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The Sunday Talking Heads:
Up with Chris Hayes:If you are an earlier riser on weekends or, like me, up all night working, I’ve heard that Hayes is a good watch and has had some very interesting guests and discussions. Guests are not announced adding to the spontaneity of the format.
This Week with Christiane Amanpour:Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett (R) will discuss the child sexual assault case at Penn State.
There are two roundtables: one on politics with George Will, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, conservative radio host Dana Loesch, and ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl. Plus, USA Today columnist and ABC News contributor Christine Brennan joins in to discuss the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State.
The second roundtable will focus on this week’s International Atomic Energy Agency report Iran’s nuclear program the with former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright and Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer:Sunday’s guests will be Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Governors Haley Barbour (R-MI) and Martin O’Malley (D-MD); Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to China; a political roundtable with CBS News Political Analyst John Dickerson, National Journal’s Major Garrett, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, and former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers.
The Chris Matthews Show: This week’s guests: Nia-Malika Henderson, The Washington Post National Political Reporter, Joe Klein, TIME Columnist, Major Garrett, National Journal Congressional Correspondent, and Katty Kay, BBC Washington Correspondent.
Meet the Press with David Gregory: Making the morning rounds. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett (R); Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN); Chairwoman of the DNC, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL); a special roundtable with A special discussion with the New York Times’ David Brooks and the Washington Post’s EJ Dionne on this weeks political news and the Penn State child sexual assault.
State of the Union with Candy Crowley:An exclusive interview with the Co-chair of the Super Committee, Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX); the Senate perspective Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK); Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus; the first installment of our “America’s Cities” series, a look at mayors trying to bring jobs back to their city. We start with the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles.
The continent is destroying the weak to protect the strong. But will that be enough?
The eurozone crisis is a bank crisis posing as a series of national debt crises and complicated by reactionary economic ideas, a defective financial architecture and a toxic political environment, especially in Germany, in France, in Italy and in Greece.
Like our own, the European banking crisis is the product of over-lending to weak borrowers, including for housing in Spain, commercial real estate in Ireland and the public sector (partly for infrastructure) in Greece. The European banks leveraged up to buy toxic American mortgages and when those collapsed they started dumping their weak sovereign bonds to buy strong ones, driving up yields and eventually forcing the whole European periphery into crisis. Greece was merely the first domino in the line.
Robert Reich: Why We May Be In Store for a Passionless Presidential Race
Polls show Americans angrier and more polarized than at any time since the Vietnam War. That’s not surprising. We have the worst economy since the Great Recession and the worst politics in living memory. The rise of the regressive right over the last three decades has finally spurred a progressive reaction. Occupiers and others have had enough.
Yet paradoxically the presidential race that officially begins a few months from now is likely to be as passionless as they come.
President Obama will be supported by progressives and the Democratic base, but without enthusiasm. His notorious caves to Republicans and Wall Street – failing to put conditions on the Street’s bailout (such as demanding the Street help stranded home owners), or to resurrect Glass-Steagall, or include a public option in health care, or assert his constitutional responsibility to raise the debt limit, or protect Medicare and Social Security, or push for cap-and-trade, or close Guantanamo, or, in general, confront the regressive Republican nay-sayers and do-nothings with toughness rather than begin negotiations by giving them much of what they want – are not the stuff that stirs a passionate following.
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