What a week for Republicans! It started with Obama fighting off simultaneous scandals and 24 coming back this Fall. But as Spitzer and Reagan discuss, by Friday the Scandals Scorecard revealed more smoke than fire. Who'll tell FOX?

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Spitzer and Matalin debate if Benghazi will prove to be more Whitewater than Watergate. Is Toomey gutsy to chide the Right for opposing his bipartisan bill just to stymie Obama? Are tyrannical feds buying up ammo to undermine gun rights? Would you prefer your teen daughter get a pill or...

While both sides can lapse into "content bias," should the following facts alter pre-conceived views: the Boston bombers were young Muslim men; some sarin gas was detected in Syrian; the Reinhart-Rogoff study is flawed? Erick Erickson and Ron Reagan debate.

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Reagan and Clarke share their reactions in personally terrorizing situations -- Ron after his father was shot, Torie at the Pentagon on 9/11 -- and how public officials should respond to violence. Good: "stay calm and carry on" like Deval. Bad: overreact w/ Iraq & torture. Ugly: vote for gun...

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Eliot Spitzer and Mary Matalin clash over four hot topics: Can Weiner run after his spectacle of contrition? Does dynasty = destiny for Caroline, Chelsea, Hillary? Is Obama now entitled to a grand bargain? Will Newtown parents out-lobby the NRA?

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Host: Why focus again on the GOP? For better or worse, the in-power party speaks essentially through one voice -- POTUS 44 -- while the out-party has many tongues vying to articulate a national message for Congress and for 2014/2016. It's good to be King... but in...

By Mark Green

Cotton Mather, Anthony Comstock, Pat Buchanan and Antonin Scalia -- all cranky old men who have tried to hold women and gays down -- based on high-minded reasons of course. Morality. Tradition. Religion. But the tides of history are wearing down the cliffs of inequality. Here are...

By Mark Green

With the Cheney documentary and March 19 anniversary, it's a good week to reprise W's "16 words" and Vice's "no doubt" about WMD vs. Downing Street's doubts. Ron Reagan and Torie Clarke (Rumsfeld's spokeswoman) discuss whether the architects of that invasion and occupation can self-reflect on invading...

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This week it's Eliot Spitzer and Mary Matalin alternately clashing and concurring. Our March Madness includes a slow-motion government shut-down, perhaps a 'Vatican Spring,' and "twistifications", in Jefferson's phrase, by two Washington poobahs -- Antonin Scalia and Bob Woodward. Then: Ted Cruz and Karl Rove respectively represent...

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An issue that literally defines Democracy is again roiling America -- voting. After the tragedy of a Civil War -- and the expensive lessons of the suffragette and civil rights movements -- the arc of history seemed to be bending toward universal voting. Yet now a debate...

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In his State of the Union (and previously Inaugural), we witness the president build his progressive vision for the middle class on two tent poles -- democracy-for-all and citizenship-by-all. From his announcement speech in Springfield in 2007 (Lincoln "tells us there is power in words") through his...

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Arianna and David Frum (coiner of "Axis of Evil" and "Conservative Entertainment Complex", author of e-book Why Romney Lost released on November 8!) discuss several attempted re-boots of early 2013. A "New GOP" may be emerging after its miserable performance in the last election; a re-elected Obama...

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Two real surprises this week -- Bibi underperformed electorally and Barack over-performed with a philosophical framework as pronounced as FDR's second inaugural and Reagan's heralded TV speech for Goldwater ("A Time for Choosing"). Until now, Dutch's has been called THE Speech. Obama's THE Speech both explained the...

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It's Obama's gauntlet week -- on guns, on debt ceiling, on talking more to the public rather than to Congress. Something's working: in favorable/unfavorable polls, he's at +14 points while Congressional Republicans are at -40. As a matter of math, Boehner doesn't have a whole lot of...

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Ted Cruz, senator-for-one-week who's never served in the military, three times in 30 seconds on Fox attacks a Republican ex-Senator with shrapnel in his body because of "weakness" abroad. Can the NRA again outlast public disgust after a massacre? Also, how did Chris Christie so quickly go...

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After a holiday hiatus, BSN -- today with former NYS Governor Eliot Spitzer and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Bush-Rumsfeld Torie Clarke -- to discuss issues that seem to spur the responses of either meh, feh or yuck; those have been applied, in...

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We were concluding our three-part series on whither/wither GOP after November losses and declining white base...when the news broke about the Newtown massacre. We discuss both, as well as the impact on the two parties if Hillary Clinton runs in 2016. And Eliot Spitzer and Mary Matalin...

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Given the November results and a country trending Democrat demographically and economically, how can the GOP avoid an electoral cliff? This is the second of a three-part series discussing whether the party can adapt and grow or be relegated to near-permanent minority-party status.

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President Obama won by 51 percent-48 percent. But given racial trends, that will, all other things being equal, become 53 percent to 47 percent by the 2016 starting line. Because America is becoming more brown, secular and professional, worried Republican leaders are debating whether to stay the...

By Mark Green

Metaphor alert! As Arianna and Mary discuss the "fiscal cliff" and the GOP "self-proctology" (Haley Barbour), metaphor man David Frum says that he's hearing the sound of "ice cracking" around Republicans frozen in their hatred of Obama. Arianna and Mary explain what the Petraeus scandal says about...