The Too Cool 'Cat' and the Neo-Cons

Maureen Dowd's column tomorrow finds some fault with Obama's standoff approach to foreign policy--but at least he's not surrounded by the people who gave us Iraq.  Of Romney's neo-con advisors, 17 or 24 served with Dubya.  They put the "tank" in "think."

On foreign and domestic policy, Republicans have outsourced their brains to right-wing think tanks. It’s one thing for conservatives at the American Enterprise Institute and other think tanks to sit around and theorize about the number of people who are “dependent” on government programs and to deplore the trend, or to strategize on privatizing Medicare. If you’ve got a lot of people on government programs, their response is not to help those people get off the programs, it’s to cut the programs.