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<title><![CDATA[Robert Borosage - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14836.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Borosage]]></description><category domain="14836">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Imperial Folly]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/2Ego2</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under Donald Trump, the United States is, as policy analyst Karim Sadjapour suggested, the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'attention deficit superpower.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Affordability Agenda Essential in Defining Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/XZtbZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Progressive Caucus released its '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'New Affordability Agenda'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' this week, an essential step in defining what Democrats are for. The agenda contains 10 concrete legislative reforms, each providing help for Americans sinking beneath the rising costs of basics:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson's Remarkable Life a Model for All of Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/race-and-racial-identity/jesse-jackson-s-remarkable-life-was-a-model-for-all-of-us/ar-AA1WA0i8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' declared Senator Bernie Sanders, summarizing the importance of Jackson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s remarkable life and his historic 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Post-Election Reminders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/some-post-election-reminders/ar-AA1uNKdd</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're all still processing Harris's defeat. Here are some points to keep in mind before the infighting gets too venomous.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Chicago: The Challenge Facing Harris]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-chicago-the-challenge-facing-harris/ar-AA1pzIi1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will she demonstrate clearly why she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the true champion of working people?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Waving Goodbye to the Neoliberal Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/hillary-clinton-dnc-democratic-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's DNC speech marked the end of the centrist consensus of the Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Obama years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not About Harris 'Moving to the Center']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-not-about-harris-moving-to-the-center/ar-AA1oIFH9</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mobilizing and energizing the base is the priority, not to be scorned.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Second Victory Would Be Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's now a real, organized effort to transform his resentments and impulses into policy. It's called Project 2025.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Heritage Create a Governing Agenda for Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/will-the-heritage-foundations-project-2025-turn-trumpism-into-a-governing-agenda/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Be scared, be very scared.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson Is Keeping Hope Alive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jesse-jackson-is-keeping-hope-alive/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Veterans of his remarkable insurgent 1988 campaign gather to pay tribute.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden, Go Bold in the State of the Union]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-go-bold-in-the-state-of-the-union/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s State of the Union address on February 7 will frame the last two years of his administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and perhaps his legacy. With House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy handing the keys to the asylum to his party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lunatic fringe, it will take heavy lifting just...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, Time To Go Big]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-elections-progressivism-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amazingly, Democrats survived 2022, retaining control of the Senate, and barely losing the House. With inflation and crime up, Biden unpopular, the vast majority saying the country is on the wrong track, and the history of voters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' punishing the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party in midterm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Democrats To Ban Dark Money From Primaries]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-ban-dark-money-primaries/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before the party chokes to death on its own corruption. Next week the Democratic National Committee will vote on a crucial resolution to break the hold of wealthy donors and secretive PACs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Must Try Harder: Grading Biden's First Year]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-report-card/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a year that began with the Capitol riot and ended with the Covid revival, Joe Biden seems headed toward a remarkably consequential presidency. But whether as a success or a failure remains to be seen'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Must Resist Calls For a 'Sister Souljah' Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-black-lives-matter-protests/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is time when a moral voice is needed, not a cynical one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Era Politics Face a Promising Challenge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/conservative-era-politics-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic-face-a-promising-challenge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But will voters choose ambitious plans for the future?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden Is a Bad Bet to Beat Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-economy-2020/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Far from being the safest choice, Biden lacks the economic vision necessary to counter Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Primary May Get Ugly, But It's a Necessary Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/the-democratic-primary-may-get-ugly-but-its-a-necessary-fight/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The spat between Bernie Sanders and the Center for American Progress is a sign of things to come.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders and Corbyn Might Create a Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-and-jeremy-corbyn-might-create-a-revolution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just as Reagan and Thatcher rose together, perhaps so too will Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Foreign-Policy Establishment Learn From Trump Win?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/will-foreign-policy-establishment-learn-trumps-election-victory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The elites have reinforced a global order in which the winners are protected and the losers are ignored.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Finally Waking Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-are-finally-waking-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two new economic agendas are moving the party in a starkly populist direction.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Can Dems Form an Agenda When Trump Looms?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/how-can-democrats-form-an-agenda-when-trump-looms-over-everything/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Center for American Progress, the Democratic establishment's premier think tank, gathered luminaries and potential 2020 candidates this week for what it billed as an ideas conference.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama From the Rearview Mirror]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/obama-from-the-rearview-mirror/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's stature will grow ever more impressive in the rearview mirror. We already miss his dignity, his grace, and his intelligence. His presidency was largely a competent, no-drama, scandal-free administration, and it will only gain in esteem as we gag on a presidency rotting,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Expose Trump's Dastardly Bait-and-Switch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/how-to-expose-trumps-dastardly-bait-and-switch/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is a masterful con man, and his presidency will be a bait-and-switch of epic proportions. He will, on one hand, appeal to the populist temper of the time'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??as he did this week with his thank you tour'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??and with stunts, as he did with the Carrier deal or his series of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How We Can Fight Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/how-we-can-fight-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s unimaginable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¨').';'victory, the traditional rituals were observed. Hillary Clinton gave a graceful concession speech; President Obama and Trump called for Americans to come together.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard Truth About Romney's GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/the-hard-truth-about-romn_b_1838702.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What defines Mitt Romney's Republican Party? In his keynote address to the Republican convention, New Jersey Mayor Chris Christie argued that this is the party of "hard truths," ready to tackle our debt and deficits. Washington lobbyist and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's &quot;Bend Toward Justice&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/obamas-bold-stroke_b_1505691.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama put himself on the side of history yesterday. By supporting the right to same sex marriage, he did what the best leaders do: he tugged on that arc of history to help it bend towards justice.The media and the left naturally are filled with often cynical views of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Plan: Tax the Poor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66717.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Texas Gov. Rick Perry this week will try to revive his flagging presidential campaign by embracing an old conservative fancy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the flat tax, while calling for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'scrapping the 3 million words of the current Tax Code.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Embracing the flat tax trumps the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'9-9-9'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Must Make Case for Shared Sacrifice]]></title>
							<link>http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=D1F1976D-0713-45D2-A4F8-55834877348B</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With his Wednesday  address to the nation, President Barack Obama enters the lists in the  debate over the nation's deficits. His path, no doubt, will contrast  with the plan offered by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan  (R-Wis.). But the president would be wise to not simply...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner's Plan: Half Baked]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/boehners-plan-half-baked_b_692752.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Borosage</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. John Boehner, the perpetually tanned House Minority leader, unveiled his plan to get the economy going today in a speech before the Cleveland City Club.  Hold on to your job -- if he becomes Speaker, things will get worse.Understandably, Boehner said not a word about the policies...]]></description>
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