Sunday Shows: Mullen, Geithner, Ridge, Durbin, Kyl, Boxer

ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen and a round table with Donna Brazile, N.Y. Times' David Brooks and ABC's George Will.

Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

CBS' Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Ex-Gen. Colin Powell and Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint, as part of the "Children of the Recession" series.

CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: "Foreign Affairs" editor Gideon Rose, "The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global" author Fawaz Gerges, Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens, "The Geopolitics of Emotion" author Dominique Moisi, "Reimagining India" author Nandan Nilekani and former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni.

CNN's State of the Union with John King: Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Mary Matalin and James Carville.

Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace: Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Karl Rove and "Power Player" Bugles Across America founder Tom Day.

NBC's Meet the Press with David Gregory: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and a round table with National Review's Rich Lowry, NPR's Michele Norris and NBC's Chuck Todd.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Comments

[Pom Pom Girl]

Nationalized Medicine & Waiting In the E.R.

In U.S. emergency rooms, the average length of time it takes a patient to see a doctor has increased from 22 minutes to 30 minutes during the last decade. In nonurban hospitals, the wait averages just 15 minutes. And there's no extra waiting in the ambulances outside, unlike in England.

In England, facing lengthening waits at hospitals, the British government has set a targeted turn around time of four hours from arrival in an emergency room to treatment by a medical professional. Apparently this standard has proven too stringent for the National Health Service.

In June of 2008 The Guardian reports that U.K. emergency rooms are meeting the four-hour goal through a simple, quintessentially British expedient: queuing. Thousands of seriously ill patients have been forced to wait outside of emergency departments in ambulances before they can be admitted, thus delaying the start of the four-hour timer. The practice is called "patient stacking," and various investigations have found people with broken limbs or breathing problems stuck in ambulances for as long as five hours. Of course while those ambulances idle they can't actually go out and rescue people costing who knows how many lives.

Consider all the costs of Nationalized Health Care before you ask your politicians for a nap in an ambulance.

[steve rodriguez]

Where's Nancy? She should be held accountable on of the Sunday shows! Oh! in China I forgot!

[Pom Pom Girl]

Want Terrorists On TV? Close Gitmo.

While there are many arguments against moving the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay to prisons on US soil, from cost to security, would the media access to these prisoners change as well? Would the answer to that question change if they were in a US military prison (Leavenworth) or instead in a Federal Prison?
Until we have answers to those questions we should reconsider closing Gitmo. Can you imagine 60 minutes or others spending hours interviewing the detainees, broadcasting their one sided "horror" stories as well as their pleas of innocence or boasts of terror to the world? Wouldn't preventing that single propaganda potential for the detainees be the silver bullet reason that any reasonably prudent Commander In Chief would not allow them on US soil.

If media access, let alone public court trials reported on by the media circus provide the terrorists with a platform for propaganda won't every American regret anyone's decision to close Gitmo?