Week of October 7, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, October 7
Boehner Ties Deal to Talks on Debt Limit - O'Connor & Nicholas, WSJPlayground Spat Damages U.S. Credibility - Gary Younge, The Guardian
Obama--He's No Teddy Roosevelt - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Republicans Put Forth Ugly Image - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
How GOP Can Keep Winning the Shutdown Fight - Erick Erickson, RedState
Shutting Down Democracy - Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
Is a 17% Shutdown a Crisis? - Byron York, Washington Examiner
Why Obama Must Talk to the Republicans - Ron Fournier, National Journal
In Conversation: Antonin Scalia - Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine
Behind the Curtain at the IPCC - Steven Hayward, Weekly Standard
When Wealth Disappears - Stephen King, New York Times
British Health Care Showing Signs of Failure - Philip Klein, DC Examiner
The Boehner Bunglers - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obama's Destructive Incompetence - Ross Kaminsky, American Spectator
Vouchers Don't Do Much for Students - Stephanie Simon, Politico
Ladies, You Can't Even Begin To Have It All - Mollie Hemingway, Federalist
Distracted Driving: America's "Deadly Epidemic" - Carl M. Cannon, RCP
Sunday Roundtables: This Week | FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press
Tuesday, October 8
Obama Sold Voters Bill of Goods on Health Care - Deb Saunders, SF ChronSorry, GOP: Obamacare Is Here to Stay - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Obama Digs In, Rejects Cutting Deals With GOP - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Boehner's Bait and Switch - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
President Obama, Worse Than Carter - Michael Goodwin, FOX News
HealthCare.gov Simple, User-Friendly - Kathleen Sebelius, USA Today
GOP Didn't Sabotage Exchanges, Obama Did - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The Pop Presidency of Barack Obama - Tevi Troy, Commentary
"Redskins" Name Is Obviously Offensive - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Liberals Fabricate Outrage Over "Redskins" - Rich Lowry, National Review
Hippies, Hipsters, Entrepreneurs - Nathan Heller, The New Yorker
Two Americas: D.C. and the One That Works - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
The Reality of Our Changing Climate - Rebecca Solnit, The Nation
High Costs of Political Science - Larry Bell, Forbes
Rouhani Has Revealed Nuclear Intentions - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
A Future With No More Average People - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Go Ahead, Update Facebook While You Drive . . . - Paul Atchley, RCP
Virginia Governor: Politico >> McAuliffe +10 | Roanoke >> McAuliffe +5
Wednesday, October 9
Divide Hardens Between Obama, Boehner - Alexis Simendinger, RCPObama Faces a Solomonic Riddle - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
The Strange Shutdown - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Republicans' Fringe Festival - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Here's How We Can End This Stalemate - Rep. Paul Ryan, Wall St. Journal
The Uncompromiser in Chief - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Only Obama & Jack Lew Can Cause a Default - John Hinderaker, Power Line
Why I'm Very Happy About Janet Yellen - Justin Wolfers, Bloomberg
Yellen Nomination: A Blow to the Recovery-Starved - John Tamny, Forbes
Ayotte Balances Demands From Right, Center - Huey-Burns & Conroy, RCP
Is the House in Play Now? Of Course Not - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
Americans Revolt Against Park Closures - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Blocking Obamacare Evidence of Racism - DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
Is This How the IRS Cover-Up Works? - John Fund, National Review
Let's Build a More Secure Internet - Eli Dourado, New York Times
Big Brother Really Is Watching You. Here's How - Pratap Chatterjee, TD
Che: Turning Killing Machine Into Icon - Alvaro Vargas Llosa, TNR
Obama Job Approval: AP/GfK 37 | YouGov 48 | Gallup 44 | RCP Avg 44.3
Thursday, October 10
JFK and the Dawn of Punitive Liberalism - George Will, Washington PostThe Extremist Gang of 40 - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
The Bigger Battle Behind the Shutdown - David Malpass, Wall St. Journal
GOP Becomes the Party of Pain - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
Dems Want Americans to Suffer From Shutdown - Michael Ramirez, IBD
PR Nightmare Over Military Death Benefits - Jennifer Griffin, FOX News
Obamacare Saved My Family From Ruin - Janine Urbaniak Reid, Wash Post
From 'Young Invincibles' to Mature Vulnerables - Deb Saunders, SF Chron
Yellen's Road: Liberal Theorist to Fed Chair - Binyamin Appelbaum, NYT
Break the IRS's Wall of Silence - Maggie Gallagher, New York Post
We Need an Invasive NSA - Jack Goldsmith, The New Republic
Why Should We Trust the Government? - James Taranto, Wall St. Journal
America Suffering From Miley Cyrus Syndrome - Meghan Daum, LA Times
How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew - David Harsanyi, Federalist
Why Won't Doctors Tell Fat People They're Fat? - M. Pemberton, Spectator
Krugtron the Invincible - Niall Ferguson, Huffington Post
Major Garrett on Govt Shutdown - Bevan & Stone, RCP Morning Commute
Videos: Ferguson Rips Krugman | WH Rips GOP | O'Reilly Rips Obama
Friday, October 11
Now Is the Time to Delay Obamacare - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalLast Days of the Republican Party - John Judis, The New Republic
The Six Big Takeaways From the Shutdown - Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
A Crisis of the President's Own Making - Kimberley Strassel, Wall St. Jrnl
Dealing With Default - Paul Krugman, New York Times
The Way Out of the Debt Crisis - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Gerrymandering Isn't to Blame for D.C. Impasse - Sean Trende, RCP
Inside the Republican Suicide Machine - Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Obama Lied, Our Health Plans Died - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Hostile States Undercut Obamacare - Geoffrey Cowley, MSNBC
Why Does Sebelius Still Have a Job? - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Climate Deniers Meet Joe Camel - Becker & Gerstenzang, USA Today
40 Years After Embargo, U.S. Is Energy Giant - Robert Bryce, Bloomberg
The Lessons of Kwame Kilpatrick - Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press
Don't Detroit America - Lee Habeeb & Mike Leven, National Review
How Amazon Became the Everything Store - Brad Stone, Bloomberg BW
Employer Ban Is Key to Ending Distracted Driving - David Teater, RCP
Election '13: VA: McAuliffe +6.8 | NJ: Christie +26.8 | NJ Sen: Booker +13
Saturday, October 12
Pace Quickens in D.C. Budget Fight - Hook & O'Connor, Wall Street JournalPelosi: "We Can't Be Enablers Anymore" - Joan Walsh, Salon
Voters See Both Parties Blundering - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
A Political Bloodbath for Republicans - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Obamacare, Debt and Disaster - Romina Boccia, The National Interest
Baby Boomers Ruined The Government - Joe Klein, Time
"Vanity Fair" and the New Feudalism - Matthew Continetti, DC Free Beacon
Is U.S. Political Bubble About to Burst? - Ezra Klein, Bloomberg
Funding Jihadists, Denying Military Benefits - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
What's With New Jersey's Senate Election? - Gail Collins, New York Times
The Secret of Success: Failure - Scott Adams, Wall Street Journal
Men Dither While Women Lead in the World - Hanna Rosin, CNN
Why I Plan to Grill Janet Yellen - Sen. Rand Paul, Time
When the Rejected Became the Mainstream - Al Sharpton, Huffington Post
Why Do Advertisers Back Race-Baiter Sharpton? - Ben Shapiro, Townhall
Republican Hostage Game Has Just Begun - Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg
Park Service Paramilitaries - Mark Steyn, Orange County Register
Video Highlights: George Will, James Carville, Mark Levin, Bill Maher
Sunday, October 13
From the Start, Troubles With Health Exchanges - Robert Pear, NY TimesGOP: A Party at War With Itself - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Debt and Our "Hunger Games" Future - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Janet Yellen the Right Choice for Fed Chair - Cathy Minehan, Boston Globe
Yellen Pick Shows Alliance of Left and Wall St. - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
A Mad Tea Party - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
No Evidence Dems Can Take Back House - Salena Zito, Pitt Tribune-Review
GOP Governors Need to Clean Up Their Act - Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC
Obama's Ugly Shutdown Spectacle - Sherman Frederick, LV Review-Journal
How Activist Is the Supreme Court? - Adam Liptak, New York Times
A "Wonderland" Moment for the Court - George Will, Washington Post
The Republican Party's Age of Unreason - Nicholas Wapshott, Reuters
Obamacare Rates Trigger More Sticker Shock - Jim Angle, FOX News
Create Jobs by Ending the Swipe Fee Rip-Off - Doug Kantor, RCP
Scott Carpenter and an Era of Dynamism - Peggy Noonan, Wall St. Journal
Tackling, at the Turn of the Century - Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times
The Peace Prize, the Pakistani Girl, and Putin - Carl Cannon, OC Register
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