Week of February 13, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, February 13
Obama Budget Previews Election Battle - Hennessey & Parsons, LA TimesHere Comes Obama's Magic Budget - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Obama Looking Good, But Storm Clouds Ahead - John Heilemann, NY Mag
Romney Touts His Bay State Record - Robert Costa, National Review
Time for a Romneycare Mea Culpa - Milton Wolf, Washington Times
Severe Conservative Syndrome - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obama's Unnecessary Culture War - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Libertine Police State - George Weigel, National Review
Commit a Crime, Collect a Pension - George Skelton, Los Angeles Times
Markets Party On, Hangover Is Coming - Jonathan Trugman, New York Post
How Rough It's Gotten for Romney - Steve Kornacki, Salon
Mitt Has 3 Weeks Left to Close the Deal - Jed Babbin, American Spectator
Don't Rush Into Syria - Leslie Gelb, Newsweek
Greece in Flames as Austerity Plan Passes - Kitsantonis & Donadio, NYT
Our Budget Quagmire - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
Jack Lew Misled Public With Budget Claim - Glenn Kessler, Washington Post
Inside Media Matters - Tucker Carlson & Vince Coglianese, The Daily Caller
Latest Polls: MI (PPP): Santorum +15 | GA (Mason-Dixon): Gingrich +14
Tuesday, February 14
Obama Avoids Serious Budget Proposal - Dana Milbank, Washington PostMany Tough Choices in President's Budget - Jeff Zients, USA Today
The Senate Hasn't Passed a Budget in Three Years - William McGurn, WSJ
$3.8T Budget Is a Pre-Election Salvo - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
Obama's Broken Deficit Promise - Jake Tapper, ABC News
Great Scott: The Success of Gov. Walker - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Romney Slipping Against Santorum, Obama - Steven Shepard, Natl Jrnl
Mitt Romney Needs to Find His Base - Nate Silver, New York Times
Obama, Romney Getting Cozier With Super PACs - Scott Conroy, RCP
Audacity of Power: ObamaCare vs. The Church - Charles Kadlec, Forbes
Shrill & Extreme Bishops Reject Obama Compromise - Joan Walsh, Salon
Intolerance Is at the Heart of the ObamaCare - James Taranto, WSJ
Obama's "New Foundation" Budget - George Zornick, The Nation
An Economy Drowning in Obama's 'Fairness' - Ralph Reiland, Pittsburgh TR
Islam's Assassination of the Mind - Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
Celebrating John Glenn's Orbit: 50 Years Later - John Wilford, NY Times
Peter Thiel Is Worried About America's Future - Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
GOP: CNN: Santorum +2 | Gallup: Romney +2 | CBS/NYT: Santorum +3
Wednesday, February 15
The Odd Politics Behind a Budgetless America - Gail Chaddock, CS MonitorPresident Obama's Budget Shell Game - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Santorum Surge Forces Romney to Adjust - Michael Levenson, Boston Globe
How Likely Is a Brokered Convention? - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Romney's Strategy to Sideline Santorum - Jon Ward, Huffington Post
Why Republicans Don't Trust Romney - Ed Rollins, FOX News
President Holds Edge Over GOP Hopefuls - Brian Montopoli, CBS News
An Unconstitutional & Illegal Mandate - Rivkin & Whelan, Wall St. Journal
GOP Drums Up Phony War on Religion - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Remember ABC's Weird Debate Question? - W. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection
Obama's Recess Appointments an Abuse of Power - Jonathan Turley, USAT
Give Diplomacy With Iran a Chance - Dennis Ross, New York Times
California's Demographic Revolution - Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
Is Romney More Electable Than Santorum? - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
The GOP's Emerging Bob Dole Problem - Steve Kornacki, Salon
Washington's Knack for Picking Losers - Michael Boskin, Wall Street Journal
The Stunning Collapse of Jon Corzine - Ross Kaminsky, American Spectator
Latest 2012 Polls: GOP (MI, OH, National) | General: Head-to-Heads
Thursday, February 16
Challenges for Romney in "Home State" of Michigan - Scott Conroy, RCPRomney Faltering with White Working Class - Alan Fram, Associated Press
Obama Breaks His Pledge on the Budget - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Poor, White and Republican - George Packer, The New Yorker
How Warren Buffett Profits From D.C. Politics - Peter Schweizer, Reason
Obama Courts the New Digital Elite - Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
WH Undercuts Legal Case for ObamaCare - Philip Klein, DC Examiner
Teachers' Unions Can Be Part of Solution - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Obama's War on School Choice - Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal
Romney Surrogates Attack Santorum's Record - Ashley Killough, CNN
Is Romney Going to Run Out of Money? - Zeke Miller, BuzzFeed
The State & Local Pension Crisis - Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets
Michigan's Hostile Takeover - Paul Abowd, Mother Jones
Obama's Vision vs. Clint Eastwood's - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
New Global Deal on Climate Change - John Podesta & Andrew Light, Politico
John F. Kennedy Was a Cad--and a Hero - Noemie Emery, DC Examiner
Kardashian Court TV - Ron Cass, RealClearPolitics
Michigan (Detroit News): Santorum 34, Romney 30, Gingrich 12, Paul 9
Friday, February 17
ObamaCare vs. the Constitution - Charles Krauthammer, Washington PostConservative Moochers Against Welfare - Paul Krugman, New York Times
White House Stops Pretending It Has a Debt Plan - Philip Klein, Examiner
Republicans Unprotected on Contraception - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
Why Cronyism Doesn't (Always) Pay - Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon
3 Pieces of Advice Romney Should Ignore - Michael Crowley, Time
Romney Without a Cause - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Key Super Tuesday Prizes: Georgia & Ohio - Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
How Companies Learn Your Secrets - Charles Duhigg, New York Times
Obama's Cynicism for Me, Not for Thee - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
'A Terri Schiavo Moment' - Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog
What's Really at Issue: Govt Overreach - Sen. Scott Brown, Boston Herald
Dingell: Congress as Poisonous as I've Seen - Todd Purdum, Vanity Fair
The War on Ron Wyden - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Anthony Shadid: The Best of Our Breed - Bobby Ghosh, Time
The Profound Lies of Deep Throat - Glenn Garvin, Miami Herald
The New Blacklist - Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Arizona (Rasmussen): Romney 39, Santorum 31, Gingrich 15, Paul 7
Saturday, February 18
Can Romney Find a Way to Connect? - Tumulty & Rucker, Washington PostSantorum's Blue Collar Test in Michigan - Ron Brownstein, National Jrnl
GOP Struggles Fuel Talk of Brokered Convention - Steve Holland, Reuters
Voters Shred Rulebook in Republican Race - Davis & Tackett, Bloomberg
Romney's Electability Becoming an Issue - Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph
Santorum's Gospel of Inequality - Charles Blow, New York Times
The Budget of a Left-Wing President - Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard
Factory Jobs Aren't Coming Back - Robert Reich, Salon
Chinese Labor Isn't Cheap Anymore - Michelle Loyalka, New York Times
President's Voodoo Environomics - Leighton Steward, Washington Times
GM Leads U.S. Auto Industry on Road to Success - Michelle Krebs, Guardian
Germany's Solar Power Money Pit - Bjorn Lomborg, Slate
Joe Kennedy III Takes the Torch - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Eisenhower Memorial Misses the Man - George Will, Washington Post
Obama Takes Back Seat on Iran Sanctions - Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
Why Iran Thinks It Needs the Bomb - Ray Takeyh, Washington Post
The Clinton Revival - Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard
Sunday, February 19
The Way Greeks Live Now - Russell Shorto, New York Times MagazineWhy Health Reform Law Is Good for America - Dede de Percin, Denver Post
Understanding Today's Democratic Party - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
The Real Reason the GOP Is In Trouble - Ben Domenech, Ricochet
Romney's Endgame: He's in It to Win It - Jaime Fuller, American Prospect
The Conservative Assault on the Voting Rights Act - Josh Gerstein, Politico
Obama Not So Welcome in the OC? - Brian Calle, Orange County Register
A Third Party for 2012? - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest - John Nichols, The Nation
Obama's Budget Is Even Worse Than It Looks - Peter Roff, US News & WR
Could Gay Marriage Be New Dem Litmus Test? - Reid Wilson, National Jrnl
Is Santorum Too Socially Conservative to Win? - David Paul Kuhn, RCP
Pakistan and Osama bin Laden - David Ignatius, Washington Post
A Year After Uprising, Militias Hold Sway in Libya - Maggie Michael, AP
Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012 - Steve Coll, The New Yorker
European Project Is Splitting Apart - Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph
The Economics of Linsanity - Matthew DeLuca, The Daily Beast
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