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<title><![CDATA[Robert Shrum - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15114.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Shrum]]></description><category domain="15114">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Need Another Bush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/21/why-the-gop-needs-a-return-to-the-bush-leagues.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In presidential nominating contests, the Republican establishment has always won out&mdash;from the first Bush, to the tried but tired Dole, to W., then McCain, and most recently Romney, who nonetheless had to labor mightily to emerge from the weakest field of candidates in either party,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Send In Bill Clinton to Save Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/send-in-bill-clinton-to-save-the-democratic-midterm-campaign.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let Bill do it.With Democrats facing a daunting midterm season, it&rsquo;s time to bring in the Big Dawg, not just as a campaigner but as a strategic driving force with the resources to deploy and dominate the message wars from coast to coast. Put him in charge of one of the existing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Indispensible Nancy Pelosi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/25/the-indispensible-nancy-pelosi.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the dust settled after the low turnout special election that saw a normally Republican district narrowly send a Republican to Congress, the National Journal credulously reported the claims of GOP strategists to a "first of its kind" database they called "Honeybadger." What a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' November Cure: Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/17/democrats-shouldn-t-run-from-obamacare-in-november.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Democrat Alex Sink's narrow loss in the special congressional election in Florida, POLITICO, which swiftly and often clearly crystallizes the conventional wisdom, described a "public split" among Democrats in "how to talk about Obamacare." A few think candidates should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's All Eisenhower on Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/10/obama-s-all-eisenhower-on-russia.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A regime in thrall to Moscow is forced out by a popular uprising; the Kremlin promises not to intervene, and even announces a troop withdrawal. Within days, Russian forces stealthily begin to move in, then pour across the border. A whole swath of territory is reincorporated into what...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Church to State: Get Off My Lawn!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/05/how-religious-freedom-is-hurting-everyone-s-freedom.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s not clear that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer looked much beyond the vociferous objections of the business community when she vetoed a law that would have permitted commercial enterprises to scorn gay and lesbian customers on the basis of their owners&rsquo; professed religious...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to End America's Stupid Cuba Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/26/obama-should-end-america-s-stupidest-foreign-policy-isolating-cuba.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Facing a House of Representatives frozen in its own ideology, Barack Obama is relying on executive action: first to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract workers and soon to impose new limits on carbon emissions. Some observers see this as an implicit admission of a presidency...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Has the 2016 Nomination in the Bag]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/17/yes-pundits-hillary-has-the-2016-nomination-in-the-bag.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Handicappers in the presidential race abhor the opposite of a vacuum&mdash;a campaign two years out where one candidate seems to blot out the entire field. Thus a mini-chorus now rises, and may swell, questioning Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s apparent lock on the 2016 Democratic nomination....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Crime. No Scandal. Just Carter-esque Incompetence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/28/the-white-house-and-the-irs-a-carteresque-fiasco.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I recognize that it's easier to criticize a battle plan from outside the combat zone. I also repeat that President Obama, his political advisers, and White House officials surely didn't instigate, direct, or countenance any IRS targeting of Tea Party or conservative groups. It would have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Desperate Measures]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/17/the-obama-scandals-are-desperate-measures-by-the-gop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've written that in the end, congressional Republicans won't agree to move forward on the budget, tax reform, immigration, job creation, or any other issues that matter to mainstream America before the presidential elections. But the fall of 2016 is a long time away, and they have to do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Isn't Obama's Malaise, It's GOP Intransigence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/03/this-isn-t-obama-s-malaise-it-s-gop-intransigence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a malaise in Washington that&#194;&#146;s spreading across the country. According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, &#194;&#147;Americans [do] not give Mr. Obama high marks for his handling of issues&#194;&#148;&#194;&#151;even though they largely, at times overwhelmingly, agree with his positions on background...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Makeover Is Dead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/22/memo-to-gop-you-can-t-put-lipstick-on-an-elephant.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Nation Committee's postmortem on 2012 is hardly a guarantee that the party will come back to electoral life in 2014, or even 2016.Shawn Thew/EPA/LandovAnd to find out why, look no further than Paul Ryan. First, though, the report itself, grandly titled "The Growth and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Paddling Against the Tide of History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/16/tea-fueled-republican-resistance-compels-barack-obama-to-keep-running.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As President Obama is discovering, election, or more particularly reelection, can be a waning mandate. Yes, he won his top rate tax increases in January&mdash;but less because Republicans accepted the verdict of last November than that they feared the blame in November 2014 if they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama &amp; Bloomberg Unarm the NRA?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/15/obama-and-bloomberg-together-may-unarm-the-nra.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two events this past week, one the object of saturation coverage, the other modestly noted in muted terms, signal the emergence of a new political landscape. Barack Obama is changing America"&rdquo;and so will Michael Bloomberg. And in impact and effect they will do it together. In the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Fight One More Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/08/obama-must-fight-one-more-campaign-to-keep-senate-win-house-in-2014.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama may have to defy history -- again. To pass much of his agenda for change, he not only will have to hold the Senate, but may have to gain the House in 2014, or come close, opening the way to what has eluded every two-term president in modern times"&rdquo;and at almost any...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Realigns, the GOP Declines]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/01/obama-realigns-the-gop-declines-the-new-political-paradigm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a word seldom heard since Karl Rove brandished it after the 2004 election. On the basis of an electoral college win secured by the precarious margin of one state, an Ohio rife with voter suppression, "Bush's brain" -- is that a compliment to Rove?"&rdquo;proclaimed an era of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Obstructionism &amp; Our Endless Civil War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/11/washington-s-endless-civil-war.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the permanent campaign. We are in a state of permanent political war -- and perhaps near permanent paralysis. We may be heading for a general and fundamental impasse"&rdquo;and it's not likely to yield to public pressure for compromise.In The New York Times, Maureen Dowd bangs a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From the Fiscal Cliff]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/04/lessons-from-the-fiscal-cliff-the-political-fallout.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After stepping (or stumbling) back from the fiscal cliff, we have a zombie Speaker of the House, his authority as dubious as his tan, his hold on the gavel barely reconfirmed"&rdquo;a hold reliant on a promise that he will no longer sit down one-to-one with the president of the United...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Won Election &amp; Will Win on Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/07/robert-shrum-obama-won-election-will-win-again-on-fiscal-cliff.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's abruptly resigned to take over the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank. But on his way out the door, the presiding prelate of the Tea Party in the Senate, South Carolina's Jim DeMint, anathematized House Speaker John Boehner for the secular sin of offering a Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt's Many Mistakes Will Doom Him]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/02/r-i-p-mitt-romney.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The campaign has come down to a race between Mitt&rsquo;s media and Mitt&rsquo;s mistakes&mdash;and the mistakes are winning.We have now crossed the billion dollar mark in ad purchases. In Ohio alone, the two sides, Super PACs and all, are spending $30 million in the closing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt's Win Was No Game Changer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/04/romney-won-the-debate-but-it-was-no-game-changer.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unhappily I was right: Mitt Romney could&mdash;and did&mdash;win the first debate. But I&rsquo;m not eloquently panicked, as Andrew Sullivan was during his live blog of Obama&rsquo;s defeat in Denver. The president could have put the election away; but it&rsquo;s emphatically overstated,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Hit Home Runs in Charlotte]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/08/obama-and-clinton-scored-back-to-back-home-runs-with-their-speeches.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I received an email from one of the smartest reporters around who asked, &ldquo;What does it say about the POTUS that he didn&rsquo;t even give the best speech of his own convention?&rdquo; He was echoing the reaction of a broad swath of the pundit class. I replied, &ldquo;I think it did...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Litany of Falsehoods]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/22/why-believe-romney-now-after-his-lies-on-medicare-bain-taxes.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First, Paul Ryan placed Medicare on the chopping block. And amid the aftershocks of a bold and bad decision to put Ryan on his ticket, Mitt Romney this week also put Medicare on the lying block. Michael Tomasky is on target when he tartly observes that Romney is waging the "lyingest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Mitt Romney Lost the Summer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/08/mitt-romney-lost-the-summer-tax-returns-overseas-gaffes-more.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the worst foreign excursion of any presidential hopeful since his father visited Vietnam and announced afterward that he was "brainwashed," trippy Mitt found no surcease of sorrow in an unwelcome return home. The first blow came from a brace of polls. The Pew Research Center showed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Jet Ski Heads Into Rocks of Defeat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/10/hey-mitt-you-can-be-rich-and-win-the-election-just-not-richie-rich.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nominee decided to take a few days with his family cruising the New England coast on the yacht Myth II. He announced the journey in advance; a press boat followed his wake as he passed by the expansive family estate where he had vacationed in the years of his youth. For many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Obama Need a Friend Like Bill Clinton?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/11/does-barack-obama-need-a-friend-like-bill-clinton.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From Fox News came the exultant headline: &ldquo;Once shunned Clinton emerges as GOP&rsquo;s election year ally.&rdquo; They weren&rsquo;t talking about Hillary&mdash;and for once, the network of the reactionary right was right.??In a rapid-fire burst of attention-grabbing hyperactivity,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gay Marriage a Moral &amp; Political Win for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/227887/obamas-gay-marriage-endorsement-is-a-moral-and-political-win</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forty-nine years ago this spring, as he proposed the landmark civil rights reforms of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy became the first president to declare that ending racial discrimination was a moral issue &mdash; that "this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Headed Into Demolition Derby]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/223022/mitts-single-digit-landslide-and-newts-singularly-focused-revenge</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How about that Romney landslide? It turned out that in Iowa, the Mitt did fit &#194;&#151; by two hands worth of votes, minus the thumbs. On paid media alone, Romney spent approximately $113 per vote and Rick Santorum spent just $1.65. The Romney campaign dared, and lost while winning. If Mitt had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Is in the Euro Now]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/220591/were-in-the-euro-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Must Regain the Fierce Urgency of Now]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/217982/the-summer-of-obamas-discontent</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Shrum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Barack Obama, August has long been the cruelest month. In August of 2007, with Hillary Clinton all but universally seen as securely ahead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama had to face down grumbling from his supporters that the campaign had to get more...]]></description>
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