This week's edition of Meet the Press featured an interesting discussion on the direction of the Republican Party between Joe Scarborough, Ed Gillespie, and moderator David Gregory. During this segment, Scarborough offers an excellent analysis on the GOP's failures of the last decade on both foreign and fiscal policy. Watch it here. The discussion continues on the "Take Two" web extra, during which Scarborough declares, "The country is becoming more libertarian.

A recent article on Politico's website reveals President Obama's fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of a financial bubble:

...[W]hat Obama rarely says about ending the “cycle of bubble and bust” is this: He’s prepared to intervene to make sure that kind of red-hot growth doesn’t occur.