While I don’t recommend watching any of this crap, at least you are forewarmed about how putrid official political discourse will be this morning. If you are not bulimic but wish you were, you can watch Laura Ingraham and Andrew Sullivan face off, on Tweety’s show, in a right on right debate about the 2006 midterm elections and the Da Vinci Code. If that doesn’t make you puke, you can take in a full half-hour with John McCain at Face the Nation. If you are still “with-breakfast”, Tom DeLay is going to make a guest appearance with Stephanopoulus.
Highlights include an appearance by Howard Dean on This Week, a good Meet the Press line-up which will do no good for the Bush administration. And a sure-to-be unenlightening and farcical pantomime on Wolf Blitzer, when CNN’s chief dunce tries to figure out why Porter Goss just got shit-canned from his job at the CIA. Enjoy. If you can.
Chris Matthews: GUESTS: Katty Kay — BBC, Jon Meacham — Newsweek Magazine, Laura Ingraham — The Laura Ingraham Show, Andrew Sullivan — New Republic Magazine; Time Magazine.
TOPICS: WILL REPUBLICANS LOSE CONTROL OF CONGRESS THIS FALL?
WHY IS JOHN MCCAIN SPEAKING AT JERRY FALWELL’S UNIVERSITY THIS WEEK?
PLUS, WHY ARE AMERICANS OBSESSED WITH “THE DA VINCI CODE”?
George Stephanopoulos: Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., Howard Dean, chair, Democratic National Committee.
* ROUNDTABLE: Martha Raddatz, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and George Will
* VOICES: Scott McClellan.
Meet the Press: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, on gas prices, immigration, the war in Iraq & the 2006 elections. Then, a roundtable with the Washington Post’s Dan Balz & Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum. Plus, political impressionist Steve Bridges.
Wolf Blitzer: We’ll look at what the resignation of CIA chief Porter Goss means for the future of the agency and U.S. intelligence gathering. Tune in Sunday at 11 a.m. ET.
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS: • Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas: Senate Select Intelligence Committee chairman
• Rep. Jane Harman, D-California: House Select Intelligence Committee member
• Mike Leavitt: Health and Human Services secretary
• Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie: Iraq’s national security adviser
Fox News: • Rep. Pete Hoekstra on Porter Goss’ resignation
• Immigration debate with Sen. Arlen Specter and Jim Gilchrist, founder of The Minuteman Project
• And, Mark Lerner, new Washington Nationals owner.
Face the Nation: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
