Friday News Roundup - Domestic
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-11-02/friday-news-roundup-domestic
Diane and guests discuss the week’s top national stories, including the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the October jobs report and the final push before Election Day.
Guests
Major Garrett
CBS News chief White House correspondent.
Jeanne Cummings
deputy government editor for Bloomberg News.
Glenn Thrush
congressional reporter for Politico.
Friday News Roundup Video
Major Garrett, White House correspondent for National Journal, and Jeanne Cummings, deputy government editor for Bloomberg News, address a caller’s question about New York and New Jersey’s handling of Hurricane Sandy. The caller asks why we haven’t learned from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
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@ecgberht
Again, you have submitted no proof that the Commander in Chief was in the Situation Room with a live video feed of the attack on the Benghazi consulate. You don't even have proof that such a feed was available. You linked us to an Op-Ed by someone claiming that a drone or drones were hovering over the Benghazi consulate and that they were *capable* of such a transmission. You can take that speculation and run with it wherever you choose, but don't expect that all of us will be impressed by how fast and how far you run.
@ Chicken S
Guess that means you are afraid of the bet. No worries. Knew you were all talk.
1dondraper wrote: "@ Chicken S "Guess that means you are afraid"
Another psycho boy tough guy, or is it the same one?
See my easily googled blog asfoxseesit for the week in Alabama and how Billy Graham may make the difference for Judge Roy Moore. Hope the staff does an entire show on Alabama post election. I suggest Auburn proff Wayne Flynt and Hugo Blacks grandson Stephen, now at Ubama for the panel. Crazy lies by the Tea Party capture GOP down here in Bama. The world needs to know what Coach Nick Saban and his wife and Joe Scarborough think of Kris Kobach and immigration and the GOP Strategy. Is it George Wallace of the 60's all over again, with the religion card displacing a moderated race card. See my blog.
Honest Abe wrote:
"Romney has plenty of "paths to the election". The easiest ones to follow have been paved with SuperPAC cash and the Road to the Cayman Islands "
Well, sounds like Honest Abe has thrown in the towel.
1dondraper wrote:
@ Chicken S
Guess that means you are afraid of the bet. No worries. Knew you were all talk.
No, you didn't dondripper.
What you didn't answer is this:
"Explain to me again, dondriper, exactly how you're going to set this up? Remember, we are anonymous posters on a mb."
That's the part that takes the thought. Perhaps you're not a deep thinker? Perhaps it's just easier to call someone "chicken s"?
@mobed
"Again, you have submitted no proof that the Commander in Chief was in the Situation Room with a live video feed of the attack on the Benghazi consulate."
I never said he was. Get it?! I said that live video feed was available, was likely brought to his attention (and if it wasn't, his security team acted incompetently), and he ignored it.
You are naive about what security monitoring takes place - especially in response to the emails which are also monitored. The President chose (apparently) to ignore it, and his command ordered those on the ground to "stand down". That cost the lives of four Americans.
@johnandere, @ecgberht, @monte, and @ whatever other personae this person assumes on this message board:
And I said you have no idea whether a live video feed was available or not. Get it?
mobed wrote:
"And I said you have no idea whether a live video feed was available or not. Get it?"
Oh, yeah, I get it, mobed. What I get is, you are a true believer, and extremely naive. There is NO DOUBT the feed was available - the drones capable of providing them were there. The only question is, whether Obama knew of them or saw them. What you don't get is that issues of this nature get filtered out VERY QUICKLY and escalated just as quickly and would have been escalated to the highest levels.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-benghazi-attack-2012...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/retired-lt-col-my-sources-say-obama-was-...
And before you criticize the sources, Fox News is LEADING on this because no other MSM outlet will do it. They are doing their darndest to run out the clock and keep this story suppressed until after the election. So far, it's not working.
@ ecgherbt
So, if you are still willing to bet on this one, I can leave your money at the Starbucks in Union Station, should you win, under your username. One C-Note on a Starbucks card. ;-)
The adipose Christie's only interest is self aggrandizement. His key note speech at the convention was an advertisement for himself. Why was it necessary to cuddle up to President Obama and diss Governor Romney (which he did when asked if he wanted Romney to come to New Jersey Christie's reply was " I don't know and I couldn't care less what Romney does.") when New Jersey was going to get federal money for Sandy whether Christie planted his lips on Obama's posterior or not.
Diane and the re-elect Obama cheerleaders panel had to chortle uncontrollably over Limbaugh's comments about Christie's weight. Now that Christie is Obama's newest BMF, liberals take offense to personal abuse of Christie. Where was their condemnation of liberals who made fun of Christie's weight prior to this week? Who forget liberal Eugene Robinson, a staple of MSNBC, rant about Christie's weight.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/chris_christies_big_problem_20110930/
@ecgberht
There you go again, adding qualifiers to your absolutes. There's "NO DOUBT" that the live feed was available in the Situation Room, you shout. And why is there no doubt? Well, you say, it's because "the drones capable of providing them were there".
Hey, you know what? A few nights ago a police helicopter *capable* of providing a live feed of my house was circling around my neighborhood. How do I know this? First, because I saw it. Second, because we all know police helicopters have video equipment on board. Therefore, is there NO DOUBT that this video was transmitted - live or otherwise - back to police headquarters? No, because mere capability of something happening doesn't guarantee that it happened.
Sorry, ecgberht, but you keep providing links that echo the same Fox News report citing unnamed sources, and you expect us to accept that as absolute proof that something happened. Maybe it did, and maybe it didn't, but I'd say it's you - not I - who is the "true believer". Are you also "extremely naive"? No, I wouldn't go that far, but I would at least question why an organization like Fox News, alone among the MSM, would be "LEADING" on this.
Romney was correct about Jeeps being made in China. He didn't say ALL Jeeps.
True: Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne is considering building Chrysler models in Italy, including Jeeps, for export to North America.
True: President Obama gave Chrysler to the Italians.
True: Marchionne is negotiating with the Italians to get tax rebates on the exports to help them export to America.
Will Jeanne Cummings, deputy government editor for Bloomberg News, change her opinion that the New York Marathon should go on now that her boss and puppet master Mayor Bloomberg cancelled the marathon?
@ Phil Buster
A BLATANT lie from you. Why are we not surprised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnY2qbE4d2w
In case you have a problem, look at the 18 second mark and tell us he didn't say they were talking about moving all production. Wow, you two deserve each other. Prevaricators of the highest order.
1dondraper wrote:
@ Phil Buster
"A BLATANT lie from you. Why are we not surprised."
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The youtube video is not Romney's ad. That would be the ad that sent liberals into convulsions.
This is what the ad states: “Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy, and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job.”
Technically, none of this is inaccurate. President Obama did take GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy, the U.S. Treasury Department did sell its stake in Chrysler to Fiat, and Fiat is considering adding production jobs in China.
I just wonder if enough Ohioans are dumb enough to think this controversy paints Romney as incompetent, particularly after four years of total incompetency from Obama. Hate to think my tax dollars have bought enough union lemming votes for Obama to win the state.
@ Phil Buster
Here is your comment (as everyone can see from above)
"Romney was correct about Jeeps being made in China. He didn't say ALL Jeeps."
But now, "Phil" wants to change the comment All Jeeps to the ad. Everyone, including those in the Toledo news report, reference the speech in which he blatantly lied to rile up NW Ohio residents about a plant closure and possible loss of jobs. Any halfway intelligent individual would acknowledge the angst was about his commentary at the event, not some too bit commercial that most people scan through. The sad part is, Phil, once again, you are wrong. Last week it was about two vs four years (your math comprehension problem) and now, you can't acknowledge you are wrong about the word all, when evidence is placed before you. But thanks for showing us your disingenuous nature and disregard for the truth. And, like your candidate, when shown to be prevaricating, you double down. At least we know what we are dealing with, going forward.
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. ;-)
I just wonder if enough Ohioans are smart enough to realize where we'd be right now if McCain or Romney had won in 2008. "Let Detroit go Bankrupt" would have shaped the state very differently if 1 in 8 were unemployed now over and above the current number. Ohio would be facing something like 20% unemployment versus about 7%. That's the stark reality, Pee pee tic.
Dumb as dirt comment if you believe it.
mobed wrote:
"There you go again, adding qualifiers to your absolutes. There's "NO DOUBT" that the live feed was available in the Situation Room, you shout. And why is there no doubt? Well, you say, it's because "the drones capable of providing them were there".
No qualifiers. I'm merely expanding on what I wrote before to try to get you to grasp the circumstances under which the Benghazi attack happened. Here is what I said,
" I said that live video feed was available, was likely brought to his attention (and if it wasn't, his security team acted incompetently), and he ignored it. You are naive about what security monitoring takes place - especially in response to the emails which are also monitored. The President chose (apparently) to ignore it, and his command ordered those on the ground to "stand down". That cost the lives of four Americans".
On FNS yesterday, David Axelrod, "whose intelligence sources are significantly more robust than yours" or David Ignatius said, "Chris, it has been reported and as the White House has said, I think, there was another piece of it in the paper this morning. The president convened the top military officials that evening and told them to do whatever was necessary."
THAT EVENING. While the attack was going on.
" I would at least question why an organization like Fox News, alone among the MSM, would be "LEADING" on this."
You're kidding, right?
1dondraper wrote:
"So, if you are still willing to bet on this one, I can leave your money at the Starbucks in Union Station, should you win, under your username. One C-Note on a Starbucks card. ;-)"
Well you could, I guess. But would you? You've clearly not thought this through, dondripper. I've been round and round the mulberry bush dozens of times with goofy bets people want to make on an "anonymous" mb. What part of "anonymous" don't you understand? It isn't workable.
And what is Union Station? I Googled it and found, so far, DC, KC, Chicago, St. Louis, and Ogden UT ... and that's just on the first page!
@ ecgberht
I understand. Your confidence is down and you are afraid of losing $100. Not a problem, but no need to make excuses. I can leave you a gift card at any Starbucks you wish, should you win. I was looking at Union Station in DC because it would be sufficiently anonymous for you. However, if paypal is your choice, and if you are feeling lucky, we can work it out that way. But you have to come out of your gopher (hiding) hole and man up. Your (supposed) bets with others on the internet were not with me. So, stop with the excuses and grow a pair.
@1dondraper
"Your confidence is down and you are afraid of losing $100"
My confidence is fine. I'm looking forward to watching Axelrod shave off his mustache. Now, the reason he will be held to that bet is that he is not anonymous. I am. And so are you. Are you going to make me say that I don't trust you, don? Do you get "anonymous" yet? I've seen people bet where the loser has to drop off the mb. That doesn't work either, which is why I didn't suggest it. Because anybody can come back on under another id. Do you get "anaonymous" yet?!
obviously 1dondraper and jim gamble are the same cowardly worm on this board, their stench precedes them. Talking tough and hiding behind the fact that no one in their right mind wants to get involved with some on line psychopath, he goads.
@partisan politics
True dat. I should have bet him 100 elephants. It would make as much sense. Neither of us could pay it off, but both of us could claim we did ... or is it didn't?!
A-n-o-n-y-m-o-u-s.