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On Hannity Tonight

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 20th, 2009 at 07:19 PM  | 

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I’ll be on Sean Hannity’s Great American Panel tonight at 9:30 with Gov. Bob Ehrlich and Rev. Jacques DeGraff.

It’s going to be a really good panel tonight, so I hope you’ll tune in to it.

Consider this an open thread.

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  • muffin

    Looking forward to seeing you, Erick.

    I am furious that Sen. Ben Nelson will vote to start the health debate in the Senate. Once it hits the Senate floor, Reid can use reconciliation to pass this monstrosity. I tried calling my Senators, but everything went to voice mail (which I’m sure they won’t check before voting tomorrow.)

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/20/sen-nelson-says-vote-start-health-reform-debate/

  • antisocial

    Will be watching.

  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    Not bad!

  • antisocial

    good going

  • NeoKong

    Green tie with a light blue shirt. I wouldn’t have tried it but you pulled it off well.
    I’m kidding.
    You had the best tie.
    Seriously though. Your comments about Obama being an amateur in office and his dithering vs. deliberating were quite devastating without a hint of being angry. It was just a fact and you stated it effectively.
    It was a good segment.
    I hope you become a regular.
    That guy Jacque Degraff seemed pretty reasonable for a leftie.
    He stated his opinions well.

    Did Sean ask about me…?

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    one of those particularly annoying ones who bring up things that happened years ago to “prove a point.” It’s like pushing a button and off they go instead of making a rational argument.

    Until January 20, 2013, everything will still be the fault of Cheney and Bush.

  • antisocial

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  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Great job, Erick!
    Thanks,
    ColdWarrior

  • Cheryl

    And this Degraff guy doesn’t seem reasonable to me, Kind of mouthy.

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    Obama: “I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion [or disaster relief] bill.

    I tried about 150 times throughout the day to ask Senator Landrieu about the $100 million pork rider for Louisiana, but never got through. I will try again Saturday morning. I also tried calling Senator McConnell?s office about 75 times before finally getting through and asked this same question.

  • NeoKong

    He wasn’t throwing out insults or yelling and getting angry.

  • Cheryl
  • Vladimir

    LA’s demographics were temporarily altered by Katrina. As a result, the state qualified for substantially less Federal money paid toward Medicaid.

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

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  • proudmarinemom

    …that so many of Obama’s supporters like Degraff express with such touching sincerity.

    Those of us whose lives are actually effected by what the “troops” do from week to week appreciate the concern, but we’d like a decision.

    I have a “troop” in my family. He had missed two Thanksgivings and two Christmases at home by the time he was 20 years old. Now, at 21, he is waiting for this so-called Commander-in-Chief to decide his fate. Tick. Tick. Tick. Should he enroll in some college classes, look for off-base housing, keep seeing that pretty girl he likes . . .or spend all his time at the firing range, keep PT-ing and read up on Afghan history?

    Waiting . . .

  • pollux

    You should be a regular!

  • bk

    Most likely it’s due to stupid ways that medicaid formulas work.

    If medicaid people from NOLA ended up in Houston or Atlanta or Baton Rouge or whereever, it seems like the funding would follow them. If they move back to NOLA, then same story.

    If LA’s population is down since Katrina, then it seems like they would be getting less from the federal kitty.

    As a side note, it shows how screwed up laws are in Washington that it takes some misleading change to a Social Security law to deal with this. And isn’t doc fix just as much related to health care as this is? Why does Reid still insist on hiding that $250B?

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    Heh. Every month. They’ve got lots of people who want to be on.

    And thanks everyone for the kind words.

    By the way, I was personally deeply impressed by Rev. DeGraff. He was an exceptionally nice guy.

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    but when the blame game starts, I tend to shut down. Those who do that aren’t helping anybody. When he said “8 years” that was it.

    The thing he ignored was health care was a straw man issue until Obama made it a “crisis.” The reason it’s an issue at all is because every year, Congress has taken a bigger role in controlling it with incrementalism and this, that they’re doing now, is one of the final steps to complete takeover; to fix what they broke in the first place.

    Somebody, you or Hannity, tried to point out that medicare will be broke and it was completely ignored while the blame fest continued. He can be a nice guy all day long, 365 days a year but he’s doing everybody a huge disservice with always palming off the blame.

    We (Republicans) are expected to hold our officials accountable for every misdeed, from the smallest to the largest. Democrats blame “us” instead.

    I hear Beckel is an exceptionally nice guy, too, but I can’t stand to listen to him when he starts the blaming garbage.

    When it becomes about what “the other guy” did when instead of what “their guy” is doing now, the debate is over and the opportunity to find real solutions is lost .

  • mom2oneson

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

  • mom2oneson

    WASHINGTON ? Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu says she will vote “yes” on a crucial test vote on the health care bill.

    The Louisiana lawmaker made the long-awaited announcement in a speech on the Senate floor Saturday. Her comments came just hours before the 8 p.m. EST vote.

    Landrieu says her vote is to move forward but that work still needs to be done on the bill.

    Landrieu has been one of two Democratic holdouts; the other is Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to prevail in the 100-seat Senate. The 40 Republicans are unanimously opposed.

    A largely overlooked provision in the Senate bill would send $100 million to Louisiana to help it cover costs for Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor.

  • Common_Cents