We’ve got two pieces coming later this week that I want you to be on the look out for. One is on an emerging dynamic of the 2016 primary campaign which is yet to get much notice. Most of us know about the fiscal calamity brought forth in Kansas by Gov. Sam Brownback’s effort to use the state to usher in the Lafferite Supply Side millennium. But that’s not the only state where this is happening and not where the 2016 implications are most immediate.
A big part of the advantages Republicans have built up over the last four years is dominating state governments, pushing through fundamental legislative changes and also building up a farm team of future national candidates. But now a number of the states from which 2016 contenders are planning to launch their presidential campaigns are mired in deep fiscal messes – facing a choice between tax hikes or sharp across the board budget cuts, neither of which are good platforms to launch on to a national campaign.
Second, we’ll going to be running a fascinating piece contrasting Benjamin Netanyahu with the late Yitzhak Rabin. There are obvious differences between the two in terms of politics and ideology and what I guess we still call the Peace Process. But what’s fascinating in this piece is how those differences interweave with deep differences about Zionism and what and how Israel is a state and its relationship with the Jewish Diaspora and the United States.
