What Happened on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
Sunday, April 9 – Iraqi Liberation Day
John Kerry went on MTP this morning and insisted on having the Dayton Accords. He wants to threaten to cut and run on May 15, but it is to be an empty threat because it will take months, but the Iraqis and their neighbors won't know this. He insisted that only 2% of the remaining enemy in Iraq are al Qaeda; the rest are Iraqis, and he evidently still has not grasped that Iraqis can be al Qaeda.
On the MTP immigration roundtable, Representative Gutierrez called for enforcement and compassion, Rep. Hayworth questioned the notion of "birthright citizenship," and Rep. Bonilla chided Texas Governor Rick Perry for being a Republican.
On TW, House Majority Leader John Boehner supported enforcement-only and blamed Tom DeLay for "casting a shadow" on everything he's trying to do.
On FNS, Representative Peter King insisted that the Senate bill does too offer amnesty despite the definition of the word. He also called the Catholic bishops liars for pointing out that the House bill criminalizes rendering assistance to illegals.
On FNS, Senator Arlen Specter said that the Democrats should have agreed to allow amendments to the Senate immigration bill because the amendments would have failed.
On TW, Joe Wilson went on the defensive, mumbling about yellow cake and sixteen words.
On FNS, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said that the Shi'ites were sending out three delegates to meet with the Kurds and the Sunnis about Ibrahim al Jaafari, and if that doesn't pan out, a new candidate will be put forward. He expects results in two or three days.
On FTN, Representative Xavier Becerra insisted that the "far right" had destroyed the Senate immigration bill. (It was blocked by the Democrats.) Representative Tom Tancredo made up a new definition for amnesty.
On LE, Ambassador Khalilzad seemed to tacitly allow that the outcome in Iraq was a test for the feasibility of neoconservatism. In the next segment, Tony Zinni continued his book tour, stating that the U.S. should have run Iraq completely until it was ready to move forward on its own, much like we did with Japan following WW II. He added that the Clinton plan for removing Saddam Hussein and occupying Iraq involved the use of more troops than did Rumsfeld's plan.
(read on for the show-by-show review…)
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