Since his contract is in its last year, I doubt if he'll be back on air. He is a competent, although bland, announcer, often substituting for others. I doubt if I will miss him.
However, I will miss one aspect of his performance. Whenever he was thanked, he responded "You're welcome". Ever notice that almost every time a TV guest is thanked for appearing, the response is " Thank you", or something like "Sure"? As I wrote years and years ago, the equivalent in other languages is still in use but Americans have forgotten how to say "You're welcome".
As John McCain's team makes every attempt to change the facts surrounding the last few days they are running into problems. In a shocking turn of events, the MSM actually recorded John McCain's comments regarding the financial crisis and debate.
As residents of New Orleans were fleeing Hurricane Gustav, top Republican Party officials donned pink boas and swigged vodka shots at a wild whirl of corporate and lobbyist-paid parties this weekend in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Sunday night lobbyists with ties to criminally indicted lawmaker Tom DeLay, put on a raucous six-hour party at a downtown bar featuring music by the band "Hookers and Blow." There was no evidence of any actual prostitutes or cocaine.
Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA), a GOP House deputy whip, was seen meeting with a group of lobbyists, who bemoaned McCain's call to tone down the parties which had already been paid for.
Shuster said he was praying for the people of the Gulf coast and said, despite Sen. McCain's call to "tone things down," there was no need to curtail corporate parties until after the Hurricane hit land. - ABC News
Bill Shuster has spent the last couple of days being driven around the PA-9th District talking up his "Energy Independence act". Flashy title aside, HR 6421 is quite probably deader than fried chicken. The Bill was introduced to the floor of Congress on June 29th without a single co-sponsor. That means that no one in Congress, not even any republicans, would attach their name to it. The last energy-related bill that got out of Committee had some 198 co-sponsors.
As is standard practice, HR 6421 was referred to six different Congressional Committees; Natural resources, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Science and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure and House rules. Any one of these committees can kill this bill for any reason, but that's not why this bill is deader than Julius Caesar.
This Bill is dead on arrival for a number of reasons.
Bill Shuster has spent the last couple of days being driven around the PA-9th District talking up his "Energy Independence act". Flashy title aside, HR 6421 is quite probably deader than fried chicken. The Bill was introduced to the floor of Congress on June 29th without a single co-sponsor. That means that no one in Congress, not even any republicans, would attach their name to it. The last energy-related bill that got out of Committee had some 198 co-sponsors.
As is standard practice, HR 6421 was referred to six different Congressional Committees; Natural resources, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Science and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure and House rules. Any one of these committees can kill this bill for any reason, but that's not why this bill is deader than Julius Caesar.
This Bill is dead on arrival for a number of reasons.
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