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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Looked Silly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/06/the_democrats_looked_silly_152467.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There they were, dressed in hot pink, waving signs, banging on a cane.
If that is what counts as resistance, we are all in trouble.
The fact is that by showing up, the Democrats gave the president an audience he doesn't deserve. Would they all have shown up at a Donald Trump campaign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Donald Being Donald']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/06/donald_being_donald_151394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her 2019 memoir, Kamala Harris wrote, "My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters. She knew her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women."
As she did, when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Because He Can. And He Means It.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/01/because_he_can_and_he_means_it_151371.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I love you," Donald Trump told an audience of Christian conservatives on Friday. "You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote."
What does that mean?
That there will be no election in four years?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is No Navalny, and Biden Is No Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/22/trump_is_no_navalny_and_biden_is_no_putin__150540.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has been outrageously silent about the brutal murder of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. No, correct that. Silence would have been outrageous. Comparing himself to the slain hero is beyond outrageous. Trump, and his supporters, have had the audacity to compare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enbrel Makes the List]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/05/enbrel_makes_the_list_149712.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government this week released the list of the 10 medications that will be the first to be the subject of the new price negotiations under the Medicare reform bill, and my arthritis drug, Enbrel, made the list. To make the cut, you either had to be taken by millions of people,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[About Hunter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/29/about_hunter_149686.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden loves his son. That's the long and short of it. The son's a first-class mess. Former drug addict. Peddled influence he didn't have. The laptop. The pictures. The child he denied. The plea deal that collapsed. Now the special counsel will do his business. Can it get...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Fighting Words]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/07/donald_trumps_fighting_words__148945.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Donald Trump lost an important round with the Justice Department last week, when the department chose to file a brief not taking his side in the fight over his responsibility for the Jan. 6 riots. The department generally takes a broad view of executive privilege. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rape by a Wolf Pack&nbsp;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/30/rape_by_a_wolf_pack_148113.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[It was during the bull-running festival in Pamplona in 2016 that five men -- calling themselves a "manada," or wolf pack -- gang-raped an 18-year-old girl. They taped it on a cellphone, where the woman appeared still and with her eyes shut.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
The Spanish court initially refused to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden and the Price of Eggs Doomed McAuliffe]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/terry-mcauliffes-doom-joe-biden-and-the-price-of-eggs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By all rights, Terry McAuliffe should have won Virginia's governor race instead of Glenn Youngin, and there aren't a lot of explanations for why he didn't that don't begin a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Numbers Not as Bad as Some Believe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/08/estrich_donald_trump_numbers_not_as_bad_as_some_believe</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Media outlets last week were all over a new Pew study that found that President Trump's support is not quite as broad and not quite as happy as his stunningly stable approval rating might suggest.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Improving Women's Health?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/29/improving_womens_health_137136.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who is kidding whom?
President Donald Trump claims he is trying to "improve women's health" by depriving them of medical advice, forcing their doctors to lie and increasing the cost of routine women's health care all at once.
He's back at it. If the Chinese won't listen to him, then why...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everybody Needs a Lawyer, But Do They Need You? About Gloria Allred, Lisa Bloom and Representing Harvey Weinstein]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/25/everybody_needs_a_lawyer_but_do_they_need_you_about_gloria_allred_lisa_bloom_and_representing_harvey_weinstein_135368.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, last summer, when my old friend Gloria Allred went after me for representing Roger Ailes, the late former president of Fox News, who died before he had the chance to defend himself against charges that he vehemently denied.
I know the mantra well: Everybody needs a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Old Dogs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/12/old_dogs_135242.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Old dogs teach you the meaning of love.
Judy couldn't get up this morning. She's 14, my oldest, and she's named after my best friend, who died. A brilliant idea, it seemed, at the time. I was missing her, and this would be a way to talk to her every day. The first Judy taught me not to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here We Go Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/05/here_we_go_again_135185.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fifty-nine dead this time, according to the latest reports.
The collective handwringing; the thoughts and prayers; the stories of lives tragically lost crowding the news; funerals to come; politicians spouting mournful messages.
And then what? We know the answer. Then nothing.
What is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where, Oh, Where, Is Gen. Kelly?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/28/where_oh_where_is_gen_kelly_135118.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I feel like yelling at the screen: "Stop. Just stop." 
I have never felt this way about a president of the United States.
I used to like to listen to Ronald Reagan. Didn't agree with him, but he had a way about him. And I was never actually afraid of Reagan.
I had a lot of bad thoughts...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The High Holidays]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/19/the_high_holidays_135026.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, Jews around the world will celebrate Rosh Hashana, the New Year, the high holidays. 
It is a very strange time to be Jewish in America. 
The first president with a Jewish daughter and Jewish grandchildren, the first Jewish "zayde" (grandpa) in the White House, has taught a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Broken Dreams]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/09/broken_dreams_134957.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When my kids were growing up, I couldn't bear to see them cry. I always did anything I could to make it better.
I keep thinking of that as I see the pictures of the "Dreamers" and their mothers. 
How can we punish these children? What are these mothers to do?
How cruel can you get?
I get...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Life in the Swamp]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/07/life_in_the_swamp_134935.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Poor Gary Cohn, the Goldman Sachs banker who was standing next to Donald Trump at Trump Tower for that awful press conference in which Trump defended his statement blaming "both sides" for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The president's top economic adviser, who is Jewish,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speaking Truth to Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/18/speaking_truth_to_power_134790.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking truth to power: Nothing is more difficult, especially in politics. 
In business, after all, people have contracts and stock options, and if nothing else, at least they can find similar jobs at other companies.
But there's no such thing in government. There's one treasury...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Is It George Washington Next?']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/15/is_it_george_washington_next_134762.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I could not make this up. Who would want to? Having behaved like a normal president might on Monday, condemning racism by the Klan and white nationalists, Donald Trump could not restrain himself. 
In an angry exchange with reporters on Tuesday, he refused to acknowledge the gross...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arrogance and Ignorance: the Story of Mooch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/03/arrogance_and_ignorance_the_story_of_mooch_134656.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He lost his job before he even started, which comes as no surprise to anyone who has spent any time working in Washington. Which, of course, the president's choice for communications director had not. 
The story of Anthony Scaramucci should be a cautionary tale for the Trump presidency,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Whiner in Chief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/27/the_whiner_in_chief_134587.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One thing you can say for this president: You know what he is thinking, even at 6:12 a.m. on a Tuesday. He is not thinking about health care for his supporters, many of whom would lose all access if he had his way. He is not thinking about the threat of terrorism. He is not thinking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Impeach the President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/27/how_to_impeach_the_president_134602.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Will he be impeached for this?" people ask me every day. All that changes is what "this" is: It might be Donald Trump Jr.'s "love" for the Russians; or Jared Kushner's four meetings; or their failure to disclose such meetings; or Donald Trump's threatening to fire the attorney general...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President and the Attorney General]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/21/the_president_and_the_attorney_general_134533.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA["It's Bobby," President-elect John F. Kennedy supposedly whispered, announcing that he had chosen his brother as his attorney general.
A brother or sister is what every president wants. The attorney general is the only Cabinet member who can effectively take the president's job away.
So...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['That's Politics']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/19/thats_politics_134506.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So it doesn't matter, you see, according to realdonaldtrump (aka the president of the United States), that his son, son-in-law and campaign manager were looking for Russian help to turn the election, specifically for trash the Kremlin might contribute about Hillary Clinton; it doesn't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Be Outraged]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/13/be_outraged_134456.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If his love letters with the Russians weren't bad enough, Donald Trump Jr.'s sarcastic non-apology makes clear just how much he deserves what he is about to get. 
Trump Jr. tweeted: "Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California and the President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/07/06/california_and_the_president_134403.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has new words for an old song: "California, here I don't'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' come."
The president has made it to Eastern Europe, but he hasn't made it to Hollywood. 
Something tells me he'd rather sit down with Vladmir Putin than with California's extremely popular governor, Jerry...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thirteen Republican Men]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/29/thirteen_republican_men_134320.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They went into a room to write a health care bill. Didn't need any women. For diversity they had Ted Cruz, still famous at Harvard for only allowing Ivy League grads into his law school study group. A man of the people. Didn't need to hear from the public. What do we know about health...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Has to Stop]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/29/this_has_to_stop_134345.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins is right. After President Donald Trump's vulgar tweet Thursday morning that TV and radio host Mika Brzezinski ("low I.Q. crazy Mika," according to Trump) was "bleeding badly from a face lift" while staying at Mar-a-Lago, the Republican Senator from Maine said, "This...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Be Well]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/24/be_well_134278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Susan Estrich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The message of the Republican health care bill is clear. You have nothing to worry about -- as long as you can be sure that you will always be well. And you must be employed by a company large enough and successful enough to provide health insurance, just in case somebody in the family...]]></description>
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