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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Governors Are Key to Reforming D.C.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Congressional Republicans wrote a new chapter in government reform, convening a meeting in Washington with 16 newly elected GOP governors. To some, the confab looked like just another photo-op celebrating the party's historic gains in last month's midterm elections.But that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsflash: The Economy is Getting Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/barack-obama-s-war-jobs_508672.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Andres</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's anemic jobs report came as a sobering reminder that America's economic malaise shows little sign of slowing. Overall non-farm payrolls shrunk by 95,000 in September, while private sector hiring decelerated for the third consecutive month. High unemployment is now an acute...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Religion &amp; the 2010 Midterms - Swing Groups Trending Republican?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/02/religion__the_2010_midterms_-_swing_groups_trending_republican_107415.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[With all the focus on the Tea Party this election cycle, another strong predictor of political behavior - religion - has not received as much attention.
As a result, we don't hear a lot about the pivotal blocs of today's religious voters and how their electoral preferences will shape the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2010 Budget Fiasco]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/democrats-and-2010-budget-fiasco</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The 2010 federal fiscal year ended unceremoniously this week "&ldquo; a political and substantive fiasco for the Democrats. It included a cascade of miscalculations that could haunt the party in the November elections.  But that pales in comparison to the serious harm they've inflicted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Red Flag of Partisanship]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Andres</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday,July 30, 2010
  
    
  
  
  
  
    


    
          
		    		      
		        
		          
		            
		          
		        
		      
		           
        With Power Comes Responsibility
        Why is Obama embracing the very Bush administration policies that he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Party of Debt]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Two seemingly unrelated news stories unfolded in Washington last week -- developments that could further stoke the flames of voter discontent across America. Taken together, these reports could also label the Democrats with an ugly and hard to erase moniker heading into the November...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Needs to Change Direction on Health Care Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/05/congress_needs_to_change_direction_on_health_care_reform.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Andres</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House will never issue a press release declaring comprehensive health care reform dead. But it is - at least in its current form. Can it come back in some scaled-back version?  Maybe - yet only if Democrats make some critical mid-course corrections.
Surely one scheme that won't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ideologues in D.C. Are Scaring Americans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/fear-factor-americans-connecting-dots</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. So Pogo might have described the situation that the business community has created for itself. There is no question that the Obama administration, and even more the Democratic leadership in Congress, harbor something between skepticism and hostility...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hope &amp; Change Becomes Blame &amp; Attack]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Andres</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this article	In his book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, historian Rick Perlstein argues the seeds of today's polarized politics were sown during the 1960s and 1970s. He traces the fault lines of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Debt Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/103lzhbk.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this article	Democrats face a growing political crisis with federal spending and debt, a self-inflicted quandary they created in some obvious and non-obvious ways.	Enacting a massive stimulus bill that failed to produce economic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Dems Are Losing Independent Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/903ljntr.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Center-Right Trap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/470gymcc.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Independents Fuel GOP Comeback?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Needs to Move Fast]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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"You've got to give it all you can, that first year," the president told a senior advisor. "Doesn't matter what kind of majority you come in with.  You've got just one year when they treat you right." President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Electoral Class Experiment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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President Obama has embarked on one of the most audacious experiments in American political history. He's trying to expand support among America's broad middle class through new programmatic appeals, while paying...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crisis Is Not a Mandate For Irresponsible Spending]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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"CONGRESS IS LIKE A whiskey drinker," President Lyndon Johnson once observed. "You can put an awful lot of whiskey into a man if you just let him sip it," he said.  "But if you try to force the whole bottle down...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Army of Lobbyists]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blago and Me]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/blago_and_me.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[While I never met Illinois Gov. Rod Blagovevich, I have witnessed the world in which he lives. I grew up in the rough-and-tumble culture of Chicago politics. They produce an anesthetizing political brew in the Windy City - drinking too much of it causes ethical numbness. So the ongoing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Links to Labor Pose Risks for Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/union_ties_pose_danger_for_dem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Democrats face some political potholes on the road to governing with their expanded majorities in the 111th Congress. The hazards are certain; falling in them is not. Three areas of risk deserve special navigation -- relations with organized labor, executive branch oversight, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Revive the GOP Corpse]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Following the last two election cycles, a debate now rages about how to extract the Republican Party from the political ditch. Some argue the GOP lost its way by abandoning conservative principles. Profligate spending and too much big government are the culprits, they say.Others blame...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Voters Were Apathetic]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/20/republican-apathy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Buying the White House?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/30/money-swears/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoid the Next Calamity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/avoid_the_next_calamity.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[World financial markets are in an economic fetal position. A senior administration official laid out the harsh realities. The system is choking, he said; normal buying and selling activities of financial instruments ceased. Last week, no one was lending; no one was borrowing. Investors...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Virtues of John McCain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/the_virtues_of_john_mccain.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans project their desire for change and hope on Barack Obama. And why not? Hope fuels humanity; without it - wisdom through the ages tells us - the people perish. And in our post-modern age, it's a virtue in short supply.Liberals often look to the federal government as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reshaping the Map]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/reshaping_the_map.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Last night, the Republican Party nominated Sarah Palin as its vice presidential candidate - a non-traditional pick that will help John McCain in some very traditional places. The Alaska governor is no stranger to blazing trails. And in this election she needs to do so in some familiar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Warfare: Liberals Know What They Want]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/political_warfare_liberals_kno.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, John McCain unveiled his health-care reform plan in Florida. On the same day, his opponents pounced - unleashing an aggressive media fusillade to discredit the Arizona senator's proposal. The political assault, however, did not come from a predictable perch. Neither the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Sputtering on Energy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[If congressional obstruction were gasoline, Americans would be awash in energy. The House Democratic leadership's gambit to protect their environmental special-interest group friends is both bold and risky. And as their constituents feel the pain at the pump, rank-and-file Democrats may...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Change: What? When? How?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/obamas_change_what_when_how.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reviving Free Trade in Washington]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080508/EDITORIAL08/330846170/1013/editorial</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election of the Independents]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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