Nile Gardiner says the Obama Administration has been spineless so far in their response to the revolt in Libya.

Yesterday I wrote that the President's decision to end federal legal support for the Defense of Marriage Act was all about the 2012 election. Michael A. Walsh says the same thing.

Paul Krugman compares Madison 2011 to Baghdad 2003. Of course, in his analogy the public employee union demonstrators equate to the oppressed people of Baghdad, and the Republican governor and legislators to the evil, corrupt and incompetent American administrators of the 'occupation'. Always remember when reading Krugman that he really believes the conservative movement is a cover for the capitalist oligarchy attempting to rule this country for their own selfish ends. Those of us who are conservatives, in his view, are either dupes or willing co-conspirators.

On the other hand, Karl Rove writes that the events in Wisconsin could have enormous consequences for the 2012 election.

Joe Klein writes a muddled piece about the events in Wisconsin. It is muddled because he has sympathy for the average state worker, especially those who work on the lower end of the pay scale, but he also has sympathy for government administrators trying to bring sanity to the system. But it is really muddled because as a true believing liberal, he believes America is under taxed.

Charles Krauthammer understands that the GOP effort to break the power of the public employee unions on the state level, combined with their insistence that they will take on middle-class entitlement spending on the federal level, if they follow through, is truly crossing the political Rubicon. Of course, historically speaking, when Caesar crossed the Rubicon he sparked a civil war in Rome.

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of cutting spending, this article in The Washington Post profiles the trials and tribulations of my very own brand new Member of Congress, Frank Guinta. Rep. Guinta is the former Mayor of Manchester, and he has found himself voting for cuts in programs that benefit his home town, his district and his state, while defending programs that anger his Tea Party supporters, here and elsewhere. This is what 2012 will be all about. Will those independent, swing voters who threw the Democrats out in such numbers in 2010 be willing to keep the GOP members in while they slash spending? I remain hopeful, but skeptical.