Week of December 3, 2012 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, December 3
Obama Should Hang Tough on Budget - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostTime to Call the President's Bluff - Keith Hennessey, Wall Street Journal
Obama Finally Holds Firm for Tax Hikes - Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post
Who's Not Bargaining in Good Faith? - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
Entitlements Are the Real Problem - Daniel Mitchell, New York Post
A Carbon Tax Will Solve Everything - Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
Will Obama Years Be Our "Lost Decade"? - Thomas McClanahan, KC Star
Farewell to Europe - Clyde Prestowitz, Foreign Policy
Egyptians Fear Morsi Dicatorship, Warn U.S. - Richard Engel, NBC News
Will the Benghazi Perps Pay? - Peter Brookes, New York Post
Anthony Shadid Was Our Chris Stevens - Bill Keller, New York Times
5 Strikes Against Susan Rice - Peter Weber, The Week
Can Obama's Email List Help Break the Filibuster? - Ari Melber, Nation
Men Find Careers in Collecting Disability - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
The GOP's Big Budget Mumble - Paul Krugman, New York Times
It's Time for America to Say "Enough!" - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
The Hunt for Genghis Khan's Tomb - Oliver Steeds, Newsweek
Sunday Roundtables: Meet the Press | FOX News Sunday | This Week
Tuesday, December 4
Republicans Play a Weak Hand - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostThe Only Answer Is to Cut Spending - Doug Bandow, Forbes
Obama Risks Repeating First-Term Mistake - Jonah Goldberg, USA Today
Why the Poor Favor the Democrats - Hajnal & Horowitz, Los Angeles Times
The U.S. Is Already Headed to Recession - John Hussman, Hussman Funds
Base Attacks on Susan Rice - Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News
Post-Racial America? Not in the Obama Era - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
How Bobby Jindal Got His Mojo Back - McKay Coppins, BuzzFeed
Va. Governor's Race Still Taking Shape - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
President Obama Needs to Channel FDR - David Woolner, Salon
How Republicans Can Turn the Tables - Byron York, Washington Examiner
Obama Risks It All for Tax Hike - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
Fiscal Cliff Better Than Lousy Republican Offer - Jonathan Cohn, TNR
What the "Fiscal Cliff" Debate Is Really About - Thomas Sowell, IBD
The Bernanke Fed's Role In Debt Debate - Charles Lane, Washington Post
A Truly Grand Bargain - David Brooks, New York Times
Why the Internet Is in Danger - Sally Wentworth, Wired
Wednesday, December 5
Democrats' ObamaCare Woes - Noemie Emery, Washington ExaminerThe Flawed Crusade to Undermine ObamaCare - Jonathan Cohn, TNR
Dems Have Upper Hand in Budget Debate - Doyle McManus, LA Times
The Geithner Plan's Assault on Small Business - Rep. Kevin McCarthy, RCP
Republican Plan Fails the Fairness Test - Rep. Keith Ellison, USA Today
The Phony "Cliff" and the Real One - Conrad Black, National Review
Washington's Tax Cut Amnesia - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
The Blue-State Suicide Pact - Joel Kotkin, Forbes
Unionizing the Bottom of the Pay Scale - Eduardo Porter, New York Times
The Underworked Public Employee - Biggs & Richwine, Wall Street Journal
Obama: Budget Deal Will Unleash the Economy - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Ryan, Rubio Lay Out Vision for Future of GOP - Brian Montopoli, CBS News
Mighty Morphin Hillary - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Budget Deal Needs Spending Cuts - Diana Furchtgott-Roth, DC Examiner
It's Time to Kill the Debt Ceiling - Paul Waldman, The American Prospect
ObamaCare Architect Takes Pharma Job - Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
What Canada Can Teach U.S. About Immigration - Shikha Dalmia, Reason
Thursday, December 6
WH's Refusal to Deal Paving Way for Deal - Jonathan Chait, NY MagazineA Manufactured Crisis to Grow Government - George Will, Washington Post
Let's Increase the Economy's Speed Limit - Jared Bernstein, New York Times
The Bad Outlook for the Working-Class Man - Jonathan Rauch, Natl Jrnl
Birthrate Is Falling. Will Economy Follow? - Megan McArdle, Daily Beast
Jihadi Forces in Libya Got U.S.-Approved Arms - Risen & Mazzetti, NYT
Tanks Deployed in Egypt After Night of Clashes - Holly Williams, CBS News
Republicans Renew Focus on Poverty - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
The Opening for a Fresh ObamaCare Challenge - Rivkin & Casey, WSJ
Health Care Is Where the Real Action Lies - Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Neither Party Is Serious About Spending - Michael Tanner, National Review
The Blue Civil War Is Coming - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Inside the Koch Empire - Daniel Fisher, Forbes
Rubio, Republicans Must Stop Denying Science - Beth Reinhard, Natl Jrnl
The Folly of Scientism - Austin Hughes, The New Atlantis
President Obama's Ruinous Course - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
Obama Shouldn't Negotiate Over the Debt Ceiling - Noam Scheiber, TNR
Friday, December 7
Obama's Zero-Sum Politics - Charles Krauthammer, Washington PostArithmetic for Republicans - Joe Conason, Truthdig
Obama Won Election & Will Win on Budget - Bob Shrum, The Daily Beast
Let Democrats Raise Taxes, and Let Them Own It - Sen. Rand Paul, CNBC
Morsi Defends Wide Authority as Turmoil Rises - David Kirkpatrick, NYT
Will the U.S. Denounce Morsi? - Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
ObamaCare Jumps the Shark in Its Premiere - Walter Russell Mead, TAI
The Republican Party Self-Destructs - Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg
How GOP Can Go on Offense in Budget Debate - Steve Forbes, Forbes
DeMint Exit Has Big Implications for Graham, Haley - Scott Conroy, RCP
The Forgotten Millions - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Fantasy of a 91% Top Income Tax Rate - Peter Schiff, Wall Street Journal
GOP Sneak Attack Guts Labor Rights in Mich. - John Nichols, The Nation
Michigan's Fight to Be Competitive Again - Conn Carroll, DC Examiner
Bobby Jindal Makes a Splash With Terrible Ideas - Jamelle Bouie, TAP
QE-The Monetary Policy of the Adolescent - John Tamny, RealClearMarkets
Honolulu After Pearl Harbor - Elizabeth McIntosh, Washington Post
Saturday, December 8
Yesterday's Revenue Can't Support Tomorrow's America - Ezra Klein, WPSpending, Not Lack of Revenue, Is Real Problem - Victor Davis Hanson, IBD
Boehner: No Progress in Talks - Huey-Burns & Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
Let's All Jump Off the Cliff - Belt, Bernstein, Gale & Swagel, Bloomberg
Republicans' Strategic Retreat? - Larry Kudlow, National Review
High Court Will Rule on Gay Marriage - Adam Liptak, New York Times
MI Lawmakers, Unions Prep for Face-Off - Karen Bouffard, Detroit News
Protesters in Egypt: This Is Just the Beginning - Evan Hill, The Atlantic
Egypt's Predictable Unraveling - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Why Hillary Must Run in 2016 - Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Shock Therapy for Obama's Supersized Gov't - Robert Robb, AZ Republic
The Republicans, Dinosaurs and Denial - Charles Blow, New York Times
Permanent Gridlock - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
It's the Gerrymandering, Stupid - Hedrick Smith, The Daily Beast
Why Lefties Back Welfare for the Rich - Jacob Sullum, New York Post
Obama Goes Off the Record w/Liberal Media - Erik Wemple, Wash Post
It's Hard to Be a Hero - Joe Nocera, New York Times
Sunday, December 9
Profiting From a Child's Illiteracy - Nicholas Kristof, New York TimesThe Looming Crisis of Student Loan Debt - William Bennett, CNN
U.S. Enabling the Muslim Brotherhood - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Why Are Republicans So Surprised Romney Lost? - Maureen Dowd, NYT
Romney: The Man Who Wasn't There - Robert Tracinski, RealClearMarkets
A Warning to President Obama - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer
In Talks, Republicans May Have to Just Say Yes - Robert Frank, NY Times
Beneath the Presidential Platitudes - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Romney's Problem? All the Single Ladies - Gene Weingarten, Wash Post
Clinton's Choices Hinge on Just One: 2016 - Jodi Cantor, New York Times
The Man Who Could Be S.C.'s Next Senator - Rosen & Douglas, The State
Oklahoma Versus ObamaCare - Jillian Kay Melchior, National Review
Same-Sex Marriage Meets High Court - Michael Klarman, Los Angeles Times
A Case for Targeted Killings - George Will, Washington Post
Farewell to DeMint, He Won't Be Missed - Timothy Noah, The New Republic
Obama Planting Seeds of His Own Demise - Peter Ferrara, Am. Spectator
The French Really Are Les Miserables - Wolf Richter, Business Insider