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<title><![CDATA[David Freddoso - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14840.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Freddoso]]></description><category domain="14840">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Anti-Trump Fixation Is Killing Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obama-is-right-democrats-anti-trump-fixation-is-killing-them</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Barack Obama recently pointed out that Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot with their obsession with Donald Trump and the various legal questions surrounding him. They have deluded themselves, as a party, into believing that the rest of the world is as obsessed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Schools Deserve Blame for Enrollment Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/traditional-public-schools-deserve-all-the-blame-for-their-own-enrollment-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Washington Examiner ran an interesting story last week about the explosion of enrollment in virtual charter schools. According to Barnini Chakraborty's reporting, these schools have gone from about 300,000 enrolled in 2017 to probably almost 700,000 today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom Running Ads in TX. But Can He Explain CA?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/gavin-newsom-wants-to-replace-biden-on-the-ballot-but-can-he-explain-california</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In addition to his hilarious Florida ads, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is now taking out advertisements in Texas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putting the Lie to Dems' Arguments on Fossil Fuels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-puts-the-lie-to-all-of-democrats-arguments-about-fossil-fuels</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Biden administration has, at long last, finally decided to follow the law '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' only just a bit. And it really doesn't want people to know about it either way, which is why'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the announcement was made on Good Friday afternoon.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Italy Finds That EU Stands for 'Europeans Useless']]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/amid-pandemic-italy-finds-that-eu-stands-for-europeans-useless</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maurizio Massari, Italy's permanent representative to the European Union, wrote an opinion piece for Politico Europe Tuesday evening publicly shaming fellow EU states for their failure to help, and once again asking them to come together. Instead, European countries are banning the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coney Barrett Is a Politically Shrewd Choice for Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-would-make-a-politically-shrewd-replacement-for-justice-kennedy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From a purely political perspective, Republicans would benefit from provoking a September battle royale that motivates the Right. That's because Democrats won't be able to help themselves with their hostility toward her religious faith, as they failed to do during her circuit court...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Poll: Everyone Except Dems Feels Unusually Optimistic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/gallup-everyone-except-democrats-is-feeling-unusually-optimistic-about-the-countrys-direction-right-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly every group that Gallup breaks out in its analysis was significantly more positive on the country's direction when polled in May and June than they were in surveys from March and April.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scott's Parade of Early Ads Is Shaping FL's Senate Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rick-scotts-endless-parade-of-early-ads-is-shaping-floridas-senate-race</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the months since Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, announced he's running for Senate, he has already spent $8 million on advertising against his Democratic opponent, Sen. Bill Nelson.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Score Top Recruit in Missouri Senate Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-score-a-top-recruit-as-josh-hawley-announces-for-senate/article/2637075</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'd asked Republicans 12 months ago about their 2018 Senate prospects, they would have been all smiles. Having'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' lost so many winnable Senate races in 2006 and 2012, they seemed bound for big gains. They will have very few seats to defend, and Democrats could be on their back foot...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is Dying, and It's Not Republicans' Fault]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-is-dying-in-maryland-too-and-it-isnt-trumps-or-republicans-fault/article/2622468</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare had a very rough week last week, with all insurers abandoning most of Iowa and another dropping out of the program in Virginia. But I missed the report from last week on the "death spiral" that insurers are worried about in Maryland. (Republican staffers on Capitol Hill, as it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confirmed Unanimously for Appeals Court in 2006]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gorsuch-was-confirmed-unanimously-in-2006/article/2613548</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When he was nominated to serve on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Neil Gorsuch was only 38 years old. But he was confirmed by voice vote '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? which is to say, unanimously. Twelve of the 48 current Democratic senators were also in the Senate then, and not one of the 12 chose to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Leaves Behind a Party That's Wounded &amp; Lost]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-leaves-behind-a-party-thats-wounded-and-lost/article/2612339</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats enjoyed a renaissance last decade, thanks in 2006 to backlash over the presidency of George W. Bush and then the rise of Barack Obama. It's basically been downhill ever since. Today in Politico Mag, Edward-Isaac Dovere looks at the scale of the desolation: They were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Know They Are Losing the Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/by-pandering-to-the-base-democrats-show-they-know-theyre-losing-the-senate/article/2550912</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tell-tale sign Republicans expected to lose the Senate in 2006 appeared June 28 of that year. That was when the GOP turned to stunts to save themselves.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., brought to the floor a constitutional amendment banning the burning of the American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Wage War on Women's Intelligence]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-wage-war-on-womens-intelligence/article/2547017</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there are gender studies textbooks out there, surely they are filled with cases just like this one. A white, Southern male boss not only gropes female staffers on the job, but in fact defiantly defends his right to do so.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Extend Unemployment Benefits]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/dont-extend-unemployment-benefits/article/2541461</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People who find themselves unemployed today are no more lazy or unworthy than you or I. They've just fallen on hard times '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' as a lot of people have in recent years, and as more are sure to in the years to come. They don't want to go on unemployment benefits, which in most cases pay...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Coalition Gets Dangerously Shallow]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-popularity-slide-has-made-his-coalition-dangerously-shallower/article/2540589</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'[T]he entire concept of realignments/permanent alignments, which underlay much of the misbegotten analysis of the 2008 elections, is bankrupt and should be abandoned.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'So wrote RealClearPolitics' Sean Trende in his 2012 book, The Lost Majority. One of the book's main theses was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can't Hide From Obamacare's Costs]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-cant-hide-from-obamacares-middle-class-pinch/article/2539963</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Conservatives are operating on the assumption that [Obamacare is] an irredeemable disaster that they can ride all the way to 2016,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on his blog last week, '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'but the facts on the ground are getting better by the day.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'He went on: '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Obamacare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is Junk Insurance]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-is-junk-insurance/article/2538366</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans' individual market health plans are being canceled because of President Obama's health care law.Now embarrassed by his oft-repeated and false promise that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'if you like your health plan you can keep it,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Obama has retreated to a new line of defense: Your...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Only Gosnell Had Worn Pink Sneakers]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/if-only-kermit-gosnell-had-worn-pink-sneakers-like-wendy-davis/article/2532532</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine a parallel universe in which the media coverage of legislators' recent efforts to pass gun control omitted any reference to last year's slaughter of 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School.To be sure, opinions vary on these laws and their effect. But it would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DC Keeps Getting Worse for Whistleblowers]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/washington-keeps-getting-worse-for-whistleblowers/article/2532277?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2006/24/2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With espionage charges now laid against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who revealed government collection of data on all Americans' phone calls, the Obama administration has initiated prosecutions of more than twice as many leakers as all previous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Without Real Journalism, You're on Your Own]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/david-freddoso-without-real-journalism-youre-on-your-own/article/2529267</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Who's tweeting about Benghazi? Rich, middle-aged men and Chick-fil-A lovers."That note, sent from the Washington Post's Twitter account on Wednesday, elicited anger for its flippant treatment of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed four Americans in Libya.But more troubling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Democratic Party Purge]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/david-freddoso-look-who-is-purging-their-party-now/article/2528153</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was almost exactly four years ago that MSNBC's blustery Chris Matthews declared that "the Republican Party continues to be unable to hang on to its moderates, especially in the Northeast, where it has begun to resemble the 19th century, pre-Civil War Whig Party."It was 2009, and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guns and Babies: A Tale of Two Massacres]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2526271</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You might not know it, but there's a mass murder trial going on in Philadelphia. There has been plenty of courtroom drama, and the death penalty remains a possibility.The media are seldom shy about such sensational affairs, but they have been with one. Perhaps it's because the accused...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pols Scare Monger, as DC Real Estate Booms]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/politicians-declare-sky-falling-meanwhile-d.c.-real-estate-market-booms/article/2522490</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ve seen all the hype over the sequester and just how bad it'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s going to be. Our editorial today attempts to debunk some of this.And there is one point in there that probably deserves a bit more room. We all know what Washington folk are saying about sequester. But are they really...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rathergate, Friends of Hamas &amp; False Rumors]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/sunday-reflection-david-freddoso-dont-just-laugh-at-dan-rather-learn-from-him/article/2522317</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2004, CBS News anchor Dan Rather was given a series of memos purporting to show how George W. Bush had avoided service in Vietnam during the early 1970s. Rather wanted so badly for the document to be real that he put it on the air without much thought. He even sexed up his sourcing a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Still Pushing Green Jobs]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/four-years-and-many-failures-later-obama-pushes-green-jobs-in-second-inaugural/article/2519263?custom_click=rss#.UP2xCFHhfro</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Wall Street Protesters]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/10/letter-new-york-city-protesters</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear protesters in New York City,You are not 99 percent of America. I don't mean that in the obvious numerical sense. If 99 percent of Americans had actually joined your march, Manhattan would have flipped over by now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Green Jobs&quot; Promise Something for Nothing]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/08/green-jobs-promise-something-nothing</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Spanish economist Gabriel Calzada caused the central economic planners' heads to explode in March 2009 when he released a study showing every "green job" the Spanish government was creating with its regime of open-ended subsidies was simultaneously devouring enough resources to create...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unions Lose Big in Wisconsin]]></title>
							<link>http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/unions-lose-big-wisconsin</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An energized Democratic base was supposed to turn out yesterday. It was supposed to pry away from Republicans their total control of Wisconsin's state legislature. Republicans had gone after the state's public employee unions, and this was supposed to be an overreach that would cost them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Looking for New Seriousness in D.C.]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/02/conservatism-back-and-time-its-serious</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Freddoso</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The really smart guys, they knew I  couldn't win," Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., told the annual Conservative  Political Action Conference yesterday.  It wasn't a figure of speech. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the vice  chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, had told  Politico...]]></description>
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