Backroom Politics

TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS MAY I SEE YOUR PAPERS? THE SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR THE ARIZONA BORDER ENFORCEMENT CASE....SPEAKING OF THE SUPREMES...THE JUSTICES HAVE ALSO AGREED TO HEAR THE CASE ON THE TEXAS REDISTRICTING SITUATION....HOW DO YOU GET THE GERRYMANDER INTO THE CATTLE PEN?...IS MITT ROMNEY THE NEW HILLARY....ACCORDING TO SOME IN DC...YES!!!....WHAT IS GOING ON OVER AT THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION?  TALK ABOUT MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION!!!  ALL OF THIS AND "TELL ME A STORY". JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN, JUSTIN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritual, tune into Ba

JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN JUSTIN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!   TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...THE NEWT TRAIN CONTINUES TO GAIN MOMENTUM!!!  HOW LONG CAN THIS TRAIN KEEP UP STEAM?...DID NANCY PELOSI THREATEN NEWT OR IS THIS JUST POLITICS AS USUAL IN DC...ARE WE SEEING THE END OF THE "OCCUPY" MOVEMENT...THE EU IS MEETING TO KEEP THE EURO FROM COLAPSING...IS THIS TOO LITTLE TO LATE?...IRAN CONTINUES TO BE A POWDER KEG ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION...IS PAKISTAN A FRIENIMY?  THIS AND TELL ME A STORY....TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritual, tune into Backroom Politi

JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...WE GO AWAY FOR 2 WEEKS AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE HERE IN DC...FROM SUPERCOMMITTEE TO SUPERBLUNDER...FROM WORST TO FIRST (GINGRICH IS BACK IN PLAY)...SNIPERS SHOOTING AT THE WHITE HOUSE...PEPPER SPRAY....MY GOD, MY HEAD IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE WITH ALL OF THE THINGS TO TALK ABOUT....AND OF COURSE, TELL ME A STORY...TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS!!!

NOVEMBER 8, 2011 - TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...BREAKING NEWS OUT OF ROME...ARIVADERCI, BUNGA BUNGA!!!  PRIME MINISTER BERLISCONI IS OUT!!! GREECE'S PRESIDENT POPENDRAEU IS ALSO TAKEN OUT BY THE EU FISCAL CRISIS.....FRENCH PRIME MINISTER HAS SOME STERN WORDS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THE G20 CONFERENCE...SHOULD THE GREEK AND ITALIAN RESIGNATIONS BEEN A WAKE UP CALL FOR THE WHITE HOUSE?  SPEAKING OF THE WHITE HOUSE, WHO IS RUNNING THE SHOW OVER THERE? BILL DAILY HAS TURNED OVER DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS TO HIS DEPUTY....IS THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF AT WAR? QUESTION FOR PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON...WHO DIDN'T HERMAN CAIN ALEGEDLY HARASS?  CONTINUED FALLOUT FOR A GOP FRONTRUNNER....THIS AND TELL ME A STORY!!! TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS!   JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from

November 1, 2011 - TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS.... MUCH ADO ABOUT BAD PIZZA...GOP TIER 1 CANDIDATE HERMAN CAIN CONTINUES TO ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE OF THE HARRASSMENT SETTLEMENT...WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT THE FUTURE OF THE FREE WORLD FOCUSED ON GREECE?  CAN YOU SAY MT. OLYMPUS BAILOUT?.....THE UBER SUPER COMMITTEE IS MEETING IN OPEN FORM TODAY WITH BOTH SIMPSON AND BOWLES ON THE DOCKET...WILL THEY TOUCH THE THIRD RAIL OF SOCIAL SECURITY?  REMEMBER IT'S THE AMPS NOT THE VOLTS THAT GET YOU...7, COUNT THEM 7 REPUBLICAN SENTATORS TEAM WITH THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY TO VOTE YEA ON A $187 BILLION SPENDING BILL...DID WE JUST SEE COMPRIMISE AND IS THIS THE BREAKING POINT FOR THE TEA PARTY....THIS PLUS TELL ME A STORY...TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS   JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hou

OCTOBER 18, 2011 - TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...SPECIAL GUEST...FORMER COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES CHARLES BOWSHER JOINS THE ROUNDTABLE...THE SUCOM (DC TALK FOR SUPER COMMITTEE) IS GETTING CLOSE TO THE 2 MINUTE WARNING...WHAT COULD THEY POSSIBLY DO TO MAKE BOTH SIDES HAPPY AND CAN THE GOVERNMENT WIN BACK THE TRUST AND FAITH OF THE PEOPLE?...WALL STREET IS DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND WITH THE DEMOCRATS...WHO COULD WIN THE SHOWDOWN...IF IT'S TUESDAY, THAT MEANS THERE IS A REPUBLICAN DEBATE....WANNA HEAR A JOKE?....WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?  ELECTRIFIED BORDER FENCE...TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS.   JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics.

October 11, 2011- TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...BREAKING NEWS.... DOJ ANNOUNCES A THWARTED PLOT TO KILL THE SAUDI EMBASSADOR ON US SOIL...A PLOT SPONSORED BY THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT...MORE BREAKING NEWS...NJ GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE ENDORSES MITT ROMNEY FOR THE REPUBLICAN TICKET IN 2012...ALSO, OCCUPY DC, WALL STREET AND OTHER OCCUPATIONS CREATE HAVOC WITH TRAFFIC AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS....ARE THEY DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY OR IS THERE HYPOCRASY INVOLVED...FISCAL DEALS IN EUROPE ABOUND....ALL OF THIS AND "TELL ME A STORY"....TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS!!! JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discuss

OCTOBER 4, 2011- TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...BREAKING NEWS....DATELINE TRENTON....GOV CHRIS CHRISTIE TELLS AMERICA WHAT HE HAS BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG...HE IS NOT RUNNING IN 2012...FED CHAIR BEN BERNANKE BREAKS THE OBVIOUS NEWS...HE SAYS THE ECONOMY IS "CLOSE TO FALTERING...CHINA IS IN THE TRADE CROSSHAIRS WITH LEGISLATION OUT OF CONGRESS AND SABRE RATTLING OUT OF BEIJING...KEY PERSONNEL DEPARTURES FOR PERRY AND BACHMAN...THIS AND "TELL ME A STORY" TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS. JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritual, tune into Backroom Politics and help us b

AND TODAY....ON BACKROOM POLITICS....THE PRESIDENT GETS HIS DAY IN COURT, AT LEAST HIS HEALTH CARE BILL DOES...IS THIS A GOOD THING OR POLITICAL DESTRUCTION?  HIS PIZZA IS HORRIBLE, BUT HERMAN CAIN KNOWS HOW TO DELIVER...SURPRISE RESULTS IN FLORIDA...NO MEANS NO!  UNLESS YOU'RE GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE....IS HE READY? CAN HE DO THIS IN TIME FOR 2012?  IS THIS IN FACT HIS TIME?...DID YOU KNOW THAT CONGRESS WAS GOING TO SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT TOMORROW? WHEW, ANOTHER DISASTER AVERTED!....THIS AND MORE ON BACKROOM POLITICS.   JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritual,

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 - TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...THE PRESIDENT MAKES A LEFT HAND TURN OFF OF PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE...IS THIS A MORE PARTISAN PRESIDENT THAN WE EXPECTED?... THE MIDDLE CLASS IS COMING!  THE MIDDLE CLASS IS COMING !!!  IS CLASS WARFARE ON THE HORIZON?...THERE IS A NEW BOOK OUT ABOUT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE...MY NAME IS NOT IN IT....BUT OTHERS ARE...TOTAL GRIDLOCK IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN AND A CLOSED FDR CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING...UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS ON....THIS AND TELL ME A STORY...TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS. JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritu

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 - Today on Backroom Politics...NY Times Blogger Paul Krugman makes a comment on 9/11 from the cheap seats...PIG PILE ON PERRY...the Tea Party had their Debate in Tampa...who were the winners...who were not the winners (read: loosers)....Special Elections are being held in NY 9th and Nevada 2nd...is this a tell tale sign of things to come in 2012?....this, Tell Me a Story, and more....LIVE ON BACKROOM POLITICS!!! JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritual, tune into Backroom Politics and help us bring civility back to Washington. Broadcast

Today on BACKROOM POLITICS - SPECIAL EDITION:  Why is Washington and politics broken?  We will examine the current state of our national political system and what we as a nation need to do to bring political civility and statesmanship back to politics.  JOIN THE CONVERSATION!!! JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritual, tune into Backroom Politics and help us bring civility back to Washington. Broadcasting live from America's Premier Cigar Tavern...Shelly’s Back Room in Washington, DC.... each Tuesday from 4-6PM, Backroom Politics features members of th

TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS:  IT"S HURRI-QUAKE WEEK HERE IN DC!!!  FEMA is running out of money after the recent Hurricane on the east coast.  What are the politics of emergency managment?  President Obama is about to come out with a BOLD new jobs stimulus program this week...HOW BOLD WILL IT BE?  ATF's Fast and Furious Guns program has taken out several senior leaders in DOJ! Is there a leadership gap within DOJ??  Gerimandering is a new sport in the State of Maryland...CREATIVE ARTIST RENDERINGS OF THE NEW DISTRICTS!  This and more on today's BACKROOM POLITICS!!!! JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intellige

AUGUST 23, 2011 - TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...WHAT'S HAPPENING IN LYBIA?  THE LATEST OUT OF TRIPOLI...AND WERE THE OPPONENTS OF THE LYBIA OPERATION WRONG AND ALLOWING THE PRESIDENT TO USE AMERICAN FORCES TO SUPPORT THE LYBIAN REBELS? REGULATORY CHANGES COMING, CAN REGULATORY REFORE SAVE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION?...IT'S NECK AND NECK IN THE 2012 ELECTION...IS THE PRESIDENT THAT VULNERABLE? THIS AND MORE TODAY'S BACKROOM POLITICS! JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of your daily ritual, tune into Backroom Politics and help us bring civility back to Washington. Broadcasti

AUGUST 16, 2011 - TODAY ON BACKROOM POLITICS...Warren Buffett hates being coddled, and doesn't mind telling Congress...The SuperCommittee (or Dirty Dozen or Justice League of America) is set.  Who are the real surprises...T-PAW is out, Rick Perry is IN...the latest from Iowa and the fall out of the Ames Straw Poll...Speaking of the mid-west, someone saw a person who had a striking resemblence to the President out in Iowa this morning....OH WAIT!!! IT WAS THE PRESIDENT!!!!  This and "Tell Me A Story"...Today on BACKROOM POLITICS!   JOIN CONGRESSMAN AL, BOB, JOHN, ALAN and RALPH on AMERICA'S PREMIER POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNET!!!  Backroom Politics is our weekly political round table discussion, broadcasting live from DC’s premier cigar tavern. What started out as a political insiders happy hour just blocks from the White House quickly became the basis for a new grassroots effort to bring civility back to politics. If American politics, foreign affairs, and intelligent civil discussion are part of yo

August 9, 2011 - Today on BACKROOM POLITICS...America drank the cute purple fruity drink of the economy, now we are suffering the worst economic hangover EVER!....I SWEAR I will never drink again if you make this hangover go away....Cheesehead Revisisted!  Today, 6 Republican State Legislators face recall votes spured by big labor; does labor still have the muscle to pull this off?...The roundtable will play the new game here in Washington called "Where's Congress"?....This and more on today's BACKROOM POLITICS!

August 2, 2011 - Today on Backroom Politics...LET'S MAKE A DEAL....Congress strikes a deal to avert fiscal disaster, but apparently NO ONE LIKES THIS DEAL!!!  Congressman Al, Bob, Ralph, and JT will discuss the details (and ramifications)...WHO WON? WHO LOST?....a recap of the big winners and loosers in this endeavour...Could this Deal had been done a month ago?  Who are the big stonewalls (and don't jump on the Tea Party so quick)....this and more on this week's BACKROOM POLITICS LIVE FROM SHELLY'S BACKROOM.

JULY 26, 2011 - Today on Backroom Politics...The heat in DC is making everyone crazy...oh, no...wait...it's the fiscal crisis that is making everyone crazy.  The President and the Speaker turn to prime time TV to get their message out...is it STILL too little, too late?  And if at first you don't succeed...form another Presidential Commission to study the debt crisis!  And BREAKING NEWS out of Capitol Hill...Congressman David Wu of Oregon to resign from Congress.  You know it is HOT in DC when the moderator has to go to Florida to cool off....THIS IS BACKROOM POLITICS!!!

JULY 19, 2011 - This week on Backroom Politics....Is there anyone in England that wasn't involved with News Corp?  The continued downward slide of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.  How will this effect the American media market?...Wait for it...wait for it...MORE FISCAL CRISIS COVERAGE!!!  This and the PROPER way to say certain yiddish terms....all on today's  Join Congressman Al Swift, the Honorable Bob Hynes, Dr. Ralph Winnie and moderator J.T. Russell for America's premier Cigar Roundtable Political Call-In Show.

July 12, 2011 - Today on Backroom Politics...The countdown to "financial armegeddon" continues...at home, sources say that Majority Leader Cantor is doing a "majority" of the talking during these White House Sessions...Vice President Biden tells the Republicans to "get real"...When the moon hits your eye like a big financial crisis, that's amore? Italy is now in financial trouble....News Corp and Rupert Murdoch try to be "fair and balanced" when hacking phones and computers. This and your phone calls today on Backroom Politics.