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Having trouble viewing this email? Monday, January 3, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports January 3, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com. Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics Congress Targets Spending, HC Repeal - O'Connor & Hook, Wall St. Journal The Republican majority that takes over the House this week plans an ambitious drive to slash government spending by tens of billions of dollars in th... Celebrating the New GOP Majority - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post Welcome to the Republicans who take over the House of Representatives this week. Since it is a new year, let us be optimistic about what this develo... Will New GOPers Change DC, Or Will It Change Them? - James Antle, TAS Before the voters in Utah elected him to the U.S. Senate, Mike Lee caught the media's eye. Lee's campaign headquarters prominently displayed... A Land of Economic Inequality - James Carroll, Boston Globe The new year requires an inventory of the old. Mostly, this is an individual impulse, leading to resolutions and renewal. Such reckoning can seem an i... Personal Well-Being Overshadows Inequality - Michael Barone, Examiner Consider one conundrum in American politics. Income inequality has been increasing, according to standard statistics. Yet most Americans do not seem... More Opinion and Analysis 2012 Hopefuls Differ in Framing the Big Decision - Scott Conroy With the start of the new year, the public jockeying for position in the Republican presidential field is set to take on increased urgency. Though th... Putin Doubles Down on Khodorkovsky - Cathy Young When the new trial of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky began in March 2009, many Russian and Western commentators noted that the outcom... Judging Obama's Economics - Robert Samuelson "Just as scholars continue to debate how close we came to nuclear conflict during the Cuban missile crisis, they will continue to debate just ho... MORE ON REAL CLEAR Trade Trumps Warlords, Kings and Congress - RealClearMarkets It's easy to get discouraged watching the fiscal slow motion train wreck consuming most western democracies. Will bankrupt Greece and Ireland take tot... Just Another Manic Sunday in NFL - RealClearSports On the frantic final Sunday of the NFL season, attention deficit was the order of the day. With the exception of the Sunday night play-in game, in wh... LATEST VIDEO Goolsbee: Playing "Chicken" With Debt Ceiling Vote Is Insane Rep. Bachmann Warns Against Raising Debt Ceiling "Meet The Press" Roundtable On 2011 Agenda, Afghanistan RCP POLL AVERAGES Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread President Obama 46.0 48.5 -2.5 Congress 19.6 74.0 -54.4 Unsubscribe from this newsletter.