The Sunday Shows
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
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Well, we'll have Joe Biden back this week. Condi Rice is making the rounds. MTP promises to be interesting, with (from the Left) Republican Linc Chafee and (from the Right) Democrat Ben Nelson.
Here's the lineup:
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert will no doubt talk Social Security with Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), who favors private accounts, and Senator Linc Chafee (R-Rhode Island), who abhors private accounts; Representatives Tom Davis (R-California) and the almost-unwatchable Henry Waxman (D-Ohio); and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, no doubt about 2008, at least at the end. And Russert never takes no for an answer. "NO! SHUT UP! GO AWAY!" is, to Russert, a "maybe, won't rule it out."
FOX News Sunday: Host Chris Wallace talks with National Security Advisor Steve Hadley and Kofi Annan's aide Mark Malloch Brown who attacked the President at a "democracy" (U.N.-style) conference last week.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer, if he bothers, will talk to the Senator Foreign Affairs Committee leadership: Chairman Dick Lugar (R-Indiana) and the inevitable Joe Biden, Democrat of Delaware. And he'll talk to Rice.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos interviews Rice, the smarmy teller-of-tales Jose Canseco, and author Jeffrey Sachs of the forthcoming tome The End of Poverty. Sachs is both a Columbia Professor and the United Nations' Poverty Fightin' Machine.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolfgang Blitzer chats with Chris Dodd, Trent Lott, Clinton's Dick Holbrooke, and the usual cast of thousands. Plus he often leads with someone he's invited at the last minute, perhaps Michael Schiavo's attorney or some such. |
