Changes - David Bowie
It's been a week of big changes for Crooks and Liars. We said good-bye to our Managing Editor Tina Dupuy, who has moved on to new challenges that will hopefully bring her on your computer and/or television screens in the near future. Dave Neiwert will be resuming Managing Editor duties starting tomorrow. And our Labor blogger, Kenneth Quinnell, has opted to join Darcy Burner's campaign as her Communications Director. We wish both Tina and Kenneth the best of luck in their new ventures.
There are big changes coming for the country as well. Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the ACA and the House has gone after Eric Holder, there's another battle looming over the horizon: the budget. For me, and I suspect most liberals, this is a fundamentally moral argument. What kind of country do we want to be? Do we want to keep dismissing the needs of 90 percent of the population in order to cater to the top 10 percent? Do we want to continue to be short-sighted about our future needs and our infrastructure? Do we want to keep dragging down education and know that we're releasing generations unable to think critically?
WH Chief of Staff Jack Lew will be offering the Democratic side of things on three shows, and for the Republican side, we've got Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Bobby Jindal and Mitch McConnell. Listen carefully to see if how many terrifying lies the conservatives will throw out, to make damn sure no one really understands the impact of the ACA on most Americans.
ABC's "This Week" – Budget/economy: Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; White House chief of staff Jack Lew; Health care reform: Vicki Kennedy, widow of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Round table: Keith Olbermann, ABC News' George Will, Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, former Rep. Artur Davis, and "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran
NBC's "Meet the Press" – Health care reform, general election: House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former Gov. Howard Dean, D-Vt. Round table: NBC’s Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd; Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson; and the National Review’s Rich Lowry.
NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" - Panel: Joan Biskupic, Reuters; John Heilemann, New York Magazine; Katty Kay, BBC; Pete Williams, NBC News. Topics: Obama's Affordable Care Art stands in the Supreme Court. What kind of Supreme Court Justices would Romney appoint if elected?
MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" - Panelists: Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT); Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com; Maria Hinojosa, Co-Host, PBS Need to Know; Heather McGhee, Vice President of Policy & Research at Demos think tank. Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT); Kris Kobach, (R) Kansas Secretary of State, co-author of Arizona’s SB 1070; Topics include: Citizens United and Montana, Campaign finance disclosure and Arizona’s SB 1070.
MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" - Panelists: Kenji Yoshino, Constitutional law scholar at NYU; Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-American journalist; Ethar El-Katatney, Egyptian journalist, blogger and author; Katon Dawson, former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party; Karen Finney, former DNC Communications Director; Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation; Dr. Herbert Smitherman, Assistant Dean of Community and Urban Health at Wayne State University; Igor Volsky, Deputy Editor of ThinkProgress.org. Topics include: SCOTUS health care decision, the future for women in Egypt, what’s happened to the Democratic party, Mississippi abortion restrictions, the future of HIV.
CBS' "Face the Nation" – Health care reform: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; Govs. Martin O'Malley, D-Md., and Scott Walker, R-Wis. Round table: CBS News Supreme Court correspondent Jan Crawford, CBS News political director John Dickerson, Politico's John Harris and the National Journal's Major Garrett.
CNN's "State of the Union" – Supreme Court decision; Holder contempt charge, general election: Lew; ACA impact on state level: Jennifer Granholm, Carly Fiorina; Colorado fires: Gov. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. Round table: CNN”s White House Correspondent Dan Lothian, and USA Today’s Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page.
CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" - Economy: Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation; Jeff Sachs, Columbia University; Tarek Masoud, Harvard; Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations.
CNN's "Reliable Sources" - SCOTUS reporting: SCOTUSblog.com creator Tom Goldstein; ACA decision reporting: Radio host Michael Medved, Bloomberg columnist Margaret Carlson and University of Maryland journalism professor Mark Feldstein; Ann Curry's firing from the Today show: Gail Shister of TV Newser; Attention paid to Anne-Marie Slaughter's article on Women having it all: Editor-in-chief for the Daily-Download.com Lauren Ashburn and Newsweek/Daily Beast correspondent Michelle Cottle.
"Fox News Sunday" – ACA decision, repeal efforts, general election: Lew; Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
So what's catching your eye this morning?
