Week of March 12, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, March 12
Are We Facing a Lost Decade? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post2 Reasons Recovery May Be Gaining Speed - James Surowiecki, New Yorker
Why Obama's Policies Slowed the Recovery - Charles Gasparino, NY Post
Labor to Mount Big Campaign for Obama - Steven Greenhouse, NY Times
Joe the Plumber: GOP Prophet - Sheldon Alberts, National Post
Obama's Had a Pretty Damn Good Presidency - Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Obama Could Use a Lesson in Humility - Jennifer Braceras, Boston Herald
President Obama's Healthcare Albatross - Doyle McManus, LA Times
The Coming Upheaval in U.S. Afghanistan Strategy - Michael Hirsh, NJ
Clinton's Triumph at State Raises Bar for Next Act - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
Mitt May Recapture Upscale Whites for GOP - Michael Barone, Examiner
Catholicism Is Not the Tea Party at Prayer - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Left-Wing Comedians Feel Limbaugh Backlash - John Nolte, Big Hollywood
Paranoia Comes with Dispossessed Whites - Steve Weinberg, In These Times
Pelosi Daughter, Maher Ridicule White Southerners - Caroline May, DC
Health Care Act to Be Signature Case for Roberts - Adam Liptak, NY Times
Other "Necessary" Health Care Mandates - Allysia Finley, Wall St. Journal
CBS/NYT: Santorum 34, Romney 30 ABC/WP: Romney 33, Santorum 29
Tuesday, March 13
GOP Candidates Face High Stakes in South - Josh Lederman, The HillSo Far, Demographics Trump Momentum in GOP Race - Sean Trende, RCP
California's Greek Tragedy - Michael Boskin & John Cogan, Wall St. Journal
GOP Wants to Sabotage Economy - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Afghanistan Turns Into a Mess of Bloody Apologies - Andrew Malcolm, IBD
Obama Holds to Afghan Plan Amid Turmoil - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Is MF Global Getting a Free Pass? - Joe Nocera, New York Times
DOJ Objects to Texas Voter ID Law - Ryan Reilly, Talking Points Memo
Holder's Tenure Is an Ongoing Disgrace - Rich Lowry, New York Post
Election Is About Protecting Obama's Achievements - Jonathan Cohn, TNR
Obama's "War on Women" Backfires - Dana Loesch, Big Journalism
The Global Fertility Implosion - David Brooks, New York Times
An Alliance the World Can Count On - Obama & Cameron, Washington Post
The Big Racial-Disparity Hoax - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Sarah Palin's Ignorance as a Platform - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Obama Should Return Bill Maher's Money - Christoph & Terrell, CNN
The Truth About Fracking - Kevin Williamson, National Review
Latest Polls: GOP: Reuters/Ipsos | General: Bloomberg, Reuters/Ipsos
Wednesday, March 14
Wins in South Propel Rick Santorum - McPike & Cannon, RealClearPoliticsDoubts About Romney's Conservatism Help Santorum - Gary Langer, ABC
Gingrich Fighting to Keep Romney From 1144 - Byron York, DC Examiner
Muddled Economic Picture Muddles Political One - David Leonhardt, NYT
Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression - Peter Ferrara, Am Spectator
The GOP Goes to War Against Women - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Women Suffer Under the "Arab Spring" - Shirin Ebadi, Wall Street Journal
Do We Have a Plan B for Afghanistan? - Steve Coll, The New Yorker
Complex Societies Need Simple Laws - John Stossel, FOX Business
U.S. Challenges China Over Rare Earth Metals - Tony Romm, Politico
GOP Race Looks To Be Going All the Way to Tampa - Ed Rollins, FOX News
Santorum Can't Win, Romney Will Be The Nominee - Hugh Hewitt, NRO
Does Mitt Romney Need More Debates? - Erick Erickson, Red State
Super PACs Put Incumbents on Notice - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
What's the Matter with Soledad O'Brien? - Michelle Malkin, New York Post
In Section 60, a Silent Search for Meaning - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
"Game Change" Celebrates DC's Narcissism - Charles Hurt, Wash Times
Video Highlights: Obama | Krauthammer | Romney | Stewart | More
Thursday, March 15
How Stimulus Fails: A Case Study of Federal Waste - Jim Epstein, ReasonWhy I'm Not Panicked About Gas Prices - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
How Gingrich's Candidacy Could Help Santorum - Scott Conroy, RCP
Romney Team Pulls Out All the Stops in Illinois - Kimberley Strassel, WSJ
Tuesday's Primaries Changed Nothing - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Behind the Red State-Blue State Divide - Michael Lind, Salon
Union Work on the Public Dime - George Will, Washington Post
Can This Labor-Backed Liberal Beat Walker? - Andy Kroll, Mother Jones
Obama's Money and the Enthusiasm Gap - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
The Afghan Massacre Was Predictable - Michael Yon, New York Daily News
Obama Should Stick to Afghan Strategy - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Watch Bernanke's 'Little' Inflation Capsize U.S. - Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg
Left-Wing Media Dishonesty - Bill O'Reilly, FOX News
President's Bouncing Polls: What Gives? - Jonathan Capehart, Wash Post
Derrick Bell & the Racial Quota Fallout - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Biz Daily
An Ode to Kucinich - Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post
Massachusetts Disaster a Preview of ObamaCare - Sally Pipes, Wash Times
Friday, March 16
President Obama's Oil Flimflam - Charles Krauthammer, Washington PostDrilling Isn't a Serious Jobs Plan - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obama Flubs U.S. History -- Again - Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
White House in Full Re-election Mode - David Nakamura, Washington Post
The Candidate of Fear - Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon
Obama's "Road" Ad Frames Crises, Change - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Romney Has GOP Strapped to the Roof of His Car - Bob Shrum, The Week
Why Do the Islands Play Role in GOP Primary? - Byron York, DC Examiner
In Illinois, Rick's Momentum Meets Mitt's Money - Alex Altman, Time
Illinois Primary Races Get Testy - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
GOP Field Stirs Less Enthusiasm Than McCain - Frank Newport, Gallup
Situation in Afghanistan Gets Worse - Jon Soltz, Huffington Post
Obama Never Believed His Afghanistan Rhetoric - Oliver North, FOX News
Meet the New Boss: Rahm Emanuel - Jonathan Alter, The Atlantic
Rush and the New Blacklist - Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Maher: Comparing Me to Rush Is Ridiculous - Jake Tapper, ABC News
Breitbart Is Here - Sarah Palin, Big Government
Illinois (GOP): FOX Chicago/WAA: Romney +6 | Rasmussen: Romney +9
Saturday, March 17
Wall St. Morality & Breaking Up Too Big to Fail - James Pethokoukis, NYTHow Ben Bernanke Saved the Economy - Roger Lowenstein, The Atlantic
Bernanke Caught Between Deception & Depression - Peter Schiff, Townhall
The Man Who Likes Mandates - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Illinois GOP Primary Could Be Pivotal - Matt Viser, Boston Globe
Romney's Hyperdrive Push in Puerto Rico - Philip Rucker, Washington Post
A Tale of Two Campaigns - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Who's Obama Sneering At? - Mark Steyn, Orange County Register
Running Against a Fantasy of Obama - Jonathan Bernstein, Wash Post
The New Obama Documentary Doesn't Quite Work - Noam Scheiber, TNR
Why Isn't Paul Ryan Running for President? - Michael Walsh, Nat'l Review
What to Make of Romney's Flashes of Irritation? - Scott Conroy, RCP
Don't Go Wobbly in Afghanistan - Max Boot, Weekly Standard
Our Troops Should Be Out. Yesterday. - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
The Oil Industry & the Fracking Trade-Offs - David Sirota, Salon
King Dollar Will Cut Oil Prices - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
A Wish for St. Patrick's Day - Carl Schramm, Wall Street Journal
Video Highlights: Daniels | Obama | Levin | Schultz | More Videos
Sunday, March 18
Barriers to Change, From Wall St. and Geneva - Gretchen Morgenson, NYTNever-Ending Subsidies - George Will, Boston Herald
Economic Pie Grows, But Workers' Slice Shrinks - Robert Reich, SF Chron
Big Labor's Big Bucks - Mark Hemingway, The Weekly Standard
Why Did the "Grand Bargain" Fail? - Wallsten, Montgomery & Wilson, WaPo
GOP Girding for Convention Fight - Zeleny & Rutenberg, New York Times
Has Mitt Romney Run a Lousy Campaign? - Molly Ball, The Atlantic
2012: Pro-ObamaCare vs. Pro-Repeal - Rep. King & Sen. DeMint, Wash Times
Roberts Court Could Save Health Care Law - Robert Barnes, Wash Post
Prosperity Is Hip, and Raises Living Standards - Peter Ferrara, Forbes
Wishful Thinking About Tax Rates - Christina Romer, New York Times
Jerry Brown's Flawed Plan B - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Is Elvis a Mormon? - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Obama Is Running on Bad Memories - William Saletan, Slate
U.S. Housing Market Looks Ready to Rebound - Jonathan Laing, Barron's
Who Is Robert Bales? - Matthew DeLuca, The Daily Beast
History's Shadow Over the Middle East - Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Rasmussen Reports: Obama 48, Romney 44 | Obama 50, Santorum 43