Here's a bit of news from our "Department of News that Everyone and Their Mother Saw Coming." Needless to say, they've been a little behind with the health care bill debate, and Tiger Woods' apology .

Christiane Amanpour has accepted the offer from ABC's news division to anchor the Sunday show 'This Week,' taking over for George Stephanopolous, who now anchors 'Good Morning America'. This means she'll be leaving CNN where she has racked up an impressive 18-year body of work consisting mostly of international reporting and journalism.

However, does this give her the chops to moderate a political fueled talk fest? There are yeas and nays on both sides of the question.

First off, she is a dynamite reporter, especially by cable TV's ever-narrowing standards. She's a good ol' fashioned, on-the-ground-first, grinding her heel in the dirt reporter. She's covered wars, uprisings and conflicts up close and personal. Whenever there was a natural disaster or a world leader overthrown in a bloody coup, Amanpour's face was usually the first one you would see at the epicenter of horror.

Secondly, she has conducted a lot of hard-hitting, probing interviews with all sorts of heads-of-state from the relatively sovereign nations to those in never-ending turmoil (i.e. the Middle East). She actually sat down with the likes of Iranian Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and picked their brains cleaner than a vulture on a roadkill buffet.

That being said, international and foreign issues have been her main forte. I haven't watched every second of news footage she has ever conducted, but she doesn't seem as versed on domestic issues as she is on international isssues.

I don't have any doubt that she'll be able to bring the hurt to political leaders harder than Stephanopolous, a former political consultant, ever could. If she has the balls to even sit in the same room with wingnuts like Ahmadinejad, she'll have no problem stripping down the rhetoric from the likes of mouth-flapping pundits like George Will and Ed Gillespie.

The show might feel a little different when it comes to the usual form of debate between the show's rotating pundit roundtable. Not only is there a possibility of a heavier focus on international issues, but Sunday mornings might also see less interjection from the moderator since she's a trained journalist, rather than a political pundit or advisor for one side or the other.

Either way, it's a gutsy show on ABC's part to choose such a credited journalist for the job. She may not have been the most popular choice, but she's certainly among the most credible. Hell, that's more than I can say for most people in her medium.