TODAY'S SHOW: THURSDAY AUGUST 2ND 2007
Today's show is going to be a little different. We are going to spend the entire first hour talking about the Minneapolis bridge that collapsed last night. This issue-- public safety and American infrastructure-- is one that Rachel has been particularly dedicated to and one that seems to get lost in the aftermath of tragic episodes such as this. But not here.
So today we are going to the experts-- the people we feel are three of the best advocates for improving the infrastructure of this country, the people who know how important it is that America not merely be able to forcefully attack, but also be able to take a punch when hurricanes and terrorist attacks and the like occur.
Rachel will be talking with Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future. You may remember him from a few weeks ago when we talked to him about the steam pipe explosion in Manhattan.
And then Rachel will be joined by Stephen Flynn, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the book "Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation"
And then in the second hour of the show we will talk to Nick Coleman, a columnist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, who has written a passionate, scathing column today on what happened to his city yesterday and why we should all be outraged.
MENTIONED ON TODAY'S SHOW
The Republican Party's lawyer in California has proposed a ballot initiative that posed the biggest hurdle we've seen yet to getting a Democrat in the White House
New Al Qaeda Ad-- wait, what? It's an ad?
Another amnesiac from the White House testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leahy was having none of it
The FDA has cut its safety inspections by 47% in the last three years, but one department that didn't suffer cutbacks? The department of quadrupling cash bonuses to top officials
Thank you, Howard Jarvis
As we all file past the tomb of Ronald Reagan muttering the "Government is the problem" mantra, let us pause for a moment to genuflect to those great icons of the American Tax Revolt, Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann, authors of California's 1978 initiative Proposition 13, which arguably was the snowball that started the avalanche.
Oh thank you, thank you, Howard, for saving us all these years from oppressive government and those evil evil taxes.
New slogan: Howard Jarvis, Terrorist.
It'd never work, of course. Prop 13 was like. so, last millennium. I mean, 1978? Ancient history. Only people who have a sense of history would even know who Howard Jarvis was, or what Prop 13 was and what it meant.
And I think that's about 250 people in this country.
OK, back to Paris Hilton and Dancing With the Stars now. Nothing to worry about (except The Terrorists). Watch TV! Shop! Be happy (unless we tell you to be frightened).
- parent
By gharlaneAugust 2, 2007 - 5:44pm