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<title><![CDATA[Ruth Conniff - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15402.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ruth Conniff]]></description><category domain="15402">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Draft Barney Frank for Senate Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/draft-barney-frank-for-senate-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons for progressives to cheer for the campaign to bring veteran Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank out of retirement to fill John Kerry&rsquo;s Senate seat.Not least is the sheer fun of listening to Frank lob verbal grenades at the Republicans, as the battle over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Goes Michigan, So Goes the Nation?]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/right-to-work-as-goes-michigan-so-goes-nation</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the world watches massive labor protests at the state capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, today, Wisconsinites are seeing a repeat of the struggle in Madison two years ago.Only this time the stakes are even higher.Republicans, the Chamber of Commerce, and a coalition of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Romney's Gaffes Tell Us]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/what_mitt_romney_s_gaffes_tell_us.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney lurched through his trip overseas from gaffe to gaffe--making himself a lightening rod for mockery in London when he publicly questioned the city's readiness for the Olympics, then praising socialized medicine for keeping so many Israeli citizens healthy at such a low cost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wisconsin Recall Is Not the End]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/recall_is_not_the_end.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a tough night in downtown Madison on Tuesday. The scene around the square was wonderfully familiar: the firefighters with their bagpipes, the horns honking "this is what democracy looks like," the homemade recall signs, the teachers on the march.All of what was great about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Standing Up to Walker's Hostile Takeover]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/what_the_recall_today_is_really_about.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama campaign just released a Wisconsin Get Out the Vote video Titled "It's time, Wisconsin: Own Your Vote," it's a nice piece featuring a young woman narrator urging people to knock on doors and make calls and get people to the polls. Would have been a bit more effective if it came...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Victory in Ohio a Big Boost to Labor]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/big_day_labor_ohio_wisconsin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We were sitting around the dinner table when we got the call. Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO was on the line with 45,000 union families around the country, giving us a live update from Columbus.We put the phone on speaker, and listened with our children, with the feeling that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Now, Wisconsin?]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/rc041211.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As incredible as the past two months have been in Wisconsin, we are now in a lull.First there were the amazing, spontaneous protests--tens of thousands  of citizens gathering at the Capitol building for a public outpouring  the likes of which we'd never seen.Every week there were new,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy: A Model for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/node/135950</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remedy for Dire Economy Is More Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag/rc070409.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal government's jobs report for June shows the country sliding further into an already historic recession. With 467,000 jobs disappearing, bringing the official unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, wages down, and more workers than ever stuck in part-time jobs that don't adequately...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moral Victory for President's Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag/rc030409.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ambitious scale of President Obama's budget is exciting for a lot of reasons.First of all, the President used his first budget proposal to announce a return to the principle of progressive taxation. By rolling back the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthiest, and paying for his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No More Shop til You Drop]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag/rc112708.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain Clings to Old Republican Mantra]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag/rc091708.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Resist Pressure to Move Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag/rc070808.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain's Big Challenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag_rc060408</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wright is Controversial, but Not Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag_rc042808</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Conniff</author>
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