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Friday, November 7, 2014
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Can We Avoid Gridlock?
Eric began Friday's show by welcoming liberal radio talk show host Richard Fowler and Republican strategist Mercedes Schlapp, both of whom speculated as to whether President Obama and the new Republican Congress will be able to find common ground. "Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have one thing on their mind," Fowler surmised. "They want to get the White House and maintain control of the Senate in 2016, so that means they have to get something done for the American people. The people are calling for solution-driven Washington, and Republicans have to move on immigration reform." But Schlapp contended that Republicans' overriding goal should be to block liberalism in its tracks. "The American people are wanting to stop Obama. That is their goal, that is what they voted for, and that is why we are seeing a massive change in Congress. The American people are not thrilled with the direction President Obama has taken this country and they're giving the GOP a chance to lead."
Immigration Battle
President Obama seems poised to issue an executive order that will enable millions of illegal immigrants to remain in the USA. Eric explored the situation with illegal immigration foe Steve Camarota and Democratic strategist Jessica Ehrlich. "The Constitution says the president is supposed to execute the laws," Camarota declared, "not announce in advance that he's not going to be enforcing the law for millions of people. This is actually him making up law on his own and it is fundamentally unconstitutional. We have to enforce the law and go after the employers who hire illegals." Ehrlich argued that President Obama has every right to act unilaterally on immigration. "He has the ability to execute an executive order, it is a tool he can use to force Congress to actually do something about immigration. We have all of these people in the country and we have to deal with that."
Geraldo on the GOP's Big Win
Geraldo Rivera took to Twitter this week to proclaim that President Obama "got his a** kicked by millions of angry old white folk." He entered the No Spin Zone to explain his controversial analysis. "I was speaking demographically," Rivera said. "In 2012, voters age 30 and younger were 19% of the electorate, but this time they were 12%. These are lazy, feckless millennials. And in 2012 black people voted at a rate 10% higher than this time and Latinos voted at a rate 20% higher than this time. They stayed home! It wasn't policy or voter suppression, it was lethargy." That explanation notwithstanding, Eric chastised Geraldo for focusing on skin color: "You played the race card, why do you do that?"
Iranian Ally?
President Obama has reportedly been secretly communicating with Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a virulent Jew-hater. Eric scrutinized the president's diplomacy with political analyst Carrie Sheffield and former United Nations official Ashley Jackson. "The letter apparently said that the United States and Iran have a shared interest in defeating ISIS," Jackson said. "But this is really about a deadline on November 24th for a nuclear deal with Iran. The administration has been working for a long time to get this done, it would give us global security." Sheffield denounced the Obama team for undermining our friends in the region. "This letter went around the backs of our allies. Israel is pissed off, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are very upset that they were not informed about this letter. And the other thing is that less than a month ago the 'supreme leader' accused America of deliberately creating ISIS!" Eric lamented that President Obama is dealing with the devil: "Iran is one of our greatest foes and one of the biggest threats to American safety and security."
Jumpstarting the Economy
On Thursday's show Bill outlined a series of proposals that could give the economy an immediate boost. Eric asked Fox Business host Lou Dobbs to evaluate Bill's call for a lower corporate income tax and a higher minimum wage. "There's nothing wrong with cutting the corporate tax rate," Dobbs said, "but first we should cut the individual marginal tax rate. We are taxing capital at a lower rate than we are taxing labor and we have all kinds of screwball priorities in our tax system. I want labor respected, I don't want to see the capital gains tax rate lower than the tax on labor. We should be prizing working people and showing that we support the working men and women, the middle class." Turning to the minimum wage, Dobbs was decidedly non-committal. "I don't think it matters much, it's something that has very little effect. There is no empirical evidence that the minimum wage has an effect on labor. As a free market conservative, I think the states should decide the minimum wage."
Hillary Clinton and the Media
Eric was joined by Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz, who ridiculed the pundits and editorialists who are spinning Tuesday's Democratic debacle as a victory for Hillary Clinton. "This was a huge, traumatic, gut-wrenching defeat for Democrats," Kurtz asserted, "even though Bill and Hillary Clinton were out there campaigning for them. But somehow the New York Times says this will actually help Hillary Clinton. I didn't know her spin machine was that good! It's true that it will be easier for Hillary to run against a Republican Senate and House, but what's left out of the equation is that she is inextricably tied to an Obama administration that was just repudiated at the polls. To portray this as good news for the Clintons requires twisting yourself into a pretzel."
Riveting Interviews
Eric concluded Friday's show by previewing two remarkable Fox News exclusive interviews. Greta Van Susteren's spoke with Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi about his seven-month ordeal in a Mexican prison. Their conversation will be aired again on both Saturday and Sunday nights. Also, FNC correspondent Peter Doocy has a two-part interview coming up next week with former Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill, who pulled the trigger and killed Usama bin Laden.