Dems Choke in Red Tide

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It’s 1:40 am, and I have just finished election night. The Republicans have gained 60 more seats than they last had in the House of Representatives and six in the US Senate. A new era has begun. John Boehner and Eric Cantor have gone from eccentric fringe to near monarchs over night.

National Security Priorities of the 112th Congress

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Anticipating National Security Priorities in the 112th Congress from Stimson Center on Vimeo. Gordon Adams, a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, is one of the nation’s premier national security budget experts and a big part of the muscle behind the defense budget blog, The Will and the Wallet.

Jonathan Guyer: DC’s Right to Vote (Not!)

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(click image for larger version) Jonathan Guyer is a program associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force and the official cartoonist of The Washington Note. He blogs at Mideast by Midwest.

Lawrence Summers Needs to Retool his Wall Street Tilt

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When Senator Jeff Bingaman was working diligently in the mid-1990s to get not only the White House but also Republican and Democratic Senators and House Members to focus on the large scale, structural deficits that were building between the United States on one hand and Japan and China on the other, he tasked his team…