GOP 2012 Strategy Puts Focus on Timing
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 5th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
GOP 2012 Strategy Puts Focus on Timing
John Harwood, New York Times
The last time Republicans challenged an incumbent Democratic president, they were simultaneously running a Congressional revolution.That experience in 1996 proved awkward — and costly. Worse, their very first primary in that contest effectively eliminated the challenger feared most by some of President Bill Clinton’s top advisers.
Gates Tells Truth on Libya–Is Anybody Listening?
Michael Goodwin, FOX
Robert Gates plans to retire this year, but he is not going quietly. The secretary of defense has gone on offense to make his unhappiness known about the Libyan war. Here are some of his public comments, starting with early reservations about a no-fly zone: “Let's just call a spade a spade. A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses.”
White Minority Doesn’t Mean GOP Doom
Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Murder on the EU Express
Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
You remember Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit Murder on the Orient Express? The problem for the great Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot was that there were far too many suspects. The strange death of the European Union may prove to be a rather similar case.So used are we to hearing the process of European integration likened to an unstoppable train that we discount the idea it could ever stop in its tracks.
Time to Make Case for Progressive Gov’t
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
