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Having trouble viewing this email? Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports January 19, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com. Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics Elusive Answers on Health Law - Herszenhorn & Pear, New York Times As the fight over health care returned to the House floor on Tuesday, the debate could largely be stripped down to four questions that are relatively ... Memo to GOP: Avoid Timidity in 2011 - Tony Blankley, Washington Times What should the congressional GOP's policy objectives be for the next two years regarding federal deficits and prosperity? Two very different str... The Debt Limit Brawl - Bradford Plumer, The New Republic There are plenty of conservatives who can't wait for a knockdown brawl over the federal debt ceiling this spring. As South Carolina Senator Jim D... How to Freeze Debt Ceiling Without a Default - Sen. Pat Toomey, WSJ As members of Congress debate whether to raise the U.S. debt ceiling - the limit on our government's debt - we should all agree on at least one t... The Myth of American Exceptionalism Implodes - Richard Wolff, Guardian One aspect of "American exceptionalism" was always economic. US workers, so the story went, enjoyed a rising level of real wages that afford... More Opinion and Analysis What Conrad's Retirement Means for 2012 - Sean Trende Senator Kent Conrad surprised observers today by announcing that he is ending a 24-year stint as a senator and will be retiring at the end of his ter... What It Was Like to be John F. Kennedy - Richard Reeves WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. He gave a stirring inaugural address and then... Obama Isn't Fooling Anyone - David Harsanyi President Barack Obama penned a witty Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, titled "Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System." In it, he ext... MORE ON REAL CLEAR How to Combat an Arrogant China? - RealClearMarkets Is there a new Cold War developing between China and the United States? That's a question hovering over President Hu Jintao and his entourage as they ... After Tunisia, Arab World Gives Up on America - RealClearWorld NEW YORK - The Arab world is jubilant over the popular uprising in Tunisia that forced President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee last week after 23 ye... Leaving USC Early Works Out for Sanchez - RealClearSports Pete Carroll never really said Mark Sanchez would become a bust. But he certainly implied it. Sanchez was leaving USC early and while not exactly lea... LATEST VIDEO Dem Congresswoman: Tucson Hero Wants To Keep Health Care Reform MSNBC's O'Donnell Blames Loughner For "First 10 Bullets," The "Law For The Next 21" Rep. Hensarling: "We Can't Afford ObamaCare" RCP POLL AVERAGES Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread President Obama 49.7 45.2 +4.5 Congress 24.7 69.3 -44.6 Unsubscribe from this newsletter.