American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Bob SchiefferThe government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
Bob SchiefferTalk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
Bob Schieffer