Beware the Friendly Underminer

There is plenty of reason to believe that Representative Jim Cooper, a moderate “Blue Dog” congressman from Tennessee, is serious and well-meaning when it comes to health care reform.

The 55-year-old Democrat, now more than six years into his second stint in the House (he previously served from 1983 to 1995), has studied Read More

Obama Stays With Engagement, at a Cost To Be Determined

The White House made clear on Sunday that Barack Obama will proceed with his push for diplomatic engagement with Iran, no matter the outcome of the current upheaval in the Islamic Republic.

Appearing on several Sunday morning talk shows, Susan Rice, Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, and David Axelrod, one of the Read More

Who Should Replace Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation?

“I’m going to stay for sure through the inauguration.” That’s what Bob Schieffer, the host these last 17 years of CBS’s Sunday morning, half-hour news program Face the Nation, told TV Guide’s Stephen Battaglio at the end of 2007. “Quite frankly, I don’t know what I’m going to do after that.”

Neither does CBS Read More