Commentary from Bob Schieffer with a lot more depth

than he intended.

I think that this is my favorite part of his Face the Nation - his personal commentary at the end.

He was talking about Browny's wardrobe concerns when the people of New Orleans were struggling to stay alive, adding that both the aide who suggested to roll up his sleeves as well as Brown himself are still on the government payroll.

Than added that when he first came to Washington some 38 years ago (I think) Congressmen did not even have press agents, media spokespersons, etc. We moved, Schieffer said, from a nation that does it to one that talks about it.

And when I heard that I was thinking that this shift goes much farther than just politicians: we moved from a manufacturing and agricultural society, where workers actually made something useful, to a service based society where we serve each other - for how long, I have to wonder - and explain and consult and just treading air, never make anything of substance, of use but somehow many of us, too many, keep getting richer.

Yesterday, the WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113115957423989185.html?mod=todays_us_page_one (subscription, sorry) reported that merger and acquisitions are on the rise, again, thanks to the accumulation of cash:

"Besides market acceptance, the merger boom reflects growing hunger for deals in Europe, low interest rates, eager bank lenders and a corporate cash stash that now represents 10% of all corporate assets -- the highest level in 20 years, according to Morgan Stanley. Moreover, even though the Standard & Poor's 500 Index has been virtually flat this year, executives and directors of acquirers express confidence in the economy."

Thus, instead of investing in the companies themselves, hiring more people, they use to cash to buy other companies - a move that usually is associated with laying off long-term employees and cutting benefits, including pension.

I hope that this can be used for the next Congressional elections - if our leaders are smart, of course.

of that comment at the end of Bob Schieffer's Face The Nation?

they couldn't have too happy with it}(

I haven't seen much sign of that in Washington.

... you know, when the coyote runs off a cliff, hangs in the air for awhile, and then makes the mistake of looking down ... doooooown he goes.

pathetic

and he'll go down forever in history as just another Bush enabler, after the debates, just like the CNN guy in 88, and Lehrer, during the last two election thefts

has no ability to challenge a politician whatsoever. A little over a year ago he asked John McCain if Saddam had anything to do with 9/11, which has been conclusively proven that no he hasn't. What's more is it is ludicrous that Saddam would have been involved, for many reasons. Well, McCain says:" We don't know yet" and halfway makes it sound like Saddam could have been involved. Scheef just sat there dumbly nodding and blinking. I about went through the roof! I was screaming at the tv, which, I have a bad habit of doing when I watch the Sunday morning shows, haha. But, I was so disappointed, Scheef didn't even challend McCain or follow up on that comment. Nothing. If McCain or some other politician would have said that to me, say in a town hall meeting, I would have slit his throat with his own words, but the host of Face The Nation didn't even have the skill to even come up with a decent follow up question. It was bad.

However, Bob does give some decent comments at the end of his show. He's pretty consistently good in those, it's just he's nearly worthless the rest of the time.

I called in and asked him how he felt, as a POW, about dumbo's being AWOL.

he said that AFA he knew, Bush completed his NatGuard service, and mentioned the woman in Alabama who said she drove him to a meeting, or somesuch

at the time, I'd been reading Marty Heldt's stuff on that, and had the specific refutation of that. he lauged uncomfortably at my response, but said he still supported him

I also got to say to him that he must feel disappointed that his party's flag bearer was nothing but an empty suit

again, he just laughed it off, and didn't say much in *'s defense

that's good.

I have a guy I know in my Tribal Government class, and he's like, maybe 20, 21 somewhere around there and he said he got to ask McCain questions about Indian Gaming. It was something like McCain was on a panel and tribal members got to ask questions. Well, anyway, this guy I know said he was asking McCain basic Indian gaming questions and the guy was just stumped. Rumor has it he grilled McCain pretty good. Finally McCain just said to this kid, "How do you know so much?" and he replied something about reading a lot. The big knock on the Senator among Indians here in AZ is that he knows he lives in a state with Indians, it's just that he don't know much about them. McCain isn't much sharper than Bush in many ways. What he knows he knows fairly well, but it's a pretty limited scope. He's not infinitely curious like a Bill Clinton for example. Well, that's a bad example, because Clinton is sort of a freak of nature, but point is, John McCain isn't as half as smart as he tries to portray. Frankly, he's supposed to be some kind of big foreign policy expert and I find much of his knowledge and what he says on foreign affairs to be superficial and trite. But you know, I am a cheese eating, librul elitist so what do I know? :)

and didn't hear Schieffer's closing remarks.

How come no one on television can stop Roberts when he's insisting that he's working hard on it, and ask him why he said the Phase II report was on the back burner?

How come we know that and the press doesn't?




(edited for clarity)

along with the fact that the media is SO complicit in all this that most of the public buys into the fact that they're liberal, and most of the public doesn't know that Schieffer's brother was a partner of *'s in the baseball team

just imagine the holy hell raised if some business partner of Kerry's brother had been a highly placed newsman, and been in a position to be the ONLY questioner duing the presidential debates



and on and on and on