[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Sunday 06/15/08

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*Main Topics: *McCain's Tax Policy, *McSame* or *McDifferent*?, Potential VPs, RIP Tim Russert *Summary of Shift:* Pundits reminisced about the legendary Tim Russert this morning. Tom Brokaw hosted "Meet the Press" and dedicated the entire show to his remembrance. Fred Thompson and John Edwards were interviewed on "This Week". Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich appeared on "Face the Nation", where vice presidential selection was a major topic of discussion. Highlights: 1) Newt Gingrich interview on "Face the Nation" a. Says inexperience argument against Obama "won't work", points to Lincoln's "one term in Congress" as proof that experience doesn't matter b. Calls Jindal "far and away the best candidate for vice president" c. Argues recent Supreme Court decision granting enemy combatants access to civilian courts is the worst in its history, even "worse than Dred Scott" 2) McCain's flawed tax policies a. Edwards: McCain's continuation of Bush's tax cuts is "favoring wealth over work" b. Robert Reich: McCain's tax cuts do more for wealthy than even Bush has 3) Jindal implies he won't accept VP position if asked, reveals he's a skeptic about evolution and for teaching intelligent design in schools 4) On "This Week": McCain having trouble finding his voice 5) Fred Thompson interview on "This Week" a. Says Supreme Court will be a major voting issue b. Thompson: Tax policy gulf between candidates vast, Americans better off now than eight years ago Clips: Highlight #1 *Newt Gingrich Says Inexperience Argument Against Obama "Won't Work", Points to "one term" of Lincoln As Proof Experience Doesn't Matter; Calls Jindal "far and away the best candidate for vice president" and the recent Supreme Court Case "Worse than Dred Scott"* (CBS 06/15/08 10:45am) CHIP REID: Well let's start with Bobby Jindal. You just heard him and you were obviously impressed by him. A lot of Republicans are incredibly impressed by him. 37 years old. Would you recommend to John McCain that he pick him as his vice presidential... NEWT GINGRICH: Absolutely, I think Governor Jindal would be far and away the best candidate for vice president in the country. I think he is a future presidential candidate. I think he has enormous capacity to keep growing. He was, at 24 state medicaid director of Louisiana. He then headed Bro-Thomas commission on reforming medicare. He then became an assistant secretary of health and human services in the Bush Administration. He then went back home and ran for Governor and lost. Won a congressional seat. Came to Washington for two terms, then became the first person in Louisiana history to win the governorship without a runoff, defeating eleven people with a majority. And has since been just spectacular. Louisiana is a state that had no tradition of ethics reform, he drove through the toughest ethics legislation in the country. As he said, he's now driven through six tax cuts, he's already had a major corporation announce they are moving their corporate headquarters to Baton Rouge. He is just an all around talented human being. REID: But here's one problem, that McCain has run largely on his ability to step in and become Commander in Chief from Day one. GINGRICH: Right. REID: Bobby Jindal doesn't have that. Do you think McCain will pick him? Or is that a real problem? GINGRICH: Look Bobby Jindal at 37 is fully as prepared to be Commander in Chief as Senator Obama. I mean, you could argue that in fact Jindal's experience in the executive and legislative branches is greater than Senator Obama's [...] REID: And you believe Senator Obama is qualified? He has the experience? GINGRICH: Look, in the American tradition, Abraham Lincoln served one term in Congress. I think it's a fundamental mistake to focus on whether or not he is qualified to be president and a powerful question on what kind of president he would be. REID: But that is largely what McCain and his people are focusing on now. It's inexperience, inexperience, inexperience. They just keep hammering away. GINGRICH: It won't work. It's a mistake. REID: It is a mistake. GINGRICH: The country is not gonna reject Senator Obama on inexperience. The country may reject Senator Obama because of his relationship to Reverend Wright and his relationship to the hard left, William Ayers. And because his policies include tax increases and because there's some big decisions coming on energy, on education, on the Court, and Senator Obama may turn out to represent a position so far to the left the country won't tolerate him. But if the country ends up not electing Senator Obama, it will be on large principled decisions, not on, I mean, I think both campaigns the last two weeks have been totally off their stride [...] REID: Well along those lines, you said in a recent column in Human Events, you said "the Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Reverend Wright campaign, they are simply going to fail." [...] GINGICH: I will say, I think the recent Supreme Court decision to turn over to a local district judge decisions of national security and life and death that should be made by the president and the congress is the most extraordinarily arrogant and destructive decision the Supreme Court has made in it's history. REID: In it's history? GINGRICH: In it's history. Worse than Dred Scott, for the following reason: The court has now knowingly stepped in, this mourning's newspaper say, smugglers had actually gotten the design of a nuclear weapon, that we now have the evidence that people out there had a nuclear weapon design. And this court is saying that any random district judge, based on whatever their personal caprice is, whatever their personal ideological bias, can intervene with a terrorist in such a way, and this is something the Italians will tell you about fighting the mafia... [...] Highlight #2 *McCain's Continuation of Bush's Tax Cuts is "Favoring Wealth over Work" *(ABC 06/15/08 10:09am) JOHN EDWARDS: What we're doing under Sen. McCain and George Bush over the last eight years is we're favoring wealth over work. We keep raising the burden on working middle class families at the same time that we're giving tax breaks to people who earned their income from investment, from wealth. All I'm saying and Sen. Obama's saying is we ought to treat people's hard work with the dignity and respect that it's entitled to, just as it is with wealth. And giving more tax breaks to the biggest corporations in America, tax breaks that are absolutely skewed, even more so than George Bush's, to the wealthiest Americans instead of those who need the help, doesn't work. And you don't need me or any policy analyst to tell you that. They've had eight years, George, to try their way and it hasn't worked. Isn't it time that we try something different? *Robert Reich: McCain's Tax Cuts Do More For Wealthy Than Even George Bush *(ABC 06/15/08 10:38am) ROBERT REICH: I don't think you can really separate economic security from national security. This is why John McCain's position is so interesting because he wants to and needs to separate himself from Bush, a failed presidency, particularly if you look at the polls. And yet, on Iraq and on the economy he is going beyond what George Bush has done. His tax cuts are beyond anything that, particularly for the wealthy, beyond anything that George Bush has proposed or did implement. Highlight #3 *Jindal Implies He Won't Accept VP Position if Asked, Reveals He's a Skeptic About Evolution and For Teaching Intelligent Design in Schools* (CBS 06/15/08 10:30am) CHIP REID: Now you've been asked this question many times, the running mate question about John McCain. And you have said you love your job, you've got a lot of work to do, you don't think McCain's gonna ask you anyway, but what if he does? What if he decides that you're the person he needs, would you turn it down? BOBBY JINDAL: Well, you know, again, the speculation is flattering. I've talked to the Senator several times, we've never talked about the topic. The reality is I've got the job that I want. This is a historic time for my state [...] REID: You have said the Republican Party has "lost it's way." Why do you believe John McCain, how have they lost their way, and why do you believe John McCain's the guy to bring them out of the woods. JINDAL: Well you look at when the Republican Party first got the majorities in Congress, when many Governors, many state houses, the reason was the party stood against wasteful spending, against corruption, it was a party of ideas like welfare reform, stood for conservative principles. The problem was the party went to Washington to change Washington and instead became captured by Washington. All of a sudden started defending the bridge to nowhere, earmarks, wasteful spending, things they would have rightfully condemned if the other party had proposed it. So I think the party got off track, I think that the way we start winning elections again is by being conservative, sticking to our principles, and not condoning, it's not enough to say you want power for the sake of having power, it's not enough to criticize the other side to win an election [...]The reason why I'm supporting Senator McCain, we might not have always agreed on every policy issue, but now we've got a choice between two candidates, I think Senator McCain's policies, I think he's more likely to cut our taxes, more likely to defend our interests overseas effectively, I think he's more likely to keep government out of health care, he's got a long record opposing earmarks and wasteful spending. The good news is that you've got two candidates that are good, decent, people, that I think are patriotic, smart people. I think we've got different views on what the government should be doing [...]I personally think we're a center conservative country, I think Senator McCain's views are more consistent with the majority of American voters. But the good news is voters don't have to got to the voting booth voting against somebody in this election. REID: Let me take a sharp turn here to a different issue, an issue that has raised some controversy. Now you were a biology major in college, I think you were a double major, but a biology major. And you support the teaching of intelligent design in schools, do you have doubts about the theory of evolution? JINDAL: A couple of things. One, I don't think this is something the federal or state government should be imposing it's views on local school districts. You know, as a conservative, I think government that's closest to the people governs best. I think local school boards should be in a position to deciding their curriculum and also deciding what students should be learning. Secondly, I don't think students learn by us withholding information from them. Some want only to teach intelligent design, some only want to teach evolution, I think both views are wrong. REID: But how about you personally? How do you stand personally on the issue? JINDAL: As a parent when my kids go to school, when they go to public schools I want them to be presented with the best thinking. I want them to be able to make decisions for themselves. I want them to see the best data. I personally think that the life, human life, and the world we live in wasn't created accidentally. I do think that there's a creator. I'm a Christian. I do think that god played a role in creating not only earth, but mankind. Now the way that he did it, I certainly want my kids to the very best science. I don't want them to be, I don't want any facts or theories or explanations to be withheld from them because of political correctness [...] Highlight #4 *McCain Having Trouble Finding His Voice *(ABC 06/15/08 10:45am) GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS: That leads to another question, Torie, about Sen. McCain's campaign. How does he find his voice on the economy right now . . . I don't think it's going to cut to come out and say, you know, things are going fine, people just don't get it, unemployment is actually at historic lows. That cannot work when people are feeling that the country's going in the wrong direction. Even if they are wrong. TORIE CLARKE: You're absolutely right . . . it's very difficult for him because politically he has to divorce himself from, separate himself from the Bush administration. Substantively he agrees with them on basic policies. Months and months and months ago I heard him giving a speech and in a very thoughtful way he laid it out: Look, things are working, let's not throw those out, but there are a lot of people hurting badly, what is it we can do to help them, can we say honestly that those people in Michigan, those jobs aren't coming back but we're going to help train you and educate you to get different jobs, those sorts of things. But look, it took me thirty seconds, it's very hard for a politician to wrap that up in thirty seconds. So I think it's going to be hard for him and especially, he's the first one to admit it, this isn't his strong suit, he's got a voice on national security since he was born. ROBERT REICH: Why wasn't he able to simply say, "I opposed the Bush tax cuts for the rich in 2001 and 2003, I oppose them today"? Why couldn't he have said that? STEPHANOPOLOUS: He wouldn't've gotten the nomination. [. . .] REICH: Do you really think so George? Do you really think so? STEPHANOPOLOUS: Absolutely. He was dead in the water a year ago. He had no hope. SAM DONALDSON: That's the problem with trying to find his voice, I mean he's still trying to secure his base. We concentrate on the Democratic Party and how they're so split now . . .the real problem, at least for Republicans is he still can't decide if he's got the nomination. [. . .] STEPHANOPOLOUS: In 2006 when he was the front runner far and away, when he was raising money, before immigration destroyed his campaign, he might have had a chance of pulling off some differentiation on taxes but when you had immigration there was no way you could do both. Highlight #5 *Supreme Court Will Be a Major Voting Issue *(ABC 06/15/08 10:10am) GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS: Do you think that the supreme court's going to be a voting issue this year? FRED THOMPSON: Absolutely, I can't think of anything that more starkly points out the differences in these two presidential candidates in terms of the kind of justices that they would appoint to the Supreme Court. Barack Obama opposed Chief Justice Roberts . . . I think this a pretty good issue to highlight the differences in these two candidates at a time when our judiciary is arrogating more and more power to itself. *Thompson: Tax Policy Gulf Between Candidates Vast, Americans Better Off Now Than Eight Years Ago *(ABC 06/15/08 10:13am) GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS: There's . . . a huge difference on tax policy, on economic policy, you heard Sen. Edwards say . . . John McCain's tax policies are an extension of what we've seen under President Bush and it hasn't worked. FRED THOMPSON: What hasn't worked, either substantively or politically is the old rich vs. poor, don't worry about it, we'll soak the rich . . . kind of approach . . . we have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world. . . STEPHANOPOLOUS: You mentioned the cost of Sen. Obama's proposal but that same tax policy institute study said that more revenue would be lost under Sen. McCain's proposals. . . THOMPSON: That's the static analysis that . . . the beltway has operated under for a long, long time . . . [. . .] THOMPSON: . . . of course people act like now we've had a terrible economy for the last eight years, that's not true . . . -- Gregory E. Rosalsky Progressive Media USA 202-609-7691 (office) 707-484-3796 (cell) [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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