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<title><![CDATA[Barney Frank - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16315.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></description><category domain="16315">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Covid Relief Package May Have Changed Everything]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/551360-why-bidens-covid-relief-package-may-have-changed-everything</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conceding to moderate Republicans by reducing the stimulus bill bought the Obama administration exactly nothing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracy's Stress Test: U.S. Survived the Worst of Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/536654-democracys-stress-test-we-survived-the-worst-of-trumpism</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When asked about Republican control of the House in 1994, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' answered that as a gay, left-handed Jew I was used to being in the minority.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I now have an addition to that list: I believe the outcome of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s malign, ridiculous assault on the election results is evidence...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Hypocrisy in Shutting Up Elizabeth Warren]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/02/09/the-gop-hypocrisy-shutting-elizabeth-warren/hDqgR2pJjryLPMmvVpMzkK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is important to begin any discussion of Mitch McConnell singling out Elizabeth Warren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s remarks on the Senate floor for censorship by emphasizing the central fact of that debate: The vote of every Republican senator to confirm Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s appointment of a man who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Actually, Things Are Getting Better]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/actually-things-are-getting-better-213543</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our national discussion of public affairs gets the line from an old Johnny Mercer song exactly backward: Rather than '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' it greatly exaggerates bad news, and relentlessly ignores what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going right.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I understand the reasons...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of &quot;Government Doesn't Work&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/the-self-fulfilling-prophecy-of-government-doesnt-work-213375</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s easy to see American politics as a situation in which voters are all innocent victims of mistreatment at the hands of elected officials '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' easy, but wrong. Sure, politicians often fall short, and I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m convinced that the negative bias of the media make it harder to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Voters Cause Washington's Gridlock]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/barney-frank-voters-cause-washington-gridlock-213325</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s all too common today to portray regular Americans as the victims of dysfunctional politicians. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s certainly true that in recent years those in public office seem unable to make the combination of tough choices and difficult compromises necessary for our government to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Plague on Government]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/john-boehner-congressional-republicans-213228</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The morally and intellectually lazy explanation for the deterioration in congressional performance over the past five years is the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'plague on both their houses'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' approach'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a theory that blames each party more or less equally for the wildly excessive partisanship in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Life as a Gay Congressman]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/barney-frank-life-as-gay-congressman-116027.html?hp=t3_r#.VQaiho7F-k5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1986, I was as ready to leave the closet as I would ever be'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but how would I do so? Though I was a third term Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, I had lived too long with the burden of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the gay thing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to treat coming out as a political matter alone. For many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Fix Congress, Vote Right-Wingers Out]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/29/dysfunctional-congress-vote-right-wing-republicans-out</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I recently participated in a panel convened by Esquire Magazine, in which they asked four retired members of congress '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Senators Lott and Daschle, Congressman Livingston, and me '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' to make recommendations about how to improve the function of Congress, including syncing up the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There an Antidote to the Republican Amnesia?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/is_there_an_antidote_to_the_re.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Memory eventually fails us all, but apparently the decline strikes one party far more than the other.In recent weeks, my friends across the aisle have expended a lot of breath proclaiming that the Democrats caused the present financial crisis by failing to pass legislation to regulate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Palin, Playing Politics with Family Values]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/07/playing_politics_with_family_values/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barney Frank</author>
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