THERE IS NO SECOND PLACE

Face the Nation 5/7/06

I like this show as much as This Week.  Bob Sheffer can not hide his partisanship to save his life.  Of course his focus is on the CIA.

Guest John McCain

Bob finds any Republican that thinks Heyden is the wrong person for the Porter Goss job.  Bob goes back to the NSA surveillance to discredit Heyden.

Bob can't get John to say anything negative so lets move on.

Chenneys remarks about Puttin.  McCain thinks hes right on so Bob needs to move on.

Iran Bob wants direct talks John agrees with Bush no direct talks unless Iran changes its stand on Israel.

Lets move on let's attack McCain for changing his strips.  Why has McCain decided to go to Liberty University?  It's a University he has been invited to speak at.

McCain sound like a strong Republican he is the middle. Can he win over the base?  He is in the gang of 14.  He voted against the original tax rate reductions.

David Brooks and Colbert King on the panel.

Bob thinks Porter Goss was a mess from the minute he got in there.  David Brooks is on track with the  facts, Goss went in to clean up the leaks.  The CIA had become an arm of the Democratic Party and the senior analyst that didn't believe in the Bush doctrine had leaked information to aid John Kerry.  They lost.

Bob can't believe McCain is just going to talk to the students.

Bob Sheffer is all wrong about the National Anthem being translated to Spanish.  !. It's not a good translation. 2. It needs to sung in English.

The Sunday Funnies 5/7/06

I loved the Sunday Funnies when I was a kid and it is no different now.  Except its not the cartoons, it's the talk shows.

This Week With George Stephanopoulos

Diane Feinstein sees the CIA as in disarray and its all Bushes fault.  Clinton didn't cut the budget to defense and Intelligence.  The Clinton Administration was not responsible for the intelligence failure of 2001.

Porter Goss upset the apple cart and tries to reform the CIA.  What was his job?  To get out the left traitors that were betraying Bush policy.  Over 22 top senior analysis left in protest or what ever.  Good.  Now they need to put in good people that will follow the Bush doctrine.

Diane Feinstein back on the "there were no weapons of mass destruction".  That was the lack of intelligence from the Clinton Administration.  George Tennent, the hold over from the Clinton Administration, is the one that said "it's a slam dunk"

This should be good. Howard Dean and  Tom Delay.

Gas prices as they go up the President rating goes down.  Why are gas prices high?  Question to Delay. Answer  Democrats stopped exploration and refinement for 30 years.  If Clinton had signed the Anwar bill that Congress passed in 1996 we would have an extra million barrels of oil a day.  Of course George S. calls this a small amount and lets move on to the Republican base that is only 32% in favor of Bush.

The Democrats have a plan.  Raise the minimum wage. Which increases the pay of all union workers that have their pay tied to the minimum wage.  Price controls on drug prices.  We are a republic with capitalistic tendencies and government control of wages and prices is socialism.  Pay as you go.  This is our money it is not the Congresses money they need to spend less and let us keep more of our own money.  Implement 911 Commission recommendations.

Culture of corruption has to be brought up.  Delay is being exonerated and there are 22 Democrats that are under investigation and being found guilty.

Dean is all negative and that is his job  but the Democrats won't win on negatives.  The Culture of Corruption is all he can see from the top to the bottom of the Bush Administration and the republicans in general.

Dean rewrites history.  Clinton balanced the budget?  the economy is in the dumper, what planet is he on.

He refuses to acknowledge that if the Dem's take Congress they will impeach Bush and this is their only agenda.

The Round Table Georg Will, Katrina Vanden Heuvel

The CIA

Katrina - The neo-con saw the CIA as an enemy.  She's right about that.  Then she brings up the culture of corruption.  The  NSA Terrorist Surveillance program is an illegal program.  How can she be so wrong so often.