705P ET:  William McGurn, WSJ, re Joe Biden and the lunchpail Dems, re the Biden pick to appeal to Scranton, to Cathlics, to the Reagan Dems, re Biden and Obama spending the week working Pennsylvania, re the threat of "Guns and Jesus" Palin to Biden.

 

720P:  Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), re Dick Cheney's embassy to Baku, Tbilisi, Kiev,  re the Sarah Palin phenomenon at Minneapolis and the rise of the Sam's Club Republicans, re the culturally conservative Dems of Metro Detroit.

 

735P: Professional roundtable with John Fund, WSJ, and Mona Charen, NRO, and Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, re the Palin Hurricane, re the change of weather in Minneapolis, re the McCain speech and maverick theme.

 

750P: Continued re the Obama campaign asking Mrs. Clinton to attack Palin (she refuses), re the culture wars return, re the electoral map looks like 2000 and 2004.

 

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, "Kudlow and Company," re the rise of Sarah Palin, re Governor Drill, Drill, Drill, re the Reagan Demos and the Sam's Club Republicans, re McCain's economic blanks/ re Fan/Fred bailout.

 

820P:  Charles Gasparino, CNBC, re the Fan/Fred bailout by Paulson and the U.S. Treasury, just announced.  The new regulatorsadmit that "...both companies made things worse by loosening their standards and accepting riskier types of loans. Fannie and Freddie's credit losses are being driven primarily by loans made in 2006 and 2007, when lending standards were loosest; by mortgages made to borrowers who fell outside their traditional lending standards, and by heavy exposure to loans in such areas as California and Florida where home prices have fallen most sharply. Loans made in 2006 and 2007 account for 65% of second-quarter credit losses at Freddie Mac and nearly 60% of those losses at Fannie Me, according to company estimates.

835P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the Cheney speech in Italy that Russia is gun-running to Syria and Iran and the terror units, re the threat to Israel and the Russian support of Iran, re the Bush diplomacy blind to Russian interference. 

 

850P:  Martin Wolf, Financial Times, re the Anglo-American system,  "The Anglo-Americans have a distinctive civilisation: civilian, yet bellicose, commercial, yet moralistic, individualistic, yet organised, innovative, yet conservative, and idealistic, yet ruthless. To its foes, it is brutal, shallow and hypocritical. To its friends, it is the fount of freedom and democracy."

 

 

905P: Wickham Boyle, writer, re "Calling," an opera that recounts a downtown familiy's experience during and after 9-11.  Opens at LaMama, NYC, September 12-28.

 

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the dividing of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Olmert/Rice/Abbas work, re the fate of Temple Mount and the Waqf.

 

935:   Bing West, author, "The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq,"  re the transformation of Iraq war from a victory to a defeat prior to the surge.  The US military is the strongest tribe.