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<title><![CDATA[Thomas McClanahan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16874.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas McClanahan]]></description><category domain="16874">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Years Be Our &quot;Lost Decade&quot;?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/01/3942680/obama-years-could-become-our-lost.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After five years of lousy economic performance, you would think people would be sick of it by now. Guess not. How else to explain why we&#194;&#146;re having a big fight over inequality instead of arguing over how to jump-start growth?There&#194;&#146;s no denying inequality has increased. Median wages...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Is Future Energy Superpower]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/17/3921780/the-united-states-future-energy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four decades ago, the Arab oil embargo consigned Americans to gas lines. Odd-even rationing became routine, and everyone with a passing interest in energy policy heard regular predictions that the planet was nearing &ldquo;peak oil.&rdquo;We&rsquo;ve been told forever that we&rsquo;re...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why &quot;Mediscare&quot; May Not Work This Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/18/3767615/why-mediscare-may-not-work-this.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA['Life of Julia,' or Life Without Aspiration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/12/3606608/the-life-of-julia-or-life-without.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right-wing blogosphere has been having a fine time with the &ldquo;The Life of Julia,&rdquo; the Obama campaign&rsquo;s attempt to show, through a series of USA Today-style illustrations, how the policies of President Obama come to the aid of women at every important moment in their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Doing Nothing Creates Real &quot;Satan Sandwich&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/06/3061055/the-satan-sandwich-we-all-face.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri lit up the media with his &ldquo;Satan Sandwich&rdquo; remark. That&rsquo;s what he called the debt-ceiling deal &mdash; a &ldquo;sugar-coated Satan sandwich.&rdquo;&ldquo;If you lift the bun,&rdquo; he told MSNBC, &ldquo;what you see is antithetical to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Uncertainty Is Suffocating the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/04/2926820/us-economy-is-being-suffocated.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The economic recovery is two years old this month. Isn&rsquo;t that  reassuring? I didn&rsquo;t think so. As recoveries go, this one is as blah as  it gets. Judging by the most recent indicators, we may be headed for a  double dip, or perhaps a period of flatlining that feels just as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Cautious, But Obama is Beatable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/05/2701340/why-republicans-are-cautious-about.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama&rsquo;s approval rating is above water, but only barely.  He&rsquo;s two or three points below 50 percent in the Real Clear Politics  average, with those disapproving a couple of points behind &mdash; hardly an  impressive reading, but after the turmoil of the last two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Risk of a Depleted National Character]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/02/2269154/the-risk-of-a-depleted-national.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only on the surface is the November election about whether the Obama agenda should be halted and the Democratic majority in Congress fired. On a deeper level, the campaign is another chapter in the long struggle over the nation&rsquo;s direction.Some 40 years ago, the United States stood...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Extreme' Dems Will Pay Price in November]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/21/2165581/extreme-democrats-will-pay-the.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats head into the midterm elections facing a tidal wave of bad news and ominous portents.In  the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, two thirds believe the economy  has yet to hit bottom and two thirds of those would prefer a Republican  Congress. Sixty percent said the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Cut the Euphemisms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/22/1963963/lets-cut-the-euphemisms-and-speak.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder was having a bad day. He was sitting at  one of those tables before a congressional panel, looking up at his  inquisitors. One of them tossed what should have been a softball.Were the three terrorist attacks that have taken place since Obama&rsquo;s ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hey, Big Spenders, Your Time is Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/15/1948182/big-spenders-in-government-your.html#ixzz0o65fSt9I</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the political climate changes, things that were once routinely  acceptable suddenly seem intolerable. On the subject of government  spending, the climate has shifted decisively.A couple weeks ago, I  wrote about why spending is so tough to control. The problem is that  normally, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Ineptness Clear After a Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/275/story/1717714.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Shouldn't Ram Through a Flawed Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/275/story/1570349.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Voters Souring on Health 'Reform']]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/275/story/1527576.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[A President Grossly Overplaying His Hand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/275/story/1371991.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas McClanahan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What we&rsquo;re seeing in Washington these days is beginning to look like Jimmy Carter II. Carter, like Barack Obama, started out with the idea of stimulating the economy. His plan was to give every taxpayer $50, then throw in a few billion for tax cuts and public works programs....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Split Will Dog Obama in MO]]></title>
							<link>http://www.kansascity.com/275/story/634596.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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