Monday, December 3, 2012

Your 12 hourly digest for Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post

Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
The Washington Post Opinions section features opinion articles,newspaper editorials and letters to the editor on the issues of the day. Offerings include the Post Partisan blog by Washington Post opinion writers, as well as political cartoons and political cartoon animations by editorial cartoonists Tom Toles and Ann Telnaes.
Jennifer Rubin: Cuccinelli hints at his 2013 campaign agenda
Dec 3rd 2012, 15:30

On Saturday, the annual Virginia state Republican meeting called the Republican Advance was held in Virginia Beach. Current state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, with the departure of Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling from the gubernatorial race, now has the field to himself.

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Jennifer Rubin: Foreign policy consequences
Dec 3rd 2012, 14:45

More so than on domestic policy, President Obama laid out his national security views in the 2012 campaign. We were forewarned:

  1. He wants to pull out of Afghanistan as fast as possible;
  2. he thinks there is time to negotiate with Iran over nuclear weapons;
  3. he is intent on slashing defense spending;
  4. he is averse to taking bold action in Syria;
  5. he has no interest in rebuilding our navy;
  6. he believes we can get along with Muslim Brotherhood-run Egypt; and
  7. he wants to give Russia's Vladimir Putin "more flexibility."
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Greg Sargent: The Morning Plum: No more false equivalence. Both sides are not equally to blame.
Dec 3rd 2012, 13:59

The air is thick with mournful predictions that the impasse in Washington is so deep that going over the fiscal cliff may be inevitable. There will be a great deal of finger-pointing this week over who is to blame. But guess what: There is an actual set of facts here. They are central to understanding the current situation, and belong in every account of what is going wrong:

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Jennifer Rubin: Dear Mahmoud
Dec 3rd 2012, 13:30

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas is delighted, announcing that he has his state. Right Turn has discovered the super-top-secret letter that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent to him. I couldn't verify it, but it sure sounds like something Bibi would say.

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Jennifer Rubin: Morning Bits
Dec 3rd 2012, 12:45

You expected him to be reasonable? Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner trying to defend President Obama's ludicrous opening offer: "The president is asking for $1.6 trillion worth of new revenue over 10 years, twice as much as he has been asking for in public. He has stimulus spending in here that exceeded the amount of new cuts that he was willing to consider. It was not a serious offer."

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Jennifer Rubin: Sunday Wrap
Dec 2nd 2012, 22:24

1. Who said this? "This is Reagan Republican policy, and the Republican Party needs to be in favor of reforming immigration so that more people can come here legally, high-skilled or unskilled, and we need some path forward for people who have already been working here and living here for years."

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Greg Sargent: Sunday Open Thread
Dec 2nd 2012, 12:50
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