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<title><![CDATA[Matt Kibbe - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17530.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Matt Kibbe]]></description><category domain="17530">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[GOP Needs More Than Just a Slick New Sales Pitch]]></title>
							<link>http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2054455</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Kibbe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[n private enterprise, a business fails when it ceases to meet the demands of the consumer. Senior management, out-of-touch and complacent, loses the vision that made the start-up a success in the first place. The sales pitch and cash flow replace innovation and product quality. And when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fiscal Cliff: How to Call the Big Spenders' Bluff]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattkibbe/2012/11/29/the-fiscal-cliff-how-to-call-the-big-spenders-bluff/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Kibbe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fiscal cliff &#194;&#150; and the hullabaloo surrounding it &#194;&#151; is a curious phenomenon. It has been over 3 years since Harry Reid&#194;&#146;s Senate passed a budget. The U.S. federal government is over $16 trillion in debt. And Uncle Sam is borrowing 1 out of every 3 dollars he spends.If there is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz Wins for &quot;We the People&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79325.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Kibbe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz&rsquo;s victory Tuesday over David Dewhurst in the Texas Republican Senate runoff is being hailed as proof of the tea party&rsquo;s staying power. It is. But it&rsquo;s more than that. The underdog Cruz, along with tens of thousands of motivated and informed tea party activists,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street Certainly No Tea Party Movement]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattkibbe/2011/10/19/occupy-wall-street-is-certainly-no-tea-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Kibbe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The &rdquo;Occupy Wall Street&rdquo; movement desperately wants to be compared to the Tea Party, because such a comparison would give the fledgling, misguided movement unearned legitimacy. But there are three key characteristics that separate OWS from the Tea Party: First, the Occupy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Memo to Mitt: Tea Partiers Care About Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/08/memo-to-mitt-tea-partiers-will-measure-you-by-your-policies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Kibbe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After shunning fiscally conservative principles for much of his political career, Mitt Romney has realized it might benefit his presidential campaign to embrace the tea party. In New Hampshire this weekend, Romney held a photo op with the Tea Party Express in an attempt to court this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ethanol Experiment Has Been a Costly Disaster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/2010/12/08/ethanol-subsidies-energy-opinions-contributors-matt-kibbe.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Kibbe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In November voters across America made clear their frustrations with runaway spending, bailouts, and special-interest dollars sloshing through Washington. Yet the lame duck session threatens a return to business as usual as corporate interests scramble for federal favors.One particularly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Should Channel Harding, Not FDR]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/obama_should_channel_harding_n.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Kibbe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the first half of last century two presidents inherited recessionary economies from their predecessors.  Both campaigned on smaller government, and both blamed the profligate ways of the previous president for their economic problems.  One ended the recession in less than three years;...]]></description>
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