With the smell of emissions thick in the morning air, the Palins and their media hangers-on loaded up the family vehicle and hit the open road to warn the British that they won't be taking away our forks and knives.
Due to security concerns, the details of their trip remain a closely-guarded secret; however, one could reasonably conclude that they won't be heading to the White House.
It's a long way down the holiday road.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Preempted by coverage of the French Open.
Face the Nation: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R).
This Week: Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee; Paul Krugman (New York Times); Chrystia Freeland (Thomson Reuters); Former Foreign Minister of Jordan Marwan Muasher; Roundtable: Republican Strategist Mark McKinnon, Jonathan Karl (ABC News), Former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers and Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain.
Fox News Sunday: Former Half-Term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R); Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Mara Liasson (NPR/FNC), Kimberly Strassel (Wall Street Journal) and John Podesta (Center for American Progress).
State of the Union: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); Former RNC Chair Ed Gillespie; Former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn; Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee; Reliable Sources: Nancy Cordes (CBS News); Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine.com); Maureen O'Connor (Gawker.com); Jill Abramson (New York Times).
The Chris Matthews Show: Bob Woodward (Washington Post); Helene Cooper (New York Times); Alex Wagner (Politics Daily); John Heilemann (New York Magazine).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Columbia University Economics Professor Jeffrey Sachs; Harvard University Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff; Muslim Brotherhood Leader Essam El Erian.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a look inside the secretive world of "high frequency trading" (preview); a report on a controversial archaeological dig in Jerusalem (preview); and, an interview with Lady Gaga (preview).
On Comedy Central:
Jon Stewart took issue with several aspects of the Palin-Trump pizza summit.
The Daily Show
Monday: Iranian Journalist/Author Maziar Bahari
Tuesday: Fareed Zakaria (CNN)
Wednesday: Larry King (Formerly of CNN)
Thursday: TBD
And Stephen Colbert wondered whether he, too, is entitled to take PAC-sponsored family vacations.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Filmmaker Werner Herzog
Tuesday: Retired Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard
Wednesday: Founder of MakerBot Bre Prettis
Thursday: Former Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge
Elsewhere:
During a meeting at the White House, President Obama confronted Republican leaders with an uncomfortable truth.
Republicans attending a White House meeting on Wednesday didn’t take kindly to President Obama telling them tax rates were higher during the Reagan administration. GOP members engaged in a lot of "eye-rolling," according to a member who was on hand to hear Obama, who invited House Republicans to the White House for discussions on the debt ceiling. [...]
"[The President] made a comment like the tax rate is the lightest, even more than (under former President) Reagan," Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) told The Hill following the meeting. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) joked that during the meeting, "We learned we had the lowest tax rates in history … lower than Reagan!"
They're much more comfortable with lies.
Meanwhile:
Donald Trump tried to cash in on his good looks.
Classy American racist Donald Trump is enjoying his post-almost-presidency repose the way any exceedingly wealthy titan of industry would: By trying to peddle cheesy photos of himself and his family to tabloids for $20,000.
A magazine source reports that Getty Images is busy shopping around "cooperative set-up" photos of Trump, his wife Melania, and their son Barron frolicking poolside at their home in Mar-a-Lago. The way these things work is that Getty takes a cut and passes the rest on to the money-grubbing celebrity. In this case, Getty was asking for $20,000 for a weekly magazine exclusive. That's probably what Trump was talking about when he kept saying how excited he was to fill out all those financial disclosure forms required of bona fide candidates: He couldn't wait to show us how much he makes from selling photos of himself. That's Kardashian money, baby!
Trump is also trying to sell the idea that he was leading in the polls when he dropped out of the presidential race.
And in related news:
Pizza magnate Herman Cain – who really is riding high in the polls – served up his factually inaccurate thoughts on the constitutionality of federal bankruptcy laws.
All of the talk about a national foreclosure freeze . . . all they’re trying to do is appeal to people’s emotions. You see, the United States federal government, folks, has no jurisdiction over bankruptcy law. States do!
So, if some states decide that they want to investigate some of these phony or incomplete foreclosures, it’s up to the states. This is not even under the jurisdiction of the federal government! But it sounds good. It really sounds good, though."
That's all folks.
- Trix