Some of the day’s best reads:
- David Paul Kuhn in RealClearPolitics on GOP fiscal hypocrites: “Lest we forget, fiscal conservative hypocrisy was not an aberration of the Bush presidency. Ronald Reagan never cut entitlements, even as the national debt nearly tripled on his watch.”
- John McWhorter writing in TNR on President Obama’s impact on education: “Obama is well on his way to becoming an Education President in the true sense.”
- OpenCongress on the lay of the land leading up to the health care summit: “Obama is planning to release a new version of the health care bill — a sort of reconciled version incorporating elements tom the different bills passed by the Senate and the House — ahead of the meeting.”
- NRDC’s Dave Hawkins on Obama’s carbon capture and storage task force: “Let me offer a few thoughts on why I believe this task force actually is a step forward for all of us who want to put an end to investments in new polluting coal plants, increase our reliance on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and prevent disastrous climate disruption.”
- RFF’s Nathan Richardson on the efforts to kill the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding: “Since being finalized, it has come under threat from Senator Murkowski and others in Congress who want to block it with new legislation. Now the endangerment finding is facing another challenge: lawsuits from industry, political groups, and even the state of Texas asking courts to block it.”
