How in the world do you have Carli Fiorina as an expert on your panel. She has been fired from every high ranking executive job she has ever held. She is an expert alright, but only at hiding our from her own mismanagement of a company.

I can't even watch the show if she is on and treated with credibility.

David, I find it interesting that Mr. Boehner has "refused to meet with the president" about ANY ISSUE. We hire our representatives/senators to do just that-work with the other party and negotiate in the interest of the majority of us. Why don't we fire these people who do not do their job? Negotiation is what they should be doing. If not, and they cannot fulfill their job description, get out. You would be fired in the public sector. Why not in politics? Fulfill the job description or get out-one or the other.

After listening to John McCain talk about Benghazi on Meet the Press this morning, I think he would be the PERFECT candidate to re-open the JonBenét Ramsey investigation.

We have our politicians arguing over policies and opinions so we need to add Meet The Press to that style of communications. It's no wonder our country is in such a mess. People angry all the time. This is all coming down from the top. Maybe David should have one show with one party and another show with another party. Then the viewers can decide who they want to watch. Most of them only speak from a personal opinion instead of a general all around opinion. The personal politics is sick and is destroying our country. I listened to George Bush speak for eight years with the economy decline, now where is good old George hiding these days. When is congress going to shut their mouths and do their jobs or better yet do what is right instead of what you choose to do to get even. I don't blame the president emphasing his popularly to the congress after all he is who was re elected. Congress needs to get off their pitty pot.

Senator Hagel's confirmation hearings were the equivalent of a job interview. He was asked predictable questions for which he was completely unprepared to provide intelligent answers. If he can't handle the predictable, how is going to handle the unpredictable which a Secretary of Defense will have to address on a daily basis? In short, he failed his job interview and he should not be appointed.

Wanted to post a comment to Meet the Press this morning and discovered I would be forced . . . FORCED . . . to sign in and join Facebook.

I do not want to be a part of Facebook. I have chosen to leave Facebook.

Does this mean I can not comment on some Meet the Press avenues?

Frankly this is most disconcerting . . . what's going on with that??

Just FOUND the wonderful rapid and clear thinking Gavin Newsom! We need to see more of him~! And when are we ever going to see the end of the Pot Stirring, trouble maker McCain? Honest to Pete . . . the guy creates huge,erroneous issues . . . gets the bees swarming and then pulls back and says something to the effect of his being virtuous and not going to vote the way he swayed others to vote. He really is part of the problem, and I have had enough of him.

Love you David~!

Very disappointed with David's interview with McDonough. He continually interrupted before Kevin got a chance to answer his questions. How are we able to understand what his answers are when he was not allowed to finish his answer. You should review
this interview - you were much too impulsive!

I always wondered (and said so) if Biden is a stand-in for Obama's grandfather, Stanley.

McDonough (worked with both Hamilton AND Daschle -- pretty experienced) seems to look like Rahm Emanuel, but be less abrasive?

I DID think last week that a focus on Romesha as like the new Romeshabo, and a stand-in for Rahm?

Gregory (Scottish name, also Jewish name, could be both/neither/either, like Robinson), quoting: 'said the president 'doesn't have the guts?!''

McDonough, scowling like Billy Connolly: well, I'm Scottish, and we EAT haggis, not work with it as our BOSS, so, maybe all that time in a Viet-Cong jail messed-up McCain's processors?

THAT didn't happen with HAGEL, I'd add, he'd say, ke-ilu?

Gregory (on sequester): 'the president said that that, is not....going to...happen!!'

Yeah, but such ellipses, rhetorically (see Marjorie Garber 'Critical Inquiry 1999: In Quotation' about authority and performance) makes one think of 'did not have sex....with THAT woman?!'

Obama: 'there will not be a sequester.....cuz the Republicans won't confirm my nominee for Sec-Quester?'

ke-ilu? Purim-Toran in Adar?

McDonough: 'Las Vegas speech' (referenced) but then 'cracking down on businesses that game the system' -- after borders as referenced making me think of drugs and crack, I also think of cracking down on Las Vegas approaches (to do with games) and NOT pushing such rhetoric of 'earned path' which is counter the Second Inaugural view as to the Declaration of Independence as NOT being an 'earned' orientation.

Obama referenced in that speech 'Stonewall,' and I emailed about will people understand that, and then Andrea Mitchell valourously glossed it so that people wouldn't think of 'General Jackson' (I've wondered as to Missourian old-line-state ambiguity with Sinese's portrayal of Truman in the biopic and his reference and that he, though he desegregated the military, had considered (as covered) joining the KKK, earlier -- Carter had one parent a piece on either side of the divide.)

So, did Obama REALLY mean Stonewall Jackson and to endorse a view that slaves earned their freedom, or, is he endorsing that it's only when LGBT rioted that that's the way to advance an agenda?

So should illegal immigrants riot so as to 'earn' their rights?

Chris Matthews: 'he'll have to prove himself' (McDonough) -- but there's wiggle room there.

Matthews isn't saying that he has to EARN his berth.

He IS chief-of-staff.

In-spite of 'The West Wing,' the position is NOT really institutionalized. There are always caveats about 'every White House is different.'

Louis Howe was arguably the template, while LBJ didn't employ one -- he was his OWN, and LOOK at his legislative results!!

Haldeman, I believe, like Hamilton Jordan, had a special-assistant title for the most part.

Aside from that Nazis using a model which didn't have a clear hierarchy (other than at the very top) as with overlapping areas and that being by design and contributing to their distributed-model of doing things -- and SOMEWHAT parallel in less hierarchized white houses, CARTER'S big mistake was not only not having better relations with Congress but in firing his whole Cabinet mid way through.

A more subtle (Jim Baker was referenced) swap of him with Regan (putting Regan in the hot-seat) is probably more astute a way to go.

So, back to my point, regardless of McDonough being felt to need to 'prove himself' he's still got the job, and, what that job is recalls a 'The West Wing' line by Josh to a Congressman friend: 'you're a member of the United States House of Representatives [one of a chorus] it's up to you to make that mean something.'

McCain blames deliberation as destroying John Tower.

And here I thought it was 'the drink' and a later airplane crash.

Does McCain blame Democrats for his own airplane mishaps, INTO 'the drink?'

Gregory on Hagel to McCain: 'if he really is anti-Israel.'

Speaking of crashing attack planes into the drink, that happened in the Kinneret, which is the major source of drinking water in the State of Israel.

Towit, such as McCain, in crashing into the drink while supposedly defending Israel become its greatest threats?

'The West Wing' on the Middle East: 'because it's very hot, and there's no water.'

(Too fundamentalist/elemental, though, the analysis, as per tongues and their reactions and the reactivities of Northern climed peoples.)

McCain on revision about Benghazi sounds like hand-wringing about was it San Juan or Kettle Hill, and should that then call for revoking the posthumous Medal of Hono(u)r for TR?

And here I thought that only a Silver Star might tarnish -- if near sulphur?

Today, Feb. 17, a comparison was made between estimated original
Medicare deductions contributed versus estimated withdrawals for a single representative individual. It did not include interest earnings over time. Original 401k or IRA investments (cost basis) are much lower than the end amount when withdrawals
start. It is probable the “investment” an individual made in Medicare and its final value would be much larger than that illustrated.

This Democrat, though only a citizen of the Northern satellite, or of the State of Israel, sees gun-control like this:

Have it all as part of a broad constitutional convention, amending the text of what is.

Have it not be based on a militia counterweight TO government but that ONLY government might MAKE guns which citizens could then buy for personal protection.

THOSE guns would be NON-RE-LOADABLE. You buy a gun with 5 bullets, and that's it. You fire it, you have to take it back and buy another, sold by the GOVERNMENT and made by them.

The INDUSTRY of arms manufacturing then TANKS as that guns become like government grown marijuana (as per the plans.)

John McCain needs to go. He is obviously disconnected from reality, and is "living in his own Private Idaho." It is embarrassing to us as a country and how the world sees us to see what one Round Table participant accurately defined as a "Grudge Match" being obsessively driven by one defeated Presidential nominee. No matter how many meetings he is invited to attend (and declines), no matter how many transcripts he receives, from how many sources, he refuses to accept what the majority of his peers agree are the facts.

The GOP guy is totally wrong in seeing illegal immigrants as with 'no economic value.'

That's ALL they have, but it's not DOCUMENTED.

They don't have POLITICAL value.

Paul Krugman, as I've said, must not do ONLY polemics but take on the Paul Samuelson mantle for educating everyone on economics.

Chris Matthews would try to make a hiluk between jokes and viable bills (legislation.)

But much of the legislative process (BEST demonstrated by Michael Moore reading-out the Patriot Act) IS risible, and JOKES focus on that, like the joke of the political process and perverse and subverted applications of Foucault -- including with 'The West Wing.'

I've said my message to the Tea Party is leave your guns at home and join the Occupy Movement.

It's NOT enough for it to be online, but must retake Commons spaces.

Elinor Ostrom would cohere with that approach, too.

Granted, in the past, Chris Matthews reflected on the competition he had with his Peace Corps son as to who was more willing to sit and don sackcloth and ashes, so MAYBE his resistance to such approaches might have parallels?

Was he featured (Matthews) in 'Charlie Wilson's War' with that aide referencing 'Tipp?' (I had to look up the title on wikipedia, through 'Tom Hanks.')

David Gregory on whether if not now, when? (Hillel: 'im lo achshav, aim-a-tie?')

I suggest something 'between the do-nothing and the do-all' ('Emma,' Austen.)

It's not this is it, and if not now, never (too pessimistic if it fails.)

I see it as like John Brown, and even if this doesn't move the needle, it resonates most and then is what helps push for tipping-points, later.

With all due respect, it's not about 'criminal background checks' (though have that) but guns -- and there need to be restrictions on guns out there, full-stop.

Criminals being criminals will steal guns.

Criminals and the mentally-ill as Mark Kelley's Victorian approach?

Are the mentally-ill then like criminals?

What of the autistic like the offspring of some at NBC, even?

Is this a 'Special Olympics' moment for the non-diaper-wearing former astronaut?

Where David Gregory then asks (I thought of most of the above though even before he said that) as to Gabi Giffords 'is she up to this (?),' might one wonder if SHE with her brain damage is fully functional to then operate a gun?

Might she not have a violent streak formerly not there?

David Gregory: 'Reform...schools' (Yeah, I've commented, already, on him and ellipsis: 'did not have sex....with THAT woman' (referencing performatives and Marjorie Garber and 'Critical Inquiry 1999: In Quotation') but Reform Judaism (Kramer: 'the next thing you'll be saying is that they should have their own schools...' Jerry: 'they DO have their own schools'), even with their schools, might not teach as to Hillel: 'im lo achsav, aim-a-tie,' (and what 'take-ew' means, more robustly) nor properly distinguish between Hillel and his 'beis?'

"No one is talking about gun registration"

Really ?? Kelley is either a liar or naive.

Pending legislation in New Jersey ALONE:

Governor Christie is not only REFUSING to stand up for the rights of gun owners, he’s REFUSING to tell you where he stands on the legislatures anti-gun agenda.

We’re talking about gun-grabbing bills like:

*** A3748 — Outlaws private sales of firearms;

*** A1329 — Magazine ban for any magazine that can hold more than ten rounds;

*** A3717 — Strips your Second Amendment rights — nationwide — if your name has ever appeared on virtually any certificate, application, record, or report dealing with mental health;

*** A3754 — Gun confiscation for virtually anyone accused of having a mental health issue;

*** A3659 — Ban on 50 caliber firearms;

*** A3510 — Government-mandated firearms “training” just to be able to purchase a firearm;

*** A3687 — Repeals your Second Amendment rights if the government labels you a “terrorist;”

*** A588 — Bans so-called “armor piercing” ammunition;

*** A3646 — Ammunition registration and sales regulation;

*** A1116 — Repeals your Second Amendment rights for six months if you fail to report the loss of theft of a firearm;

*** A1387 — Lets municipalities turn New Jersey into a patchwork of varying local “criminal safezones;”

*** A3645 — Bans all ammunition sales and transfers, including internet sales, except those conducted “face-to-face;”

*** A3750 — Ammunition registration and sales regulation;

*** A3772 — Increases regulations on the unconstitutional “permit-to-purchase, and;”

*** A3796 — 90-day confiscation window for all firearms currently banned in New Jersey.

David Gregory you interrupted Mr. McDonough so many times, not allowing him to answer your questions. It is infuriating when a host continually interrupts. What's the point of asking the question.

McDonough not a grandstander as some of your other quest.