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Monday, June 2, 2014

Republicans Have Neither Acceptable Nor Workable Ideas Better Than Obamacare

Ezra Klein's Video Explanation Of GOP's Desperation Over Obamacare

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MICKLETHWAIT AND WOOLDRIDGE: In search of Gladstonian Republicans. "Few political parties have been better at reinventing themselves than the Republicans. But at the moment, when it comes to ideas, they are in a funk. American conservatives certainly know what they are against—most notably ObamaCare—but cannot agree on what they are for. The recent primaries only re-emphasized the gulf between the party's big business and tea party wings. Thanks to President Obama's weakness, the party might claw back the Senate this year, but, without a positive message, without a big idea, disaster beckons, yet again, in the presidential race in 2016." John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge in The Wall Street Journal.

DIONNE: Are the reform conservatives serious? "It is conservatism’s current aversion to public intervention in the marketplace that is blocking efforts to grapple with the problems of inequality, slower job growth, and the diminishing prospects of a large number of our fellow citizens. To the extent that reform conservatives are willing to battle the Tea Party’s reflexive hostility to government, they will be part of the solution. But reform conservatism must still prove itself to be more than a slogan, more than a marketing campaign, more than that new pizza box. The Reformicons can be part of the historic correction the conservative movement badly needs — or they can settle for being sophisticated enablers of more of the same." E.J. Dionne Jr. in The Atlantic.

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