The most recent Thomas Friedman op-ed is excellent:<\/p>\n
The G.O.P. used to be the party of business. Well, to compete and win in a globalized world, no one needs the burden of health insurance shifted from business to government more than American business. No one needs immigration reform \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best brainpower can come here without restrictions \u00e2\u20ac\u201d more than American business. No one needs a push for clean-tech \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next great global manufacturing industry \u00e2\u20ac\u201d more than American business. Yet the G.O.P. today resists national health care, immigration reform and wants to just drill, baby, drill.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGlobalization has neutered the Republican Party, leaving it to represent not the have-nots of the recession but the have-nots of globalized America, the people who have been left behind either in reality or in their fears,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 said Edward Goldberg, a global trade consultant who teaches at Baruch College. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe need to compete in a globalized world has forced the meritocracy, the multinational corporate manager, the eastern financier and the technology entrepreneur to reconsider what the Republican Party has to offer. In principle, they have left the party, leaving behind not a pragmatic coalition but a group of ideological naysayers.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p><\/blockquote>\n