The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review
By podcasts@redstate.com (Redstate Network) on Special Features
Sunday, March 18, 2007 Image
On MTP, Chuckie Schumer snarled. He did offer that firing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would give the Administration a "fresh start" at "respecting the rule of law." He said that he had "proof" that AGAG had used politics in firing the U.S. attorneys: four of them said that he did.
On FNS, fired U.S. attorney Bud Cummins insisted that he "served at the pleasure of the President," while other fired U.S. attorney David Iglesias argued that he was fired because he was going to drop the boom on Pete Domenici.
On TW, Senators Leahy and Cornyn were in almost total agreement, except that Leahy will have his Senate Judiciary Committee vote Thursday to subpoena Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and Bill Kelley, while Senator Cornyn wants a legitimate investigation without that "political with hunt"
Next on TW, National Security Advisor Steve Hadley referred to the latest version of Pelosi-Murtha as an artificial and arbitrary timeline which they know the President will veto; he asked Congress to drop the "political charade" and pass a "responsible bill."
Also on FNS, Arlen Specter declared that Schumer had "crossed the line" by presiding over an investigation into the firing of the U.S. attorneys on one day and presiding over the DCCC and blasting Domenici on their web site the next.
The roundtable on MTP was a lot of noise, but Tom Andrews did manage to tell us that a large percentage of Iraqis sampled for some survey were more qualified to determine U.S. military strategy than were our own generals and colonels.
On FTN, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told host Bob Schieffer that we would know how the surge was working this summer but that the Iraqis were keeping their commitments.
Although she did not used the childish term, Diane Feinstein on FTN told Schieffer that AGAG and Karl Rove should be frog-marched from the White House and brought forcibly before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On LE, host Wolf Blitzer cited the Washington Post in arguing that al Qaeda in Iraq was no threat to the U.S. mainland. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley argued that this was because they had their hands full in Iraq; if we left, they would certainly try to attack us here. In other news, Hadley said that we would not deal with the Palestinian government of Prime Minister Ismael Haneyeh because they had not renounced violence, recognized Israel, and agreed to abide by previous agreements.
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