" THE SYNTHESIS " 1-24-2010 EDITION| by: AJA BROOKS, OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM VOLUNTEER FOR THE BLACK RIBBON OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST MEDIA BIAS AND GA LOBBYIST FOR "LIFE AND LIBERTY" |
WHAT IS "THE SYNTHESIS"? The synthesis is an objective analysis of political journalism, an assessment of the perception of the facts, a political digest for the common man. |
(A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE BEST POINTS OF 3HRS. OF SUNDAY MORNING POLITICAL SHOWS)
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" with Chris Wallace
Wallace asks: what's up with the Dow losing 400pts. last week, how does this reflect on Bernanke? Should Obama or anyone support him for a 2nd term? There seems to be anger manifesting on the economy....
Robert Gibbs on Bernanke and the economy: the White House has taken steps to stabilize the economy, so that the private sector is hiring again. Playing politics on Bernanke's appointment is bad.
Wallace asks: will the criticism fall on Bernanke for bashing fat cats and banks?
Gibbs: acknowledges that Americans have taken the fall for banks and that Obama is trying to recoup money for taxpayers, and he says that banks should receive no more capital from the government in order to invest for themselves.
(Essentially, what this means is that Americans weren't aware that banks were sapping the government, double-dipping into government capital and customer dollars to gamble in the stock market and the housing market. Probably because Americans weren't listening to
Gibbs: says that we need to work together for financial reform, so that we're not held hostage to the banks like we were 9/2008.
(The problem is though that we got here because of what Obama did as a Senator, and until we acknowledge that he created this crisis, we won't get anywhere with his solutions. Obama got his wealth from fundraising, stealing money from charity, and letting his fundraiser Rezko take the fall and do federal time for those charges involving his house and property that should've went to build 10 homes for poor/homeless families. The Republican party did not bring this to light for lack of a ruling/verdict where Obama is charged. We still do not have an update if Rezko's plea out implicates Obama, and when Obama's birth certificate is determined as fake, this means Obama's facing federal fraud charges. This would be enough to overturn Obama's love-hate relationship with his fat cat banker poker buddies and boot him out of office!!)
Wallace asks: will Obama fight for the 'little guy'?
Gibbs says: of course, he will fight for the little guy, America faces rising costs of health care, education, and jobs. This process though has caused health care to become caricatured.....
(COULD HE POSSIBLY BE REFERRING TO MY CARICATURE BELOW, THAT WAS CIRCULATED LAST YEAR?? MAYBE..... YOU DECIDE.)
Wallace asks: what about the $175 million for a jobs bill that we've been hearing about? Tax credits for businesses and green energy jobs, and this is borrowing more money after the stimulus failed to put more people back to work??!
Shouldn't we take just even a few months to focus on jobs? Brown campaigned against the Obama agenda, and he won, so what does this say about the political landscape now?
Wallace: what about Osama?
Gibbs: Obama has saved jobs that would've been lost and this would've been a lot worse. We still don't have all the figures in, we just know that the economy is showing one sign of recovery in that there was minimal percentage gains in unemployment and that the stock market rebounded.
Osama is going down as a thug, though he gives no clear answers on why the Christmas day underwear bomber is read Miranda rights 15min. after interrogation, and that he's not arrested officially until 3 days later.
Wallace: asks Cornyn about Bernanke.
Cornyn: says that Bernanke is an honorable and brilliant man, but that during his appointment that the Reserve could've done better and would do better without Bernanke. Yes, he did a good job mitigating the circumstances, but the Reserve is better off with a fresh start. Bernanke is shifting the focus of financial affairs from NY to WA, and this is completely backwards. People do have a lot of uncertainty about this.
Bernanke should've cut this financial crisis off at the pass.
(AS I SAID,
Wallace: asks Cornyn about health care and terrorism and how it relates to the MA election. What are the repercussions?
Cornyn: says that Repubs will gain more seats, as Dems have been tone deaf. He says that Dems have missed the point, brings up exit polls, and says that there is a clear rejection of Obama Admin. and policies.
(AS IN, Dems have said, I see what you're saying, but I can't hear you..... la-la-la~~ I can't hear you: NO-NO-NO HEALTH CARE! Are you saying Na-na-na "health care"?)
Cornyn: goes on to say that all Repubs and Americans alike wanted was just a seat at the table to discuss health care, and Obama is making a mockery of democracy and of the legislative process. We want step-by-step real reform. The uncertainty on health care is killing jobs, and Obama is vacillating on higher taxes and regulation, and this is killing businesses. His actions have prompted fear and anger.
Wallace: how has Brown's victory in MA helped or made a big difference?
Cornyn: MA makes a big difference in our party/with fundraising too. Obama should look at this as a mid-course change of direction for himself, as Dems are getting caught napping. Dems think this is about tactics, like health care, rather instead of focusing on what's unpopular about the legislation and their policy practices. This is the 41st vote to stop health care bills as written, and this is to start over.
Wallace: asks why Tea Party polls indicate that Cornyn is part of the problem?
Cornyn: says Tea Party polls are an indication that we've got work to do, even though we've caught flack about endorsing people in FL where unemployment has gone up, Dems need to learn that it's not what's best for the party, but what's best for the people.
Wallace: will there be a rush of corporate cash for campaign advertising?
Cornyn: no, it's just less transparent/less accountable with the Supreme Court ruling.
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" - panel with Kristol, Hume,
Wallace: For or against Bernanke?
Hume: there's dissatisfaction about the economy, but Bernanke is an easy
Mara:panic and hysteria is what resulted in the MA election.
Kristol: Bernanke didn't do what a central banker is supposed to do, which is to keep us safe, and he shouldn't be reappointed.
Hume: the bank tax is silly, purely politicizing our financial crisis. A way that Obama thinks that he can connect with this "populist anger". Obama can't join the populists or angry people, when it's his policies that have gotten us into this mess. This is a rhetorical attack on banks, this isn't a real change in policies of his that have messed things up.
Mara: disagrees with Hume, that Obama needs to put the firewall between consumer money and basic banking, so that banks can continue speculative money-making for themselves w/o being under the financial umbrella of taxpayer protection.
Kristol: this isn't seriously effective politics on Obama's part, considers his advisement to be a 1 pager of talking points that Axelrod is coaching Obama to say to people. People don't trust Obama to do anything about financial reform now. Obama simply can't join these people in this anger when people see this as a reflection of his policies that have caused these results.
Wallace:Obama uses the word fight more than 20x when he addressed the nation, so what can we expect from
Hume: it may appeal to populism, but the MA message/other states are clear that they don't like his policies or his results. Health care was his priority/Dems not Americans' priority, so he's got to undo this one thing, making a major agonizing reassessment, as he's making a big mistake and he needs to reorient himself to what people actually want not what he thinks that they want.
Wallace: so what should Obama do??
Kristol: says that no matter what, he will passionately disagree with
(Thus Kristol redeems himself, after really appearing over the past month or so not to draw a hard line against
Kristol: this took place long before and has been unpopular before MA, and this is what grassroots rebellions of populist anger has given us.
"Meet the Press" with David Gregory
"MA" is the new catchword, it seems that 38% is an emerging majority of people who want jobs more than anything else.
Valerie Jarrett: gives the same democratic diatribe about how Obama's focused on jobs since day one....
(blah-blah-blah
David Gregory: says that this sounds like an incumbent campaigner not a President!!
Valerie Jarrett: lobbyists are dominating the day...
(If all else fails, then blame the lobbyists! Jarrett tries the same tactics that former Sec. of state Karen Handel used to springboard her campaign for Governor, when the truth is that you can't judge one lobbyist as the barometer for all lobbyists in
McConnell: says that this is Obama's cue to start over! 48% of the MA election was about people being decidedly against health care,
David Gregory: so what did Repubs say on financing these bills?
(I can tell you what GA said, along with MA, TN, PA, and TX. MA says no to Public Option, and their strategy to block Public Option bills is the election of Scott Brown, as their own state-run government option health insurance experiment has failed and bankrupted their state budget. MA doesn't have the money to participate in something that already failed and bankrupted their state, nor do they want to after what they learned about having a state program like it. TN and PA have reservations about their budgets, especially when it comes to much-needed infrastructure financing. They want to use federal dollars and save money on bids, not be indebted to the federal government and lose their sovereignty by financing abortions, of all things! GA feels the same way, and the politics of the Governor's race are undoing any of Perdue's proposed budget that's putting us in debt in the event Public Option is passed, and lobbyists and legislators are making a pact not to accept any federal funding in the event it passed, as we refuse to lose our state's right to say "NO", when we are already in shortfall, Public Option pushing an unwanted immoral debt on our state into the billions!!)
McConnell: says that this bill needs to be stopped regardless. Dems have to decide if they're willing to listen to Americans, that Dems have been arrogant up to this point, with their 1yr. of "LET'S MAKE HISTORY..."
(To me, Public Option is the historical epic fail of the Democratic Party. The issues of health care have long been on the table by Clinton, and even Republicans, but Democrats have done their best to edit Repubs out of the process, that is until MA. They feel like since Obama is still there, that since they have a majority, that the bills have to be written, approved, and financed THEIR way. This leaves out the majority of voters in the process who are so busy working whose taxpayer dollars are going to pay for something that they don't want and weren't consulted about ever during the process. Public Option is Obama's undoing. This promise is to his constituents: Mickey Mouse, dead people, ACORN, and ignorant blacks who voted for him with
McConnell: says that the spending commission is a good idea. This isn't about the President/Dems' Public Option, this is about the American people who are working and paying into the system, about what they want. We'll see what comes out of
"Meet the Press Round Table" David Gregory with E.J., Peggy, Todd, and Katty
Peggy: says that America is a dynamic country/Obama's difficulties now show clearly/2008 election settled nothing and on top of that, Obama has now lost Independents and in the middle of the road voters.
E.J.: Obama gets it/yet he's appearing as a Wall Street liberal.
David Gregory: brings up "NEWSWEEK'S - 'Inspiration
Katty: we don't have to explain why/what's the benefit?
Todd: responds that there's an odd message problem, that the White House will have to deal with this anger against government and institutions. The leader of WA and being anti-WA at the same time.... so Obama's going to have to run against his own Democratic Congress.
Peggy: Repubs' ideas on health care reform and tort reform weren't taken, they were flicked away/dismissed by the Dems. There's no right 'MAGICAL WAY' to sell health care when it's faulty and when people have reservations...
(SQWAK SQWAK SQUAWK, I really couldn't get anything intelligible out of that. By this time, I'm convinced that if Katty isn't the Peppermint Orbit Gum lady, she is either the older cousin or somehow related.... lol )
Katty: there's confusing of the issues/it's time to step back
E.J.: I think that people are over-rating things, as when Dems walk away, they will look weak.
(If I were the Democrats, I would be less worried about looking weak, then I would be about looking stupid. When it comes to the way Public Option is written, it's ST-UPID, ST-UPID, ST-UPID !! Sorry to my friend Steve, no harm intended from the insults you've so graciously taken over the years. Obama does well to learn from humility, not more campaign tactics in raking the b.s. until Public Option doesn't look like the crap it really is, as in just spreading it out so it doesn't look so conspicuous.)
Todd: says no one's seeing the results, and no one has patience to see the results through, as they're forgetting health care is connected to the economy.
E.J.: agrees that there are no magic words, but take Reagan for example, who didn't get lost in the details like Obama's being mired in politics. Obama has not consistent argument or narrative about the direction of America.
Peggy: says that this isn't 1982, yes Obama is younger that Reagan, but even drawing any parallel between the two isn't even relevant when:
1) Reagan was on the same page with Americans when it came to the economy and national security, 2) Reagan had a clear plan that everyone knew, 3) Reagan was a conservative in a center right American culture. She says that she doesn't buy E.J.'s parallel.
Katty: agrees that people aren't confident in Obama's competency, and this is what undermines Obama.
David Gregory: asks where's the Repubs on this?? Dick Armey former R-TX on the Tea Party and American centrists...
Todd: believes that Fox endorses the Tea Party.
(Chuck Todd, this lame-O is cooped up in the White House all the time, so I guess he doesn't realize that Fox viewers are primarily conservative, either Repub or Dem, and that the Tea Party protested various news networks for not reporting in an un-biased fashion like Fox. It's more like Tea Party people who have cable watch the cable news shows, but Tea party protesters will hold Fox accountable and take them to the stocks just like CNN and "the AJC" down here, if they are skewing the facts favorably with Obama-zombie drivel instead of real issues on legislation and views.)
David Gregory: is Obama going down fighting??
E.J.: like Hillary was a more effective fighter, he has to show that government works.
Peggy: centrists, middle-of-the-road voters, and the Tea Party are who he needs to concentrate on, and whether or not he endorses taxing them and spending their money!!
You can't just put out thousands of pages of bills in this kind of political environment.
"THIS WEEK" with Moran
"Time's 'What now?'"
Axelrod: quotes same brainwashed Dems speech on financial reform.
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Moran asks: what would you do over??
Axelrod: Obama did was something that was unpopular, etc. but that he has no regrets with our economic security after 8 mos. of debating on what they did do.
Moran: changes the subject to MA, says that this caught people off guard. When it comes to health care, is it good to pass it or is passing it at all even a good idea? How does this reflect the MA election??
Menendez: economic distress is the mood across the country, and we must address it legislatively
(Translation: it will take an act of Congress to address the involvement of Congress and Obama in the housing market schemes and lending capital from our tax dollars to gambling banks. Or it could simply mean voting them out. By the time it takes to get this legislation through for something unethical that they shouldn't have done in the first place, we'll spend less money processing them criminally or just simply giving them the pink slip to get the heck on somewhere....)
Demint: didn't want this to be Obama's waterloo, there's a massive awakening on spending, the deficit, health care issues, and Obama's still blaming Bush Jr., and so Demint agrees with the anger of voters.
Moran: are Repubs saying only "NO"?
Demint: Repubs have campaigned on health care for years, warned about the stimulus and massive spending, and these failures. Broad-based taxes is what will jolt life back into the economy, not more stimulus or spending.
Menendez: the people and Repubs have just about as much responsibility to move the country forward and just saying "no" doesn't stop any of these abuses.
Demint: says that we won't have bipartisan support with Dems until they stop wasteful spending, acknowledge the debt that they've created, and then refuse to make anymore debt. Two yrs. of Dems have created more debt than 8yrs. of Bush Jr.'s spending . Obama feels that he could steam roll Americans on health care.
( DING --- STEAMROLL !!)
Demint: on Supreme Court ruling, agrees that free speech cna't be repressed/what does this mean for foreign corporations and their influence on politics?
Menendez: agrees with the McCain-Feingold act to prevent special interest and corruption, and a corporation is a corporation, is a corporation so if they are foreign they will have an influence on politics.
(I'm still divided on the issue. I think if corporations should have a voice, that tax-exempt status organizations like Churches don't have to forfeit their right to free speech, as they shouldn't have to pay the government to exercise that freely about issues that the Church doesn't agree upon principally following biblical doctrine.)
"The Round Table" with Will, Roberts, Donaldson, Dowd
Will: opening remarks
Roberts: this isn't a Repub. tide, this is a throw-the-bums-out wave, people who have turned against the process
Donaldson: agrees
Dowd: what happens in MA doesn't stay in MA!
Moran: Repubs think that it's a victory/no change in voter structure
Will: there was no underlying discontent
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"HEALTH CARE REFORM: R.I.P.?"
Roberts: Public Option became the holy grail...
Will: this is madness to spend 3 more months on health care when people want it spent on the economy, and we've spent 1yr. on health care!!
Donaldson: acceptance of both parties in solving the problem is what Obama ran on...
Tapper: WHAT SHOULD HE DO??
Will: voters are sober, frightened by the deficit, and Obama will come in with a plan...
Donaldson: this is dysfunctional from both parties
Roberts: answers clearly that Obama should focus on his education proposal
Moran: Supreme Court decision for corporate financing??
Will: vindication/dissemination of speech
(Way to go Will, let's use words that people have to
Donaldson: Goldman Sachs can give millions to corp. campaigns....
Roberts: not looking at money as the biggest problem in the political arena, except when it comes to fundraising.
Dowd: sides w/ incumbent
Will: social science has failed to demonstrate how people vote. We spend on campaigns in a year what we do buying tortilla chips, WHEN THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS ARE LAWYERS!!
(GO AHEAD AND SAY IT WILL: BLOOD SUCKING LAWYERS!! My cousin would do well to consider that politics could now determine his paycheck as a corporate lawyer.....)
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