OMG! Really, another interview with predictable Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on Channel 10's TWISF tomorrow? Why? Will there be any mention of the Sun-Sentinel STILL ignoring the Glenn Thrush book's depiction of DWS's unpopularity at Obama HQ in Chicago?; Sun-Sentinel has completely morphed into the Snooze-Sentinel! It's now more of an idea of a newspaper, and a bad one at that, rather than a newspaper you actually look forward to reading

POLITICO video: Debbie Wasserman Schultz disputes POLITICO e-book
http://bcove.me/iysunfmy
Related article at: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80465.html

OMG! Really, another interview with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on Channel 10's This Week In South Florida (TWISF) program tomorrow morning at 11:30 a.m.? Why?

There are only 66 days until Election Day and they're consciously choosing to put HER on?
What a colossal disappointment!

Not to mention, another missed opportunity to bring viewers up-to-date with someone new or interesting or amusing -three things that DWS no longer is.

I guess this only proves all over again that not every TWISF program with Putney there is going to be a hit, which is what I always think whenever I see certain people on the show as guests that I find bores and quickly flip-over to Fox Soccer Channel to see what the score is in the Premier League game I was watching earlier.
Looks like I will be watching MUCH more of the Manchester United at Southampton match LIVE than I originally thought I would -after the Liverpool at Arsenal at 8:25 a.m..

It's not just that I disagree with DWS, or that she has never had to run from a competitive CD, though I do and she never has, it's also that she's just completely predictable, like Alan Simpson and Richard Lugar and Charlie Crist and Dan Gelber.
Or, even more deadly dull, like watching the Dolphins and Hurricanes offense the past few years -SNOOZE...............

I know when that check-down pass to the running back coming out of the backfield is coming even BEFORE the ball is snapped, even BEFORE the linebacker covering him does, so I'm groaning even BEFORE seeing it painfully come to life -over-and-over again!
And rarely if ever getting the First Down!

There's no need to watch this program tomorrow, no need to tape it, you already know what DWS is going to say before she says it, based on Michael Putney's questions.

Use that time to walk along the beach with your kids or finally change your oil or air filter under the hood, because there will be no news there at all, and besides, next weekend is wall-to-wall NCAA and NFL football again.

Yes, unlike watching a favorite Seinfeld episode for the 100th time -and isn't that about how many times DWS has been on TWISF since I came back here from D.C., 100 times?- watching and listening to DWS say the same exact thing about Romney or Ryan with that unpleasant voice is NOT as enjoyable the 100th time.

It's a bore.


Will there be any mention about the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel -almost uniquely among all American newspapers with circulations above a college newspaper- STILL completely ignoring the negative revelations in POLITICO's Glenn Thrush's e-book, and its negative depiction of her and the level of her unpopularity at Obama HQ in Chicago, and the local papers refusing to make any mention of it in-print?

Yes, the very subject I wrote about over a week ago, the only person in South Florida publicly noting its complete absence from the scene?
Yes, this part of my August 22nd post
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-why-he-matters-and-needs-to.html

Here it is again, and nothing has changed since then -still nothing new about the book or its author in the Snooze-Sentinel.


Speaking of DWS, here's another piece you won't be reading in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel if any of her many trained poodles over there have anything to do with it, though logically you should, right?
Supposedly, DWS is on the hot seat! 
Or is it on thin ice? 
She's on one of the other, which ever you find personally worse in the summer.

The Weekly Standard
Book: Wasserman Schultz Most Unpopular Obama Campaign Surrogate
By Daniel Halper
8:33 AM, August 20, 2012

According to a new ebook released today by Politico writer Glenn Thrush, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, is the most unpopular of all surrogates for President Obama's reelection campaign. That finding is the product of polling done by the Obama campaign, according to Thrush.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/book-wasserman-schultz-most-unpopular-obama-campaign-surrogate_650276.html

The Washington Post
Report: Obama campaign has doubts about DNC chair
Posted by Rachel Weiner on August 20, 2012 at 7:36 am

President Obama’s Chicago team is not thrilled with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to a new ebook from Politico’s Glenn Thrush.

Read the rest of the post at:  
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/08/20/report-obama-campaign-has-doubts-about-dnc-chair/

Don't believe me?
Okay, check the Sun-Sentinel for yourself: nothing about it as of right now.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=Debbie+Wasserman-Schultz&target=adv_article&date=07%2F23%2F2012-08%2F22%2F2012&range=pre&facet=

As for the author of the book, the last time the Sun-Sentinel ran a piece by Glenn Thrush was April 28, 2012, so it's clear that they have not touched the story, even though it's right there in front of them.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=%22Glenn+Thrush%22&target=adv_article
Hmm-m...

Yes, her crew over at the newspaper is definitely looking out for her, as per usual. 
Just saying... the facts are the facts.
If this sort of thing had been said about Rep. Allen West at GOP HQ based on some sort of polling, the paper would've had it on the front page ASAP, so what's the Sun-Sentinel's explanation for the complete absence of information in print on this re DWS?

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Douglas Lyons is the Sun-Sentinel's... well, it depends upon whom you talk to.
Some would say that he's the guy whose job consists largely of cranking out a column once in a while and going around Broward making excuses for the poor and scatter-shot local news coverage they crank out for fewer and fewer readers, but his official title is senior editorial writer. 

Here's a thought -Why don't you ask him why his newspaper refuses to mention a negative story about the most prominent elected official in its coverage area, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

His contact infromation is here:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/columnists/sfla-opinion-lyons,0,1403324,bio.columnist

Personally, my days of writing him a serious and fact-filled letter and expecting a reasonable response are over, so if he's on your own email list, you might want to seriously ask yourself why -and then purge him.

Lots of people I know, some of whose names you'd even recognize, have done this the past year or so, something they wouldn't do if this were a more normal American community and they had to engage in some sort of pretense to take him seriously and care what he thought or wrote.
Nope, they've tossed him and others there overboard with no negative effect whatsoever. 
They actually like the idea that they and other people who really know what's going on DON'T communicate with him, and he's less aware of what's going on than ever.
But that just makes him like 99% of the people working there.

They're NOT at all like the competitive reporters I've known and interacted with in Chicago and Washington, and the results are readily apparent to readers when you see the newspaper in print.
It seems more like an idea for a newspaper, NOT an actual newspaper you'd read at the beach or take on a plane ride.
And the less said about their website the better.

Paul Ryan: Why he matters and needs to be unleashed on Obama and the Dems' treasure trove of bad ideas -he connects with smart, reasonable voters who see that under Obama, we're not just going the wrong direction on too many important issues, our margin of error is getting smaller everyday; DWS on thin ice with Obama HQ in Chicago but Sun-Sentinel is ignoring the story

FoxNewsChannel video: Krauthammer: Romney needs to 'unleash Paul Ryan' August 19, 2012. http://youtu.be/lIhciMhZyIY

The Weekly Standard

Why Ryan Matters

William Kristol

August 27, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 46

Vice presidential picks don’t matter. Except when they do. If John Kerry had chosen Dick -Gephardt instead of John Edwards in 2004, and had then parked Gephardt in Ohio during the general election campaign to make the Democratic case to working-class voters, Kerry might well have won the Buckeye State—and the presidency.

Read the rest of the excellent essay, esp. the last two paragraphs at:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/why-ryan-matters_650173.html

Another good piece was this on one

The Washington Post

Ryan’s friends have long seen the GOP lightning rod as a leader in waiting

By Michael Leahy

Published: August 19, 2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ryans-close-colleagues-and-admirers-have-long-seen-him-as-a-leader-in-waiting/2012/08/19/e1a725ee-ea21-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html

So far, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz hasn't gone so far as to ape an Elementary School principal promising to have her head shaved if all her students read ten blooks over the summer and improve their tests scores, or in her case, promising to get her locks clipped completely if Romney-Ryan wins, but we still have 76 days for her to think of it and blurt it out.

Speaking of DWS, here's another piece you won't be reading in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel if any of her many trained poodles over there have anything to do with it, though logically you should, right?
Supposedly, DWS is on the hot seat! 
Or is it on thin ice? 
She's on one of the other, which ever you find personally worse in the summer.


The Weekly Standard
Book: Wasserman Schultz Most Unpopular Obama Campaign Surrogate
By Daniel Halper
8:33 AM, August 20, 2012

According to a new ebook released today by Politico writer Glenn Thrush, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, is the most unpopular of all surrogates for President Obama's reelection campaign. That finding is the product of polling done by the Obama campaign, according to Thrush.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/book-wasserman-schultz-most-unpopular-obama-campaign-surrogate_650276.html


The Washington Post
Report: Obama campaign has doubts about DNC chair
Posted by Rachel Weiner on August 20, 2012 at 7:36 am

President Obama’s Chicago team is not thrilled with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to a new ebook from Politico’s Glenn Thrush.

Read the rest of the post at:  
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/08/20/report-obama-campaign-has-doubts-about-dnc-chair/

Don't believe me?
Okay, check the Sun-Sentinel for yourself: nothing about it as of right now.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=Debbie+Wasserman-Schultz&target=adv_article&date=07%2F23%2F2012-08%2F22%2F2012&range=pre&facet=

As for the author of the book, the last time the Sun-Sentinel ran a piece by Glenn Thrush was April 28, 2012, so it's clear that they have not touched the story, even though it's right there in front of them.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=%22Glenn+Thrush%22&target=adv_article
Hmm-m...

Yes, her crew over at the newspaper is definitely looking out for her, as per usual. 
Just saying... the facts are the facts.
If this sort of thing had been said about Rep. Allen West at GOP HQ based on some sort of polling, the paper would've had it on the front page ASAP, so what's the Sun-Sentinel's explanation for the complete absence of information in print on this re DWS?

So what exactly happened to John Heilemann?
He used to be right more often than wrong, and would often have something original and interesting to bring to the table for discussion, but at some point over the past few years when I wasn't looking, he seems to have gone into a slump or a funk or tailspin or something, because he's now lost his bearings, keeps repeating the same things things over-and-over instead of saying something original or interesting.

"They think [Ryan] is a gift to them."
Obama Team ‘Could Not Be Happier’ with Paul Ryan Pick
Paul Ryan Was Hardly a ‘Courageous Choice’ for Mitt Romney

Like a once-valuable veteran pitcher on a contending team who has lost his fastball -his judgment has gotten worse and worse. 
Just like his predictions.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/12/Dems-Pretend-to-be-Excited-Over-Ryan-Pick-They-Celebrated-Cheney-Too

GOP House budget "blueprint" alternatives; GOP rising stars need a mutiny now!

Stayed up late to watch the tape I'd made earlier Sunday

of the first two hours of Little Dorrit on PBS' Masterpiece

Theatre while I was watching some things on C-SPAN,

and am now so wide awake, I thought that I'd try to

finish this so you can think about some of this Monday

morning.

The miniseries is fantastic, as this LA Times review

makes clear!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-little-dorrit27-2009mar27,0,1364897.story

If the Herald or Sun-Sentinel were in the top rank of daily

newspapers, and actually had political writers who knew

anything about either economics or markets, or consumer

psychology for that matter, they'd have figured out some

way to make sure that some version of this very important

bit of news from Politico.com about Congressman Paul

Ryan actually made it into their print version.

Or, had actually ever mentioned Ryan before in a serious

and meaningful story.

I've checked their archives and -shocker!- they haven't.

There's no reason to imagine that's going to change

anytime soon, much less, before both papers are

kaput next year, as I fully expect, before July 4th,

2010.

Ryan and some colleagues -whose names you have

never read about in either paper or ever see on

network TV- did all the hard work in crafting together

an alternative budget to the White House plan.

Before they could polish it and release it, though,

someone else in the GOP House leadership panicked,

deciding that the GOP had to ignore what was actually

being worked on, and instead, responded to media criticism,

thereby releasing something this week just to meet some

sort of imaginary deadline in order to respond to Obama's

numbers.

(It's sort of like someone who sends an accusative

email when they're mad late at night, rather than

in writing it all out, but saving it to Draft so you

can look at it again the next morning when you've

presumably calmed down.

You know, like Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper

really should've done last summer, when she sent

HB civic activist Michael Butler and myself a crazy

rant full of mis-placed pique, mis-spellings and 'straw

men,' just because I'd sent him an email earlier asking

him to consider meeting me -and perhaps some

other HB residents- over the weekend at Starbucks

or Denny's, to talk about some of the problems in

the city we rightly attribute to her poor and faulty

leadership.

Someone -I have my strong suspicion!- forwarded

the letter to Cooper and then she sent her wacky

response out after midnight, usually NOT a good

idea!)

Instead of listening to what Rep. Paul Ryan and Minority

Whip Eric Cantor were saying, the GOP got spooked

and panicked, releasing a 19-page pamphlet that was

rightly mocked as a joke on the various cablenets and

by the Beltway press because it was, in fact, a joke.

(On weekends, I used to spend lots of time with friends

driving around Cantor's congressional district, which

includes large parts of the beautiful Virginia countryside

southwest of Arlington County and northwest of Richmond,

especially Culpepper and Spotsylvania.)

Why do the House GOP leaders keep engaging in

malignant self-destruction?

Why not actually let one of the the smart persons actually

doing the heavy-lifting, whom everyone respects -i.e. Ryan-

actually be the point person to release the GOP House

budget alternative, and answer the media's questions?

Because, call me crazy, it might actually turn out to be

a good idea to let the person who actually knows what's

what, answer the questions that House Minority Leader

John Boehner can't possibly know

The problem described in the Politico article is exactly

the sort of dysfunctional problem that will continue to

fester as long as someone with a such a bland personality

like John Boehner remains in charge of the GOP House.

He's like a TV weatherman, in that in the 15 years I was

in DC and on Capitol Hill, despite numerous opportunities,

he never once impressed me with his insight or originality.

Not once.

Instead, he always said exactly what you expect,

just like our TV weatherman:

"Warm with a chance of rain in the afternoon."

He's someone who never met an opportunity knocking

on the door that he didn't foolishly ignore.

Sometimes you actually have to open the door,

you know?

Boehner is the sort of person you'd actually want

running the Chamber of Commerce from a mid-size

Midwestern city with ambitions, or even a place like

Greater Fort Lauderdale for that matter.

The guy who everyone respects, who has professional

connections and who is always open to helping the

community, whether that's running the foundation

that helps gives underprivilged kids toys, money for

college, whatever.

What he isn't, though, is someone who should

ever be in front of TV cameras, talking policy!

When he walks into a hardware store, the brand

new tools in their shrink-wrapped packaging

even become DULLER!

As many of you may know from conversations with me,

I like Mike Pence -and not just because he's from

Indiana- but he is not without some major form/function

problems, too, and has really blown some opportunities

as well over the past few years, when he's either said

what I thought was the wrong thing at the wrong time,

or allowed a situation to roil by failing to respond quickly

enoughthe wrio.

I wonder if part of the problem is that for him to actually

succeed, they have to throw Boehner overboard, and

it's just not in his personality to do that.

The result is the House GOP drifts along like shipwrecked

passengers on a dinghy, trying desperately to figure out

which direction to row towards when there is not a spit

of land in sight.

Meanwhile, when the country really needs smart and

well-thought out alternatives to many of what I believe

are the Obama administration's very bad ideas and

policy prescriptions, they keep rowing in circles,

not willing to say aloud that the airline pilot may know

a lot about flying, but doesn't know a damn about

navigation from the perspective of the dinghy in the water.

As a moderate DLC Democrat, I don't think it does the

country any good for there not to be a reasonable check

and pushback on Obama's bad ideas and policies,

but I think those alternatives need to offer real solutions,

not simply be slogans for future congressional campaigns.

Republicans who care really ought to be calling for a

(Caine) Mutiny before they wind-up like Gilligans Island!

Stuck!

After reading the Politico article below, go to

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?ProgramId=HP-A-41313

House Republicans Unveil FY 2010 Budget Alternative

House Min. Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) was joined

by several of his Republican colleagues at a press conference

on Capitol Hill during which they unveiled their alternative

to President Obama's FY 2010 budget.

Washington, DC : 15 min.

After that, watch the 15-minute segment I watched on

C-SPAN Sunday with Rep. Paul Ryan so you can see

how clearly and articulately he is in comparison.

Today's Highlights

Newsmakers

	Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) Outlines the GOP Alternative Budget Sunday Our guest on Newmakers is Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who discusses the Republican alternative to the FY 2010 Budget. The top Republican on the House Budget Cmte., Rep. Ryan outlines a “pro-growth” plan that limits borrowing and reduces the Federal debt. The alternative will be debated on the House Floor this week.
	Newsmakers on C-SPAN at 10am ET & 6pm ET In case link above is messed up, it's at http://www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-A-16835

March 26, 2009 Categories: House Republicans Sources: GOP leaders split on budget "blueprint"

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0309/Aides_Cantor_Ryan_objected_to_GOPs_budget_blueprint.html

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In case you missed it the first time, this George Will

column from October speaks volumes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002320.html

A Vote Against Rashness

By George F, Will, georgewill@washpost.com

His name was George F. Babbitt. He was 46 years old now, in April 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

-- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)

We are waist deep in evasions because one cannot talk sense about the cultural roots of the financial crisis without transgressing this cardinal principle of politics: Never shall be heard a discouraging word about the public.

Concerning which, a timeless political trope is: Government should budget the way households supposedly do, conforming outlays to income. But the crisis came partly because so many households decided that it would be jolly fun to budget the way government does, hitching outlays to appetites.

Beneath Americans' perfunctory disapproval of government deficits lurks an inconvenient truth: They enjoy deficits, by which they are charged less than a dollar for a dollar's worth of government. Conservatives participate in this, even though deficits fuel government's growth by obscuring its cost.

The people can emulate the government because credit has been democratized. Democratization of everything is supposedly an unquestionable good, but a blizzard of credit cards (1.5 billion of them, nine per cardholder), subsidized loans and cheap money has separated the pleasure of purchasing from the pain of paying. Furthermore, the entitlement mentality fostered by the welfare state includes a felt entitlement to a standard of living untethered from savings.

Populism flatters the people, contrasting their virtue with the alleged vices of some minority -- in other times, Jews or railroad owners or hard money advocates; today, the villain is "Wall Street greed," which is contrasted with the supposed sobriety of "Main Street." When people on Main Street misbehave by, say, buying houses for more than they can afford to pay, they blame the wily knaves who made them do it, such as the "nimble" Babbitt.

Knowing that heat breeds haste, errors and unintended consequences, George Washington praised the Senate as the saucer into which legislation is poured to cool. In this crisis, however, the House of Representatives has performed that function. Republicans, especially, slowed a Gadarene rush to ratify the deeply flawed original bailout legislation.

Voting against the bill -- against putting taxpayers' money at risk in order to clean up a mess that some people got rich by making -- was easy, but not necessarily wrong. The $700 billion figure exaggerated the plan's probable cost, but accurately measured something worse -- the enormous enlargement of government's power.

So the joint declaration by John McCain and Barack Obama that Congress should "rise above politics" was mere gas. The legislation touched elemental questions -- the meaning of justice, the parameters of freedom and the proper functions of government. Democrats charge that the crisis is market failure arising from an insufficiency of government, in the form of regulation. Well.

Suppose that in 1979 the government had not engineered the first bailout of Chrysler (it, Ford and GM are about to get $25 billion in subsidized loans). Might there have been a more sober approach to risk throughout corporate America?

Suppose there had never been implicit government backing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Better yet, suppose those two had never existed -- there was homeownership before them, just not at a level that the government thought proper. Absent Fannie and Freddie -- absent government manipulation of the housing market -- would there have developed the excessive diversion of capital into the housing stock?

No presidential authority

The rising generation of thoughtful Republicans was represented on both sides of Monday's vote. Virginia's Eric Cantor, 45, and Wisconsin's Paul Ryan, 38, supported the legislation because they had helped to achieve substantial improvements in it, such as requiring financial institutions to help finance their bailout, giving the Treasury potentially valuable equity in firms revived by public funds and eliminating a slush fund for Democratic activists. Texas' Jeb Hensarling, 51, and Indiana's Mike Pence, 49, voted against what they considered a rescue model fundamentally flawed because (in Hensarling's words) it "could permanently and fundamentally change the role of government."

It is potentially catastrophic that this crisis comes in the context of a closely contested election and a collapse of presidential authority. Congress should disconnect from a public that cannot be blamed for being more furious about than comprehending of this opaque debacle. The public wanted catharsis, and respect for its center-right principles, and got both with Monday's House vote. It still needs protection against obliteration of the financial system.

Reader comments at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002320_Comments.html

See also:

Eric Cantor's congressional website: http://cantor.house.gov/index.htm

Eric Cantor's Whip Office website: http://www.republicanwhip.house.gov/

News about Cantor: http://news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q="Eric+Cantor"&cf=all&scoring=n

Paul Ryan's congressional website: http://www.house.gov/ryan/

His district includes Janesville, home of L.L. Bean,

as well as Racine, home of Johnson Wax, and Kenosha,

home of Snap-on and an important Chrysler engine plant,

which is currently laying-off employees for obvious reasons.

News about Paul Ryan: http://news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q="Paul+Ryan"&cf=all&scoring=n