While I don’t recommend watching any of this crap, at least you are forewarmed about how putrid official political discourse will be this morning. If you are not bulimic but wish you were, you can watch Laura Ingraham and Andrew Sullivan face off, on Tweety’s show, in a right on right debate about the 2006 midterm elections and the Da Vinci Code. If that doesn’t make you puke, you can take in a full half-hour with John McCain at Face the Nation. If you are still “with-breakfast”, Tom DeLay is going to make a guest appearance with Stephanopoulus.
Highlights include an appearance by Howard Dean on This Week, a good Meet the Press line-up which will do no good for the Bush administration. And a sure-to-be unenlightening and farcical pantomime on Wolf Blitzer, when CNN’s chief dunce tries to figure out why Porter Goss just got shit-canned from his job at the CIA. Enjoy. If you can.
Chris Matthews: GUESTS: Katty Kay — BBC, Jon Meacham — Newsweek Magazine, Laura Ingraham — The Laura Ingraham Show, Andrew Sullivan — New Republic Magazine; Time Magazine.
TOPICS: WILL REPUBLICANS LOSE CONTROL OF CONGRESS THIS FALL?
WHY IS JOHN MCCAIN SPEAKING AT JERRY FALWELL’S UNIVERSITY THIS WEEK?
PLUS, WHY ARE AMERICANS OBSESSED WITH “THE DA VINCI CODE”?
George Stephanopoulos: Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., Howard Dean, chair, Democratic National Committee.
* ROUNDTABLE: Martha Raddatz, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and George Will
* VOICES: Scott McClellan.
Meet the Press: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, on gas prices, immigration, the war in Iraq & the 2006 elections. Then, a roundtable with the Washington Post’s Dan Balz & Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum. Plus, political impressionist Steve Bridges.
Wolf Blitzer: We’ll look at what the resignation of CIA chief Porter Goss means for the future of the agency and U.S. intelligence gathering. Tune in Sunday at 11 a.m. ET.
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS: • Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas: Senate Select Intelligence Committee chairman
• Rep. Jane Harman, D-California: House Select Intelligence Committee member
• Mike Leavitt: Health and Human Services secretary
• Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie: Iraq’s national security adviser
Fox News: • Rep. Pete Hoekstra on Porter Goss’ resignation
• Immigration debate with Sen. Arlen Specter and Jim Gilchrist, founder of The Minuteman Project
• And, Mark Lerner, new Washington Nationals owner.
Face the Nation: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
when CNN’s chief dunce tries to figure out why Porter Goss just got shit-canned from his job at the CIA
I don’t know, it looks to me like Wolf has already moved on from caring about Goss at all (I guess he buys the bullshit about Goss being out of favor from the start, even though it makes no sense) to analyzing what it “means for the future” of “intelligence gathering”. CNN already spent a good 30 seconds Friday talking about a possible sex scandal, its not like they ignored it, what more do you want?
By the way, the funniest thing I saw on Friday was Kelli Arena absolutely refuse to speculate on any rumors she may have heard, like it was somehow beneath her to mention sex.
on Tweety’s show Chris Matthews and Laura Ingraham are talking about how badly Colbert bombed and how great Bush did at the WHCD. No one spoke up to contradict them. That’s called “shaping reality” or “rewriting history” or something…
Pelosi opposes Hayden as DCI. Not that it matters, since the House doesn’t confirm nominations.
Pelosi would not end the NSA program, she would do it under the law.
I also say Biden earlier saying that “everyone” opposes Hayden (the specific example he used was a first responder group). The confirmation hearings could get interesting.
Howard Dean kicked ass. Tom Delay simply was an ass.
I was watching Pelosi. What did Dean say?
He came on after DeLay had been blaming democrats for everything from gas prices to a culture of corruption.
Dean just blasted through everything Delay said in about 30 seconds and then went on to say that we need a change and democrats are offering that and the republicans don’t have any credibility left. He was very quick and concise and direct and not at all mean.
looks to be the best of the bunch — unlike our current President, his look-alike might actually say something intelligent.
And I predict that “The DaVinci Code” is going to be the biggest bust since “Gigli” — I tried to read the book but couldn’t even get through the first chapter…
Juan Williams just went off on Mara Liaasen for trying to paint the scandal culture as bi-partisan. He cited Coburn as saying that 6 Republicans including a Senator could go to jail over the Abramoff scandal and said how in the world can you call that systemic abuse similar to Patrick Kennedy crashing his car.