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as returning to a more constitutionalist conservatism committed to reforming, restructuring and reining in the welfare state (see, for example, the Paul Ryan Medicare reform passed by House Republicans with near-unanimity), Obama offered a transformational liberalism designed to expand the role of govern

in the welfare state (see, for example, the Paul Ryan Medicare reform passed by House Republicans with

ingly Islamist prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is closer to the Obama administration than is Israel, America's best friend in the Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi came to power in Egypt on assurances of American support — before being removed by Egyptian generals for subverting the constitution.

peace through democracy is a pathway to success. Ryan Grim recently wrote an article in The Huffington

that holds elections — including Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iraq, even Pakistan — such ideologies have not garnered many votes. The Muslim Brotherhood's electoral success in Egypt is a partial exception to this rule, but it fared well for a variety of reasons unrelated to its Islamic ideology (which

ims the opposition is either too HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023470 --- PAGE BREAK --- 14 divided to form a government, or might fall under the domination of the Muslim Brotherhood. Pro-democracy activists reject those claims. They tell me that they've been trying to establish formal contacts with both the US and EU to help the

bject to his implication of heartlessness, but not necessarily to his assessment of their ambition. The Republican plan put forward by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Budget Committee, and adopted by the House on Friday as its policy blueprint for the next decade contains a substan

the elderly and the poor. “The safety net should never become a hammock, lulling able-bodied citizens into lives of complacency and dependency,” Mr. Ryan’s budget proposal says. William A. Galston, who was a domestic policy aide to President Bill Clinton and is now a scholar at the Brookings Instituti