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: McCain implores Obama to act in Syria Nov 28th 2012, 14:45 In a discussion centering on Iran with French thinker and Middle East author Bernard-Henri Lévy moderated by Robert Kagan, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday reminded us why he is the indispensable man in the U.S. Senate when it comes to national security. He was restrained but adamant that the administration has made and continues to make a gross mistake in failing to act decisively to oust Bashar al-Assad. Read full article >> Jennifer Rubin: Is Obama going to blow it a second time? Nov 28th 2012, 13:30 If you were under the impression President Obama learned something from his mishandling of the debt-ceiling negotiations in 2011, aptly described in Bob Woodward's "The Price of Politics,"the last day or so should disabuse you of any optimism. Once again Obama can't be troubled to put a counteroffer on the table. Once again he's going out to the voters (when has he ever convinced them on a point of policy?). Once again he and the liberal special-interest groups have whipped themselves into a frenzy, certain that they can threaten to take us over the fiscal cliff. (Remember when the media howled, accusing the GOP of wanting the country to default in 2011?) It is a peculiar sort of regard for the middle class that delights in throwing them over the tax cliff, so long as the rich go, too. Read full article >> Jennifer Rubin: Morning Bits Nov 28th 2012, 12:45 That's a relief. "Good news: Traditional conservative doesn't mean 'nativist'" That's typical. "The second-worst mistake the United States could make today would be to abandon the moderates; the worst mistake would be to cozy up to the Islamists and treat them as friends. It appears that we are making both mistakes right now, and that this will be a central feature of Obama's policies in his second term." Read full article >> Greg Sargent: Happy Hour Roundup Nov 27th 2012, 23:50 * Good Ed Kilgore post on the remarkable success Republicans continue to enjoy in lurching ever rightward while selling their willingness to edge back to the center-right position as "compromise." * Jon Chait on how the shifting demographics of the youth vote could portend a liberal future beyond anyone's expectations, and why these are changes the GOP won't be able to keep pace with even if it tries. Read full article >> Jennifer Rubin: Sen. Kelly Ayotte takes the baton from Lieberman Nov 27th 2012, 22:20 At the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C. today, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) was unofficially dubbed the third "amiga" of the foreign policy trio that has dominated the Senate's national policy conduct for decades. First she made news on United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and the Benghazi scandal, and then she moderated a discussion with retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Read full article >>

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