Arianna On ABC's This Week, Along With George Will, David Brooks, Robert Kuttner

Arianna appeared this morning on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. She participated in the Round Table, along with Washington Post columnist George Will, author Robert Kuttner, and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Below is a short clip from the show in which Arianna discusses how the nomination of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State has left the realm of politics and entered that of a Henry James novel, 'Portrait of a Secretary of State,' perhaps. The drama surrounding the whole nomination indicates that along with Clinton comes an "entire court of chancellors and chamberlains and many court jesters." Watch the clip below, and then scroll down to watch the full Round Table.

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[cnegri2]

Wow. I am so impressed to see intelligent people with honest differences of opinion on important issues discussing these differences in a civil manner. And who would have thought that Stephanopoulos coud be such a good moderator. This type of useful discourse might be the greatest legacy of the Obama era.

[jonjon66]

wow they allowed a liberal progressive?

[ricland]

By the way, would Arianna accept an offer as Ambassador to Greece if offered?

ricland

[beenn15]

I've never seen such pessimism from conservatives in a long while. No plan will ever fly unless it fits their ideological mindset... republican mindset mind you... If they know so much, why are we in this mess to begin with... I guess it's a good thing to have someone with a brain in the whitehouse.

[likeicare]

The Clintons are synonymous with drama -- especially melodrama/­psychodram­a.

Hubris will take care of them, and Obama knows this.

He's always 6 chess moves ahead of everybody else -- yeah, he's that good.

[CalliDem]

yeah ...that's why he chose Hillary for SoS

[dykalg]

A Henry James novel certainly, The Turn of the Screw almost certainly with it's gothic themes and homme manque´romanticism. Alas!

[yorkie]

VERY WITTY,,SHE WOULD also have been great JACK PAAR show guest and commentator in the turbulent '60s. HER comments on the extras --the chamberlains etc that come with the CLINTON'S was hilarious but spot on ! Let's hope its a smooth ride for O next 4 yrs,,,,,,,,, Will 's hey day is past in 70's -80's,,,he never quite got to the place of WM F BUCKLEY,JR­...,,he was good when foil with host DAVID BRINKLEY and others like COKIE ROBERTS and SAM DONALDSON,,,,I hope O reads her columns frequently and that he brings in econ guru ROBERT KUTNER and KRUGMAN as well.

[changeishere08]

Very impressive Ms. Huffington! I loved the way you handled you own on the panel.

[DrToketee]

George Will's assertion that the New Deal failed in 1937 due to the collapse in industrial production was an outright lie. That collapse was caused by the Republican oppostion of Roosevelt's massive government spending program on works projects, etc., all during 1935 and 1936, resulting in the curtailment of government New Deal spending to the point that the Feds took in more income taxes than it was spending. The result: public works projects were curtailed, destroying huge markets for manufactured goods. In other words, the 1937 collapse proved that the New Deal was the RIGHT way to go; the Republicans caused the 1937 mess, not the New Deal policies.

[FDRJFKLBJ]

Contrary to popular belief, public works projects and stimulus packages do not work.

The government doesn't make money, it takes money. It takes it from companies and its citizens.

If a robber stole your money and spent it on repaving his driveway, would you call his actions a stimulus package that was good for the economy? Would you say that the robber did you a favor by stealing your money and spending it? Of course not, so why should it be any different when government takes your money and spends it on pork?

[likeicare]

And history (and the facts) disprove your assertions.

Trickle down economics have never worked, and will never work -- it's an idea that someone pulled out of his ass one day, and just repeated it over and over again, as if in doing so, it would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You seem to view everything from an "either-or" perspective, with nothing in-between allowed -- it's got to be all-private enterprise, or all-government socialism, with no mixture or hybrid of the two considered.

How anal-retentive! And 19th-century thinking!

[boing007]

Would you say that the robber did you a favor by stealing your money and spending it? Of course not, so why should it be any different when government takes your money and spends it on pork?

Pork like repairing unsafe bridges and roads, tighter ports security, etc.?

[LollieDotCom]

GS this thread so far tells us two things:

Arianna will increase your ratings as more HPers find out she's on the show and how much she's made it come alive.

Currently the lion's share of your viewers are over 65 and republican, or you'd see a lot more comments about the show here today.

Common sense tells me you don't want your show to go the way of the dinosaurs and the repuglican­s.... Allie, no need for additional pressure. Arianna will be back. :)

[mcantwell]

I enjoy watching Arianna stand toe to toe with the good old boys!

[IgIzBliss]

lest we forget, George Will has been reading a relatively narrow collection of scholarly works produced almost entirely by the Reagan-era right wing think tanks--think tanks of scholars who set out to prove the assertions Reagan made while in office, Buckley had asserted in founding the National Review, and conservative economists like Milton Friedman had asserted from University of Chicago.

But anytime you set out to prove your conclusion BEFORE examining the evidence, this is a flawed methodology. By some estimates, conservatives have spent about $4 Billion (with a B) dollars on setting up and maintaining such think tanks, which produce skewed scholarship and lobby on the Hill, plus provide a group of "experts" to testify in critical trials and to maintain gridlock.

The real problems is that Reagan, Buckley, and Friedman never used the computer for their work, and certainly could never have envisioned the Internet--where money traverses the globe at light speed, and can collapse an entire global financial system in short order. Will needs to rethink his underpinnings.

[jkpcguru]

Arianna is great at debating. She was the president of the debating society at Cambridge University

[jkpcguru]

I saw the documentary "Who killed the electric car" and I was appalled! GM had a ready to manufacture electric car in 1991. They leased the cars to about 200 people.

Then all of a sudden they took the cars back and the people organized protests because they loved their cars so much.

17 years later we still are in this energy crisis!

[deepfreezevideo]

George Will is sitting there saying that it cost GM 35 thousand more to build the EV-1 than they were selling it for, and that "you can't make that up in volume!"

Tell that to the Japanese manufacturers who did exactly that with every single piece of electronic gear that we have ever ever ever bought, from the "DV" digital camcorder, which produces pictures equivalent to the old broadcast BetaCam, to the DVD recorder and DVD burner, to the digital SLR cameras which have all but KILLED CELLULOID FILM!

Please let me see George Will debate for five minutes with Jonathan Goodwin...­just five minutes.