Mitt Romney's criticism of Obama's foreign policy only demonstrates his own incompetence and lack of credentials, argues Erin McPike in tracking the candidate's foreign policy history.
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Mitt Romney's criticism of Obama's foreign policy only demonstrates his own incompetence and lack of credentials, argues Erin McPike in tracking the candidate's foreign policy history.
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In this Congressional Research Service report, public finance analyst Margot L. Crandall-Hollick provides an overview of the expiring tax provisions as well as a discussion of the policy debates surrounding them.
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According to the Romney campaign, the president has declared hostilities against just about everything Americans hold dear--and the Obamas are firing back, writes John Heilemann in New York magazine.
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Obama's recent foreign policy has focused on asking for space to delay or stop history until after the 2012 elections. But Jackson Diehl points out that the problem with making space is that it tends to get filled by others.
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Robert J. Samuelson asks if energy independence is possible, and what it would look like politically.
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As electoral politics replace statesmanship in the United States, global leaders are left guessing at what policies the next president will pursue, writes Noklas Gvosdev for World Politics Review.
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Recent votes in the House show how difficult it will be to deal with our long-term deficit problem. Things are unlikely to get better anytime soon, writes James Kwak for the Atlantic.
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David Brooks asks, "Can the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, who were trained to be ruthlessly pragmatic, find a home in either political party? Can center-right moderates find a home in the GOP, even in coastal California?"
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The New Yorker's Ken Auletta writes that while Marco Rubio is seen as the potential superman to carry the GOP in this election, his stance on immigration may not win over the Latino vote.
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Jim Hoagland writes that President Obama should be careful in planning major policies for the second term. Barring surprises, he writes, recent history shows that if re-elected at all, presidents get caught up in resolving issues created in their first terms.
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Read this letter written by President Obama's advisors to presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in response to Romney's foreign policy advisors' letter that "painted a distorted picture" of Obama's national security record.
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Historical precedent shows that fears of Romney following a popularly dictated foreign policy are unjustified; as president, Romney would have leeway in fashioning popular opinion, especially on war policy, writes Robert W. Merry in The National Interest.
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The Supreme Court should skip the semantics of Obama's mandatory health care reform, argues Noah Feldman. Economically, health insurance is a classic example of market failure, he writes.
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In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Chairman of the House Budget Committee Paul Ryan (R-WI) stresses the advantages of the budget proposed by the House of Representatives over the one proposed by President Obama.
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With the world awash in change, leading voices in the GOP have begun to suggest that it's time to sharpen the rhetoric on foreign policy, write Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman for Politico.
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Alexander Burns writes that polling numbers are often contradictory, with irrationality transcending both party lines and opinions of the president.
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Politico's Josh Gerstein questions the left's quiet reaction to Obama's military policies, putting them in perspective with those of George W. Bush.
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The U.S. strategy for competing with China, the reclaiming of manufacturing jobs, is written to appeal to middle- and working-class Americans. Hannah Gurman argues that this link is tenuous at best, helping already-profiting corporations without seeing the benefits trickle down to the voting bloc.
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Mitt Romney has vowed to step up military spending as a corrollary to his Iran policy. At the Fiscal Times, Merrill Goozner scrutinizes the fiscal ramifications of Romney's plans.
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Raymond Lu and Michael D. Swaine argue that presidential candidate Mitt Romney's rhetoric about China points to a direction of diplomatic neglect and military overreach, while leaving important strategic questions unanswered.
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