First "Meet The Press" since Dems swept House and the Senate Will Feature?

[Jcrowley]

Tomorrow will be the first "Meet The Press" since the Democrats swept both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, and ThinkProgress and HuffPo's own Stephen Kaus point out something interesting: Special guests Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman were not part of the aforementioned Democratic sweeping of the House and Senate. While both are obviously experienced and no doubt chatty (we know this from McCain's regular appearances on the show), it's interesting to note what they were invited on the program to discuss: "The midterm election results, the Iraq war, the Gates nomination and setting the stage for 2008." Considering both McCain and Lieberman's traditional support for the war, it seems an oddly exclusive choice, not inviting any Democratic candidate who ran -- and won -- on an anti-war platform to the table (no doubt they were all busy; Russert fan favorite Nancy Pelosi hasn't been doing much press). While Joe Lieberman has reaffirmed his party identification as a Democrat, his electoral experience was an unusual one and not one generally held up as emblematic of the overarching trends in this election (see Claire McCaskill; Jon Tester; Sherrod Brown; and -- thank God, that was a close one -- Jim Webb).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/11/first-meet-the-press_n_33890.html

What a crock.

[NMDemDist2]

1. i noticed that on the Sunday Talk Shows thread

funny we sweep and Timmy boy doesn't bother to book a one of us

:shrug:

[aquart]

2. I asked Russert if the Dems were boycotting him because of his bias.

I mean, why else wasn't he able to get any people who actually mattered on his show?

[SouthernBelle82]

4. Perhaps

Perhaps now the democrats aren't playing with them since they screwed them over in the past. Why should they have to do anything? Bill Maher should be the only show they go on.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Really lame. No Dean or Webb or Pelosi? At least if they had Santorum,

it would make some sense.

[MoonRiver]

5. Well, they lost this viewer with that lineup.

:puke:

[flyarm]

6. OK GET THIS STRAIGHT..DO NOT WATCH RUSSERT!! SHUT HIM

DOWN..NOW!!!!!!!'

no one on the left watching will kill his ratings...why can we not understand that..we are the majority..little lord pissy pants is down to 31 %

so if we do not watch fucking russert..he will plummet..and i do not mean this week ..i mean every week shut him down!!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

7. I agree ...

I won't watch MTP tomorrow. Neither McCain nor Lieberman have anything to say I wish to hear.

[mitchtv]

9. I'm in, I'm a regular watcher, too

( If I wake up in time) I think Faux should be boycotted by guests also,
along with every show that features James Carville.

[Glorfindel]

10. OK, I've never watched him, or any other TV in more than 20 years...

and I haven't missed a thing. I can't imagine why anyone would put themselves through watching such drivel, knowing that they were going to be offended, and then complain endlessly about it. Who benefits? The idiots running the right-wing shows, evidently, and their sponsors. So, if you want this Russert person ignored, I'm definitely doing my part. :patriot:

[unkachuck]

8. GE = defense contractor....n/t

[TahitiNut]

11. What? No Joe Biden to inform us all about "the way it is"??

Oh what will we do? :puke: