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...before, on CBS's Face the Nation, Lieberman said he would support a Republican filibuster of health care reform if the Democratic bill included a public option - as it currently does. "I feel so strongly about the creation of another government health-insurance entitlement," Lieberman told CBS's Bob Schieffer. "I think it's such a mistake that I would use the power I have as a single Senator to stop a final vote." Just days before that, he told ABC News he intended to campaign for both Republican and Democratic candidates in next year's midterm elections. And late...
...many years appointed seasoned politicians to the Embassy in Japan - Senators Mike Mansfield and Howard Baker, former Vice-President Walter Mondale and Speaker of the House Tom Foley. The pattern was broken when Baker retired after George W. Bush's first term, and the President appointed Tom Schieffer, a friend and business partner from Texas; Obama has followed suit with the appointment of John Roos, a lawyer and Democratic fundraiser from Los Angeles...
...When Bob Schieffer of Face The Nation asked Secretary Geithner if the Administration would have to go back to Congress for more stimulus money because of rapidly rising unemployment, the bureaucrat refused to answer directly, acting as if he believed he would be struck by a bolt of lightning if he did anything beyond dissembling...
...appointment of Nye, who would replace current ambassador Tom Schieffer, would complement the current administration’s call for a greater reliance on soft power, a marked contrast to what many of Obama’s top national security officials viewed as the overuse of military force, or “hard power,” during the past administration...
...When moderator Bob Schieffer encouraged the two men to air their grievances against each other, all the drama hung around Obama the Imperturbable. "I think the American people are less interested in our hurt feelings," Obama said. "I don't mind being attacked for the next three weeks. What we can't afford is four more years of the same failed economic policies...