It may be too soon to declare a winner of today's rally – sanity and/or fear – but that shouldn't stop us from trying.
After all, one needn't be a Kreskin to foresee that Republicans are going to add to their collection of government branches this week, picking up the House, the Senate, and quite possibly the Presidency.
And even if they don't, it will only be because of widespread Democratic voter fraud.
Or so we'll be told by the likes of Andrew Breitbart come Tuesday night.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan; DNC Chair Tim Kaine; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour; Roundtable: Political Analyst Charlie Cook, Mark Halperin (TIME), Tom Brokaw (NBC News), Michele Norris (NPR) and Chuck Todd (NBC News).
Face the Nation: Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan; Rep. Peter King (R-NY); Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.
This Week: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX); Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Roundtable: Chairman of FreedomWorks Dick Armey, George Will (Washington Post), Cokie Roberts (ABC News), Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile and Jonathan Karl (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: Twit Sarah Palin; Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Mara Liasson (NPR/Fox), Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard) and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: RNC Chair Michael Steele; Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE); Radio host Bill Bennett; Reliable Sources: Arianna Huffinton (Huffington Post); Paul Farhi (Washington Post); Radio Host Michael Medved; John Avlon (Daily Beast); Jim Geraghty (National Review); Julie Mason (Washington Examiner); Former President Jimmy Carter.
The Chris Matthews Show: Norah O'Donnell (MSNBC); John Heilemann (New York Magazine); Howard Fineman (Newsweek); Helen Cooper (New York Times).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: "Restoring the American Dream" Special featuring: Chairman/CEO of Google Eric Schmidt; Chairman/CEO of Coca-Cola Muhtar Kent; CEO of Alcoa Klaus Kleinfeld; Former CEO of RJ Reynolds, American Express & IBM Lou Gerstner.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the closure of an Iowa appliance factory and the negative effect it's having on the community (preview); an interview with David Stockman, the architect of Ronald Reagan's tax cuts, who rejects the GOP's embrace of the "religion" of tax cuts (preview); and, a report on champion thoroughbred racehorse Zenyatta (preview).
On Comedy Central:
Jon Stewart interviewed President Obama (Part 1, 2, 3), but not before keeping him waiting.
The Daily Show
Monday: TBD
Tuesday: TBD
Wednesday: TBD
Thursday: TBD
And Stephen Colbert delivered a brutal takedown of Rand Paul's stormtroopers.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Jonathan Alter (Newsweek)
Tuesday: David Frum (Frum Forum) & Chrystia Freeland (Reuters)
Wednesday: Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
Thursday: Singer/Songwriter Elvis Costello
In related news:
Christine (read: Christ) O'Donnell's campaign manager threatened a Delaware radio station with Biblical retribution if they dared post video of an interview they conducted with the candidate.
At the conclusion of the interview, a representative from the campaign who had been in the broadcast studio with O'Donnell asked that the video be turned over to the campaign and not released. He stated that the videotaping had not been approved by the O'Donnell campaign.
O'Donnell also told show host Rick Jensen that she would sue the radio station if the video was released. [...]
O'Donnell's campaign manager, Matt Moran, called WDEL and demanded that the video be immediately turned over to the campaign and destroyed. Moran threatened to "crush WDEL" with a lawsuit if the station didn't comply.
And doughy pantload Jonah Goldberg wished death upon Wikileaker Julian Assange.
Why wasn't Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?
It's a serious question.
In almost every corner of the popular culture, there are people who assume incredible competence on the part of our intelligence agencies. We take it as a given that spooks can, in the immortal words of Elvis, take care of business in a flash. In the Jason Bourne movies, say the wrong word into your cell phone, and assassins will find you at the train station in minutes. In AMC's Rubicon, if you pay too close attention to crossword puzzles, your train will be "accidentally" derailed. In Three Days of the Condor, if you ask your bosses the wrong question, a postman with an ice-bullet-shooting machine gun will pay you a visit.
Meanwhile:
Iowa Rep. Steve King spoke out in defense of American values.
"I think that if we can’t defend marriage, that it becomes very hard to defend life," King said. "Marriage is the crucible by which we pour all of our values and pass them on to our children, and that is how the culture is renewed each time. So, if we lose marriage — for instance, if our children are raised in warehouses, so to speak. There have been civilizations that have tried to do that. The Spartans did that. They took the children away and taught them to be warriors. It’s a good way to defend a country, but not much of a way to run a civilization."
I believe the children are our future.
- Trix
