News Roundup - Hour 1
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-05-07/news-roundup-hour-1
The latest on the investigation into the failed New York City car bombing. The BP oil spill clean-up. And why a top House Democrat is stepping down. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Guests
David Corn
Washington bureau chief, "Mother Jones" magazine; author of several books, most recently, "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War." He blogs at politicsdaily.com.
Laura Meckler
White House correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.
Byron York
chief political correspondent, Washington Examiner, and author of "The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy."
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Let's not kid ourselves here. This catastrophe is not the federal government's making or responsibility. It is BP's. The government can make resources available to the local communities, which it has done, but the rest and the cost should be BP's. When I break my car, I don't call Obama to fix it.
David Corn is correct, how reassuring that the stocks you hold can be valued at $0 in the blink of an eye because someone makes a typo?. I even heard that Sothebys jumped to $100,000 a share at one point. The market corrected itself? what exactly does that mean??
I'm confused, aren't all American Citizens to be given the rights not to incrimenate yourself.
The Wall Street meltdown is evidence of the fact that the big traders win using computerized trades executed in fractions of a second. It endangers us all, and was not based on value. And clearly humans could not stop it fast enough. It had very little to do with Greece. Check out zerohedge.com. And it's the same lack of government regulation that brought us the Gulf incident (not accident.)
The Wall Street meltdown is evidence of the fact that the big traders win using computerized trades executed in fractions of a second. It endangers us all, and was not based on value. And clearly humans could not stop it fast enough. It had very little to do with Greece. Check out zerohedge.com. And it's the same lack of government regulation that brought us the Gulf incident (not accident.)
Re: anti-terrorism and re: oil spill:
People need to get real. It's impossible to anticipate all possible incidents in a free society.
If so-called 8-day delay in Admin. response to the oil spill, what difference would have resulted from an earlier "response"?
This new gimmick that the fed is usiing is a disgrace. Terrorist is a new term being used to go around the Constitution! Don't be fooled by a government that is out of control. The constitution gives rights to every human being in this country.
By trying people as terrorists you will fall under the new rules created since BUSH was in office. The problem is :"who is a terrorist"? Next week you and I could be classified terrorists! Also the fed wants to take away citizenship if you are a terrorist. I dispise the policies of the fed in the middle east. Does that make me a terrorist? YES, it does! Citizenship is in jeopardy and legal rights are in jeopardy also! I am retired military and I don't want to lose my citizenship or pension simply because I speak out against tyrany and simply because we do nothing to stop this out of control Governemnt. Bill Cosby for president!!!! He is a write-in candidate! Check him out. The dems and the repubs are screwing you and me for profit!!!
I don't get it. There is a sentiment that it is wrong to read Miranda rights to an American citizen. However, these same people don't think there is anything wrong with terrorists on the no fly list be given access to purchase of guns and explosives. This doesn't make sense to me.
Concerning the Arizona immigration law: I have not heard anyone discuss its impact on U.S. *citizens.* Permanent residents and work-authorized nonimmigrants are indeed required to carry documentation on their persons at all times. However, neither undocumented immigrants nor U.S. citizens routinely carry proof of citizenship or immigration status. Unless a U.S. citizen happens to be carrying an original birth certificate, a certificate of naturalization or a U.S. passport, he or she is unable to prove that he/she is not an "illegal alien." U.S. citizens are thus very likely to be wrongfully detained by police in Arizona under this law because they will be unable to prove their "lawful status."
Iknow some truths are hard to accept, but will someone remind future panelist such as David Corn, that we are no longer under the Bush administration. At some point Obama apologists such as David need to accept the fact that the current administration is now responsible for dealing with our economic situation, REGARDLESS of where the problem may have originated. It has become a running joke (but really that funny) that all answers relating to the economy and many times terrorism, MUST START with a sentence or two about how the big bad Bush administration blah, blah, blah. Move on or move out.
The US economy and unemployment conditions will continue to suffer as long as Corporate America sends low end and middle wage jobs to India, Philippines, China and other English speaking off shore countries. I am highly skilled technical support worker. My job and hundreds of other skilled technician jobs were outsourced to India in February, March and April this year.
These jobs are outsourced to provide the stock holders and investors higher earnings while putting hundreds of thousands educated, skilled workers to unemployment lines. New jobs in technical areas being sent to India cost a US company $ 8.00 per hour for Bachelor Degree labor, $10.50 per hour for Masters Degree labor and $15.50 per hour for PhD. labor.
When I am not working, I am not paying SS taxes nor contributing to economy. The offshore workers are not paying US taxes. The corporate tycoons are building Tax Shelters with offshore derived profits.
Bigger picture:
If high tech jobs are sent to offshore, manufacturing jobs are also sent offshore, then college education loses value, as there are no jobs left in USA to take in graduates. Education loans will become bad investment for financial institutions, and graduates will be stocking shelves in Walmart or flipping burgers at White Castle.
Dollars sent offshore return to USA at $0.26. Corporate America is killing our economy and our future. Wallstreet is fueling the fooling machine.
Does no-one else recognize that Faisal Shahzad is from Pakistan where gasoline(petrol) and Propane(cooking gas) containers are far more dangerous that in the US. Safety regulations have rendered US versions nearly indestructible, unable to vent simply by opening the valve, and incapable of BLEVE due to overpressure relief valves. Fireworks in the US are also tightly controlled unlike Pakistan rendering them far less dangerous as well.
This was not "luck" except insofar as the regulatory environment and terrorist ineptitude combine to limit the attempt to a small fire.
Let's not blow this out of proportion...
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Hi, I am a Pakistani-American and I am sick and tired of people like Shazad who make life harder for the rest of us who have the ability to think clearly.
Pakistan was radicalized FAR before the US ever went there. This is a long standing issue that has to do with the very IDEA of pakistan. The die was cast when the muslims rejected the ability to being able to live with non-muslims in india and create their own country.
Start funding schools in Pakistan and give support to secular groups! Empower people who are not mired in the mess of religion. And understand that this guy has a disease that has already destroyed Pakistans chances of ever being a viable country.
Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world and we are just doing this all wrong.
I am unhappy with the addition of David Corn to the panels. I find him knowledgeable and current, but he seems falsely indignant and dismissive of differing opinions. GET THE HOOK!
I just finished listening to the Friday roundup, and I agree. David Corn was highly combative and detracted greatly from the experience--despite the fact that I'm more closely politically aligned with him than the other two panelists. Byron York rose to the bait a few too many times for my liking, but the lion's share of the blame has to go to Mr. Corn.
Please consider NOT inviting him back to the show unless he can participate in civil discourse! (hint: "I welcome Byron's support for nationalization of the oil companies" is not the way to start an honest debate).
Diane Rehm has made a number of inaccurate statements about immigration and the Arizona immigration law recently (April 30 newshour). The first of these is that it is very hard for foreign citizens to come to America legally. Can you really say it is hard to come to America legally when the US government has admitted 1.5 million foreigners annually by giving them either green cards or temporary work permits. That number has not even declined during our current Recession when unemployment of American citizens has hit 10%.
Second Diane Rehm says that Arizona police can stop and question people on the streets if they look like or sound like illegal aliens. That is not true. She should read the legislation that has been approved and stop giving out false information. Police can ask for identification only if a person has been stopped for some other legal reason like speeding or suspicion of burglary.
The Arizona immigration law only helps enforce US immigration law and does nothing more. If we have laws they should be enforced and if we are willing to do that they should be repealed. I for one would not like to see open borders where any and every foreign citizen who wants to come to America and take US jobs can do so but that is precisely what big business interests and ethnocentric special interests are trying to manipulate America in very dishonest ways into accepting.
A valid driver's license usually proves that one is here legally and I would think most people have them. Please let us have reasonable objections to the Arizona law if you have them.