MITT ROMNEY PREPARES TO CHALLENGE OBAMA ON FOREIGN POLICY
BY SCOTT WILSON
WASHINGTON POST
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is preparing to broaden his challenge to President Obama’s management of foreign affairs, sensing political vulnerability in an area in which the incumbent has received his strongest public support. With the nation facing a high unemployment rate and uncertain economic growth, foreign policy as a political issue has remained on the periphery of the presidential race. Republicans seeking their party nomination have trained their sharpest criticism of Obama on his economic record, where they perceive him to be weakest.
BROCCOLI & BAD FAITH
BY PAUL KRUGMAN
NEW YORK TIMES
One would have thought that this claim was self-evidently absurd. After all, states are free to opt out of Medicaid if they choose; Medicaid's "coercive" power comes only from the fact that the federal government provides aid to states that are willing to follow the program's guidelines. If you offer to give me a lot of money, but only if I perform certain tasks, is that servitude? Yet several of the conservative justices seemed to defend the proposition that a federally funded expansion of a program in which states choose to participate because they receive federal aid represents an abuse of power, merely because states have become dependent on that aid. ... We don't know how this will go. But it's hard not to feel a sense of foreboding - and to worry that the nation's already badly damaged faith in the Supreme Court's ability to stand above politics is about to take another severe hit.
Must-Read Op-Eds for Thursday, March 29, 2012
Must-Read Op-Eds for Wednesday, March 28, 2012
A CRUEL BUDGET
AIG IS STILL COSTING TAXPAYERS
PAUL RYAN, MAKING IT SAFE TO TALK ABOUT REFORMING MEDICARE
A STRONGER PRESCRIPTION FOR WHAT AILS HEALTH CARE
OBAMA'S PREMATURE PLANNING FOR A SECOND TERM
NOT-SO-SMOOTH OPERATOR
THE GOP'S HEALTH CARE EEYORES
