Check out this overhyped nonsense from This Week With George Stephanopoulos:Plus our powerhouse roundtable: George Will, Cokie Roberts, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, political strategist Matthew Dowd and former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman and author Dan Senor take on the difficult Afghanistan decision. And the lagging economy has shoppers slogging through another holiday season. Is another stimulus needed? Can a middle ground be found on healthcare? As hacked e-mails from scientists heat up the global warming debate, how will the controversy complicate next month’s climate change summit in Copenhagen? All that and all the week’s politics on "This Week."A few points on this idiocy.
1. I know you guys like to flatter yourselves, but in no way, shape or form is George Will the Global Warming Denier and All-Around Liar a "powerhouse." Nor is Dan Senor, the Republican hack who used to work for AIPAC, Spencer Abraham (R-MI), the Carlyle Group military-industrial complex of former Reagan Administration officials, and the Bush Administration's Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq under the infamous L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer. Also, since when is Cokie Roberts a "powerhouse," intellectual or otherwise? Puh-leeze. And why should we listen to any of these peoples' uninformed opinions (with the exception of Paul Krugman) on the economy, healthcare, global warming, Afghanistan, or anything else? Uhhhhhh.
2. What is this "middle ground...on healthcare" of which you speak? Do you mean, the "middle ground" of giving up a single payer system, a robust public option tied to Medicare rates, or even a watered-down public option with "opt out" provisions for states? Sorry, but only on Washington "powerhouse" tee-vee talking bimbo shows can watering stuff down until it's worthless be considered the "middle ground" and also admirable in some vague, David Broder-ian way. Lame. As always.
3. Those "hacked," taken-completely-out-of-context emails aren't "heat[ing] up the global warming debate," except perhaps in the minds of global warming deniers and "skeptics" like your "powerhouse" panelist George Will. The fact is, the scientific evidence for man-made global warming is vast, growing, and subject to no serious scientific controversy, except that it might actually be happening faster than we had previously thought. But don't let the facts get in the way of your "powerhouse" discussion with noted climate scientists George Will, Cokie Roberts, Dan Senor, et al. (/end snark)
