GO, AL!!)
Tapper: on FCINO AD -- wolf in sheep's clothing with blazing red eyes... (I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT AND CREATIVE!!)
George: this is 'the dog that didn't bite back'
Peggy: fascinating ad, like a nervous breakdown, and took Salvador Dali and made it into a tech commerical!
Ruth: GIMME A BREAK!
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