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No surprise, the talk shows are almost all about health care.

The White House has dispatched David Axelrod to do its spin on NBC, ABC and CNN. Howard Dean, who spoke out forcefully against all the compromises in the Senate bill -- and was forcefully attacked by Team Obama and its allies, is also on Meet. Those two aren't appearing head-to-head, although that would have been interesting. Also, Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the Daily Kos will be on the panel at Meet the Press.

The other shows have a lot of Senators, ten altogether. I'm sure we'll learn so much from a bunch of Senators. They're always so interesting and so informative. Although, I imagine many of them are pretty cranky. They've had to work non-stop for almost a month now.

Here's the breakdown on who is appearing where:

As noted, Meet the Press has David Axelrod and Howard Dean. Then, there's the panel with Markos, Tavis Smiley, Joe Scarborough and Ed Gillespie.

ABC's This Week also has David Axelrod. Then, the show has two Senators: Dick Durbin and Jon Kyl.

Face The Nation has a bunch of Senators: Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the ever painful Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and one-time President Olympia Snowe (R-ME).

CNN's State of the Union also has Axelrod. And, the GOP voice will be that of Senator Lindsey Graham.

Fox also has a panel of Senators: Kent Conrad (D-ND), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John McCain (R-AZ). Makes no sense for Democrats to do FOX, but no one can get the professional Democrats in DC to understand that.


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