On CBS’s Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer asked Kentucky Senator Rand Paul if he thought his father could win. “Your father is a very polite and decent man,” Schieffer said. “He’s very nice to deal with. Everybody seems to like him, but I don’t know a single impartial observer who thinks that he could wind up getting the nomination, let alone winning in a general election. Does he think he could win?”

On CBS News’ Face The Nation Sunday morning, host Bob Schieffer indulged in a popular Supercommittee media narrative, asking  former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs why President Obama holds himself “above the battle,” and “how could he just sit there and let this Supercommittee fail?”

Gibbs handled the question ably, explaining “what the President did for the Supercommittee,” with one glaring omission.

Planned Parenthood has responded to statements made by GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain on last Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation.

Cain, whose articulation of his stance on abortion has resulted in some confusion, has remained consistent regarding his feelings about Planned Parenthood. If elected president, he has said, he would work to defund the organization.

In addition, Cain has been outspoken about the issues he has with one of Planned Parenthood’s most noteworthy founders, Margaret Sanger.

Over the weekend, President Barack Obama delivered a speech at a Congressional Black Caucus event asking for his support to pass his much-touted jobs bill, where he asked of the crowd to “stop whining” and get behind his proposition. The “stop whining” soundbite made the rounds in the media, of course, as a rebuke of the CBC, but on her program tonight, Rachel Maddow argued the President’s speech was actually rousing and inspiring, and received widespread praise from the audience the media claims was getting harangued.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation today, and was asked by moderator Bob Schieffer about her recent comments about God and Hurricane Irene and if she truly believes that God sends messages through the weather.

Ready for a trip down Memory Lane? Face the Nation held an interestingly anachronistic debate today on the Obama jobs program between former RNC chair Ed Gillespie and former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe, where the two quarreled over the optics of President Obama’s vacation and Congress’ obstinacy in passing a jobs bill. Host Norah O’Donnell led the discussion, wherein the two agreed the time for talk was over, but, predictably, differed on who exactly was doing the useless talking.

Don’t count on President Obama’s campaign advisor David Axelrod being eager to return to Face the Nation anytime soon. First Bob Schieffer persistently wondered why Obama should be re-elected when the economic situation is “worse” today than it was when Obama first took office. And later in the same interview, Schieffer refuses to let Axelrod blame Republicans for being the sole cause of the S&P downgrade.

Bob Schieffer was enjoyably prickly today as he interviewed President Obama’s campaign advisor David Axelrod. After playing a clip of Obama from the beginning of his presidency telling Matt Lauer that three years later Americans will be able to determine whether he deserves a second term, Schieffer posed the question rather bluntly to Axelrod. “Is this going to be a one-term presidency?”

Sen. Marco Rubio got into a testy exchange with CBS’ Bob Schieffer on this morning’s Face the Nation– one reflective of the national frustration with the current budget talks. As Sen. Rubio argued that President Obama had put off the talks to the last minute to make Republicans look obstinate, Schieffer interrupted to defend the President’s credentials, suggesting that the Bush administration had at least as much of the blame to shoulder as President Bush.

Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich appeared with Bob Schieffer this morning and was eager to speak about the importance of putting political differences aside to solve the country’s biggest problems. Possibly due to the importance of the budget crisis or a desire to seem above the political fray, Kasich then passed on an opportunity to praise the Republican presidential candidates over President Obama.

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor appeared on Face the Nation with substitute host Harry Smith and spoke about his earlier call for federal disaster relief funds to be offset with cuts to spending elsewhere in the budget. Cantor did not back down from the statement promising “Congress will find the money” and also confident “it will be offset.”

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on Face the Nation today and was asked what he made of the possibility that Pakistani authorities did not know Osama bin Laden had been hiding in their country, basically in plain sight within a massive compound dwarfing nearby homes.

Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer couldn’t fathom why members of Congress get so much vacation time and voiced his frustration with Republican Senator Mark Kirk and Democratic Senator Chris Coons. Neither freshman senator was able to offer Schieffer an explanation that satisfied him, yet what perturbed him the most was that a bunch of Senators took a taxpayer-funded trip to Macau, the gambling capital of Asia.

On Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer seemed to be setting Rep. Paul Ryan up for a sort of political “2 Girls, 1 Cup reaction video,” placing Ryan in splitscreen as he listened to President Obama’s candid “hot mic” remarks at a Chicago fundraiser earlier this week. While the President’s fiery remarks were a departure from his characteristic cool, Ryan’s pulse never got above 85.

Independent Senator Joe Lieberman appeared on Face The Nation and told Bob Schieffer that as a result of the horrible events in Japan, it is time to “put the brakes” on development of new nuclear power plants here in the United States. Lieberman wanted to assure Americans that FEMA and other federal agencies are much more prepared for such catastrophes than they were a few years ago, but expressed hesitation to expand a commitment to nuclear power before we learn what happens in Japan.

Republican Governor Chris Christie appeared on Face the Nation and Bob Schieffer asked him about potential Republican candidates for the upcoming presidential election. In addition to mentioning that he really likes Governor Mitch Daniels, Christie continued an odd pattern of not backing down from an invitation to knock Sarah Palin in the form of giving her some advice.

Senator John McCain appeared on Face the Nation this morning and was happy with the news from Egypt so far, but stressed the importance of there being free and fair elections in the country. Most interestingly though, he did not take a tough stand against inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood in that process, departing from the view of some his Republican colleagues.

Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on Face the Nation to discuss the Republican effort to repeal healthcare reform. Convinced that the American people want Congress to focus on jobs and the economy, Schumer defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid‘s decision not to waste time bringing the measure up for a vote.

Senator John McCain appeared on Face the Nation and told Bob Schieffer he’s pleased with the new civil tone in Washington and happy to sit next to Democrats at the State of the Union address. Yet McCain, not only wants to sit away from his friends, but also wants everyone to stop cheerleading so the President won’t be distracted. Where’s the fun in that?

On Face the Nation, Senator Jon Kyl told Bob Schieffer that before blaming “vitriolic political rhetoric” for the tragic Arizona shooting that we should not “rush to speculate” since “we really don’t know what motivated this young person except to know that he was very mentally unstable.” This bit of common sense reaction would not ordinarily be newsworthy, except for the fact that it bizarrely seems to be such a minority opinion.

Luckily regular Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer was vacationing because the mild-mannered Schieffer might not have been able to keep this wild bunch of elected representatives under control. Substitute host Harry Smith handled the debate well though, as Representatives Michele Bachmann, Anthony Weiner, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Mike Kelly unleashed a fury of verbal blows on one another.

Before Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer had time to share his cheerful holiday poem, CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan, provided viewers with a sobering reality about the ongoing war on terror. In addition to saying everyone knows Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, she also claimed most other terrorist leaders are hiding out there as well, and displayed disappointment with U.S. foreign policy for not more aggressively handling the situation.

With Christmas over, it’s nice to see at least one person eager to extend the good cheer just a little longer before everyone returns to serious politics as usual. On this morning’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer presented a lengthy and smile-inducing holiday poem that summed up recent headlines.

Although the clip from CBS’s Face The Nation is not as confrontational as the title to this post might suggest, it’s actually much funnier. Bob Schieffer annually hosts a roundtable. This year authors Ron Chernow (Washington: A Life), Arianna Huffington (Third World America), Edmund Morris (Colonel Roosevelt), and Bob Woodward (Obama’s Wars) participated in the thoughtful and sedate conversation, that is until a sound rarely, if ever, heard on a Sunday morning news show caught all viewers by surprise: a censor bleeping.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the Sunday talk show rounds this morning, appearing on Fox News Sunday, CBS’s Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press. The topic of conversation: TSA’s new measures and national security — and Clinton admitted that she felt TSA measures should be less invasive and that she personally would not want to submit to one of TSA’s patdowns.