Sunday Update III: Meet the Press: Boehner and Perkins

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Ugh. I finally caught up to Meet the Press with David Gregory on its MSNBC replay.  The first subject was the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Since we are at 100+ days of this story, and there isn't much new going on, I decided to get showered up and ready for my day. But I got back in time to see John Boner Boehner weigh in on this and other issues. Boehner looks particularly orange this morning, kinda droopy and leathery.  His mouth twitch thing--that goes oddly unmentioned--is being used as punctuation today, for virtually every comma and period in his speech.  He sounded borderline drunk at first, but brushed off the slurring like a pro.  Mostly, he evaded questions he didn't want to answer, and steered his responses to his bullet-pointed talking points.  Worthless. But kudos to Gregory for hammering at him more than usual, even if it is in the effort to get Gregory himself into the news cycle.

Boehner's prattle took up half of the program, leaving the second half to the "round" table. First the economy. Since I'm convinced that nobody seems to have a handle on that, I don't care. I mean seriously, the Republicans are proposing more of the same crap that got us into this mess, and the Democrats are too timid to push hard for the things that might fix it.  Rep. Mike Pence (R-IL) asks, "Where are the jobs?" The actual response is: Big Business (aided and abetted by Republicans and, yes, some Democrats) sent them overseas.  And now that big layoffs and cuts in payroll have happened, and many big businesses are doing better, they're in no hurry to bring the workforce back. They're going to push the current employees to do more for less in less time, for as long as they possibly can.

Pence is talking out his ass, saying there has been no effort by Democrats to be bipartisan.  Hah! This is easily disproven by a two minute Google search.  Harold Ford does what he always does, hewing ever so close to the middle while trying to seem liberal.  Andrea Mitchell. . .made little impression on this panel.

Though the Proposition 8/same-sex marriage issue was teased by Gregory, unless I blinked and missed it, it didn't come up.  Okay, I'm done with this tedium, on to some other things!