Week of November 12, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, November 12
The Newly Empowered Obama - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostObama's Lukewarm Victory - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
We Just Had a Class War. Democrats Won - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
The Obama Disaster - Part II - Conrad Black, National Post
Congress Wants Answers on Petraeus Probe - Welch, Johnson, Leger, USAT
How Did Petraeus & Obama Keep the Scandal Secret? - Ben Stein, Am Spec
Can Republicans Connect With Hispanics? - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
Shadegg to GOP: Embrace Hispanics, Don't Go Squishy - Matt Lewis, DC
The Right Has Lost the Culture War - Thomas Edsall, New York Times
Young Voters Won't Be Euphoric When Bill Comes Due - Scott Atlas, NRO
The GOP's Electoral Map Problem - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Californians Give PIN Numbers to Dems - Steven Greenhut, Human Events
Hawks and Hypocrites - Paul Krugman, New York Times
It's the Welfare State, Stupid - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
A Cold Shoulder for Cold War Vets - Barry Newman, Wall Street Journal
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor - Jake Tapper, ABC News
The Guardians - Ralph Kinney Bennett, The American
Sunday Panels: This Week | MTP | FOX News Sunday | Face the Nation
Tuesday, November 13
A Stalemate, Not a Mandate - James Ceaser, Claremont Review of BooksOur Unsustainable Fiscal Trajectory - Robert Rubin, New York Times
The Election Finally Killed Reaganomics - Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
Romney Now Joins the Long List of Nice GOP Losers - Thomas Sowell, IBD
Broadwell and Benghazi - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
A Spy Tale With Missing Pieces - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Petraeus & Libya: A Time for Truth - Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Trib-Review
Scandal Ensnares Top Afghanistan Commander - Elisabeth Bumiller, NYT
California to GOP: Adios - Harold Meyerson, Los Angeles Times
Romney Got Fewer Votes Than McCain in Ohio - Byron York, DC Examiner
The Real Story About Polling Uncertainty - Jonathan Bernstein, Wash Post
GOP Can't Afford to Ignore Cities Anymore - Lydia DePillis, New Republic
The Looming Crisis of Liberalism - Charles Kadlec, Forbes
Obama the Dealmaker - David Brooks, New York Times
Rice, Albright Share Concerns on Drones, China - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Petraeus Didn't Intend to Resign - Horwitz, Kindy & Wilson, Washington Post
Who's Getting Fired Over Petraeus Investigation? - Nick Gillespie, Reason
Video Highlights: Faber | Hastings | Ryan | Robinson | Carolla
Wednesday, November 14
Misreading Election 2012 - Andrew Kohut, Wall Street JournalThe GOP's Status Quo Myth - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
GOP Will Have a Better Candidate in 2016 - Noemie Emery, DC Examiner
How Young Voters Won the Culture Wars - Harry Enten, The Guardian
ObamaCare Taxes = ObamaCare Layoffs - Milton Wolf, Washington Times
Reshuffling Obama's Cabinet - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Libya, Petraeus & the Limits of Credulity - Michael Graham, Boston Herald
The Republican Freakout Over Susan Rice - Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Obama Proposes $1.6 Trillion in New Taxes - Goldfarb & Montgomery, WP
Hooray! Bankrupt Calif. Is Now a One-Party State! - Matt Welch, Reason
GOP Voter Suppression Strategy Backfired - Brazile & Crossley, Huff Post
Romney Didn't Make the Sale - Robert Robb, Arizona Republic
Rove, Carville Analyze 2012 Race - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
D.C. Must Not Kill Energy Revolution - Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Examiner
What Will Nancy Pelosi Do? - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
GOP Debate on Social Issues Likely to Emerge - Scott Conroy, RCP
Katrina on the Hudson - Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today
Video Highlights: Ryan | Carney | Krauthammer | Maher | Faber
Thursday, November 15
This Time, Obama Has Leverage - Jonathan Cohn, The New RepublicSame Old Obama - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
ObamaCare Battlefront Shifts to the States - Grace-Marie Turner, Forbes
President Finesses Questions on Petraeus - Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast
Hushed-Up "News" Explodes With a Fury - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Steamed Obama Defends Rice's Libya Remarks - Brown & Gerstein, Politico
Republican Future Lies With Governors - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
How, Not Whether, to Raise Taxes - Ezra Klein, Washington Post
Obama's Heavy Tax Hikes: An Unbalanced Plan - James Pethokoukis, AEI
California Is a Preview of Obama's America - Joel Kotkin, New Geography
Letter to Geithner: How to Dodge Debt Crisis - Allan Sloan, Washington Post
Doc Shortage Could Crash Health Care - Nisha Nathan, ABC News
Beware of False GOP Rebranding Efforts - Alex Pareene, Salon
Democrats' Down-Ballot Struggles - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Energy Independent After All? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Obama's Nightmare in the Mideast - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
General Failure - Ralph Peters, New York Post
Friday, November 16
Republicans' Listening Problem - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostHow Republicans Can Win Future Elections - Gov. Bobby Jindal, CNN
Messina Explains How He Ran a Killer Campaign - John Dickerson, Slate
Mitt Still Doesn't Get It - John Podhoretz, New York Post
The Political Landscape After 2012 - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
At GOP Governor's Meeting, Whispers of 2016 - Jeff Zeleny, New York Times
The President's Benghazi Problem - Peter Wehner, Commentary
Rice's Credibility Damaged, Kerry for State - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
DC Fiddles as Global Dangers Mount - Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon
Romney's Fatal Flaw Apparent Early On - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
First Step Toward a GOP Revival: Acceptance - Ron Brownstein, Natl Jrnl
The Audacity of 51 Percent - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
Can Jerry Brown Restrain Dems & Save California? - Lou Cannon, RCP
Zombie Ideas on Entitlements - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Beware Obama's "Regulatory Cliff" - Henry Miller, Orange County Register
Semper Fi, Honey? - Jacey Eckhart, New York Times
The Age of the Outsized Ego - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Video Highlights: Jindal | Pelosi | Levin | Zakaria | Chambliss | Frank
Saturday, November 17
Regulators Above the Law - George Will, Washington PostObama Won. Now It's Time to Change System - Dreier & Cohen, The Nation
Still More Questions Than Answers on Benghazi - Peter Brookes, NY Post
GOP Drags Country Down Conspiracy Path - Andrew Rosenthal, NY Times
Obama Told w/in 72 Hrs Attack Linked to al-Qaida - John Solomon, WG
U.S. Needs to Cut Spending, Not Raise Taxes - Veronique de Rugy, NRO
Hysteria From Self-Serving Deficit Hawks - Dean Baker, The Guardian
Unite a Divided Nation Around Federalism - Bill Flax, Forbes
The GOP's Credibility Gap - Jennifer Granholm, Politico
Oklahoma Doctors vs. ObamaCare - Jim Epstein, Reason
Papa John's ObamaCare Idiocy - Prachi Gupta, Salon
How Free Speech Died on Campus - Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal
The Nerds Who Helped Re-Elect Obama - Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
GOP Throws Romney Under the Bus - Gail Collins, New York Times
Hamas Finds Support in a Changed Middle East - Abigail Hauslohner, WP
The Wages of November 6 - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
A Soldier's Last "Lonely Walk" - Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Sunday, November 18
Six Keys to Obama's Second Term - Martha Kumar, Baltimore SunIran Must Be Obama's Top Priority - Henry Kissinger, Washington Post
Is Susan Rice Cooked? - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Now We Know the Truth Obama Tried to Hide - Michael Goodwin, NY Post
Tax Reform? We Need a Revolution - Bruce Ackerman, Los Angeles Times
Tax Cuts Didn't Starve Big Govt - Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard
If You've Got Skills, She's Got the Job - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
U.S. Is Future Energy Superpower - Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star
A Hidden Tax That Hurts Small Business - Lyle Beckwith, RealClearPolitics
Republicans Quickly Turn Page on Romney - Michael Falcone, ABC News
Rubio, Eyes on 2016, Pays Iowa a Visit - Alex Leary, Miami Herald
New Hampshire 2016 - David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tribal America - Mark Steyn, National Review Online
GOP Zealots Playing With Fire - Leonard Pitts, Seattle Times
The Liberal Gloat - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Recipe For a Witch Hunt - David Ignatius, Washington Post
A Phony Hero for a Phony War - Lucian Truscott IV, New York Times