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Having trouble viewing this email? Thursday, January 20, 2011 Inside RCP Polls Videos Issues Comments Links World Markets Sports January 20, 2011 You can always find the latest political news at RealClearPolitics.com. Top 5 Stories on RealClearPolitics Trying to Repeal Health Law Is Just Theater - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe Taking cues from Broadway, the show in Washington always goes on. House Republicans went through last night with their largely symbolic vote to repeal... D.C. Hubris Heading for a Fall - George Will, Washington Post It takes a worried man to sing a worried song, and in a recent speech that seemed like Larry Summers's swan song, the president's now-depart... Dems' Health Care Law Will Be Principal Issue in 2012 - Karl Rove, WSJ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid described this week's House vote to repeal and replace ObamaCare as "partisan grandstanding." Other D... JFK's Eloquence, 50 Years Later - E.J. Dionne, The New Republic WASHINGTON -- It's remembered as a day chilled by "a Siberian wind knifing down Pennsylvania Avenue" and illuminated by "the dazzl... A Messy, But Certain Path to the Creation of Jobs - Carl Schramm, Forbes Everyone is suddenly agreeing that the nation needs more new businesses. Mostly this new view is the result of a failed bet by government that big... More Opinion and Analysis Assessing the 2012 Senate Battlefield - Sean Trende With the seriatim retirement announcements of Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad, and independent Senator Joe Li... No Tears for Joe Lieberman - Froma Harrop My eyes are dry as I ponder Joe Lieberman's decision to not seek re-election. Voices on the right regard Connecticut's independent senator ... When Global Sermonizing Trumps Local Competence - Victor Davis Hanson After the recent Tucson, Ariz., shootings, Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, a Democrat, almost immediately and without evidence claimed that c... MORE ON REAL CLEAR Obama Approaches Regulations Backwards - RealClearMarkets After two years of issuing regulations that have exacerbated recession-induced unemployment by discouraging job creation, President Obama has issued a... Quiet Tomlin More Than 'The Other Coach' - RealClearSports He'll be The Other Coach on Sunday evening, the guy on the sidelines opposite Rex Ryan who looks like that doctor on "House." Mike Tomlin doesn't min... American Allies Watching U.S.-China Relations - RealClearWorld Taiwan publicly tested nearly 20 air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles Tuesday, the eve of Chinese President Hu Jintao's summit with U.S. President B... LATEST VIDEO Santorum On Abortion: "Remarkable For A Blac k Man" To Say We Can Decide Who Are People Maddow: GOP Quietly Goes Through Motions Of Health Repeal Rep. Weiner: "I Believe The Republicans Haven't Read The Bill" RCP POLL AVERAGES Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread President Obama 49.9 44.9 +5.0 Congress 24.7 69.3 -44.6 Unsubscribe from this newsletter.