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<title><![CDATA[Ben Adler - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17030.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ben Adler]]></description><category domain="17030">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan's False Premise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/169493/paul-ryans-false-premise</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of valid criticisms being leveled at Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan&rsquo;s draconian budget proposals: they cruelly cut aid to the needy to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, they steal from the young to shore up Republican support among the elderly. But one of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[History Contradicts Romney on Business Record]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/168520/history-contradicts-romney-claims-about-business-experience</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To look at Mitt Romney&mdash;the boxy power suits, the body toned by jogging&mdash;he is the financial industry personified. To listen to him, whether casually offering a $10,000 bet or flatly declaring, &ldquo;corporations are people,&rdquo; is to hear the unrestrained id of Wall...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Ignores Facts, Declares National Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/168243/gop-declares-national-victory-wisconsin</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election had even been called Tuesday night by the news networks, conservatives and Republicans were gleefully celebrating Governor Scott Walker&rsquo;s impending victory. If you were watching Fox News, you were informed that the hastily...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fantasy That Obama Opposes Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/163506/rick-perry-plays-right-wing-fantasy-obama-opposes-israel</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Texas Governor Rick Perry stood out Wednesday morning at his speech to leaders of religious Jewish and pro-Israel organizations at the W hotel near Union Square in Manhattan. Standing in front of a group of bearded, mostly yarmulke-wearing men&mdash;and they were almost all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Magical Thinking Dominates GOP Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/163335/magical-thinking-dominates-tea-party-gop-debate</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the Tea Party Express/CNN debate in Tampa, Florida, on Monday the Republican presidential aspirants mostly agreed on the best way to solve our fiscal and economic woes: magic. Whenever moderator Wolf Blitzer or a Tea Party activist in the crowd or via video asked how exactly they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Perry's Polluter Cronies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/162817/rick-perrys-polluter-cronies</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of Texas Governor Rick Perry&rsquo;s oft-touted strengths in the Republican primary is his demonstrated prowess at fundraising. Less widely known is how he has raised that money and what he has done in return for it. According to Texas good government and environmental watchdogs,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Almost Entirely Republicans' Fault]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/162612/gop-causes-sp-downgrade-republican-candidates-blame-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is clear from Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s statement downgrading the federal government&rsquo;s credit rating that it places the blame squarely on Republican actions and policies [1]. Two of S&amp;P&rsquo;s biggest concerns about whether the United States will pay off its debt are whether...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The &quot;Malaise&quot; Speech That Wasn't]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/162091/malaise-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans love to compare Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter, for no  apparent reason other than that Carter was the last Democratic one-term  president. So, naturally, Mitt Romney pounced on Obama&rsquo;s comment that  &ldquo;America is stressed out.&rdquo; On Friday July 15, the ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Broad-Based Solution to Energy Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=whether_we_drill_or_not_its_time_to_ask_more_questions</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With instability in the Arab world causing oil prices to surge, and Republicans proposing, with typical venality and idiocy, to solve the problem through either rampant domestic oil drilling  or stealing the oil in Iraq and Libya, President Barack Obama is striking a more reasoned tone....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ryan Cuts Aid to Those Who Need It Most]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=fiscal_responsibility_on_the_backs_of_the_poor</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Give Paul Ryan credit. When word leaked last week that the House  Budget Committee chair's vision for an austere 2012 would primarily rely  on some $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years to Medicaid, the federal  program that provides health care to the poor and disabled, the  conventional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Rust Belt Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/10/the-democrats-2012-rust-belt-problem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid the rubble of the midterm results last week, two small signs of  hope for Democrats&mdash;their strong performance among Latinos, which helped  them save a handful of officeholders in the West, most notably Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada,  and their continued advantage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Suburban Voters: The Real Bad Sign for Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/04/the-actual-bad-sign-for-democrats-from-tuesday.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Adler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unlike the New York City mayoral, or the Virginia governor's race, there is a really bad sign for Democrats out of the East Coast. Via The New York Times, Republicans made inroads in New York's suburbs. "In Westchester County, where Democrats have a solid advantage in voter registration,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives  Warm to McCain's Philosophy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11413.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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