For New Years Day (January 1), 2006

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert has a throwaway this week: historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, Bill Safire of the New York Times, and the WashPost’s Eugene Robinson will chat and chat and chat ceaselessly.

FOX News Sunday: Host Chris Wallace will chat with Senate GOP whip Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Chuck Schumer of New York about “what’s in store of 2006.”

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding, and Gingrich.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will attempt to interrogate Joint Chiefs Chairman General Peter Pace, USMC, “on American troop levels and the future of Iraq.”

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk ot HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt about the bird flu. He’ll also talk to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar of Indiana and Dem Whip/Nazi hunter Dick Durbin of Illiinois about… stuff.
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It looks like it will be mostly Year-in-Review/Look-in-Crystal-Ball stuff this week, except for Blitzer’s bit on bird flu, and I have no idea where that one’s coming from. McCain and Joe Biden are absent, but Newt’s got them covered.

I don’t know what Schieffer is up to with Nagin and Geberding, unless he’s suggesting that Brownie gave bird flue to the Big Easy.

The review of the Sunday Shows, found everyweek at RedState.org, will be at my blog (rightsided.org) at about 2p ET tomorrow afternoon. I’ll post the Schieffer stuff in here in honor of Dan-O and the Eye, but it looks like it will be a singularly awful show this week.