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<title><![CDATA[Kevin O&apos;Brien - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14680.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Kevin O&apos;Brien]]></description><category domain="14680">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Walking Away From ACA Not an Option for GOP]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans: This is an effective caucus leader. As Speaker, Nancy Pelosi maintained an iron grip on Democrats to get Obamacare passed in the House. Got anyone like that? Got a better bill to let that person ramrod?Andrew Harnik / Associated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Disaster a Day, Inflated As Necessary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2017/02/covering_trump_a_disaster_a_da.html#incart_river_index</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some of the chaos in President Donald Trump's nascent administration is self-inflicted. Some of it is exacerbated by a purposeful media. And even if the former kind diminishes, the latter won't. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press So, here's the deal: Nothing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Angry America Mulls Awful Choice for President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2016/08/clinton_hides_trump_slides_the.html#incart_river_index</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and the United States are all having a lousy week.And they all deserve it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Extreme Vetting' Nothing of the Kind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/08/trumps_extreme_vetting_is_real.html#incart_river_index</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump started with immigration as his hobby horse, and if he'd get back on it full-time, he might just find himself in the White House come January.That's the issue that lines up perfectly with his famous political incorrectness and his populism. He doesn't always get the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[They Used to Be Dems. Now They Could Hand Trump the Win]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/coal-country-democrats-donald-trump-2016-213988</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump&rsquo;s road to the White House begins here: on a four-lane highway, just east of Pittsburgh, past the roadside taverns, burned-out gas stations, and parking lots choked with weeds, up into the dark fingers of the Allegheny Mountains, and then down into the valley that was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pope and Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2015/05/with_encyclical_on_climate_cha.html#incart_river</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Willfully, Repeatedly Lied to Sell Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2014/11/democrats_willfully_repeatedly.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are sprinting, but they can't outrun Jonathan Gruber. He's a loud, scary tin can tied to their tails.President Barack Obama dismissed him over the weekend as "some adviser who never worked on our staff." Gruber met face-to-face with Obama at the White House in 2009 and has worn...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Architect Caught in Web of Deception]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2014/07/obamacare_architect_caught_in.html#incart_river</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy, deception and double-talk have never been seen as disqualification for membership in the Obamacare sales force. In fact, they're standard tools of the trade. The president himself has employed them all continually and shamelessly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Glimpse of the Future Under Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2014/05/where_va_has_taken_veterans_ob.html#incart_river</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House says Americans can't draw any conclusions yet about just how screwed up is the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system.Well, yes, Americans can. And if they have any sense &mdash; always a debatable proposition &mdash; Americans will.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does DC Get It? Americans Don't Want This]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2013/09/obama_wants_congress_to_hold_h.html#incart_river</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, what are we going to do about Syria?Cruise missiles or no cruise missiles? Empty gesture or no empty gesture? Admit to a "game changer" or just pretend that whole "red line" thing never happened? Enforce an "international norm" that prohibits the use of chemical weapons or admit that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Holder's Shallow Fury]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2013/07/eric_holders_shallow_fury_kevi.html#incart_river</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Life in Barack Obama's post-racial America certainly isn't turning out as advertised.And since the president has only a few years left to straighten it (us) all out, he probably should get his chief racism scold, Attorney General Eric "Americans Simply Do Not Talk Enough With Each Other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Hillary Take the Fall for Benghazi?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2013/05/obamas_human_shields_will_resc.html#incart_river</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama played for time on the Benghazi disaster. Now he'll play for distance. And no one should be surprised if it works. Playing for time got him through the election, as a grateful national media seized upon "superstorm" Sandy as the perfect excuse to blow Benghazi off...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sequester Soap Opera Script]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2013/02/the_sequester_soap_opera_scrip.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dad: "Son, money is a little tight since I got laid off to get the store under 50 employees, and Mom's hours got cut back to 28 a week. That increase in your allowance that you were expecting just isn't going to happen right now."Ten-year-old kid: "Stupid Obamacare. Maybe I can make some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Policies a Disaster for Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/07/obamas_love_for_the_middle_cla.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, President Barack Obama refined his class-warfare strategy a bit, separating the upper middle class from the middle class.He announced that he would favor allowing the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, whom he defines as individuals earning more than $200,000 a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four Months to Defuse the Obamacare Bomb]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/07/4_months_to_defuse_the_obamaca.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Supreme Court decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, political conservatives have been debating among themselves whether they've been handed a ghastly defeat or a golden opportunity.There's truth in both assessments.In voting with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Occupy's Image Blown to Smithereens]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/05/occupys_image_blown_to_smither.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What a lucky, lucky week this has been for Greater Cleveland -- especially for whichever unsuspecting souls were driving across the Ohio 82 bridge across the Cuyahoga Valley while five petty criminals associated with Occupy Cleveland were trying to community organize it.The Occupiers,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Proves Hard to Defend]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/03/obamacare_proves_hard_to_defen_1.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who can forget Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in a tone fairly dripping with incredulity and impatience, asking a reporter: "Are you serious? Are you serious?"The question she found so outlandish in 2009, as congressional Democrats were calculating how best to ram through the Patient...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Serious Budget: Where Dems Fear to Tread]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/03/ryans_budget_as_gop_blueprint.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yet again, House Republicans rush in where Senate Democrats fear to tread.Yet again, there's a budget floating around Washington. Yet again, it's the creation of Republican Rep. Paul Ryan. Yet again, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants nothing whatsoever to do with it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WH Dumps Constitution for Contraception]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/01/obama_dumps_the_constitution_f.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people spent Monday in Washington, D.C., protesting 39 years of legalized murder and commemorating more than 50 million American children lost to abortion. The protesters come every year, correctly refusing to drop the subject.But thanks to serial instances of President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ohio's Unsustainable Public Union Price Tag]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2011/11/issue_2_the_hidden_price_of_no.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, I asked you to imagine what might happen if state Issue 2 passed and Ohio taxpayers reasserted control over the people they employ to do state and local government work.This week, let's examine the other possible outcome.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Give NASA a Real Job to Do]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2011/07/give_nasa_a_real_job_to_do_kev.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, assuming the weather cooperates, the United States will begin a 12-day countdown to passenger status.The moment the space shuttle Atlantis rolls to a stop at the close of its 12-day mission  to haul supplies to the International Space Station, it becomes a  museum piece, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Honesty About Ohio's Unwise Spending]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2011/03/an_honest_budget_like_it_or_no.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, this is different.Ohio has a governor who isn't sugarcoating a fiscal crisis and isn't  frantically mining the couch cushions for one-time nickels and dimes to  stave off the inevitable.Instead, Gov. John Kasich is giving Ohio a straight-from-the-shoulder budget that reflects...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Have Voters Seen Enough of Kucinich Yet?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2010/10/has_ohios_10th_congressional_d.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Could the voters produce a Republican sweep thorough enough to whisk away Dennis Kucinich?It's hard to imagine. It's harder yet to get one's hopes up. But a  very credible Republican candidate is running against Cleveland's  unrepresentative representative this year, and residents of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Good to Know Who's Cooking Your News]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2010/07/its_always_good_to_know_whos_c.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I used to say the liberal bias of the American news media was not the result of some dark conspiracy. I meant it, too.It's a harder argument to make than it used to be.The Daily Caller, a Web-based  news outlet with a conservative political slant, has been having a field  day lately,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Living in a Utopian Dream World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2010/05/while_obama_dreams_of_utopia_t.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An assessment of President Barack Obama's speech on Saturday to the  graduating class at the United States Military Academy leads to one of  only two possible conclusions:Either Obama does not live in the real world, or he wants Americans  to believe that they don't live in the real...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware Backlash-Prone Bigots?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2010/05/were_worried_about_backlash_as.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What's it going to take for the American left to admit that, no  matter how much we all wish it weren't true, our Islamic enemies are  trying to kill us?It's going to take more than 31 attempts on our lives, engineered or  financed by Muslim militants. Because that's  where the count...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ordinary Americans Finally Fed Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/04/kevin_obrien_whos_afraid_of_a.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For many a year now, officeholders of both major parties have worked  hard to earn the distrust of ordinary Americans. It appears that they  finally have succeeded.If only ordinary Americans hadn't been so inattentive. If only  ordinary Americans hadn't been so trusting. If only ordinary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Think You're Stupid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2010/03/kevin_obrien_dont_let_up_until.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats in Congress and the White House have forced upon the  United States of America a federal health care plan designed for people  who are too stupid, incompetent and weak to manage their own affairs.Such people certainly do exist among us, but to gear the nation's  health care...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pivotal Question: How Much Gov't?]]></title>
							<link>http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/2008/10/if_we_elect_an_admitted_social.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin O&apos;Brien</author>
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