The London terror attacks took center stage on the Sunday morning news shows today.
Michael Chertoff appeared on NBC'c Meet the Press, ABC's This Week, and even CBS' lowly Face the Nation, while Fran Townsend went to FOX News Sunday.
It was the same old, same old from Chertoff and Townsend.
We're doing a lot, but we have to do more and do what we're already doing better.
In a discussion on FOX, Pat Roberts and Chris Dodd talked terror with Brit Hume.
Not surprisingly, Dodd used the opportunity to bash the Bush administration. He whined about there not being enough money to protect transportation.
Hume pointed out that money is being spent at the local level through grants, etc.
Dodd said that's not good enough since most of the states are in debt.
Hume asked Dodd, "How, specifically, would you make buses safe?" Dodd said that more federal funds being spent on dogs and personnel to monitor our mass transportation would do the job.
How lame! Yeah, it's that simple.
Roberts focused on the importance of good intelligence. He relayed some observations from his recent visit to Gitmo. He told stories of the great medical care detainees receive there. He spoke of watching them play ping-pong and soccer.
Roberts said we're getting great information from the interrogations going on at Gitmo and that we're using "carrots, not sticks" to do it.
Hume wanted to know if the London attacks would mean the end of the Dem movement to close Gitmo. When he asked Dodd if Dems are more worried about the treatment of prisoners or getting good intelligence, Dodd replied, "Well, both."
The renewal of the Patriot Act then came up. Will the amendment to soften it go away now?
Dodd said, "No."
Roberts said that libraries and bookstores should not be exempt from our efforts to root out terrorists.
Dodd says we need solidarity on the issue of terrorism, but not at the price of our civil liberties. He said we can't have this wholesale examination of books people read.
In response, Hume asked Roberts if there has been a "wholesale examination" as Dodd suggested.
Of course, Roberts replied, "No."
Dems love to distort the realities of the Patriot Act. They want to create doubt in people's minds and create fears that are unfounded in order to win support. They've done it for years with social security; and they do it whenever they bash the Patriot Act, legislation they voted to pass nearly unanimously in 2001.
The Supreme Court was also an issue on the shows this morning.
Orrin Hatch and Chuck Schumer discussed it on Meet the Press.
Tim Russert cut right to the chase and asked Chuckie about his phone call from the Amtrak train.
Russert directly asked if he said that the Dems were "going to war" over the Supreme Court vacancy.
Chuckie flatly denied it. He said the bottom line was that the President needed to choose a "consensus nominee." When Russert pressed him about the phone call, Chuckie danced around, looked embarrassed, and came off like a liar.
Chuckie admitted that he did say, "We won’t roll over if it's not a consensus nominee."
Russert said that it appears the Senate wants joint authority to choose the nominee. He questioned Chuckie about the appropriateness of this. Chuckie focused on the need for consultation. He threatened that Bush should nominate someone that everyone can back in order to avoid a divisive fight.
Hatch correctly shot back that when the Dems say "consultation," they mean "done their way." He pointed out that the Bush administration has done an incredible amount of consultation already, more than has ever been done by any administration.
Funny how that doesn't get reported by the mainstream media.
Chuckie talked about how when Clinton was choosing nominees for the Supreme Court, he consulted with Hatch.
Hatch clarified a dramatic difference between then and now.
Hatch said that he didn’t threaten to filibuster or make demands the way the Dems are doing today.
He noted that the Constitution does NOT require consultation. The President is offering it as a courtesy, but the Dems are demanding it as their right.
Chuckie said Hatch has that wrong. He asserted that the Dems know they can’t choose the nominee. Nonetheless, he made it known that they want a conservative like Sandra Day O’Connor to be nominated.
Will the Dems filibuster?
Schumer said that they won't rule it out. They want to avoid it by making sure that the President chooses someone they will support.
That's a threat, Chuckie.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Sunday Morning Shows: Terror and the Supreme Court
Posted by Mary at 7/10/2005 10:18:00 AM
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2 comments:
Hey buddy. I just found your blog by accident using the "next" button on blogger.
I have to admit, blogs like yours just sort of make me sad. I'm not 'liberal' or 'conservative,' but it's obvious you identify with the republican party and what passes for a conservative movement today pretty completely.
It is sad to me that you spend hours repeating what you hear on Rush or Savage. It is sad that you follow the stories they speciously tell you are important, and desperately toil in obscurity in your blog to lend them more importance. It is sad that you associate patriotism with your party exclusively, with your administration.
Again, I have no affiliations, but because I attack you now you likely think I'm a 'liberal.' That is sad. "Sad" is not 'pathetic,' but certainly generating pathos and sympathy. I hope some day you will realize that like greece, America has endured long enough to become complacent in its freedoms and is increasingly totalitarian in action and thought. This statement comes from someone who loves America and, more than what it is, what it stands for. Again, I am not affiliated with any party, though in your red v. blue mind that is likely difficult to accept.
I can do this without 'flying flags.' It is an art, I admit, but one readily learned--just turn off the TV, turn off the radio, read the Federalist papers and early treatises, and realize that you need to stop becoming a mouthpiece for the stereotypical, soundbiteable ideologies that we have the unctuous comfort of having available today. Learn to have your own voice if you plan on making any meaningful contribution to the world.
I will not visit this blog again, so don't bother replying.
Hey, buddy.
I have to admit, comments like yours just make me laugh.
You fail to address the content of anything I've written.
You know virutally NOTHING about me.
Is it fun to leave your little sad message on conservative blogs that you hit "by accident"?
To me, it's sad.
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