Public Affairs w/ Jeff Berkowitz - Chris Robling

Chris Robling, a principal at Jayne Thompson and Associates (www.JayneThompson.com), a crisis management and litigation support communications firm, debates and discusses the issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz.




Roblings career has included politics, punditry and public relations. Robling was a long time program host at Chicago Public Radio [WBEZ, 91.5 FM], reported for WGN-TV from the 2008 Republican Convention and was the Executive Director for the Cook County GOP.

Topics discussed include the many strategic and tactical reasons why John McCain lost and Barack Obama won. Was McCain the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time? Did Team McCain not know how to benefit from Sarah Palin? Could McCain have won if he had tied Obama to Bush by opposing the bailout? Did McCain not have the political will power to do that? Why?

Was the economy actually seizing up, due to a liquidity preference, or is the liquidity preference function no more than a name for a weekly beer bust at the University of Chicago Business School, now Booth School of Business? Was the Great Depression in the 1930s really the Great Contraction, duly named such by Milton Friedman for the Feds unfortunate decision to contract the money supply by a third? Was the liquidity trap, a figment of the Keynesian imagination?

Who are the GOP Presidential front-runners for 2012? Are the reformers in the ascendance in the Republican Party now? Could a U. S. Rep. go from the House to the White House in 2012? Could that be Paul Ryan?

Has the State GOP been dying a slow, but steady, death in the last decade. Should Illinois House minority leader Tom Cross be replaced? Does Robling want to remove Andy McKenna, Jr. as State GOP chairman? What will grow the State GOP?

How should education be reformed? Did moderate Republican gubernatorial candidate Topinka lose in 2006 because it was not her year, or because she ran an idealess campaign? Could the Illinois Policy Institute and the Heartland Institute provide fresh ideas for candidates and Illinois government?

Is the national GOP dead? Can it be resurrected? Do the U. S. House Republicans need a new Minority Leader? Will they get one?

What makes Obama run? Tick? Who were the three amigos who worked for Obama? Did they make him President?

Was Robling the token conservative on WBEZ? Is he that when he appears on WTTW, Chicagos Public TV station?

Who will replace Obama in his U. S. Senate seat? To watch Berkowitz discuss potential replacements for President-Elect Obama's Senate seat, please go to http://www.illinoischannel.org/Network%20C.htm . Will Obama remove U. S. Attorney Fitzgerald as a part of the Obama Senate replacement process?

Who will Obama put at Treasury? At State? Would Robling prefer Hillary to Kerry as Secretary of State?

Is there liberal media bias at PBS? At WTTW?

This Program was taped on November 9, 2008.

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