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<title><![CDATA[Rich Galen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14946.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Rich Galen]]></description><category domain="14946">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Handicapping 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/19/handicapping_2016_125660.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By this time next year we will have likely have been through the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire Primaries. We might have been through the hype of Nevada and headed to the warm welcome of South Carolina.
So. Let's take a look at where we are. These are in no particular order, so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Katrina]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/10/20/president_obamas_katrina_124353.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The growing concern over the possible spread of Ebola in the United States is Barack Obama's equivalent of George W. Bush's Katrina problems.
Bush didn't ask for a hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast and cause the New Orleans levees to overflow. Obama didn't ask for an Ebola outbreak in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cantoring Through Political Fields]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/12/cantoring_through_political_fields_122959.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's stipulate that I am old. Really old. Not Ralph Hall old (91 years) but pretty old. Old enough so I know exactly what Eric Cantor's staff have been going through since Tuesday night after his stunning defeat at the hands of economics professor Dave Brat.
The last time a sitting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Was Not a Junket]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/28/this_was_not_a_junket_122434.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When most of us think of Congressional overseas junkets we think of keeping an eye on the latest in aircraft technology at the Paris Air Show; investigating the application of banking laws on Grand Cayman Island; or helping understand the engineering involved in the Great Wall of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Running on Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/21/running_on_obamacare_122349.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During his press conference last week, President Barack Obama was asked by Politico's Edward Isaac-Dovere whether he would advise Democrats to run on the success of the Affordable Care Act.
According to the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza the President said in response: "I think...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Poisonous]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/03/17/obama_is_poisonous_121954.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I promise I will not spend the next 232 days - between now and election day - writing about how the mid-terms are going to turn out. You know my record for prognostication. It's dreadful.
Nevertheless, here is what I Tweeted yesterday afternoon:
@richgalen Gallup Obama Approval 3-day...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/11/the_great_war_120631.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Frank Buckles is dead.
He didn't die this week. He died in February 2011 at the age of 110.
Why do we care? Frank Buckles was the last living American veteran of World War I.
At the time, World War I was not known as World War I. It was known as "The Great War." We didn't know we were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vets vs. Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/14/vets_vs_obama_120319.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone old enough to remember Viet Nam can remember how the country felt toward the man and women who were sent to Southeast Asia to prosecute that war.
They were treated like [as this is a family column] garbage.
We have discussed before how, in the National Guard during those days, it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama May Lose the Shutdown Battle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/21/why_obama_may_lose_the_shutdown_battle_120025.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, fresh from having his lunch money taken from him by Russia's Vladimir Putin, is flailing about trying to find someone he can shift the public's attention to.
He has chosen House Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh) as the person and the upcoming end of the U.S....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Is a Tough Town]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/13/the_world_is_a_tough_town__119934.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is back on his heels and that is a dangerous place to be.
The more foreign leaders he met with, the more made it clear they were not going to be helpful in Syria. The more White House staff he sent to the Hill, the fewer Members and Senators were convinced. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Under Obama, America Has Become France]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/26/under_obama_america_has_become_france_118979.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's now official. America is the France of the 21st century.
France was a big power in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The French were pretty much in a constant state of war what with everything from the Seven Years' War, to the French and Indian Wars, to the American Revolution, to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Headwinds for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/19/headwinds_for_obama_118867.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is almost no good news for President Barack Obama in the CNN/ORC poll that was released earlier this week.
As the President giggled and played rock, paper, scissors with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-8 Conference in Ireland, the bloom appears to have begun to come off...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to Just Quitting?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/10/what_happened_to_just_quitting_118744.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden is not a hero. He&rsquo;s a 29-year-old former security guard at the National Security Agency who ended up knowing way too much about what goes on at the NSA, CIA and probably the MIB (I know I&rsquo;ve used that line before, but I still like it).
Snowden, in case you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Memorial Day Tribute]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/27/a_memorial_day_tribute_118562.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[[This is the 12th anniversary of this edition of Mullings which was first written for Memorial Day, 2001 - four months before 9/11. Our son, Reed, was a member of the team in charge of President George W. Bush's visit to Arlington Memorial Cemetery on that day.]
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"Because of your...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Day Distance Disappeared]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/01/the_day_distance_disappeared_118203.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band lyrics notwithstanding, this week was the 20th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web.
The Web was invented in Switzerland. At the CERN laboratory near Geneva. The acronym CERN originally stood in French for Conseil European pour la...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Natural Gas Boom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/29/the_natural_gas_boom_118157.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've done work for T. Boone Pickens and the Pickens Plan since 2008. I wanted to mention this at the top because we're going to be discussing natural gas.
Don't don't go on your next email yet, this is actually pretty interesting. New data from the Environmental Protection Agency...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mark Halperin Was Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/16/was_mark_halperin_right_110579.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About a week ago Time Magazine writer (and long-term Mullpal) Mark Halperin got thrown off the air for calling President Barack Obama a bad name on the MSNBC program, "Morning Joe."
After watching the President for the past 26 months I have determined he has two negotiating positions:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Newt's Campaign Never Got Off the Ground]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/10/why_gingrichs_campaign_never_got_off_the_ground_110162.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a reason that just about every airliner looks like every other airliner. Some are larger, some smaller; some have two engines, some four, but they generally look alike.
There is a reason for that. There is a design solution that fits commercial airliners. They take off, they go...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Feel Good About America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/12/feel_good_about_america_107939.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Veteran's Day which used to be known as Armistice Day in honor of the agreement to stop shooting during, and thus effectively ending, World War I.
At the time it was known as "The Great War" and was also known as "the war to end all wars" at which it has been an abysmal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Cuts Deal With Drug Lobby, Dents Halo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/07/obama_cuts_deal_with_drug_lobby_dents_halo_97809.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times had an amazing front page story yesterday which I would have thought would have jumped to the top of every cable news cycle except for the Senate's confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The headline of the story was: "White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost" by David...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi vs. the CIA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/18/pelosi_vs_the_cia_96545.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's summarize the situation: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was embarrassed by Dana Bash of CNN; was teased by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post; was taken to task by Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal; and, was called a liar by CIA director Leon Panetta.
How's that for about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Short History of Tea Parties]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/15/a_short_history_of_tea_parties__48925.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In on of those really sad cases of unintentional, but awful, timing the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum in, well, Boston, is closed for remodeling and isn't scheduled to reopen until the summer of 2010.
If you were the a member of board of directors of the one and only Boston Tea Party...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not an April Fool's Joke After All]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/its_wasnt_an_april_fools_joke.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was going to write an April Fool's Day column about how the President of the United States fired the CEO of General Motors and made it clear he wanted the majority of the board of directors to resign and how he was going to replace them with people from the Administration but I thought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Doing What We're Trained to Do]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/doing_what_were_trained_to_do.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While all of Washington, Wall Street and the Babbling Class are counting every semi-colon in the House and Senate versions of the so-called stimulus package, it is useful to remember that regular people often do extraordinary things.Case in point: the crew of US Airways Flight 1549 - the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Do You Solve a Problem Like Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/how_do_you_solve_a_problem_lik.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the songs from the 1959 Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" is, "How do you Solve a Problem like Maria?"Republicans are asking themselves the same question about President Obama. According to RealClearPolitics.com, the new President's approval ratings average 73%...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Have Not Tired, We Have Not Faltered...]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/we_have_not_tired_we_have_not.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night President George W. Bush gave his final scheduled speech as President of the United States. At noon next Tuesday, a new President will take the oath of office and the peaceful transfer of power from one American to another will take place as it has 44 times before.President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Failure to Communicate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/a_failure_to_communicate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke" Strother Martin, playing the warden of a southern prison, tells Luke, played by Paul Newman: "What we have here is ... failure to communicate."That is exactly where the Obama Transition Team finds itself with its latest stumble, this time over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enough Nonsense from the Automakers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/get_back_in_your_jets_and_go_a.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's really all about General Motors, this big three bailout.Chrysler is done. Gone. Out of business. Hanging on because no one knows where the light switch is.Ford is only showing up because of some misguided Detroit auto manufacturer nonsense. Ford is, actually, in pretty good shape.GM...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pirates!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/pirates.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pirates have been operating off the coast of Somalia for some time.The other day pirates seized a ship, not near the east coast of Africa, but way out to sea. And it wasn't a jillionaire's yacht. It was an oil tanker. And not just a regular oil tanker. It was an oil tanker, the Sirius...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Down to the Stretch, Uncertainty Remains]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/Columnists/RichGalen/2008/11/03/and_down_the_stretch_they_come!</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rich Galen</author>
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